Customer Reviews

Badger Air-Brush Company Basic Spray Gun Set

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Two other reviews I read at Amazon indicated this is not a good choice for Tattoos or for spraying thinner.
It is not right to give the product a 1-Star rating when the wrong airbrush was selected for the task to be completed.

This product is NOT meant for detail spraying (like Tattoos, T-Shirts, etc.) If that is what you want, buy a more expensive dual-action air brush. The review about spraying thinners said more pressure was required for spraying thinners and that perhaps opening the vent hole would help. If the vent hole is blocked in any way (gaskets, old paint, debris) this type of airbrush will not spray properly. This airbrush works by a venturi effect created by blowing air across the opening of the nozzle tip. The vacuum created draws the paint out of the jar for spraying. If the vent is blocked... no paint can be drawn out of the jar. Depending on the viscosity of the material I typically use air pressure ranging from 30 PSI to 50 PSI.

The Badger 250 has been around for decades. It is a simple, inexpensive single-action air brush. I have used it to spray solvents, lacquers, varnish, and acrylic urethane paint. It does not deliver a fine spray and it is not designed to. However, if you want fairly broad coverage of a few square inches at a time, this air brush works great. I have used this airbrush on small wood projects, automotive touch-up, and painting small metal parts. Again, it is NOT a detail painter but it is great for broader coverage.

The model 250 is easy to clean. Simply unscrew the jar, wipe it dry, fill with some solvent/thinner and spray through the pickup tube like it was paint. Remove the pickup tube and wipe its threads with solvent to clean them and you are pretty much done. Like all airbrushes, you must keep them clean for them to work properly.

While this airbrush is offered with things like adapters for spraying from cans of compressed air, that makes using the airbrush very expensive. Also available are adapters to connect the airbrush hose to air compressors. Those work great if you happen to own an air compressor. Another option is the adapter to connect the hose to "spare tires". Simply take your car to a place to fill up the spare tire and use the adapter to connect your air brush. There are still some places where filling tires is free so this is a very economical alternative to cans of compressed air.

Again, don't expect the Badger 250 to be a precision artist instrument. However, for broad paint coverage it works great and is easy to clean.

Doug L.

This was perfect for my needs. I didn't purchase it as a toy, but rather as a paint sprayer for a project I was doing. It worked perfectly. Don't forget to purchase the can of pressured air to make the gun spray.

I purchased this airbrush for airbrush tattoos and I strongly suggest to not use it for tattoos. It would splatter paint everywhere and I ended up using up alot of my ink.

I had trouble getting the air brush to even spray thinner let along paint without using a lot higher air pressure than is recommended. I suspect that enlarging the air vent hole in the gun would help.

I gave up and used a small HVLP spray gun instead. I will try again after enlarging the air vent hole - hopefully with more success, as I need to do some precision painting.