How to make an airbrush with your own hands at home

Aerograph (spray gun) Is a handmade tool, whose main purpose is to spray liquid paint under the influence of compressed air. Essentially, the airbrush can work from the most usual automobile pump or the similar device. You can use an airbrush to apply images to the surface of the paper, fabrics or metal products, than are often used by car owners.

This pneumatic tool gives the chance to draw thin and accurate lines of practically any complexity and does not demand special skills from the master - you get used to work with the device in a short time..

Airbrush for cars

The airbrush looks like an ordinary fountain pen, to which a special container with paint is attached from the bottom or side, into which air is supplied under pressure by means of a pump or similar unit. Most vehicle owners, who are fond of coloring their iron horses, prefer to buy airbrushes in specialty stores.

However, few people know, that assembling such a device with your own hands at home is also quite a feasible process.

Airbrush with your own hands

types of airbrushes

If you decide to make an airbrush with your own hands at home, necessary, in the first place, to be determined, what exactly do you want from the tool. From this will depend on its appearance and, in accordance, materials, which will be useful for its creation. so, by the type of mixing of air and color flow inside the device. There are the following types of airbrushes:

• with external mixing. This is the easiest type of airbrush to assemble and operate. Such devices, usually, collect with their own hands (at the same time the detail of the old vacuum cleaner or the most usual ball-point pen can be taken as a basis). This type of airbrush is intended mainly for painting large surfaces and is perfect for creating a background image on the car;

Airbrush with external mixing

• with internal mixing. This is a more complex type of airbrush. Its peculiarity is that, that the mixing of air with paint takes place directly inside the tool, the body of which is represented by a special spraying head.

Airbrush with internal mixing

According to the principle of controllability, all airbrushes are classified into the following subcategories:

• airbrushes of single action. In such units control of pressure of paint is made or on air, or on a colorful channel. However, the most effective and economical are those airbrushes, where control is carried out through the air channel;

Working with an airbrush - practical tips
Single action airbrush

• dependent double-acting airbrushes. They are also called automatic airbrushes. They control the two channels at once (airy and colorful), however, in most cases it is done automatically;

Double action airbrush, dependent

• independent double-acting airbrushes. In the vast majority of cases, such models are used exclusively by professionals, after all, during the amateur painting of the vehicle, the function of full manual control over both streams, usually, sometimes not needed.

The airbrush is independent, double action

According to the principle of paint supply, all airbrushes are classified as follows:

• device, on which the container with the dye is located on the side, top or bottom;
• appliances, in which the paint is supplied under pressure.

Aerograph (spray gun) with different supply of paint

What is needed for that, to make an airbrush

If you want to assemble a homemade airbrush with your own hands, you will need the following materials. They are cheap, and they are easy to find in the regular market. so, you have to be prepared:

• standard ballpoint pen with a rod inside;
• classic cork from a bottle of wine;
• medical syringe with a volume of 10 to 20 cubic millimeters;
• lighter;
• marker of any noticeable color, office ruler;
• paper knife;
• drill;
• awl or similar tool;
• glass bottle with lid;
• fine-grained sandpaper;
• hot melt adhesive.

When you have all the above materials, you can safely start drawing up an airbrush with your own hands.

Assembly of homemade airbrush

If you want to properly assemble a homemade airbrush with your own hands. You need to follow this algorithm:

• Remove the rod (pasta) and completely clean it from the paint paste, the remnants of which must be stored inside, even when the pen stops writing. The handle tip must first be removed from the rod, on which he writes a ball.
• Thoroughly rinse the rod from the handle with warm water, solvent and alcohol-containing liquid. It must be completely transparent and clean.
• Take a medical syringe on 20-30 cubes and soften its tip (in which the needle is usually inserted) by heat treatment. This is where a lighter will come in handy (overheat the syringe, but, should not, so as not to flow plastic). This can also be done with any other heat source.
• While the spout of the syringe remains hot, it must be expanded with an awl to such dimensions, so that it can enter the elongated rod of the ballpoint pen.
• Make a small hole in the cork from under the wine bottle to a depth of about 15 millimeters. At the same time its horizontal and vertical walls should form a right angle. The width of the recess should be approximately two centimeters, and height - one and a half.
• Variety of cork with a marker and cut out unused fragments with a stationery knife. The height of the plug should be reduced as follows, so that from its lower wall to the horizontal limit made before the excavation remained a distance of 1 centimeter.

Airbrushing or car drawings - what is it?
Airbrush with your own hands

• After that it is necessary to make in other stoppers pair of through openings with various diameter. The rod of the ballpoint pen will pass through the vertical, and through the horizontal - its body. These holes are best to start with an awl, and then drill a pre-prepared drill with a drill bit of appropriate diameter.
• Hole in the lower part of the outer body of the ballpoint pen, usually, already, than necessary, and therefore it will need to be made a little wider. You will need sandpaper for this. You need to rub until then, until the diameter increases to 3 millimeters.
• Extend the ballpoint pen body through the horizontal hole in the plug. The tip should only look out of it a little.
• Extend the friction rod through the vertical hole and bring its upper end to the hole in the fountain pen (should only slightly overlap it).
• Essentially, now the main working unit of your homemade airbrush can be considered completely ready. You only need to adjust the length of the rod so, so that it corresponds to the height of the container, in which the paint will be stored. It is necessary to do so, so that the rod does not touch the bottom of the tank in any case. If it is a little longer, than the bottle of paint itself - it's not a problem. It can be cut with a knife at any time.
• Make a hole in the plastic lid of the prepared glass vial, which will be the same diameter, as well as the rod of the fountain pen.

Airbrush at home

The rod will need to be pushed into this hole and to fix the water-repellent terminals. It is best to use hot melt adhesive, because it will ensure proper fixation and will guarantee the absolute tightness of the connection. If such glue could not be found, then the "Moment" will come down. This homemade airbrush can be considered ready to work.

As can be seen from all the above, such a process is not super complicated and can be done by any car owner (it is also easy to create a homemade airbrush compressor).