A favour - FC - colourant kit - air brush

[Nosh]

Hi all - seats are out of my Chim and I intend to buy a colourant kit from FC.

I have read previously about some people using this kit but noting that the areosol propellant for the air brush was not up to the job, and that a proper modeller compressor would be the way to go (if they did it again).

So, did anyone buy one of these compressors for the task?

I am asking if they would allow me to borrow this bit of kit, in exchange for beer tokens....

Was going to PM the PH'er that had done this, but search is down ATM.

Thanks in advance
Nosh

PS - FC did offer me rental on their compressor, but wanted £75 for that - and when returned it, I would get £25 back. £50 just seems a little steep, thats all.......

Edited by Nosh on Thursday 9th February 17:04

[aubrey9160]

I used a modellers air brush for it and it did them very well. £20 from any good model shop

[bubblehead]

Did my lotus seats with the propellant cans supplied by FC and it turned out not too bad 7 out of ten i'd say, used the same stuff for my chim seats but used my tyre compressor pump (cheapo 12v job) and a few jubilee clips to connect it to the FC sprayer and the difference was amazing...9.5 out of ten. May save you a few beer tokens.

[SILICONEKID340HP]

Have you seen this ?Furniture Doctor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9rhDRpe76A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkIXY_ODCZQ&fea...

[Nosh]

bubblehead said:

Did my lotus seats with the propellant cans supplied by FC and it turned out not too bad 7 out of ten i'd say, used the same stuff for my chim seats but used my tyre compressor pump (cheapo 12v job) and a few jubilee clips to connect it to the FC sprayer and the difference was amazing...9.5 out of ten. May save you a few beer tokens.

That sounds like a really good idea - but how do you plug it into a ciggie lighter if you are doing it in a shed or indoors?

Or am I being a thicko?

Cheers
Nosh

[Nosh]

SILICONEKID340HP said:

Have you seen this ?Furniture Doctor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9rhDRpe76A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkIXY_ODCZQ&fea...

Yep, seen it before - cheers Daz.

Watching the vid made the decision for me - that I could do it!

Nosh

[Jonny cobra]

You can hire a compressor from FC .

The canesters just did my seats better with compressor .

JC .

[phillpot]

Nosh said:

Or am I being a thicko?

Cut the lighter socket plug thing off and replace with two crocodile clips.

Remove battery from car and take into shed / kitchen / lounge (delete as appropriate).

Put battery charger on battery between spraying sessions (good battery should do a lot of spraying before you flatten it too much)

[bubblehead]

phillpot said:

Cut the lighter socket plug thing off and replace with two crocodile clips.

Remove battery from car and take into shed / kitchen / lounge (delete as appropriate).

Put battery charger on battery between spraying sessions (good battery should do a lot of spraying before you flatten it too much)

Yep as above or for £2 buy a 12v ciggy lighter socket from halfrauds etc and connect that to your battery to save you cutting the plug off your compressor. A charged battery will be way more than adequate for a whole interior never mind a couple of seats. HTH.

[Nosh]

OK - I have ordered one of these:-



...and will buy one of these from maplins:-



Both cost £8 each....

Just need to connect the airbrush to the compressor when I get the kit from FC...and that reminds me - need to send my sample away!!

Nosh

[phillpot]

Nosh said:

OK - I have ordered one of these:-

That looks handy, ordered myself one...

[Nosh]

phillpot said:

That looks handy, ordered myself one...

Phil

I looked at the one above at Amazon - it had bad reviews, so opted to sped a little more for something with better reviews.

Nosh

[phillpot]

Nosh said:

I looked at the one above at Amazon - it had bad reviews, so opted to sped a little more for something with better reviews.

oops! didn't think to check out reviews, we'll see how it goes, can't see me using it a lot just a handy thing to have "just in case"


Keep us posted on how the colour change goes, I have a pair of seats I want to change from a beige/tan/biscuit sort of colour to dark grey or black.

Mike;)

Edited by phillpot on Saturday 11th February 11:29

[SwanJack]

You can get an attachment for airbrushes that uses the release of air from a spare wheel as a propellant.

[Nosh]

SwanJack said:

You can get an attachment for airbrushes that uses the release of air from a spare wheel as a propellant.

Got a linky?

Forget it - found it...

Nosh

Edited by Nosh on Sunday 12th February 11:20