Crescendo 175 - need help

[Tallon]

Hi, I just started airbrushing I went out and bought A Badger Crescendo Model 175.
I was using an acrylic paint, on it it says you can thin it with water I'm assuming I don't need to do anything with it if it's thin enough. At first it works fine after 20 minutes.. didn't really paint much, just first base coat (learning true fire) and it just stops sucking paint out of the bottle. No paint at all wants to go through or into the brush, it just wants to waste A lot of air. Wasted a few 14oz propel bottles trying to spray paint. I tried every tip/needle/cap combination that came with the brush, they all do weird things and it's hard to find right setups. But anyway no matter what, no paint goes from the bottle to the gun. But I can mix the paint in the bottle by covering the tip so apparently nothing is blocked?
I don't think it needs to be cleaned, and if it does then I'd hate to clean it after every few sprays...

Any ideas?

[.Maleficus.]

Welcome to the forums!

Well, it most likely needs to be cleaned unfortunately. Take the entire thing apart, and wash everything very carefully. You probably have dried paint gunked up in there. A good washing and cleaning of that paint will do wonders. Also, when I'm done painting with mine, I usually fill a paint container up with water and blast some straight water through it, just to get a little more of the paint out. Whether or not that's good practice I don't know, but it seems to work pretty good. Good luck though.

[Tallon]

I did that and it works but it doesn't seem to work for long, I can paint a little bit and it happens again, like I have to clean it way too often. Maybe I shouldn't be using acrylic paints? I don't know but they seem really thin to me.

Thanks.