Quick and easy paint filter

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Quick and easy paint filter

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One of the most annoying things that can happen when airbrushing is to have tiny lumps of paint clog the whole thing up. You can, of course, avoid this by filtering the paint. It's not very difficult to make your own paint filter with a few bits and pieces that many modellers have lying around.

The one I'm making here uses two short lengths of brass tubing and a piece of fine stainless steel mesh. The mesh came from a coffee pot we were throwing out. The tubing was 17/32" and 19/32" diameter brass.

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I used a tube cutter to cut off two lengths of tubing. The smaller diameter tube is longer than the larger diameter piece. This makes life easier if you need to take the filter apart for cleaning or to fit a new screen.

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Place the mesh over the large diameter tube, and push the smaller diameter tube into it to make an impression in the mesh.

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Cut that out with scissors. You will end up with something like this…

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Three or four wraps of Tamiya tape around the inner tube will take up any slack to stop it falling apart.

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Now you just put it all together…

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Job done. No more lumpy paint.
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Nice one! Very useful and will save me pinching Mrs iggie's stockings (well, at least for passing straining purposes anyway :grin: )
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Nice one, ta for sharing.
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