Lets Fix: Vintage Paasche "TYPE" Model H Airbrush
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- čas přidán 21. 03. 2019
- As some of you may know, Its a bit of a hobby of mine to also repair and restore some of the air brushes that I use in the Let's paint videos. I actually filmed this restoration video a couple of months ago but only recently found the time to edit the footage! Grab your favorite drink and snack and hang out as we fix a Vintage Paasche Model H Airbrush!
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I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of restoring it. So I'm impressed.
Why not? It's great to bring an old war horse air brush back to life. May have ended up costing more then just buying a new one in parts but it's not the same. Maybe I just love restoring things no matter the cost..
Late to the party but i just bought a new one for a project but in the meantime i watched this. It was like watching an old car restoration. Smooth, nice music, no fluff, well narrated. In other words a perfect video!
After many years of model car painting my Paasche H started to show a erratic spray pattern. Your video showed me the way to fix it. Thanks!
Nice freebee, and excellent job bringing it back to work another day.
Outstanding video. Great guide for restoring my 1977 model.
They're bombproof aren't they and parts are still available - great service. A lovely freebie 👍✌️😊
I really love this series where you restore dirty airbrushes to their former glory , something about saving them from being tossed out is so satisfying.
I love watching restoration/repair videos, especially when it's of tools/products that I like. I wish you did more of these!
VERY VERY IN DEPTH STEP BY STEP IFORMATIVE VIDEO..as i have yet to watch/see ANY OTHER FULL DISASSEMBLY N' CLEANING OF THE Paasche H Airbrush ANYWHERE On the World Wide Web!!!..Thank You Ever Sooo much For Sharing your Great Awesome Video With Us All!!!..Take Care, n' Stay Safe!!
Mine is a older Passche H airbrush. It has the same labeling on the top of the airbrush that the one you have has. I bought it at a going out of business sale from a local hobby shop 25-30 years ago. Its still going strong.
I have an older H model (44 years old), it still works like a champ! O rings is all I needed. I got #3 & #5 needle/air cap sets, also upgraded to S type needles. They take screw on jars. I changed the plastic handle for the chromed brass handle (no longer available). There is a closed red aluminium handle. I originally filled the plastic handle with some #9 bird shot to add some weight as I like a weighty airbrush in my big hands. Very easy to clean. I recommend you stock up on O rings if you use this gun a lot & stock up on needle set screws, you will lose them to the carpet monster! I have 5 airbrushes total & this is still my go to gun.
Update: Passche website lists an Anodized red & blue handle (no cutout) & had a black body H model.
The Model H is a beast of an airbrush! Definitely the AK-47 of airbrushes. Filling the handle with bird shot is genius! Believe me, I dropped that lock screw and spent the better part of an afternoon on the ground looking for it. lol
Thank you for the insightful tips!
Well done! I have/had several airbrushes over the years Grex, Iwata, Badger, but my workhorse has been my Hs. Plural. I had four at one time, but only now have my original I bought 40 years ago. Back in the late 80s and into the 90s, I built mostly 43rd scale cars for collectors, typically sold through the kit dealers ( a building service). Would build between 30 and 50 a month. Also built the occasional larger scale plastics, and a very lucrative product line customizing 1/18 die-casts (mostly Miatas and PT Cruisers, but also Porsches and Corvettes). I mostly used auto lacquers, Mr Color, and decanted Krylon. To that end, I had the Hs set up for different media and colors: One for clear coats , one for light colors, one for darks and primers, and one for metallics (built a walk-in paint booth which included filtered air and supplied air for a head hood). I replaced the air nozzle o-rings with ones made from Viton as I would swirl the entire front of the airbrush in lacquer reducer for between-color cleaning. All had the chromed metal handles as I like the balance and they look good (looks like those may be OOP). I had not seen that anodized handle before and will be ordering one =)
A tip for those cups: epoxy them to a 1" diameter stainless steel washer and they wont tip over as easily (I also have several of these suitably marked for clear, light, dark, and metallics).
I use mine to spray lacquer on my flutes and jewelry boxes I sell. It's a great little brush!
I have a VL that still seems to work well especially being 40+ years old. Thinking it is close to 45 years old. May need to think about a rebuild but it sprays well enough for what I need painting 3D printed models.
Thank you for the video.
Just came into an old H, thanks for all the great info. 👍🏼
I just inherited one. Thanks for the video. It was very helpful.
This was the first "hobby" air bush that I bought way back in the 1970's or 1980's. They are still great for the money, even though I rock Iwata, H & D and Grex internal double action brushes now.
Thanks for the video!!!!
Did basic refit on mine two years ago, I was able to get a chrome handle to replace the plastic one, helped the balance TREMENDOUSLY.... lookn good
Thanks for making this video. I just ordered a new Paasch like this one, nice to know it’s serviceable for years to come.
A very nice educational and informative video. It is also very well filmed and edited. The background music was perfect and at a very effective volume as to not interfere with the narrative ...............................
Glad you enjoyed it!
If you lose the spring you can get another from an old ink pen. It's the same. I used one this way and it still works 35 years later.
fantastic video!! Well done !!! i love airbrush restorations !!!!!
I appreciate the time you put into the video, very helpful. Best to you
That is interesting. I have noticed the packing washer gets is hard to clear of all colour without removing for separate cleaning, which I do now every time. Does it need removing every time, even when the spay is clear and there is no apparent colour. What do you think? The problem of course is that having spent all that time, you may as well have used an internal mix brush.
Incidentally: it is worth it finding a photographic processor/shop who can supply fresh from the bin 35mm film canisters. Use a scriber to poke through the lid a plastic tube so that it friction fits, and then poke a small hole for pressure equalisation. After work cleanup is simple. Wipe the canister with a solvent (usually turps or metho) piece of kitchen paper or the like, then flow through the tube from the top. Fill the now clean canister with thinner and put through brush until clean. Then take down of brush is simple. We are talking about - say - fifteen minutes, and not much thinner/turps/metho. I say again and again: 'Laziness is its own reward; the gift that keeps on giving.'
OBSERVE SAFETY INDICATIONS. I try and avoid paints I cannot clean with turps or metho. If you can smell it, you're getting too much.
Thanks.
This was a great video! Very clear with everything I need for maintenance, along with an excellent demonstration of the airbrush function.Especially good because I ordered one only yesterday!😀👍👍
Tip. Screw on the trigger button BEFORE installing the spring and nut. Otherwise, great video and great job of showing how to work on an H. BTW one advantage the H has over internal mix is cleaning it after using lacquers or enamels. I have a VL and Vision, but for hard to clean paints, I'll stick with my H.
Watching your videos while painting is like college!
Nice, informative tutorial, thanks!
Great Tutorial, the best!!
Hey nice video I've just bought one yesterday waiting for it to arrive now I know how to take it to bits lol. Good work.
I just want to say, I enjoyed your video. You did a great job! I work as an Ecclesiastical Artist and I do a lot of airbrushing and you can't beat the Passshe airbrushes. I use the H most of the time.
Excelent airbrush and vídeo, thank you.
Excellent job 👍
Excellent content and pacing, congratulations!
Very nice video, super descriptive :)
Very good !
Thank you for this extremely informative video on the breakdown, maintenance and repair. There is a reason why quality costs a bit, but people do not realize the Paasche H is a huge value. I know the Chinese have cheap airbrushes that go for 20 a pop, but many are terrible from the get go, and almost all of them are not serviceable. Again thank you for the breakdown I need to service mine.
I'm glad the video was helpful! Keep these old paasches airbrushin'!
Great content!
Great video on basic upgrade/rebuilding of a Model H. Next is do a VL and Thayer and Chandler Model A
I'm just getting back into building models after being away many years. I hit the subscribe button on your channel, lots of fun to watch, very informative.
My question is about airbrushing. When you airbrush, do you use a ventilated spray booth? Or is the amount of paint coming out so small that a booth is not needed?
I will be assembling and painting miniatures, mostly.
Great video and thanks for the restoration information! Where did you get your airbrush display stand?
Best instruction I've ever seen on the Paasche H series. Thank You. Where did you get the anodized handle?
They are for sale on eBay and other sites online.
Love my H even though I got many others.
Where did you get that cool stand at the end?
Its a Harder & Steenbeck Airbrush Display Stand. I purchased it from spraygunner a while back but I'm not sure its still being produced as I am no longer able to find it anywhere. You might try ebay.
Do you have a link for the airbrushstand at 14:28?
Great video, and you've convinced me to finally try out the Paasche H that has been sitting in my drawer ever since I received it as a gift about 35 years ago. BTW, what size needle did you buy to finish the restoration?
Paasche sells 3 types of needles; small, medium, and large type spray pattern. Try the one you have first and see, There should be a model number near the lower part with the twist grip as well.
Muito top valeu a pena conferir. ...
I have one of these in near perfect condition
Could you share the link were you got the parts?
www.paascheairbrush.com/
It’s a good site to get parts on all of paasche airbrushes, just make sure to order all that you need one time to avoid paying shipping price that is more than a part you need.
How pricey was all that?
Good enough for Don Yost, then its almost too good for me! its all he uses and still prob the top model painter anywhere!
Just checked out Don Yost and I'm blown away by his car models! I seriously underestimated this airbrush, no joke! I'm humbled. thank you for the insight.
what are the parts# & name that you used to fix and restore?
Hello my friend can you name the parts that you purchased for the airbrush? I have passche H as well many years no repair done but I know it needs it thank you
The best way to get the part numbers is to to Paasche website, download the free PDF manaul and it has all the part numbers for the H model.
Hey where did you order all the parts? I want to restore mine.
www.paascheairbrush.com/
It’s a good site to get parts on all of paasche airbrushes, just make sure to order all that you need one time to avoid paying shipping price that is more than a part you need.
@@kanakti0n338 thanks. Appreciate it
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Thank you friend!
And all these parts cost three times as much as a new airbrush 😂
WAAAAY too much work - would take half a day just to clean this ol' thing! Parts now probably cost just as much as the airbrush did back in its day!
Or you could just buy an air brush made in Red China from Harbor freight. Yup, that would last you a long time and the parts would be non replaceable.
Cmon dude, that thing is a 100 yrs old and completely useless these days. Literally a €10,- Chinese brush does a better job.
Actually it’s a great airbrush for laying down base coats of primer , I’ve shot Stynylrez primers straight out of the bottle with no clogging issues.
@@kanakti0n338 I bet I can do a better job with a brush
You must be a Red China lover.
@@PanzerChicken69 What the heck is a "Panzer Chicken"? And thank you for reminding me to take my pain pills this morning. You see more than three years ago I was riding my 1964 H-D and a guy hit me on it when he went through a stop sign. I got four breaks in the bones of my left leg, a dislocated shoulder and a concussion out of it. Don't worry, I was wearing a helmet. You have got to be an a--hole not to. But even an idiot like you realizes, and it goes without saying, the my pain is still virtually constant. But you, a pathetic excuse of a human being, can do some good in the world, albeit miniscule, after all. Thank you again for reminding me. So go on to your empty, pointless existence as an internet troll financed by the Red China military/political machine. Well, maybe not, you seem so stupid that you would be a National Peoples Congress operative and do it all for free. By the way, do you know anything about the reported Red Chinese spy balloon making it's way across the U.S. today? Or maybe I should ask your comrades. Hah, hah, hah...
Come on dude, really, what is a "Panzer Chicken"? And it is embarrassing to see you trying to spread your Red Chinese propaganda and malware on such a site like this. Let the guy rebuild his air brush and you can continue to troll somewhere else.