Anyone used on of these

[DRP Signs n Grafix]

I'm looking for anyone that has some experience with one of these. Or has one they want to sell pretty cheap so I may try it out. THe spectrum 2000 looks liek a great tool. Especially for someone doing multiple colors like I do on RC Cars and Helmets.

[Whit]

If that's the lil number that changes color with a flip of the switch,,,
I've heard strange things about the system,,, mostly bad !!!
On the upside,,, I've never tried,, or been around the actual
system to see it work,, so I'm going on hearsay here !!!
Mabye someone that has actually been in contact with the system
can chime in here and give us the lowdown !!!
Sorry no more help than that !!!

[DRP Signs n Grafix]

that is the system. Turn the knob and it changes color. Or turn it half way and it blends. Sounds like it could be good. But i'd like to play with one or talk to someone who has played with it. Thanks for the help Whit

[anderekel]

I don't know if you can or not, but it seems that there should be a way to clean in between colors, otherwise it could cause a lot of annoyances and wasting a lot of paint. But like I said, I don't know if it does or not, but you should check if you haven't.

I just looked at it, it says that you don't need t clean the airbrush with it's color cup, but it doesn' have any way, at least not that I see, to clean it between colors, plus, if you're doin' shirts and whatnot it could be a problem, it has a regulator that only goes to 28 psi.

[fontgeek]

Don't waste your money.
I had and used one for a stretch, they have some problems/challenges.
First, you have to keep the viscosity the same for each paint, you can use some of the bottles for water or solvent though.
You have to fight the paint drying in the tubes that go to your airbrush, and getting those cleaned out is a pain in the butt. You lose a fair amount of paint every time you use this, just the paint lost in the lines is enough to do one of your RC cars. All the paint has to flow evenly, or you start having problems, especially if you go to try to mix or blend colors on the fly. If one color is flowing faster than the other(s), or the airbrush has problems, it can start pushing the color from one tube back into the tube for another color or colors, that means that you now have contaminated colors in the tubes, and the only way to cure that is to flush the whole thing out and start over.
For the cost of the device, you could buy a few more airbrushes, and let each one have it's own color anyway.
I found the bundle of hoses to be quite limiting too, this may not be an issue for you doing smaller RCs, but for doing illustration work and murals, it was way more hassle than it was worth. They come up on ebay on a real regular basis, often the same one goes from one person to the next, to the next, and so on. All these people sure it will be perfect for them, only to be let down, and then try to dump it off on someone else.

One thing I found is that in general, I don't really use that many colors when I am painting, the fact that I can get such a wide variety of shades out of each color, and the fact that I can fog in light layers of different colors to mix on the painting surface, makes the huge variety of colors from the Spectrum a waste.
That's my two cents worth.

[Whit]

Thanks for chiming in on this fontgeek,,,
ounce of prevention's worth a pound of cure !!!

[DRP Signs n Grafix]

Thanks fontgeek. That's the kinda info i was looking for. I'll see if i can find one on ebay to play with. Do u know what they list them as usually? I like to play with toys. LOL

[redanner]

I like the bulk paint bin setup that Paasche has! But it designed to accommodate 1 airbrush at a time!!

[fontgeek]

I've seen them on ebay for around $85 or more, but it's kind of funny, you can watch ebay when one comes up for sale, watch to see who wins it, and in a few weeks, that person will have it up for sale again. Everybody wants to get their money back. The problems far outweigh the benefits.
You are much better off buying a few extra airbrushes you can load up with alternate colors, and hooking them all up to a nice manifold, that way you aren't stuck with one range of gun or brush like you are with the Spectrum, those need to be run on a siphon fed brush, and shy of the Grex XB, most of the others I have tried, including my HP BC, haven't been the greatest for doing the fine detail work. Granted, most of my siphon feed brushes have been used without the presurized Spectrum, but they just don't spray or feel the way my gravity feed brushes do.

Something to keep in mind with the Spectrum, you end up with a big bundle of hoses feeding the paint to your brush, and you have your normal airline going to your brush, oh yah, you also have to re-plumb your compressor setup to get air to the Spectrum. Those paints are pressurized, that is what pushes them through those long tubes, but that same air is also what tends to make those same paints dry and cake on the insides of those tubes.