It was an expensive day. My 0.5mm airbrush had never worked properly. I finally figured out it wasn't getting enough air. I pulled the air assembly apart and found out what was restricting the air flow. Unfortunately I dropped the air brush and it landed on the fluid nozzle. So that was buggered up irreparably.

I sanded through to the bare timber in a couple of places on the neck, and noticed there was a strip on the blade where there must have been something masking a tiny strip in the back of the blade that also need touching up. My 0.3mm Iwata airbrush is kinda my go to brush for tiny touch ups. Given how usefull it has been and how much it would set me back (more than my compressor) to replace , I get fussy about cleaning afterwards. I took the fluid nozzle off and put it on the cap. Without thinking I took the cap and rinsed it gently under the tap. The nozzle went down the drain. I thought being metal and how low the pressure was with the water I thought it might be sitting at the bottom of the elbow connecting the sink to the down pipe. No such luck . *bugger!*.

After uttering a string of curses, I proceeded to hunt for the best price for replacement nozzles for the two brushes. I was horrified how much even the cheapest prices were! Luckily to keep me going it turned out that the nozzle for a different 0.3mm brush I had just happened to have the same thread. Didn't even know it it was going to work. If anything the brush was spraying better. Let that be a lesson for all the young players (yeh, I'm channelling Rex Hunt). Pay attention to your small parts! Should be sanding and buffing soon.