Cerakote C-series cleaning solvent?

Acetone works but I have always used non-chlorinated brake cleaner. I spray it into a steel oil pan used for changing car oil. Wear gloves and a respirator!

These help keep your spray gun cleaner. The blue one is for C-series and H-Series. The white one is for the Microslick C-110.
http://www.binks.com/Products/Consu...ainItCupPaintStrainers/tabid/366/Default.aspx

Duracoat (Cerakote) sells a solvent I forget the name of, but I've used acetone without a hitch with both finishes. I don't do anywhere near the volume as you, but I've finished a handful of AR15s, one scope (cerakote airday) and a couple of Rem 700s and dozens of magazines and a couple suppressors with both finishes using a Badger airbrush as well as a $35 HVLP sprayer I got through amazon dot com. EZPZ to work with and the finishes are really tough. I usually clean up with acetone or MEK, pouring a little in the paint cup and opening up the spray pattern a little bit.

Um... seems to me I recall reading about the packing o-ring seal on the Paasche (and Badger) airbrushes dissolving, so I bought one of THESE for mine:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BQVTC6/ref=oh_details_o09_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's the article link:

https://sites.google.com/site/donsairbrushtips/badger-350

Try acetone or MEK. Might pull your seal and see if it's dissolving in the solvent you're using.

We use the IWATA LPH-80 mini spray gun. The first one lasted almost five years but they aren't cheap. They come with a spray nozzle cleaning brush set which really helps keep things clean. You can also try dropping the spray gun parts into an ultrasonic cleaner after paining. That helps break up any solid buildup. Harbor freight has affordable ultrasonic cleaners.

I attended the Cerakote certification class at their facility. The main paint guy used acetone to clean the paint guns.

I don't know if the carburetor vats are still available but this is the best stuff for cleaning paint guns. Where I worked at we had a worker spray some test panels on Friday and did not clean the gun (deBelviss) . Most of our equipment was pot feed guns, since most of the stuff we sprayed was heavy solids. We could not even unscrew the air cap. We were spraying phenolic Epoxy coatings at the time which have a 2 hr pot life. I got a 3gal can of the cleaner from a local parts house. I put the gun in and checked progress on a daily basis. After 5 days I was able to remove the air cap, and fluid valve moved. I let it soak over the weekend then tore the gun the rest of the way down. Most of the parts looked brand new after the cleaner, those that were not went back in for a few more days till they came out clean. This worked so well we started using it on a regular basis to keep our guns clean. With most of the good guns you can get replacement needles and air caps which is a lot cheaper than replacing the guns.

I clean up after Duracoat with lacquer thinner followed by a little Duracoat reducer. Even after a good cleaning with the lacquer thinner, the first shot with the reducer shows a little color.
I started with Passche air brush but have had just as good a luck with a $6.00 Harbor Freight special. Don't mind chunking it if it gets totally clogged.

Taurus 617 CCW said:

I attended the Cerakote certification class at their facility. The main paint guy used acetone to clean the paint guns.

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Acetone.

I thought so. Good to hear from someone who has first-hand knowledge from the source. Thanks.

NormB said:

Duracoat (Cerakote) sells a solvent I forget the name of, but I've used acetone without a hitch with both finishes. I don't do anywhere near the volume as you, but I've finished a handful of AR15s, one scope (cerakote airday) and a couple of Rem 700s and dozens of magazines and a couple suppressors with both finishes using a Badger airbrush as well as a $35 HVLP sprayer I got through amazon dot com. EZPZ to work with and the finishes are really tough. I usually clean up with acetone or MEK, pouring a little in the paint cup and opening up the spray pattern a little bit.

Um... seems to me I recall reading about the packing o-ring seal on the Paasche (and Badger) airbrushes dissolving, so I bought one of THESE for mine:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BQVTC6/ref=oh_details_o09_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's the article link:

https://sites.google.com/site/donsairbrushtips/badger-350

Try acetone or MEK. Might pull your seal and see if it's dissolving in the solvent you're using.

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Duracoat.and cerakote are two.totally different things why put cerakote in parenthesis next to duracoat? This implies they are one and the same.

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