[Jewelry making - Article 00739] - Re: [Orchid] Pripps Sprayer?

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>        I was wondering if anyone would share a specific brand of
>     sprayer for the perpetually perplexed. I  am jinxed on this I clog
>     'em, I break 'em, and rarely get to use the same sprayer twice.
>     Thanks for all suggestions, Julia 

    Julia,  While lots of folks have used many varieties of sprayers,
    including even the cheap external mix airbrushes one can get cheaply
    from harbor Freight, My favorite remains the simple means I first
    learned from Fred Fenster and U.W. 30 years ago.  These are simple
    "mouth atomizers", which are glaze sprayers for ceramics.  they
    consist of two metal tubes and a hinge the connects the ends of each
    at a right angle.  one tube is longer (about six inches, and perhaps
    3/32 in outside diameter) and thin, it's the feed tube that dips into
    your flux.  The other is shorter (maybe 3 inches) , and tapered,
    starting about a quarter inch in diamter at the outside end, and only
    slightly larger than the feed tube at the hinge portion.  the hinge,
    which is a friction fit thing that holds the tubes in position, puts
    the open end of the feed tube right in front of, and slightly below
    the center of, the small end of the other tube, which is the
    mouthpiece.  The things spray when you blow into the wider end of
    the mouthpiece.  Simple as that.  And though I've had some of them
    look pretty corroded and cruddy after a couple decades of living in a
    junk drawer, I've never yet had one clog (they are, after all, just
    open bore tubes, without nozzles or small orifices to clog) or even
    actually break, except for the one I stepped on...  You do sometimes
    have to fiddle a little with the placement of the tube ends to
    optimize the spray action, but once done, it stays that way 46ind a
    ceramics supply house that carries glazes and supplies, and you
    should be able to purchase a couple of these things, which will last
    you the rest of your career, I'll bet.  the last one I bought was
    over 25 years ago, though I know they're still available and used. 
    If the need to blow into the mouthpiece is awkward for you, you can
    fit a piece of light duty rubber, plastic, nylon, etc, hose over that
    end and blow into the end of the hose, which can be as long as you
    need to make it convenient. 

Hope that helps.
Peter Rowe. 

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