Request for help to get hose or adaptor for Aztec airbrush

[ecgtheow]

I recently used the Tony Wright method (Halfords satin black rattle can) to respray my recently purchased Hornby LNER J36, fitted NBR number plates & transfers & planned to weather it yesterday because the weather was fine using my Aztec airbrush. Unfortunately the adaptor (internal diameter of the male thread 4mm) I had to fit it to the compressor (external diameter of the hose female thread 5mm) had gone walkabout & couldn't be found anywhere.

 

Testors stopped making Aztec airbrushes in 2020 even though their airbrushes were quite highly regarded (an expert published his experience with them in MRJ some time ago) & I am stumped living in Switzerland knowing where to get a new adaptor or alternatively a new hose with suitable sized connections. The alternative is a new airbrush, which would be expensive, & the Aztec 470 is an easy to use double action brush, which I like, though I haven't used it for a year or two. Can anybody help, please?

 

William

[Portchullin Tatty]

You shouldn't have difficulty sourcing an adapter.

 

Either ebay or somewhere like https://www.everythingairbrush.com/

 

 

[Jeremy Cumberland]

Aztek seem to have used their own proprietary threads, as I expect you know, so you'll need to search specifically for an Aztek adaptor. It sounds like your compressor is M5, and the only Aztek adaptors I've found are to 1/8" BSP, so you might need to get a 1/8" BSP to M5 adaptor as well.

[ecgtheow]

Thanks to you for your replies. Unfortunately Everything Airbrush was of no help but The Airbrush Company could be as they have 1/8" BSP adaptors, but at both ends also available from Faller GmbH in Germany. It seems these hoses would fit Iwata compressors, but is so I might have to get one or first try to source a hose with 1/8" BSP at one end & 5mm at the other. I have 2 compressors both by Revell one old & basic but still works well & the other sophisticated & more or less brand new, which I have still to use.

 

William