You will find on our site air fittings or air hoses equipped with screw fittings that can be of 4 different sizes.
The table below will help you make your choice based on the equipment you own.
Anglo-Saxon name: | French name: | Outer diameter of the male fitting: | Inner diameter of the female fitting: | Meets on the following hardware: |
1/8'' | 5/10 | about 9.5 mm | about 8.5 mm | airbrushes: Harder & Steenbeck Iwata Sogolee Mecafer and almost all airbrushes of Asian origin Compressors: Generally, all small dry compressors are equipped with a 1/8" outlet |
1/4'' | 8/13 | about 12.7 mm | about 11.5 mm | - is never found on airbrushes even (too big). - is usually found on paint guns. - is most often found on oil bath compressors and compressors sold in large DIY stores. - the compressor side fittings of the textile sheathed pipes PAASCHE and Badger are in dimension 1/4'' |
Badger | ---- | about 5.3 mm | about 4.7 mm | airbrushes Badger and Thayer & Chandler |
PAASCHE | ---- | about 6.2 mm | about 5.8 mm | airbrushes PAASCHE |