I can smell the arms race heating up again

I guess it's hardly surprising: my fixing attempt didn't pan out too well. My compressor was huffing and my airbrush was puffing but the paint - it didn't bother moving anywhere. These results were recorded earlier today, in the late afternoon, when I tried it out.

My scapegoat

That's it. The replacement pipe doesn't hold or pull or anything. So a new airbrush is to be bought!

If you think that (as far as I know) this device was a thing worth about 15 euros when I received it and I've used it very, very happily for a bunch of years, it hasn't been a bad tool at all! Of course this doesn't mean that I wouldn't lose it when I go and get a successor for this worthy piece of handyness...