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Building Tips and technical articles. => Paint and finishing => Topic started by: Tim Wescott on March 28, 2023, 04:59:45 PM
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@#%$ Amazon.
I just got half a dozen empty "paint" cans from Amazon. The lids just aren't tight enough to really seal. They're basically tea cannisters. I'll probably make up some labels for them saying they're "dehydrated water" with detail instructions for use, and give them to friends.
Does anyone know of a vendor that sells 4oz or 8oz real paint cans? The kind you could put some dope into, then come back a few years later and have it still be liquid? I want a home for my pre-thinned clear, and I'm fresh out of slightly used cans.
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I got some empty cans, 8 oz size, at a local English Color auto paint store. The lids appear to seal very well. Maybe you have such a store near you.
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Check in at your Sherwin-Williams store.
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Check in at your Sherwin-Williams store.
I got some from Grainger, as well.
Brett
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Most decent hardware stores have pint and quart cans. You want unlined, non treated cans. Check auto paint stores also. For your thinned clear, I would use the 8 ounce jars that fit the simple, single action Badger air brushes and some others. It's the same size jars that SIG, and Brodak dope come in. It has a decent seal and can easily be reused since it's for clear. Mix up as much clear as you think you will need for a project, then put it into the smaller jars. Use the pint and quart cans to hol raw dope, or to store larger quantities of thinned colors or clears that you won't need for a while. If full up top the brim, the less air there is inside the longer it will keep. I'm sure there are on line sources for these, and local ones also unless you live in the sticks.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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Tim,
If you can't find the SIG type jar, most hardware chains have the Preval spray jars sold separate from the full spray system.
Best, DennisT
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NAPA paint stores sell them in various sizes.