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Building Tips and technical articles. => Paint and finishing => Topic started by: Howard Rush on February 03, 2012, 06:44:50 PM
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Speaking of Randolph, I just got a gallon of clear butyrate from Wicks. It came in a paint can. Is that standard? I'd think it would come in a narrow, screw-on-top thinner can like Brodak does.
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Howard,
Yea, that happened to me. I'd been buying Certified dope and it came in a standard one gallon can (just like fuel). I ordered a gallon of Randolph's and it came in a one gallon can (just like house paint). One good thing was you can get a trick pour spout for the paint can.
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That is the only way I've ever get Randolph clear. I haven't seen it in the thinner type cans in years. The first time Chris Cox and I ordered Randolph clear all Spencer Aviation had were quarts so they gave us gallon prices. I kept the cans and when empty, I clean them and refill from the gallon using a spout I bought at the Home Depot.
Alan Resinger
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Alan, great idea! I've been using a plastic paint cup to dip the paint out with. Gonna try your method.
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Speaking of Randolph, I just got a gallon of clear butyrate from Wicks. It came in a paint can. Is that standard? I'd think it would come in a narrow, screw-on-top thinner can like Brodak does.
Hi Howard,
I have been using Randolph butyrate dope since about 1975 & it has always been packaged in round paint cans, both the gallons & quarts, colors & clear. Five gallon sizes come in metal 5-gallon pails with a plastic pull-out spout. The next larger size would be a 55 gallon drum (mostly for orange dope.)
Interestingly enough, The current Aircraft Spruce catalog shows a gallon screw-on top can beside the listing for Randolph butyrate tautening clear, but they show a round gallon can beside the listing for non-tautening butyrate clear. Certified clear comes in gallon screw-on top gallon cans & quart screw-on top quart cans. The thinners for both are packaged in the screw-on top type cans in the quart & gallon sizes.