Embarassing question. How to open paint tin

[Spyro]

This has never been opened. It's not like a normal tin
How do I open it?
It's a 5L tin and it's metal.
I'm quite willing to be made look an idiot if it's obvioius

 

[afterpegassus]

Possibly, the top outer bright ring is a sealing ring that should be broken off to reveal a conventional lid.

 

[Spyro]

I thought that, just couldn't see an easy way to get it off.

 

[Plevier]

Isn't that a pull tab at the front of the pic to get this shipment ring off? I suspect if you lever/pull the tab the ring will snap.

 

[Georgio]

Stick a smallish screwdriver in that small round hole and lever left or right, this will tear the partially cut metal sealing ring. Once the ring has been removed you open like a normal paint tin.

Hope this helps

 

[Spyro]

Stick a smallish screwdriver in that small round hole and lever left or right, this will tear the partially cut metal sealing ring. Once the ring has been removed you open like a normal paint tin.

Hope this helps

Yep That did it. Thanks. Now to try and resurect the paint. I mustn't buy **** at the boat jumble again. Thick almost rubbery gloop at the bottom watery solvent on the top.:livid:

 

[nimbusgb]

Yep That did it. Thanks. Now to try and resurect the paint. I mustn't buy **** at the boat jumble again. Thick almost rubbery gloop at the bottom watery solvent on the top.

Should have taken it to the local b&q and asked them to run it in their shaker for a couple of minutes.

 

[jerrytug]

Yep That did it. Thanks. Now to try and resurect the paint. I mustn't buy **** at the boat jumble again. Thick almost rubbery gloop at the bottom watery solvent on the top.:livid:

Put it in a bowl of hot water to warm it up, and mix it with a paint stirrer on a mains drill, I would suggest.

 

[omega2]

It will mix if you are a good stirrer! trouble is there is alway too much in the can, pour some off, then stir, then add the thin stuff as it frees up. A bigger tin/bowl helps, we use plastic buckets.

 

[Spyro]

Thanks for the suggestions. Just made up a stirrer with a couple of screws on the end of a 10mm piece of dowel. Attached to my drill and Bob's my uncle. Just a few paint splatters around the garage to clear up. Just need to some good weather now to get it on.

 

[Dipper]

When you put the lid back on, do not place the tin on a gravel yard and 'stamp' the lid on with your foot. The lid will be fitted nicely but the hole punched in the bottom of the tin by a stone will drain all your expensive paint away.

 

[afterpegassus]

When you put the lid back on, do not place the tin on a gravel yard and 'stamp' the lid on with your foot. The lid will be fitted nicely but the hole punched in the bottom of the tin by a stone will drain all your expensive paint away.

Before opening, I usually mark the lid and rim so that I can put the lid back in exactly the same place. This saves lumpy bits round the inside rim getting dislodged and dropping into the good paint in the tin.

 

[Spyro]

Before opening, I usually mark the lid and rim so that I can put the lid back in exactly the same place. This saves lumpy bits round the inside rim getting dislodged and dropping into the good paint in the tin.

Good idea, proabably gives a better seal as well.

 

[Spyro]

Before opening, I usually mark the lid and rim so that I can put the lid back in exactly the same place. This saves lumpy bits round the inside rim getting dislodged and dropping into the good paint in the tin.

Good idea, proabably gives a better seal as well.

 

[afterpegassus]

When you put the lid back on, do not place the tin on a gravel yard and 'stamp' the lid on with your foot. The lid will be fitted nicely but the hole punched in the bottom of the tin by a stone will drain all your expensive paint away.

Before opening, I mark across the lid and rim so that I can put the lid back on in exactly the same spot. This saves dislodging lumpy bits into the good paint below when the lid goes back on.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Before opening, I mark across the lid and rim so that I can put the lid back on in exactly the same spot. This saves dislodging lumpy bits into the good paint below when the lid goes back on.

Good idea, proabably gives a better seal as well.

 

[JVL]

Paint with a sealing ring turn upside down ie on lid the night before use, right way up in the morning stir use ( or if painting flight decks on grey funnel liners remove lid kick over very gritty paint and run about with sweeping brush to apply, repeat process when wafus start sliding in the oggin in pricey helicopters)

 

[superheat6k]

There was a widely held believe in the Royal Navy that the degree qualified Engineering Officers knew the chemical composition of the beans inside a tin, but had no clue as to how to open it.

I am sure this theory would have equally applied to paint tins !