TiggerToo
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Does anyone else do this? If you let a pot of white spirit used to clean off dirty paint brushes, after a few months the paint settles at the bottom and you can reuse the spirit to clean the paint brushes again.
Recycling White Spirit
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VicS
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Yes I do that. I use the old stuff for a preliminary clean and then fresh stuff for a final clean, adding the then used new stuff to the old stuff.
Sometimes I have three lots on the go, old stuff, not so old and fresh.
Sometimes I have three lots on the go, old stuff, not so old and fresh.
Poignard
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Yes - been doing it for years.
electrosys
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I find a week or so is enough with WS. Incidently, if you cut the top inch or so off the top of the brush handle, 2" brushes or smaller can be made to fit into a Tesco 300G coffee jar - where they can live quite happily immersed in WS between jobs.
Broadly similar story as VicS when applying epoxy resin with brushes - the best being the el cheapo ones from the pound shop, made with polyester bristles. They're rubbish to paint with (so that's why they're cheap ...) but great when working with epoxy. The resin ends up in the thinners and gets gradually concentrated, so I have 3 jars (with tops marked T1, T2, T3) - then when T1 gets really yucky, it gets used for lighting bonfires and the contents replaced with clean thinners. Then the lids get swapped around so that T1 is always the dirtiest (for initial clean) with T3 the cleanest, for a final rinse.
That way I can get well over 100 resin applications from one brush - in fact I haven't lost a brush yet - although some are beginning to look a bit grim.
Broadly similar story as VicS when applying epoxy resin with brushes - the best being the el cheapo ones from the pound shop, made with polyester bristles. They're rubbish to paint with (so that's why they're cheap ...) but great when working with epoxy. The resin ends up in the thinners and gets gradually concentrated, so I have 3 jars (with tops marked T1, T2, T3) - then when T1 gets really yucky, it gets used for lighting bonfires and the contents replaced with clean thinners. Then the lids get swapped around so that T1 is always the dirtiest (for initial clean) with T3 the cleanest, for a final rinse.
That way I can get well over 100 resin applications from one brush - in fact I haven't lost a brush yet - although some are beginning to look a bit grim.