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54aardvark
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 Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject: Old Paint |
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Working on a farmhouse at the moment and farmers being farmers they insist on providing materials - most of it leftovers or cheapos. Managed to circumnavigate most of the potential hassles - generally by substituting my gear and disappearing theirs when they're not looking! Not really a problem as I'm on a good price and I'd prefer to save time using good gear rather then wasting it with rubbish.
Got to the glosswork and they gave me an unopened 5L tin of Brolac High gloss, looked OK so off I went - Had to work reallly fast as it was drying so quickly, a bit like an acrylic, but you could lash it on without worrying about runs - flattened out beautifully and as for gloss finish, the radiator looked like it had been sprayed with enamel.
Next day job looked fine but strangely, the brushes had tightened up in my Brushmate, all the other brushes were OK. Looked at can to check and yes, it was white spirit solvent so the Brushmate should have worked. Then I noticed the date stamp on the lid...........1985!
Been a few threads about old paint on here and, apart from having to paint fast and the weird bit with the Brushmate - can anyone beat 23 years! |
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Telmay
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Location: Worthing, West Sussex
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No mate you have got the prize on that one - I am amazed it was still ok, bet it needed a bloody good stir!
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Hoovie
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sounds like old paint is great for the finish, long as you use disposable brushes 
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Have Brush Will Travel
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Location: Wales
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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Crown shot emselves in the foot big time when they dumped the Brolac paints..superflat was the mutts nuts..market leader...and as for the gloss, I once poured a drop of crown gloss into some brolac..the crown was grey im comparison.
When they re introduced the mac phersons range the reps were all saying it was the brolac formulation but in a different tin...b*llocks!
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54aardvark
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Must say, (once I got the hang of it) it was good to work with but the finish is superb, better than anything else I've used. |
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