Getting thinner out of gallon cans without making a mess.

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About the only immediate aid I could think of is the "step down" method, wh= ere you decant from the gallon jug to a quart bottle to a pint (or smaller)= bottle. I did this several years ago, wanting to have a handy type bottle for pouri= ng turps and other thinners, so I stepped down from the gallon jug to a sal= ad dressing bottle (cleaned of course). These bottles are in the shape of a= n upside-down funnel (I used "Wishbone" salad dressing) and are easy to fil= l using a funnel, and easier to use pouring the contents into old recycled = Tamiya or Pactra paint jars. I was even able to pour it into the little Tes= tors paint jars without making a mess. The Wishbone bottles are labeled as to contents and the lids have a piece o= f waxed paper (or two) between thne glass and the top, to help protect the = plastic top. If I ever find one with a metal top, I'll let you know.

Regards, John Braungart

I'd be wary of the HFT pump, since it's advertised for oils. The fluids you're wanting to use it in me eat the seals in it or lock it up, since they're much 'dryer' than oils. It'd be worth a try, tho. What I think I'd look into would be either a kerosene pump, sold in accessories for kerosene heaters, or a gasoline siphon. They're both basically the same but made for fuels so should tolerate thinners better. The flows on them may be a bit high so you may want to transfer to at least a pint or quart bottle first, but that's the rouyte I'd go.

On Mar 31, 2:12=A0am, ftauss wrote:

Have you tried siphoning?

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No, but I would expect for the small quantities it would simply displace the mess.

Any sort of push-pump should work...like even one from a Windex bottle - just put a longer tube on it, like a chunk of R/C fuel line.

Just drill a hole in the cap on the gallon bottle and install the finger pump in it, add a length of feed line, screw it on - presto.

Rufus wrote in news:K-SdnTzUDKqo1OrSnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@mchsi.com:

Not bad. But you need a dispenser pump, not a sprayer pump. Think more soap dispenser than Windex sprayer.

Some dispensers have trigger sprays that are either/or, with just a twist of the dial. I have one from a Tilex cleaner bottle. And I've thrown out a LOT more than I've kept (I use them for spraying Future). Now if you couple rig up the tube from a WD40 strayer to direct the flow into a small jar.....

Regards, John Braungart

Yes...some sprayer pumps are adjustable, though - from spray to stream, but a hand soap dispenser would be more appropriate. Just a matter of choosing the right one. You could even press a hunk of tubing over the end to make it easier to get the paint into the small bottle.

As an aside, you can do a similar thing to make an airbrush adapter for paint bottles - just get a short brass bolt (because it's easier to drill/cut), drill and tap through the center to match the threads on your airbrush receiver. Then drill a paint cap to accept the bolt size and secure it using the mating brass nut. You also need to drill a breather hole in the cap and cut a chunk of delivery tube to proper length. Works great for Badger bottom feed types, and you can use it on any bottle/cap/paint combination you like.

Model Airplane fuel pump? Or are they all electric now?

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solid tube 1/4 inch id use like a buret insert put thumb over end transfer liquid

I use plastic drinking straws from McDonald's - dip it into the thinner, put my finger over the end, hold the straw over the jar and release. Repeat as necessary - the amount you transfer each time would depend on how deeply into the main container you dip the straw. Each transfer takes a couple of seconds so it wouldn't take long to fill up a 1oz jar.

Here you go Don't know how well it will hold up with lacquer thinner

nockers wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Very nice.

nockers wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Possible, too. I'll check the local big box store.

ftauss wrote in news:XnsA0272090F67D7Wereofftoseethewizrd@88.198.244.100:

This turned out to be pretty cool. I bought 2. So far they fit on the gallon refill of Windex I had and the gallon of paint thinner.

Paint thinner is Crown brand sold at Lowes. It's there "Next" formulation that is low VOC and supposedly friendlier. The container is plastic and the pump screwed directly to the cap threads. Only thing that bugs me about this thinner is there is some white particulate in suspension in it. They advise to shake well before using, If it sit for any time in a glass jar you can see that it clears up and the particulate settles to the bottom. Think I need to check thier site and see what that is.

Also found some glass soap dispensers and a hard plastic dual dispenser. Have the lacquer sitting in them now to see how the insides hold up. RC fuel tubing may be the way to go.

If you go RC tubing get some tygon its for gas RC engines. It may hold up better than the silicon stuff you get at any RC store

Does this low-VOC thinner work well with your paints? I've always found that most model paints are incredibly picky about thinners and don't work well with anything but the original. The only exception I've found is Hannants Xtracolor, which works with generic White Spirit (Ithin you call it mineral spirits). Revell enamels react very badly to any non-Revell thinner. Humbrol will accept white spirit but works better with Humbrol thinner.

ftauss wrote in news:XnsA028C392EABFAWereofftoseethewizrd@88.198.244.100:

BTW lacquer thinner + plastic = not so much.

The test was under controlled conditions so there was no mess.