Paint keeps ok

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

I found an unopened 4L tin of cheapy gloss white under a bench in the workshop and decided to use it. Bit of a laugh, it said, 'Do not stir' - as it was supposedly a jelly type. When I opened it I found a couple of inches of pigment in the bottom and on top of that was several inches of brown fluid. Stirring away for a good few minutes yielded an ok white paint, but I wondered if it would still be any good.

That was yesterday; today the first coat has dried fine, and since it's only a workbench I'm painting I don't know if I cba doing a second coat.

The tin is twelve years old, if it's of any interest.

[NT]

Gel paints are fine stirred. If you want it to regel first, just let it sit again

NT

[Spamlet]

Gel paints are fine stirred. If you want it to regel first, just let it sit again

NT

I was astonished last summer, by how much white spirit I could add to get rid of the gel in some black gloss: even when seemingly very runny, it would still gel up again on standing.

And, on old tins: I've found that apart from getting the skin off without getting bits in the paint, the problem tends to be the metal rusting into the paint.

S