Had a nice brush that I used to apply varnish and, as is my burden, didn't clean it very well.
"Oh, what the heck," I said, "might as well use it to apply MEK."
That really FUBARed the brush.
So, I decided to try the technique I learned at last week's Home & Garden Show painting class; it's a three-step process:
- Swish the brush around in mineral spirits for ten seconds or more, spin out the brush*.
- Swish the brush in a 50-50 mixture of mineral spirits and alcohol, spin out the brush.
- Swish the brush in 100% alcohol, spin out the brush.
The doggone brush turned out pristine. Heck, I could use it to apply shaving soap to a female p*rn star's nether regions! If I had shaving soap... and, oh yeah, a female p*rn star.