Re: lumps of pigment in stain ?

Aug 26, 2003 1 Replies


Greetings,


> I bought a 5 gallon pail of stain.I used some then put it in the shed.It
>gets quite hot in the shed.When I opened it up again there was a lurge lump
>of pigment kinda floating in the stain.After mixing well with a power drill
>mixer there were still lots of small lumps in the stain.Is there anything I
>can do to salvage this stain?

I have a good enough relationship with two small indie paint stores that they will shake previously opened cans for me. Any chance of asking where you bought it?


Barry


I've never known mixing to break lumps up, even shaking in a proper paint mixer.

You need to mill it - stir it around in a drum, but with some sort of heavy ball milling rollers in there too. A rock tumbler can be used to do this at home (reading Lloyd Sponenburgh's blackpowder ball milling artciles is useful).

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