I just finished helping a friend paint the interior of probably our 20th house in the last 10 years. Typically he rolls on the latex to paint the walls and I cut in. Also I do most of the oil based enamel trim painting. Through the years he has always used thinner to thin the paint and to clean the brushes. It has always been a pet peeve of mine to come back after lunch and begin the trim work again. I always clean the brush in thinner before leaving and when I resume painting the residual thinner in the brush blends with the paint in the brush and runs down the handle for the next hour. I HATE THAT! And It never starts immediately, it begins 15 minutes after thinking I am starting with a "basically dry" brush. I often will prime the brush with a very small bit of thinner but what resides after cleaning is way way more than "a bit".This time around he brought mineral spirits, odorless AAMOF.I noticed,1. No odor, although Swingman would testify that is smells like a refinery 13.6 miles NE of Pasadena, TX had just released .003 atoms of smelly stuff into the atmosphere about 15 minutes prior. ;~)2. It works just as well as thinner for cleaning the brushes.3. I never once had a friggin dripping brush after lunch.Does mineral spirits evaporate faster than thinner?

Do you use a pump-style spinner after you clean your brush?

On Oct 31, 2:14=A0pm, Greg G. wrote:

Thinner or Mineral Spirits?

Oct 28, 2009 25 Replies

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Greg G 16 years ago

Musta really pissed you off to have lost that drum to come up with that humorous rant. Ever see the episode of The Simpsons where Begley spoofed his own environmentalism by showing himself using a golf-cart powered by his "own sense of self-satisfaction?"

They would have freaked over my engine parts cleaner back in the 70s. A 55 gal drum sliced in half, hinged, and filled with gunk degreaser and kerosene. Right beside the outside shop wall. I did have a one gallon powder extinguisher, however. And the ill fitting lid...

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Robatoy 16 years ago

I rant not!

Nope, I don't watch the Simpsons. Old-style cartoons, sure. I'm a huge Bugs fan. Foghorn Leghorn RULES!! Hanna Barbera had some great ones. When Joseph Barbera died (December

18, 2006 (aged 95)) they drove past the same cemetery scene...... 14 times. I have all the Animaniacs on discs. I always wanted an affair with Slappy The Squirrel.

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Greg G 16 years ago

OK... ;-)

Ha! Same here. Except that I do watch The Simpsons - Doh! One of the things I dislike about this area is that they don't run any of those older (American made!) cartoons anymore. One of the stations in FL played them every morning. And I loved the Animaniacs rapid fire wit. I haven't seen an episode in 8 years, however. I never thought to look for them on DVD. The Cartoon Network is mostly Turner stuff, but I can deal with Futurama.

I say, I say, I always wanted an affair with Kim Bassinger, son. But it's the same thing we do every night, Pinky...

Greg G.

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Greg G 16 years ago

Just for you...

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Robatoy 16 years ago

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Larry Jaques 16 years ago

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:08:20 -0700, the infamous "Lew Hodgett" scrawled the following:

I'm just the opposite. I've had clients who came outside after 3 hours with me painting and they just stood and looked at me. "How can you be so neat?" I reply "Heck, I have paint all over me. Well, both of these fingers, anyway." I use a damp rag and I clean up drips, runs, and smears instantly so not much gets on me.

When I do caulking, OTOH, I'm more like you. Caulk all over both hands, both forearms, and usually on the back of my shirt, where I've backed into it _somehow_...

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