Cleaning Hammerite brushes

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I won't enter into the long-running whinge about how crap the Hammerite formulation became a few years ago (solvent cancelling). Paint brushes are cheap as chips at Screwfix.

Chuck your used brushes.

 

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Some very nasty chemicals do from distant memory, but it's very specific.

Tbh, we got to the stage where we'd just throw the brushes away, probably cheaper and more environmentally friendly
(We used to buy hammerite and zinc rich galvanising paint by the bucket load in a former workplace, like 6x 5ltrs at a time)

I could be wrong but I think the original solvent was toluene.

 

[Drago]

I won't enter into the long-running whinge about how crap the Hammerite formulation became a few years ago (solvent cancelling). Paint brushes are cheap as chips at Screwfix.

Chuck your used brushes.

The latest brew is better. Not as good as the original stuff that contained weedkiller, depleted uranium and fossilised tyrannosaurus faeces, but better than the lo cal rubbish of the last two decades.

 

[Deafie]

I'm in the cheap brush throw it away camp too, but if it's a good brush use vegetable oil and dish detergent, less toxic for lungs and skin

 

[Deafie]

Over here it's cheaper than paint thinner too

 

[Sharky]

The old tin, which I kept 'airtight' for the last couple of years in the garage, has solidified

I was once told that a skin will form at the top surface of paint when left in storage. The best solution for this, is to store the tins upside down!

So a skin will form on the top surface, but this is now at the bottom of the tin. And when stood the right way and the lid removed, there is no skin.

All sounds very logical, but I've never been brave enough to try it. Has anybody else tried this method?

 

[cyberknight]

fast browsing past the tile i read " cleaning haemorrhoid brushes "

 

[Sterlo]

fast browsing past the tile i read " cleaning haemorrhoid brushes "

They would clean easily, aren't they like stainless steel bottle brushes?