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Boxing together several 5g cans, without mess?

10/31/18       
Matt

You'd think after doing this for 14 years I'd have a better solution. Hoping some of y'all will have a good idea.

I have a job coming up that's a bit of a royal blue color, going to need around 15 gallons of it, and I already have 10 gallons on hand. So I'll be ordering another 5g.

Blues are notoriously tricky to get " visibly exact match" from one batch to the next, but my paint vendor does a pretty good job.

But I still want to box these together just to be sure we don't have any little surprises.

What's the quickest, mess-free way of boxing together 3 full 5g cans of conversion varnish/lacquer that you guys have found?

10/31/18       #2: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
Shane

2 clean buckets plus your three with material..... keep boxing them back n forth between all the buckets.... If your careful you wont spill a drop with open tops....

10/31/18       #3: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
Jim Clark

I buy my lacquer thinner in 5 gallon cans,
I would use one of those.

10/31/18       #4: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
Robert Member

I might be tempted to bring your 10 gallons to who is mixing the newer 5 gallon and ask them to machine mix it.

10/31/18       #5: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
Shane

This literally takes minutes to do with no mess..... It's second nature and shouldn't require a lot of thought process to line the buckets up and successively start pouring them into each other.... that's why I say start with two extra buckets so you can start the batch by pouring a bit off from each to be boxed.... then start pouring them into each other.... you should be able to box 20gal of material within a few minutes and put the tops right back on them.

10/31/18       #6: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
Robert Member

Shane, " literally takes minutes ", is a sure fire guaranteed failure if those ten gallons have sat for sometime ! Sometime is in the minds of the beholder though; huh.

P.S. think about the flattening agent and the pigment etc... if its sat for sometime.

10/31/18       #7: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
rich c.

Do you have to be careful of aeration with your material? Pouring back and forth is really going to introduce a ton of air into the paint.

10/31/18       #8: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
herb johnson

best way do to drum reconditioner in your area buy a 30 gallon drum pour everything in together, then get air motor or drill powder agitator not the ones with little blades on them, i do that all the time but i have a little diaphragm pump to siphon all the material out of a 30 gallon drum painless and easy to do and i get a perfect mix every time fwiw and good luck
herb j

11/1/18       #9: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
Shane

I didn't think I would need to spell out that someone should need to make sure each bucket wasn't hard packed but then again we are beating a simple task here to death.... I understand not everyone has 5 gal. shakers at their disposal... I'm lucky enough we can spin up 5 buckets at a time here... Let me make it simple for the small task.
1. open all material to be blended
2. scrape the bottom with a long sturdy stir stick to check for hard settling
3. Agitate or stir in material until well blended
4. proceed with pouring off buckets into each other as I described above.

this kinda reminds me off my kids spending an hour trying to get out of a ten minute task..... It's pretty mindless to do this and should be second nature...

11/1/18       #10: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
Matt

Hey guys, I suppose there's a critical point I forgot to mention here, the reason why the otherwise obvious solution (using empty buckets and pouring back/forth)
doesn't work well:

Getting the metal lids consistently re-sealed for the paint shaker is nearly impossible. Even with brand new metal lids.

We have to use a paint shaker, it's pretty much a necessity anymore with the amount of stuff we spray, and our paint is just way too thick (in the can, before reducing) to mix with a drill without lots of wasted time every day.

Either we peel the metal lid off the can (for faster pouring) and crimp the lid back on and risk LOTS of leaks in the paint shaker (even with a brand new lid).

OR

We pour the paint out of the little bung, waiting all damn day for it to pour out, and then taking all day to pour it back in with a funnel.

So my apologies for lack of clarity there.

11/2/18       #11: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
herb johnson

wow

so much empathy here

lighten up their francis

beat up your own people not so much on this board, it is unnecessary and disrespectfull

this kinda reminds me off my kids spending an hour trying to get out of a ten minute task..... It's pretty mindless to do this and should be second nature...

11/3/18       #12: Boxing together several 5g cans, wi ...
Jeff

I would agree with Shane, get 2 or 3 extra buckets and just start mixing. If you need to mix it up better if it was sitting use a good heavy duty drill and mixing paddle. I am not sure what you are spraying that is so thick you can’t mix it with a drill? People mix drywall mud this way everyday and it is way thicker than any material you are going to spray.
If that doesn’t work sounds like you might have to invest in some professional equipment for mixing in 50 gallon drums.


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