I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

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On Dec 2, 2:21*pm, Randy wrote:
I have got to get me one of these. * Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. *Think this will fix
them. * Just wish I thought of it.

Thank You,
Randy

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That is a brilliant idea. I hope the guy makes a million off of it. I
will buy one if I can find them at my local hardware store.

DL

On Dec 2, 3:21*pm, Randy wrote:
I have got to get me one of these. * Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. *Think this will fix
them. * Just wish I thought of it.

Thank You,
Randy

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I saw this a while back on Ask This Old House. It is, in fact, pretty
cool.

Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.

It won't do anything to prevent the nozzle from clogging up. That can
be terribly disappointing when you bring a can of Silly String to a
party. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

"Rich Grise" wrote in message
...
Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.

It won't do anything to prevent the nozzle from clogging up.



Yes, I think it will prevent a nozzle from clogging up. It just won't clear
a clogged one.
Steve






That can
be terribly disappointing when you bring a can of Silly String to a
party. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

"Randy" wrote in message
...
I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

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$50??? I'll come over and shake you can for less! The last time I used an
old spray can that needed a lot of shaking I zipped it into a large pistol
rug and threw it in the dryer for 10 minutes on cool tumble.

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

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I was a judge at this years "National Hardware Show" in Las Vegas and
judged this tool. None of the judges, including me, thought much of
it. By the time you get the thing out and attach it to your recip
saw, unless you have one to dedicate to this job, then attach the can
to the tool, you could have just shaken the thing up yourself. The
only way I could see this thing being practical would be if you had a
LOT of spray cans to shake up. Then it might pay for itself.

Jim

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.

And "only" $24!

--
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration
of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If
the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling
the differences between true and false, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of
mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:09:27 -0800, Jim Chandler
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

Remove 333 from email address to reply.


I was a judge at this years "National Hardware Show" in Las Vegas and
judged this tool. None of the judges, including me, thought much of
it. By the time you get the thing out and attach it to your recip
saw, unless you have one to dedicate to this job, then attach the can
to the tool, you could have just shaken the thing up yourself. The
only way I could see this thing being practical would be if you had a
LOT of spray cans to shake up. Then it might pay for itself.

Jim
Or a bad case of tennis elbow or carpal tunnel that makes shaking cans
painfull.
Some days I'd give my (painfull) right arm for something like that!!!!

I've posted this before, but being not one to miss an opportunity to
show-and-tell, here it is again:
http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/PaintShaker.jpg

Bob

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:21:07 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
wrote:

I've posted this before, but being not one to miss an opportunity to
show-and-tell, here it is again:
http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/PaintShaker.jpg

Bob
Pretty nice - but for rattle cans I'd put the jigger on it's back,
tilted about 15 degrees right or left, with the can-holder holding the
can vertical.

A can-holding adapter could be fabricated to mount on an orbital sander for
a very effective paint mixer.
The jitterbug-type sander or sander type that the pad is constrained from
rotating, with the can mounted parallel to the pad, should mix the contents
fairly quickly.

Bob E's version of a saber saw/mixer is a very good use of an old tool that
would be cheap to attain, or one that's been squirreled away in some corner
because it doesn't get much use (or the blade holder is lost/broken).

--
WB
..........


"Randy" wrote in message
...
I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

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On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:09:27 -0800, Jim Chandler
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

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I was a judge at this years "National Hardware Show" in Las Vegas and
judged this tool. None of the judges, including me, thought much of
it. By the time you get the thing out and attach it to your recip
saw, unless you have one to dedicate to this job, then attach the can
to the tool, you could have just shaken the thing up yourself.

I'm gonna make one for myself.

Your time budget is incomplete. It works more like this:

Grab old rattlecan, shake like hell for a minute and a half.
Start spraying. It sprays great for 2 seconds and clogs.
Pull nozzle, soak in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air,
remount. Shake can another minute and a half.

Commence spraying. It sprays for two seconds and clogs.

Neighbor's sweet little boy of 3 years asks mommy, "what does
'rat****er*******sonofabitchstink****scurveyworthl esspieceof****'
mean, mommy?" Mommy says, "Don sometimes talks in a foreign language
we don't speak, dear. Eat your peas."

Soak nozzle in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air. Attach
the shop-made "recharger nozzle" to a propane bottle, shoot some
liquid propane into the can to raise the pressure and blow the gorp
out of the tube inside.

Remount nozzle, resume spraying.

It sprays for 3 seconds and clogs.

Toss rattlecan in the garbage can on way out the door to nearest hdwe
to get a new can. They don't have the stuff I need. Go to Depot.
They do have it. Return home half an hour later. Time for supper.
Screwit, I'll resume the job next day.

I'm not making this up. This is a fairly accurate account of my
adventures repairing my snowblower a couple of weeks ago -- and I had
the same experience next day with topcoat color -- the paint on day 1
was primer.

Don Foreman wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:09:27 -0800, Jim Chandler
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

Remove 333 from email address to reply.


I was a judge at this years "National Hardware Show" in Las Vegas and
judged this tool. None of the judges, including me, thought much of
it. By the time you get the thing out and attach it to your recip
saw, unless you have one to dedicate to this job, then attach the can
to the tool, you could have just shaken the thing up yourself.

I'm gonna make one for myself.

Your time budget is incomplete. It works more like this:

Grab old rattlecan, shake like hell for a minute and a half.
Start spraying. It sprays great for 2 seconds and clogs.
Pull nozzle, soak in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air,
remount. Shake can another minute and a half.

Commence spraying. It sprays for two seconds and clogs.

Neighbor's sweet little boy of 3 years asks mommy, "what does
'rat****er*******sonofabitchstink****scurveyworthl esspieceof****'
mean, mommy?" Mommy says, "Don sometimes talks in a foreign language
we don't speak, dear. Eat your peas."

Soak nozzle in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air. Attach
the shop-made "recharger nozzle" to a propane bottle, shoot some
liquid propane into the can to raise the pressure and blow the gorp
out of the tube inside.

Remount nozzle, resume spraying.

It sprays for 3 seconds and clogs.

Toss rattlecan in the garbage can on way out the door to nearest hdwe
to get a new can. They don't have the stuff I need. Go to Depot.
They do have it. Return home half an hour later. Time for supper.
Screwit, I'll resume the job next day.

I'm not making this up. This is a fairly accurate account of my
adventures repairing my snowblower a couple of weeks ago -- and I had
the same experience next day with topcoat color -- the paint on day 1
was primer.


Or you can punch a hole in the can and dump the paint into an
airbrush.


--
For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off
scientist!!!

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:18:40 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:09:27 -0800, Jim Chandler
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

Remove 333 from email address to reply.


I was a judge at this years "National Hardware Show" in Las Vegas and
judged this tool. None of the judges, including me, thought much of
it. By the time you get the thing out and attach it to your recip
saw, unless you have one to dedicate to this job, then attach the can
to the tool, you could have just shaken the thing up yourself.

I'm gonna make one for myself.

Your time budget is incomplete. It works more like this:

Grab old rattlecan, shake like hell for a minute and a half.
Start spraying. It sprays great for 2 seconds and clogs.
Pull nozzle, soak in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air,
remount. Shake can another minute and a half.

Commence spraying. It sprays for two seconds and clogs.

Neighbor's sweet little boy of 3 years asks mommy, "what does
'rat****er*******sonofabitchstink****scurveyworth lesspieceof****'
mean, mommy?" Mommy says, "Don sometimes talks in a foreign language
we don't speak, dear. Eat your peas."

Soak nozzle in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air. Attach
the shop-made "recharger nozzle" to a propane bottle, shoot some
liquid propane into the can to raise the pressure and blow the gorp
out of the tube inside.

Remount nozzle, resume spraying.

It sprays for 3 seconds and clogs.

Toss rattlecan in the garbage can on way out the door to nearest hdwe
to get a new can. They don't have the stuff I need. Go to Depot.
They do have it. Return home half an hour later. Time for supper.
Screwit, I'll resume the job next day.

I'm not making this up. This is a fairly accurate account of my
adventures repairing my snowblower a couple of weeks ago -- and I had
the same experience next day with topcoat color -- the paint on day 1
was primer.
That's why I love my little touchup gun. Buy a pint of paint, Or a
half pint) thin to spraying consistency (or heat it to thin it) and
spray it on. About 1/5 to 1/10 the cost of spray bombs, and it's still
useable 2 years down the road when you need it again. Worst case
scenario you need to stop and clean out the gun. (don't forget to
filter the paint into the gun)

If you want a thin hard high gloss finish thin the oil-based/enamel
paint with 100 LL AvGas. The lead has a hardening effect on the paint.
(You need good ventilation though, and it SMELLS.) This is a
tricklot's of guys use to paint air-cooled engine cyls (Corvair, VW,
Motorcycle, aircraft etc)

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:44:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Or you can punch a hole in the can and dump the paint into an
airbrush.

Video, please! I'd like a demonstration of how to punch a hole in a
pressurized aerosol can and capture the contents. Might this involve
use of a plastic bag and a .22 rifle?

I have airbrushes and jamb guns, still find rattlecans convenient on
occasion. The weld sites I needed to paint were just a few square
inches, a few seconds with a rattlecan, and I wasn't after a
competition finish on a snowblower repair; just wanted to impede rust
so the machine degrades more slowly than I do. The welds repaired
fatigue cracks in the sheetmetal. Snowblowers vibrate a lot. No
complaints about Toro, none at all. That machine has served me well
for a quarter century and it's far from done.

rangerssuck wrote:
On Dec 2, 3:21 pm, wrote:
I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.


http://www.mixkwik.com/Instructions.html

Have a look at this video starting at 1:53.
Looks like the can mass is off center in
relation to the axis of the sawzall shaft.

At low strokes - per - minute, it's controllable.

At higher rates the poor guy appears to
be fighting a standing wave.

--Winston

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

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I never throw away a spray nozzle, I toss it in a jar of brake fluid
and every so often I fish them out and blow them clean then store them
in a plastic bottle till I need to spray something.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

Gerald Miller wrote:
(...)

I never throw away a spray nozzle, I toss it in a jar of brake fluid
and every so often I fish them out and blow them clean then store them
in a plastic bottle till I need to spray something.

Me too! That's saved my bacon on many
occasions. I won't buy spray paint
if it has an irreplaceable nozzle.

Do you save the little red straws
from lubricant cans as well?

--Winston

Don Foreman wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:44:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
? wrote:

? Or you can punch a hole in the can and dump the paint into an
?airbrush.

Video, please! I'd like a demonstration of how to punch a hole in a
pressurized aerosol can and capture the contents. Might this involve
use of a plastic bag and a .22 rifle?


Actually, I just turned the can upside down and use an old pair of
dykes to slowly vent the pressure, then turn it up over a small glass
jar to collect the paint.


I have airbrushes and jamb guns, still find rattlecans convenient on
occasion. The weld sites I needed to paint were just a few square
inches, a few seconds with a rattlecan, and I wasn't after a
competition finish on a snowblower repair; just wanted to impede rust
so the machine degrades more slowly than I do. The welds repaired
fatigue cracks in the sheetmetal. Snowblowers vibrate a lot. No
complaints about Toro, none at all. That machine has served me well
for a quarter century and it's far from done.


I use a can when I have to, but prefer a real spray. Finishes like
wrinkle or hammertone are a lot easier from a can, though.


--
For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off
scientist!!!

Maybe back around 2000-2002 Ted Edwards put plans for a simple siphon-feed
atomizer sprayer, the type that can be made from a small glass jar with a
metal lid.

When I know I'll be using some aerosol rattlepaint, I'll set the can
upside-down for a while before shaking it.
In addition to shaking, I always hold the upper/nozzle end, and briskly
twirl the bottom around in a small circle as part of the routine.
Having the ball/marble running around at the end of the can will insure that
most of the solids are suspended, not still sitting in the gutter formed
around the edge.

After spraying, emptying the dip tube by holding the nozzle pressed with the
can upside-down is always a good idea, although those who are tighter than a
frog's ass cheap most likely won't do it, as it seems like throwing paint
away, but instead, the rest of the contents will remain in the can since the
nozzle will clog.

I'll also wipe the small amount of spittle off the face of the nozzle so it
doesn't dry there.

--
WB
..........


"Don Foreman" wrote in message
...

I'm gonna make one for myself.

Your time budget is incomplete. It works more like this:

Grab old rattlecan, shake like hell for a minute and a half.
Start spraying. It sprays great for 2 seconds and clogs.
Pull nozzle, soak in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air,
remount. Shake can another minute and a half.

Commence spraying. It sprays for two seconds and clogs.

Neighbor's sweet little boy of 3 years asks mommy, "what does
'rat****er*******sonofabitchstink****scurveyworthl esspieceof****'
mean, mommy?" Mommy says, "Don sometimes talks in a foreign language
we don't speak, dear. Eat your peas."

Soak nozzle in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air. Attach
the shop-made "recharger nozzle" to a propane bottle, shoot some
liquid propane into the can to raise the pressure and blow the gorp
out of the tube inside.

Remount nozzle, resume spraying.

It sprays for 3 seconds and clogs.

Toss rattlecan in the garbage can on way out the door to nearest hdwe
to get a new can. They don't have the stuff I need. Go to Depot.
They do have it. Return home half an hour later. Time for supper.
Screwit, I'll resume the job next day.

I'm not making this up. This is a fairly accurate account of my
adventures repairing my snowblower a couple of weeks ago -- and I had
the same experience next day with topcoat color -- the paint on day 1
was primer.

Don Foreman wrote:
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:44:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"

Or you can punch a hole in the can and dump the paint into an
airbrush.

Video, please! I'd like a demonstration of how to punch a hole in a
pressurized aerosol can and capture the contents. Might this involve
use of a plastic bag and a .22 rifle?

Nah. In the "instructions" for using a spray can, they tell you that
when you're done with the job, turn it upside down so the tube only
gets propellant gas, and spray till the spray head is cleared out.

Of course, this uses up the propellant when about 1/2 the product is
left, at which point there is no excess presssure, and you can take the
top off with a "church key." ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I use a can when I have to, but prefer a real spray. Finishes like
wrinkle or hammertone are a lot easier from a can, though.

I accidentally made a wrinkle finish once, when I painted a piece of
polystyrene(sp?) with lacquer. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

I'm sorry Jim.....you screwed up.....this IS a brilliant idea. I just bought one. Please vote correctly next time.
Steve

"
I was a judge at this years "National Hardware Show" in Las Vegas and
judged this tool. None of the judges, including me, thought much of
it. By the time you get the thing out and attach it to your recip
saw, unless you have one to dedicate to this job, then attach the can
to the tool, you could have just shaken the thing up yourself. The
only way I could see this thing being practical would be if you had a
LOT of spray cans to shake up. Then it might pay for itself.

Jim

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.
Randy

Here's another attachment for it:

http://www.theadulttoyshoppe.com/pus...-can-to047.htm

Sorry....I'm just too funny.
Dave

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:18:40 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:09:27 -0800, Jim Chandler
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.



Thank You,
Randy

Remove 333 from email address to reply.


I was a judge at this years "National Hardware Show" in Las Vegas and
judged this tool. None of the judges, including me, thought much of
it. By the time you get the thing out and attach it to your recip
saw, unless you have one to dedicate to this job, then attach the can
to the tool, you could have just shaken the thing up yourself.

I'm gonna make one for myself.

Your time budget is incomplete. It works more like this:

Grab old rattlecan, shake like hell for a minute and a half.
Start spraying. It sprays great for 2 seconds and clogs.

They don't do that if you shake 'em a bit and take 'em in the house to
warm up for the night, then spray in the morning.


Pull nozzle, soak in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air,
remount. Shake can another minute and a half.

Commence spraying. It sprays for two seconds and clogs.

Neighbor's sweet little boy of 3 years asks mommy, "what does
'rat****er*******sonofabitchstink****scurveyworth lesspieceof****'
mean, mommy?" Mommy says, "Don sometimes talks in a foreign language
we don't speak, dear. Eat your peas."

Hmm, that sounds like a familiar mantra. I've recently shortened mine
to SFP, for "************". Says it all but doesn't waste breath.


Soak nozzle in lacquer thinner, blow out with compressed air. Attach
the shop-made "recharger nozzle" to a propane bottle, shoot some
liquid propane into the can to raise the pressure and blow the gorp
out of the tube inside.

Remount nozzle, resume spraying.

It sprays for 3 seconds and clogs.

Toss rattlecan in the garbage can on way out the door to nearest hdwe
to get a new can. They don't have the stuff I need. Go to Depot.
They do have it. Return home half an hour later. Time for supper.
Screwit, I'll resume the job next day.

I'm not making this up. This is a fairly accurate account of my
adventures repairing my snowblower a couple of weeks ago -- and I had
the same experience next day with topcoat color -- the paint on day 1
was primer.

I'll betcha a dollar to a doughnut that you didn't warm the silly
stuff first. I'd like a chocolate eclair, please.

I usually shake with one hand while I spread out newspapers with the
other. Since my house is attached to my shop, paint stays at least
60F out there all the time. I don't have to warm it often, but still
do sometimes. Gallon buckets work fine with hot water. Rest rattle
can in there for 5, shake for one, rest 5, shake one, and spray. Nary
a problem.

P.S: Always remember to empty the dip tube and nozzle after use. That
means spraying with the can inverted. That's the most common reason
the nozzles clog. That and spraying before shaking.

P.P.S: Order 30 nozzles from eBay. It'll save you a lot of grief. I
got mine he http://fwd4.me/r8s and it has been worth it.

--
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration
of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If
the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling
the differences between true and false, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of
mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:06:47 -0800, Winston
wrote:

rangerssuck wrote:
On Dec 2, 3:21 pm, wrote:
I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.


http://www.mixkwik.com/Instructions.html

Have a look at this video starting at 1:53.
Looks like the can mass is off center in
relation to the axis of the sawzall shaft.

At low strokes - per - minute, it's controllable.

At higher rates the poor guy appears to
be fighting a standing wave.

Chaos theory adds to the overall mixing effect.
It was -planned- that way. Just ask him.

--
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration
of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If
the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling
the differences between true and false, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of
mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:37:50 -0500, lid wrote:

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972

or

www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.
Randy

Here's another attachment for it:

http://www.theadulttoyshoppe.com/pus...-can-to047.htm

Sorry....I'm just too funny.

You should have kept looking. Here's another sawzall attachment.
OMG, -she's- going to use that on HIM? Makes me pucker just looking
at it, it do. http://fwd4.me/r93

--
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration
of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If
the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling
the differences between true and false, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of
mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:36:37 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:37:50 -0500, lid wrote:
Here's another attachment for it:

http://www.theadulttoyshoppe.com/pus...-can-to047.htm

Sorry....I'm just too funny.

You should have kept looking. Here's another sawzall attachment.
OMG, -she's- going to use that on HIM? Makes me pucker just looking
at it, it do. http://fwd4.me/r93

Well.....that certainly explains why the local Home Depot can't keep
Sawz-All in stock.....or something.

"What did you get for Christmas, Jed?" "The little woman got me one of
them there Sawz-Alls, Zeke!!!" "Well ain't she just a prize?" "You
don't know the half of it there Zeke."
Dave

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:27:37 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:



I'll betcha a dollar to a doughnut that you didn't warm the silly
stuff first. I'd like a chocolate eclair, please.

Shop is always around 68 deg F.

Give your dollar to the next homeless vet you see.

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:26:38 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:44:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Or you can punch a hole in the can and dump the paint into an
airbrush.

Video, please! I'd like a demonstration of how to punch a hole in a
pressurized aerosol can and capture the contents. Might this involve
use of a plastic bag and a .22 rifle?

I have airbrushes and jamb guns, still find rattlecans convenient on
occasion. The weld sites I needed to paint were just a few square
inches, a few seconds with a rattlecan, and I wasn't after a
competition finish on a snowblower repair; just wanted to impede rust
so the machine degrades more slowly than I do. The welds repaired
fatigue cracks in the sheetmetal. Snowblowers vibrate a lot. No
complaints about Toro, none at all. That machine has served me well
for a quarter century and it's far from done.
I've done it many times. Can upright, in a plastic bag, Poke ice pick
gently into top of the can to release pressure. Occaisionally a bit of
the contents comes out too, if the can is close to full.

Rich Grise wrote:

Don Foreman wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:44:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"


Or you can punch a hole in the can and dump the paint into an
airbrush.

Video, please! I'd like a demonstration of how to punch a hole in a
pressurized aerosol can and capture the contents. Might this involve
use of a plastic bag and a .22 rifle?


Nah. In the "instructions" for using a spray can, they tell you that
when you're done with the job, turn it upside down so the tube only
gets propellant gas, and spray till the spray head is cleared out.

Of course, this uses up the propellant when about 1/2 the product is
left, at which point there is no excess presssure, and you can take the
top off with a "church key." ;-)

Cheers!
Rich



I'd be a little carefull with the church key thing just in case the can
isn't fully emptied of propellant because of a nozzle clog.

See:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547132/posts

What I've done is to stand the can upright on my garage bench (with the
garage door open) and carefully tap an awl through the top near its edge
until a tiny hole opens up, then wait for the propellant to exhaust
before opening the hole further just to make sure. I then use the church
key thing to drain the contents.

If you happen to use a men's hair spray like I do, I've found that the
nozzle NEVER clogs if I just remember to stick it under running water
from the sink faucet for a couple of seconds before putting it away. I
tought SWMBO the same trick, it saved my having to wast time "fixin" her
hair spray cans.

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

Winston wrote:

Gerald Miller wrote:
(...)

I never throw away a spray nozzle, I toss it in a jar of brake fluid
and every so often I fish them out and blow them clean then store them
in a plastic bottle till I need to spray something.


Me too! That's saved my bacon on many
occasions. I won't buy spray paint
if it has an irreplaceable nozzle.

Do you save the little red straws
from lubricant cans as well?

--Winston

I save both of those things and I tape a plastic drinking straw (with
the bottom folded over) to the sides of the spray cans to give me a
place to store those "straws" when they're not in use.

Jeff (Some call me anal...)

--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight.

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:18:40 -0600, Don Foreman

Neighbor's sweet little boy of 3 years asks mommy, "what does
'rat****er*******sonofabitchstink****scurveywort hlesspieceof****'
mean, mommy?" Mommy says, "Don sometimes talks in a foreign language
we don't speak, dear. Eat your peas."

Hmm, that sounds like a familiar mantra. I've recently shortened mine
to SFP, for "************". Says it all but doesn't waste breath.

I like the Short Form Serenity Prayer:

**** it!

Cheers!
Rich

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:37:50 -0500, lid wrote:
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972
or
www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.
Randy

Here's another attachment for it:

http://www.theadulttoyshoppe.com/pus...-can-to047.htm

Sorry....I'm just too funny.

You should have kept looking. Here's another sawzall attachment.
OMG, -she's- going to use that on HIM? Makes me pucker just looking
at it, it do. http://fwd4.me/r93

It's the TSA's latest high-tech tool for finding contraband.

Cheers!
Rich

jeff_wisnia wrote:
Winston wrote:

Gerald Miller wrote:
(...)

I never throw away a spray nozzle, I toss it in a jar of brake fluid
and every so often I fish them out and blow them clean then store them
in a plastic bottle till I need to spray something.


Me too! That's saved my bacon on many
occasions. I won't buy spray paint
if it has an irreplaceable nozzle.

Do you save the little red straws
from lubricant cans as well?

--Winston

I save both of those things and I tape a plastic drinking straw (with
the bottom folded over) to the sides of the spray cans to give me a
place to store those "straws" when they're not in use.

That is an excellent idea! Thanks Jeff!
'Way better than re-using the scotchtape tunnel.

I bet I could heat-crimp the end of a piece of
heatshrink tubing for the same purpose.

--Winston

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:55:49 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:27:37 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

I'll betcha a dollar to a doughnut that you didn't warm the silly
stuff first. I'd like a chocolate eclair, please.

Shop is always around 68 deg F.

Aha! Confirmation that he didn't warm it first!


Give your dollar to the next homeless vet you see.

OK. Give your donut to the next homeless guy you see.

--
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration
of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If
the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling
the differences between true and false, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of
mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:16:21 -0800, Rich Grise
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:37:50 -0500, lid wrote:
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:04 -0500, Randy wrote:

I have got to get me one of these. Watch the video, the guy has a
good sense of humor too.

Ebay item 310206425972
or
www.mixkwik.com

I'm tired of cans that clog up and stop spraying. Think this will fix
them. Just wish I thought of it.
Randy

Here's another attachment for it:

http://www.theadulttoyshoppe.com/pus...-can-to047.htm

Sorry....I'm just too funny.

You should have kept looking. Here's another sawzall attachment.
OMG, -she's- going to use that on HIM? Makes me pucker just looking
at it, it do. http://fwd4.me/r93

It's the TSA's latest high-tech tool for finding contraband.

Wouldn't that tend to pack it higher up?

Ouchouchouchouchouch.

--
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration
of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If
the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling
the differences between true and false, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of
mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams

Don Foreman wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:44:20 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Or you can punch a hole in the can and dump the paint into an
airbrush.

Video, please! I'd like a demonstration of how to punch a hole in a
pressurized aerosol can and capture the contents. Might this involve
use of a plastic bag and a .22 rifle?


I managed to accidentally put a hole in one, was climbing down a
ladder next to some shelves, heard a clunk sound, and suddenly
everything in my line of sight on the floor, was gold colored.

Thought I was having a stroke for a second. Turn my head everything
looks normal, turn it back, everything is gold again.
Only when I got down to the ground did I see the can of gold spray
paint with a hole in it, from a sharp corner it hit on the way down.

jk

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:50:55 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:55:49 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:27:37 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

I'll betcha a dollar to a doughnut that you didn't warm the silly
stuff first. I'd like a chocolate eclair, please.

Shop is always around 68 deg F.

Aha! Confirmation that he didn't warm it first!

68 is warm in MN. Propane has plenty of vapor pressure at 68F.