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Sealing the lids on paint tins

On 05/07/2011 13:46, wrote:
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"Dave wrote:

On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:45:44 +0100, "Nightjar wrote:

With oil based paints, it ensures that the skin is under the paint, not
on top, when you come to use it.

But how do you then stir the paint to get the oil back in without
breaking the skin and get loads of bits in the paint?

With sufficient air space in the tin the oil paint will skin over
anyway, this will protect the remaining paint and depending on
the type of paint you are supposed to either cut off and remove
the skin then thoroughly stir or stir in the skin

What's the deal there - I never know what to do for the best when I come
across skin on paint. I usually make a judgement on whether it will
actually ever stir in, and if not (eg if it's an eighth of an inch of
hard dry crust!) I remove it.

What does it do to the quality of the paint itself? Would the
underlying paint become more (or less?) concentrated from repeated
removal of skin? Or is the skin layer identical in quality/content to
the liquid?

David

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