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Default Sealing the lids on paint tins

On 05/07/2011 13:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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steve wrote:
The reason paint goes off after being opened and used is the large
quantity of new air when you replace the lid.


Your better dropping a peace of plastic in the bottom


Or fill the space with some inert gas?


Or use an inflated plastic bag to fill the void.

(I started off writing "blow up a plastic bag...", but I suspect this is one
problem that wouldn't be best solved with explosives


Cue the "Mr Bean does decorating" clip from Youtube...

David

 
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