Hints and tips that some may not have heard of. #27: That Can can get you into trouble if you painting

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Boys and Girls,

Just to get your attention,


Out of the thousand reasons most (including me) hate painting, I feel that decanting should be reserved for vino...

Nevertheless some mushrooms, without awareness and now this knowledge, can reduce those stats to 999.

Still not having a formal Review section, I cannot write up and rate these great little, non-degradable plastic, universal paint spouts

that I picked up at Bunnings sold at $3 (Aus) for 3.

It can handle any sized paint can with a circumference greater than 118mm... even imperial cans greater than 118mm (??? inches).

However, to bypass the review... for anyone that is not prepared to pay $1 each, you can go out and buy a roll of painters tape (for $13.80 Aus) and enact this little hint provided with the compliments of D_W on LJ which I thought was a worthy disclosure here,



So if you run out of the spouts, you can always substitute painters tape, however, if you run out of tape, you can't substitute tha pourers without a lot of CA. 

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

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I have the plastic pour thingy in my shop, a few of them.

Main Street to the Mountains

Then when they are empty its capsican time.


Regards Rob

If you run out of pourers, Keebs can print you up a batch, right? 🙂

Careful RC, do that around here and they'll all be shot up by the local hooligans. 
Nice tips and informative video. 

James McIntyre

Thank you Alex, I’ve added them to my next hardware store shopping list trip 👍

Life’s Good, Enjoy Each New Day’s Blessings

I have one for a gallon can. Didn't realize that they could be curved more.

Steven- Random Orbital Nailer


 RobsCastle
 commented about 8 hours ago
Then when they are empty its capsican time.

Misread the capsican  capsicum and immediately remembered,


Though you'd need an illegal amount of plastic bags to take them to the recycle centre.

However, looking at the sprouts (in your cans), you may call them "capsican", but the cops might differ.

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD


 James McIntyre
Nice tips and informative video. 



 crowie 
Thank you Alex, I’ve added them to my next hardware store shopping list trip 👍

Funny how I sort of noticed them and walked past for years at Bunnings... Then one day I was bitching to one of the staff that surely manufacturers could devise better pourability after 146 years (1877)... that's when he pointed out that those pourers (that I'm not reviewing) were hanging in nearly every aisle about every 3 meters apart. 

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

I have a couple somewhere but never around when I need them. Am definitely going to try the tape trick.  Mike
Capsicum ..Doh ..sorry about that chief, doesn't look like you can edit it either!
And yes they are really capiscum seedlings. did you know you can tell their sex by looking at their bottoms!

Regards Rob


I doubt I've done enough painting in all my life to build up such an empty collection.

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

RobsCastle - That method works on a lot of things other than just Capsicum seedlings. lol.   MIke
Remember the old style quart oil cans? Stab with a screws driver or use a triangle punt beer can opener and spill 1/2 over your valve cover before zeroing in on the breath hole.

Then there were the stab in spouts that were a miracle and only leaked a little. Also made the 1/2 empty can top heavy so i'd get knocked over and re-lube your bench. I still have a plastic funnel that snaps over the can top like some of these paint can doohickeys but then the big-lube cabal decided to go with the plastic bottles.

I know someone (Rockler?) makes a pain can "lid" that has a pouring spout and a mixing auger combined. Looks trick, but buy that and the can dimension "standard" would inevitably be revised in spite.

 SplinterGroup 
pain can "lid" 
Perfect summary in 3 words!

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

For someone who professes to hate reading, you sure read closely! 👏

 SplinterGroup 
For someone who professes to hate reading, you sure read closely! 👏
I blame my glasses... or should I say, dodgy optometrist.

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

Again thank you Alex 
I purchased two packs today at bunnies 👍

Life’s Good, Enjoy Each New Day’s Blessings

Well after spending all Mar in Sydney with no 1 Son
I returned home to check out my  Capsicums


They were doing well
 


then off to see if my peas were advancing 

all looked good so I planted a second row of radish's


Regards Rob

The way it's hidden, the cops may be interested...

BUT.... where is that tutel with your wallet?

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD