[Milsurplus] OK All You "Artistic" Types...

[joldenburg2 at new.rr.com]

Having run a contracting crew many  many years ago I concure with Glen. Alfer the second water washing and rinse we would clip the brush into a brush spinner, a hand powered device that spins all the water out of the brush followed by combing the bristles back into place with a brush comb, store the brush wraped in a clean rag. We actually wear the brushes out bristle getting down to a little over an inch long compaired to 3 new from the package!

Jon AB9AH


---- Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> wrote: 

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Back in junior high school, when every boy had to take "shop classes", the teacher taught to not only clean brushes with the proper solvent, but to then wash the brushes in soap and water followed by a clean water rinse.  The particular brushes in that class were many years old and still going strong!
 
Glen, K9STH Website:  http://k9sth.com


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 From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; boatanchors at theporch.com; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 8:40 AM
Subject: [Milsurplus] OK All You "Artistic" Types...
 
I know there's got to be someone on our lists 
that knowes about this:
Mike Hanz (without who's generous advice and assistance 
I wouldn't get 5 steps along in most of these projects)
and I are working on reviving an AN/ARC-2 for the 
upcoming hamfest displays.  I'm "touching-up" paint dings
and am having trouble with my brushes shedding bristles
into the new finish.
I learned not to go with cheap chinese brushes long ago,
but these, from an actual "art store," were *supposed*
to be better than that.  I used them when new- 
about a year ago- and they were fine, but now... 
Well.... they ain't.  The whole bunch of them has started
shedding bristles.  I guess the "hairs" got brittle.
Does cleaning "good" brushes with mineral spirits 
make the bristles fall out?  

Can you "artsee" folks recommend a brand of touch-up
brush that will actually hold up without shedding bristles?
I can't buy $20-each brushes, but I'd spend 5 or 10 
if I had to ;-).

TNX ES 73 DE Dave AB5S

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