when it comes to being an oil painter i think we can all agree
cleaning and changing your odorless thinner paint thinner mineral spirits whatever you want
to call it is not a fun job it's dirty it's messy you got to do it all the time so that
way it doesn't negatively affect your painting but you know what it doesn't have to be a chore
that's right you don't have to be a chore because i'm going to share with
you two awesome secrets that make changing and cleaning your thinner super easy here we go
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when my videos go live for you now i've already done one heck of an awesome video on how to
change clean reuse recycle your paint thinners i'm going to put that in the top right corner
but you know what there's a couple of secrets i left out in that video i want to share with you
plus an awesome hack that somebody shared with me that blew my mind that i want to share with you
so let's get right into it awesome secret number one is when you're done painting and you need to
change or maintain your thinner put all of your dirty thinner into a gallon ziploc bag and then
hang it off an edge with a c-clamp with it pointed down near the tip of the bag and let this sit here
for 24 to 48 hours as your bag sits here at the dirty thinner it's gonna separate itself out just
like oil and vinegar where your heavy pigment and color is going to start settling near the
bottom of the point of that bag and allowing your cleaner thinner to rise to the top of the bag
this is awesome because it sets you up for a lot of ways to clean and maintain your thinner
down the road and even later in this video that's really going to help you out but make sure you
take the time to let your thinner sit and if you do it in this bag by letting it sit over
the edge with like a c-clamp and a ziplock bag oh my it's so easy to change and clean your thinner
much more often secret and tip number two is something i completely forgot to mention in that
video about changing and cleaning your thinner which is completely weird because i actually
use this product all the time and that's using the tool of cheesecloth and old school coffee filters
to help keep your thinner clean as you're pouring it now there's an effective way to use these what
you want to do is buy a cheap little coffee dripper on amazon got this for like six bucks
on amazon and what you want to do is take a piece of foam core and take a coffee mug turn it upside
down draw a circle around the coffee mug then cut that out an x-acto knife works great here
then you can take that piece of foam core go on top of what's going to be your clean thinner
bucket then put your coffee dripper on top of that and then lay in a nice layer of cheesecloth
or coffee filter now i actually prefer the cheesecloth because it allows the liquid of the
thinner to go through at a much faster rate coffee filter still works but it's a much slower process
now there is a little bit of a side note i want you to know here this isn't a miracle worker it's
just for making sure it's going to catch that extra sediment or big chunks that may come from
that dirty bag that we let sit for 24 to 48 hours don't expect your thinner to be extremely clean if
you run it through these filters these are just safety nets to catch the extra stuff and when it
comes to buying these two if you plan on using this method just use amazon you get a bunch of
them for super cheap that's what i did oh and uh by the way you can use the affiliate links down
below thank you okay secret and tip number three actually comes from a viewer in this community
i give him all the credit however i did improve it a little bit but still credit goes to him i'm
gonna put his name here up on screen because he or she deserves it sorry don't know who you are
can't assume any genders on youtube people get mad so easily i literally can't believe i didn't
think of this and i i'm a genius in this stuff this thing right here blew my mind this is just
a giant syringe that you can get off amazon and it works so good i was so impressed now i told you
i improved the process so allow me to elaborate on that what you want to do is get one of these
syringes i got on amazon plus the surgical tubing that comes with it just to let you know
i put a link down below for the exact one i got so that way you can buy it what you want to do
is allow your thinner to hang like we said for 24 to 48 hours so that way the pigment and thinner
separates out then take that bag and put it in a bucket and allow it to sit for a little bit just
in case it got jostled around then you're going to take your syringe attach the surgical tubing
to the tip and then put the other end into the bucket sitting right above where the sediment
would be sitting within that bucket i really like to make sure i clamp it down with a clothes pin
or an a clamp like you can see here that way the tube doesn't move around and it stays
in position just to soak up the clean thinner that's sitting on top all you have to do is
slowly start pulling on the syringe to soak up all the clean thinner that's it it's amazing and the
cool part about this is when you clamp it position you can really see through that surgical tubing
if it starts to pick up sediment so that way you can stop pulling and you know you got all
the clean thinner out when you're done you can either disconnect the surgical tubing and pour it
into your new clean bucket or you can just move the surgical tubing with the nose up and then
move it into the bucket and just push the thinner back in through the syringe this works fantastic
once you get pretty much all the clean thinner out you can really kind of pull your dirty bucket with
that plastic bag in there more flat and go in there and soak up the rest of what you think is
the clean thinner look at your syringe and see if it's clean and then add it to your cleaning bucket
i kid you not this blew my mind how did i not think of this this is fantastic thank you to
the community out there for sharing this awesome secret i i started using this non-stop you guys
are you guys are just so awesome literally i am super bummed that i did not think of this
if you do go with one of these giant syringes please do me a favor since it's gonna have
things like odorless thinner mineral spirits paint thinner all that stuff make sure you mark on the
back here for what the use is put painting only so that way other people don't use it because all the
chemicals that are gonna go in here are toxic you don't want someone to use this for like baking or
anything else okay i literally love this thing so freaking much it is awesome thank you for
sharing what are you doing watching the video go buy this right away and if you want to buy one
you can use the links down below they help support my channel so thank you very much and if you need
any more tips tricks tutorials anything awesome i'm gonna do a favor and put a couple of videos
over here to the side hey let's put one about that changing and maintaining thinner and then maybe a
painting tutorial that will get you started on your adventures wild here making sure you're
bigger and better and as always take care and of course peace sometimes it's fun to be goofy