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hey everybody adam savage with a with a tool tip that i am surprised that i am giving i'm surprised
because this is a tool that i've been seeing in the world for like a couple of years and i just
kept thinking to myself that's not real that doesn't really work um so i want to it's it's
sorry i always get frozen here because i know that you've clicked on this link you've already seen
like what this video is about so we're we're mixing paint we're it's it's just paint can mixer
however like i kept seeing this on amazon like it would show up in my feed under my
recommendations and i kept thinking that can't solve that problem that well i mean come on but
it really really does okay so uh whenever you're painting stuff
mixing your paint is absolutely paramount and in a spray can it is one of the bigger
pains in the ass that i as a maker encounter um because you have to sit here but i know
i know that's not how to open paint okay so when you have a new can of
spray paint or even an old can of spray paint that you haven't used that day
you should shake it they say for like a minute but to be fair really you should
shake it for a lot longer or it turns out you can buy one of these things which is a chrome
cup with a foam liner that fits a can of spray paint you simply chuck it into your drill
there we go
i reverse the direction like three times
and then that is a beautifully mixed can of spray paint i
i'm like blown away by how well these work i'm going to show you
so here we go
that
is a sheer pleasure to use a can of spray paint that you have mixed with this
but that's not the end of the tool tip because as soon as i realized that this was a real thing
and by the way uh if you read the comments on amazon for a few of these you'll find that people
complain that they fail right here at the join between the the uh hex uh shank and the cup itself
uh other people have said they've welded that it is built slightly off-center um
so that it adds a little bit of vibration to the can and that probably does put a large amount
of mechanical stress right here i have not had this break on me i have mixed over 100 cans of
spray paint in the last few months with it i'm really digging this but the reason i dig it is
not just because it mixes my bondo filler primer well which it does and i like this filler primer
i really really like it its coverage is good it dries quickly it sands well and that is like one
of the hardest things to find in a primer a lot of filler primers and to be clear a filler primer
is one in which just like any paint you've got a solvent and you've got the material that makes up
the paint which is a powdered pigment and a filler primer just has a much larger volume of powdered
pigment and other things so that uh basically when you spray it over an uneven surface it sort of
evens out some of the details in that surface you can go in and sand in and smooth things out
but within those parameters you want to spray paint that one dries quickly dries hard sands
well and fills well and in those categories the greatest primer i have ever encountered in my life
is this stuff plastic coat this was the house brand at industrial light magic when i first got
there and i fell in love with this paint they make it in gray black and red and i used it for forever
unfortunately one of the reasons it's so great is because it's a lacquer based primer as such
it uses some highly volatile solvents in order to do its fast drying and hard drying and excellent
sanding and thus this product is no longer legal in california you can't buy it here anymore
i don't even think you can get it shipped here you might tell me wrong in the comments that's fine
but california has outlawed this and that makes me very sad however i still have a few cans from
a case i bought like 10 years ago so this is i'm not joking this is a 10 year old can
of red primer now what happens to a can of primer like this when you leave it for 10 years well
inside the can are some volatile organic compounds there's some solvents there's some fillers there's
some stuff and they're all at different densities and they all have different specific gravities and
i can tell you if you cut this can in half right now you'd find a whole bunch of the filler parts
of this primer down here and the solvents and the the compression compressed parts up here
and that means that no amount of handshaking has ever allowed me to properly use one of
these cans over the past like seven or eight years no matter how much i shake it it clogs the
it clogs the the nozzle so i'll like i'll have some mission critical thing i really want to
prime and i really want to use this so i'll shake it for like five full minutes and then i'll spray
and freeze and then i got to pull the nozzle blow it out with there
and then i mean and it just it's this it's the gunk in here it's the unmixed gunk coming up
through the siphon out through the nozzle and clogging it so that had happened enough that i
started heating my primer i started running it in hot water and letting it soak in warm water
for like an hour before using it and that worked but it's like really the protocol i
ended up with to make these reliable was that i had to shake it for five minutes then soak
it in warm water let it sit there for an hour shake it for another five minutes after it had
soaked for an hour and put it back in the hot water i'm not kidding but ladies and gentlemen
this has reinvigorated the six cans of original plastic coat primer that i have and i'm going
to demonstrate it for you now and no lie this is a 10 year old can that's been sitting on the
top shelf in my materials area for the entire time i've been here at uh
at the cave okay so we're going to put this in i'm going to give it a little bit of a longer mix
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yeah all right let's see here what are we gonna do here uh okay let's see here uh six inches
there we go uh that
i'm just using the sea wrench to ferry the nut all the way down that's it
okay
i think that's it let's see if i got it
yeah
we're back in business got a nice vibration going on
and one more reverse for 15 seconds
okay
if i've done that correctly this should spray beautifully and the only reason i didn't show
you a control was because i didn't want to clog one of these ancient beautiful cans of
awesome lacquer primer and make it unretrievable just to show you guys it not working that's all
so i recognize my experiment as missing a control but you're just gonna have to
trust me because i'm trustworthy that this was 10 years old on the show here we go okay but
by the way in the intervening five minutes that bondo primer is dry it is it's great stuff it
just doesn't quite have the body the amount of fill that the plastic coat had okay here we go
look at that and i can keep going
so i have five more cans of this and i'm going to enjoy the spit out of every single
one because they're they're precious to me um i cannot recommend this thing enough
it has literally like revitalized what i consider an old and important relationship
yes uh the the the weak point that i described turned out to be real and practically weak um
i replaced it with a six inch quarter twenty all thread uh with a nut on both sides and
it worked just fine i would recommend if you buy one of these also buy a six inch long quarter 20
a piece of all thread and a couple of nuts and you should be uh you should be jake
yeah i think i've covered everything i'm just really surprised that this broke where i said
it was likely to break thank you guys hey if you have a filler primer that you love that's not one
of these that dries quickly fills well and sands well i would love to know about it so please tell
me in the comments thank you guys so much for joining me for this tool tip and i will see you
next time happy painting one more thing about why plastic coat is amazing you almost can't
spray it heavy enough to get a drip you might spray it and see a drip and then as
the lacquer thinner that is its solvent flashes off the drips
i'm not kidding mostly disappear like this is the least drippable primer i've ever been near