Paint Bottles - Silly Question

That's what I was afraid of. Makes me appreciate those wide-mouth Tamiya jars with the plastic tops. Could be worse though, like those tiny old-school Humbrol tins with the pry off lid.

CuriousG

You may want to take a look at this thread asking a very similar question. I too like their paints but hate the caps. For a few cents more per bottle they could fix that in a hurry.  At the bottom of this thread there are a few suggestions on how to get around the problem of the cardboard disk.

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David

Great thread there David. There are a lot of good suggestions - obviously this is not just me and my own personal OCD that has a complaint about this. Maybe it is not in Testor's best interest that our sealed paints last forever? I will  make a batch of replacement cap liners and see how that goes.

(And shame on me! I almost always do a forum search on my problems but was so frustrated with this little annoyance that I just posted this one out of the blue. )

Thanks!

George

Gerald,

  Thanks for the heads up...  Thats a welcomed product for sure.

David

A very long time ago, I used to shake the paint instead of stir and would often have problems with the lids sticking. Once I started stirring the paint (carefully!) instead of shaking it, the incidence of stuck lids went down considerably for me. I do get the rare occasion still where I have to go get the pliers, but that's maybe once or twice a year. 

I'm a shaker. I stir too, but I've solved the sticking problem by taking the cardboard disc, once it's stuck to the rim, prying it off and sticking it back into the lid upside down. I think I started doing this when I was 10  years old (circa. 1973) and haven't had a problem since.

Funny thing, I've still got some 25¢ Testors brand model paint from the '70s that's still good as gold. Yep, cardboard been flipped.

Yes they will.  I have got in the habit of wiping the top glass rim of my mm bottles EVERY time I close them. A bit of a PIA but the few seconds it takes will give you a clean sealed bottle. I also use a q tip to wipe within the cap if there is a mess of paint in there, assuring a glass to cardboard seal.

It doesn't take much to do it once you get in the habit, and for paint that costs something like 300 bucks a gallon... well!