Paint thinner !!

Don Stauffer

  I'd like to use pure turpentine- then I'd know pretty much what I was getting, but fifteen bucks !! So I'll just use the 100% mineral spirits paint thinner.

Why would you prefer turpentine?  The smell would turn me off.  I ended up with a can of it when my father-in -law passed away, but I don't think I'd want to put it in my airbrush.  I clean up with lacquer thinner.  It cost me $15 for a gallon, but that will last a long time.  It stinks too, but I wear an organic vapors mask and it dissipates pretty fast.

Don

Don Wheeler

 

Don Stauffer:

 

  I'd like to use pure turpentine- then I'd know pretty much what I was getting, but fifteen bucks !! So I'll just use the 100% mineral spirits paint thinner.

 

 

Why would you prefer turpentine?  The smell would turn me off.  I ended up with a can of it when my father-in -law passed away, but I don't think I'd want to put it in my airbrush.  I clean up with lacquer thinner.  It cost me $15 for a gallon, but that will last a long time.  It stinks too, but I wear an organic vapors mask and it dissipates pretty fast.

Don

 

I just worry about having lacquer thinner on my workbench. I do use it occasionally but do not keep it on the bench. If I ever spill it, it eats up not only styrene, but I have had tools damaged by it.  Turpentine or pain thinners don't hurt styrene or other plastics.  Yeah, as I say, I keep some handy, but don't keep a supply handy. I pour a quart of the paint thinner into an old bottle and keep it on the bench, handy for brush and airbrush cleaning.