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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Sunday, May 23, 2010 10:53 AM

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.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    October 2008
  • From: Fullerton, Calif.
Posted by Don Wheeler on Saturday, May 22, 2010 5:10 PM

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

 

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  • Member since
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  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Paint thinner !!
Posted by Don Stauffer on Saturday, May 22, 2010 3:43 PM

I had been buying that cheap new kind of paint thinner, that has a milky appearance.  I use it only for cleaning brushes and airbrushes, not for thinning enamel paints.  The first gallon worked okay, but the second gallon seems to have a LOT of solids dissolved in it.  It gums up my airbrush a bit, though one backflush gets it in fine shape. And, if I let some evaporate in an airbrush bottle, it leaves a white goo on the bottom and sides of bottle.  So I decided not to use any more of that stuff.

I went to a hardware store today and asked if they had any real turpentine.  They did- at fifteen bucks a gallon! Then he suggested he had 100% mineral spirit paint thinner for ten bucks a gallon.  We opened a can, and it was purely clear, so I bought the can.  The milky stuff is six bucks a gallon.  Cheap but it just doesn't work real well (maybe okay for cleaning bristle brushes).  Even then I'd be afraid of the residue.  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.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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