Paint container after decanting

I'm always very afraid to decant paint into any kind of plastic jar. I'm perhaps being overcautious, but I have had plastic containers melt after decanting.

 As far as the glass jars, you can re-use them. Here's something I posted on another thread:

Get some Super Clean or Purple Power at your local Walmart. Fill a glass jar about the size of a mayonnaise jar about half full. Drop the small jar covered with paint into it so that it is completely covered and let it sit a couple days. Take the small jar out (wear rubber gloves, this stuff is nasty to your bare skin) and rinse in tap water. Rub off any stubborn bits with an old toothbrush.  It should look like new again.

 This cleanup trick will work for a plastic jar too.

White Ensign Models sells empty 14ml tinlets that they use for their enamel paints.

Who says that because you dont have babies anymore you cant buy baby food? Some of the babyfood fruit is awesome, I loved the dutch applesauce. I'd go buy a few of those, eat the applesauce your self, and up with a few good inexpensive jars for decanting.

The last time decanted, I used a hienz brown gravy jar, but it was a larger can of paint.

If you're talking about clear plastic airbrush jars then no, I wouldn't use them. I've tried solvent based paints in a couple of them and they crazed and cracked. If you mean the opaque soft squeeze bottles they should work ok. Don't know if they have a tight enough seal for long term storage though.

I've used a siphon fed airbrush for years so I have a pretty good supply of glass airbrush bottles. Also used a lot of PlastiKote Touch Up paint on model cars that came in glass 1 ounce bottles with a nice plastic lid and seal so I have a good supply of them too. Pretty much any paint bottle I can salvage I save. They always come in handy for something. I started keeping a 2 quart Rubbermaid container full of Castrol Super Clean for stripping paint a long time ago and that's what I use to clean paint bottles. Take off the lid, pour out any leftover and drop them in the Super Clean for a day or two.

From what you said you probably want to save space but paint will keep a lot longer in the can.

Tony

Hobby Lobby also sells small glass jars you can use.