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    March 2005
How do you measure that?
Posted by Aviator on Wednesday, April 6, 2005 8:48 PM
I have read things about mixing different colors of paint to get the perfect shade. But the thing that confuses me is that they use percents, like mixing 85% black and 15% yellow. So how do you measure your paint? Do you count the drops?Big Smile [:D] I have tried mixing some paint before, but I wouldn't say it was very scientific. Anyway, I just wanted to know if you had some kind of sophisticated device or you just guess.
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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 7, 2005 12:00 AM
I guess my percenatages... now I am gonna be burned at the stake!!! I go by drops such as 5 paint 5 thinner being 5 to 5 or 50/50 or 50%.
I hope this helps ya
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  • From: Kennesaw, GA
Posted by jdavidb on Thursday, April 7, 2005 1:04 AM
It always turns out brown, so just use brown to begin with. Just kidding. Yeah it's drop counting because too much paint stays in the dropper or pipette to measure based on the paint originally picked up. That way, you can keep count of every single drop you put in the mix. The end result... you have the total drops in relation to the drops of each color you put in, and that determines the real percentage.

You use a small amount of paint to find out the percentages, then you can thin all the colors and really use those percentages to make quick mixes of larger quantities of the exact color with marked droppers.
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Posted by Aviator on Thursday, April 7, 2005 8:00 PM
Wow, thanks. Propeller [8-]
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  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Thursday, April 7, 2005 8:25 PM
Same here.
I use an eye dropper.

Mike

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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