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Using window cleaner to thin acrylics

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    November 2005
Using window cleaner to thin acrylics
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:21 PM
I keep reading of people using Windex and similar products as a thinner for acrylic paints, and that it supposedly allows better flow and spread. Can anyone give me a quick and dirty workshop on this. Which paints will accept window cleaners? How much do you use? It seem amonia, which is in most of these products, is not the thing to put in my precious MisterKit paint, which is the one I want to try it with, as well as Polly Scale. In short, what's the deal with spray cleaners and acrylic paints?
Thanks,
TOM
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:46 PM
I have heard of them doing that also but I personally wouldn't trust it.

Mike

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  • Member since
    September 2005
Posted by nathaniel on Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:15 PM
It's a good thinner for some paint. And terrible for others. It's also a decent all round airbrush cleaner.

If you ever need to make cheap hobby paints sprayable, get some window cleaner or windshield wiper fluid and thin it. Then pass the solution through ladies pantyhouse to filter out any big chunks of pigment or dried binder. The easiest way to do that is to put a square over the threads of a squeeze bottle and decant out of that. You'd be suprised at the decent coverage you can get with Delta Ceramcoat paint if you do it that way.
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