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Hack to Avoid: Rubber Band Across Paint Can Rim

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What happens here

This segment critically evaluates the 'hack' of placing a rubber band around a paint can to wipe excess paint from a brush. The presenter agrees that wiping excess paint is good, but highlights the significant risk involved. If too much force is used, or the brush slips, the paint can tip over, causing a large spill. This risk is amplified when working with a 1-gallon can. The advice is to use the rim of the paint can or a cut-in bucket for wiping excess paint, or to simply be careful.

Goal: Understand why using a rubber band across a paint can for wiping brushes is not recommended.

Tools and materials

  • Rubber Band — Demonstrating an unsafe paint wiping method

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time-consuming and um to me just utter nonsense um because it's not it's not going to give you a sealed edge so the paint's going to bleed underneath it yep yeah bad news bears so you have an open can of paint right here and we have a brush right there so this is kind of interesting you can take a can of paint and you can put a rubber band around it and then you can play it like a guitar i thought it was kind of interesting when i first saw the hack but then i realized really quickly um the dangers of this and this is something you'll want to know because the first time it happens you're going to go oh and then that's not going to be good so what what what's the whole rubber band thing for so theoretically you're going to you know do a little dip dip dip to the brush and then you're going to wipe the paint off the brush onto the rubber band so that you know there's not a bunch of paint on your brush so we can just even try it who knows so

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