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Evaluate Vinegar, Paint Thinner, Reducer 54, and Acetone

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What happens here

Continuing the evaluation, the brush soaked in vinegar is assessed, revealing that the paint has hardened further, rather than softening. Paint thinner shows only a slight softening effect on the paint. Reducer 54 significantly breaks down the dried paint into a paste-like consistency, although the bristles themselves appear somewhat degraded, hinting at its aggressive nature. Acetone proves very effective, thoroughly softening the paint on a severely hardened roller. A brush that was initially very stiff is then quickly dipped into the 50/50 Simple Green and CRUD Cutter mixture to see if a short soak combined with initial softening from another agent yields better results.

Goal: Determine the effectiveness of various solvents on dried paint.

Tools and materials

  • Brush soaked in Paint Thinner — Evaluating its effect on dried paint
  • Brush soaked in Reducer 54 — Evaluating its effect on dried paint
  • Brush soaked in Vinegar — Evaluating its effect on dried paint
  • Roller soaked in Acetone — Evaluating its effect on dried paint
  • Scraping Tool — Removing softened paint from the ferrule and bristles
  • Wire Brush — Aggressively cleaning softened paint from bristles

What they say

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brushes here. Here's vinegar. So, this one's letting me pull a comb through. Comb's getting through it. Yeah, it's going to take a lot of work to make it happen. But, I mean, what what I can see like with this right here, I can see where I It is like the paint is softened. John's going to start digging on it. He might be able to wire brush it and stuff. the amount of time that John would spend on this brush right here with um CRUD cutter. It's not going to be worth saving that brush, I don't think. No, it wouldn't even be worth it if it were a Corona brush. I think Yeah. I wonder what like if it was a chax brush, you know, what would have happened? We these these that something we might want to say what the there these are nylon polyester brushes. So there's what your bristle is. So here's the vinegar. So we did hear I think you heard somewhere on with vinegar. Um vinegar absolutely I think negative. I think vinegar actually hardened it more. It's it's now it's like solid as a rock. So John, you've got paint thinner there. Why don't you show us what's going on with paint thinner? Paint thinner that is uh about the same as vinegar. Maybe a tad softer. Just a tad softer. I didn't think paint thinner would do anything to a latex paint anyways. Um that's um I'm not sure what you could use that for, but you can't use it to paint with no more. That's non revivable. Reucer 54, which is This one's going to be a little interesting. This is kind of fun. Um reducer 54 uh did something to the paint. It did something. We're not sure. It restored the brush. I turned it into some kind of experiment. Um, the bristles look a little bit like frayed out now, but that paint comes right off. I'm going to go out on a limb and say this so far is the most promising. So, this is um that's pretty those bristles are looking pretty dang clean. And I got a frog in my throat. Hey, that's looking pretty good, John. I would uh almost soak that in some simple green and uh I think I think you might actually be on to something that might be wa that thing is really soft. Yeah, those bristles are really soft now and they don't look um this was an extremely used brush so it didn't look great to begin with. It probably looked like that when we dipped it into the paint. Yeah, but it was definitely hard down in here and like not like 5 days hard. Like it had been that way for for weeks. lot of paint inside there. A duster brush. It was a duster brush. And that thing I would call that revive. I uh…

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