Introduction and Overview of Cleaning Agents

This is Chrisy Idaho Painter here on Paint Life TV. Today I got Journeyman John with me and today we got a really cool test. We are going to be testing some solvents and cleaners to see if you can restore a brush that has been abused, destroyed with paint. So here's one example, and this would be John. How'd that paintbrush get like that? Well, I think there are some things in your family that you need to have a talk about. That would be my daughter. She took this brand new brush and she used it to paint for the day. And that's what you get when your daughters use your paint brushes. So, we've got a bunch of cleaners right here. We've got vinegar. Well, we don't know if vinegar is a clean or not. This is our own little um gadget that we're going to try to clean a brush with. Inquiring minds want to know. Want to know. We got Simple Green. We've got Reducer 54. That would be what we cut epoxy with or thin epoxy. We've got paint thinner. We have acetone, which we do get a lot of people telling us acetone will restore a brush to life. We have CRUD Cutter brush wash and that was specifically designed to clean brushes with dried paint. So, we have a whole different a whole bunch of scenarios. We've got brushes that have been sitting in the van that got um some abuse, you know, put to them by our own painting crew and painting staff. So, some of them are really dried really hard. But, but in order to make this fair, we're going to create a situation and a scenario that is fair for all the cleaners. How are we going to go about