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Dumb ways to strain your paint! #badideas #toolsofthetrade #toolideas #newtools #contractorlife

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Video by The Idaho Painter

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This video evaluates a red, mesh-bottom paint strainer designed for 5-gallon buckets, used to filter paint before transfer to a sprayer. The demonstration reveals that the strainer struggles with slow paint flow due to its fine mesh and has poorly designed, fragile tabs that break easily upon removal, making it an impractical tool for efficient paint preparation. The video serves as a cautionary guide on what to avoid when selecting a paint strainer for sprayer applications.

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Let's come up whole clicks on that's supposed to be so you can cleanly release it. I'll get paint in your hands Okay, that's not going to work Okay, right there. Let's go See how it works Okay It's slow Okay, this is um This is not working out so well. This is like too slow Okay, what do you think? The holes are like it's it's straining it Oh shoot Okay, I gotta get So now you grab this tab right here Oh, the tab broke again So that's not so good So now that comes off and I can clean it Okay, two of them broke so that's not going to work so well So not something I would buy I don't even know where you could buy them but they sent me a whole box of them

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