Fast and Easy Way to Strain Your Paints

so I want to talk about straining your paint now I'm I'm getting ready to spray the body right here I've got a five gallon of the body I've got to multiple singles of the body we're just pouring some into a five Sal some chunks of the paint you know coming out and it's pretty common you know if paints have sat for a while if they've sat in Sun they'll get um paint skimming over on the top of the buckets or on the top of the paint due to the chemicals in them that make them dry really fast these days that you'll get it SK over even in the top of the bucket so nowadays with exterior paints and even interior paints and especially if you're running it through a sprayer you want to always strain your paints I can't emphasize that enough you need to strain your paints and if you don't strain your paints you're going to clog the manifold filter you're going to clog the gun filter we didn't strain the paint when we first started painting this house and we clogged Two Gun whips and so um strain your paints I'm going to show you how we I typically go about straining my my paints and I just use Raven gloves just throw away gloves cuz I'm going to quickly run the paint out of the strainers have yourself a five in one that way you can open up your singles and dump your singles into a five you want to have an empty five even though I have a brand new five this is a brand new five sitting here we're going to want to strain it so I I always instead of using like bucket top strainers I like this type of strainer cuz you can run your hand through it empty it out really quick I like the ones with the elastic on the top cuz they stay on the bucket top of the bucket um with the elastic now you're just going to take begin dumping I'm going to dump since I got singles and I only got one five I'm going to dump cuz I want to box my paints too I'm going to dump part of the five in and watch the strainer cuz sometimes even with elastic it can actually dump into the bucket now I'm going to just quickly snap snap it back clean the rim so it doesn't pour down the side of my bucket I'll pour more that into there as I begin to run down so now I'm going to take my singles I'm going to box my singles right in make sure you shake your cans up first make sure they're shooking make sure your five has been stirred with the whip or a drill or some type of stir stick now we'll start to dump it in and see that's pretty clean there A lot of times you'll see chunks falling in and that's exactly what you're straightening out you can see it's skimming over on the Top This Is The Stuff that'll eventually you'll break free drop into your paint and that's going to clog your filters you can see if a few chunks dropping in there it's exactly what you're straining out that's going to clog up your sprayer if you don't strain your paint got room to dump this one single that's partially used right here I've already shooken these up you can see same thing on the top this is the stuff that's going to fall into your paint and cause all kinds of issues now once you got your bucket full I'm just going to lift my strainer up slowly let the paint drain out this is why I like this type of strainer because I now I can just take run the paint out of the strainer I'm going to drop this strainer water cuz I'm going to reuse it I'm going to clean it and reuse it I got a bucket of water I can drop it into right here now I'm just going to pull the gloves off I got Clean Hands always straight your [Music] [Applause]