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Remove Fresh Spits/Runs with Tru-Swipes

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How to Fix Paint Runs in Every Situation! Make Your Mistake Disappear.

What happens here

For small, fresh paint spits or minor runs (within 24 hours of application), use a Tru-Swipe swab. Break open the swab packet and remove the cotton-tipped swab. Lightly rub the swab over the paint imperfection. The solution on the swab will melt down the latex paint, smoothing out the run or spit without the need for sanding or glazing putty. This method works best for recently applied latex or acrylic-based paints that haven't fully cured.

Goal: Smooth out small, fresh paint imperfections.

Tools and materials

  • Tru-Swipe Swabs True Green Products — Removing fresh paint runs and spits
  • Fresh Latex Paint Runs/Spits N/A — The imperfections to be removed

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on this wipe at all and he's got wipes and he's also got swabs right here this is a swab that does the exact same thing it just is on a swab so and it looks just like a really large q-tip so you pull this thing out and there's three of them so you can walk around a house and do multiple tests there's enough um of the the alcohol or chemical in there that you can dip it and re-wet it so all i'm going to do is just find a spot on a door i'm going to rub it or anywhere where you want to test it a painted surface and now i can see there's white paint on my swab and i'm not sure if the camera can pick that up i will get a close-up of it here later on and show you but i know now this door has latex paint on it and i know what i need to do to prep it i know it's not oil-based paint but one of the other really cool things about this product is when chad i met him at a um a trade show a painting trade show quite a few years ago he gave me some samples of these products and i took this to the job site and me and some employees started messing around with it and one thing we realized is with the swab itself and this is with the swab and not the wipe we were spraying some doors and we got some spits on some doors some small little spits because we're using gun extensions and invariably you're going to get some spit somewhere or you're going to get a run somewhere at some point in time if you're spraying the entire trim package of the house what we did is we took in you can see a spit right here it's not going to remove the spit on this door because this is one of the things after 24 hours once the paint is cured this will not remove the spit but we were just taking and we started rubbing on it and we literally rubbed the spit out and typically what would happen we'd get a spit or a run on a door or some trim we would sand it then we would um smear it with bondo glazing putty with a knife we would sand it again and then we would reshoot it so we'd have to sand and do bondo glazing putty but what we realized with these little swabs right here for small runs and spits with that same day or the next day we can rub them out no sanding no bondo glazing putty reshoot it and you couldn't even tell where that spit was and there's something about them and it's more than just denatured alcohol i think it has something to do with aloe vera and the alcohol it kind of gels with the paint and it makes the edges really smooth you can't see where you actually rubbed it out you don't…

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