Discuss Viscosity Measurement and Thinning Alternatives

now thinning your paints there's a lot of paints out there that don't especially in other countries like in europe that don't spray very well through an airless sprayer so you have you actually have to thin them this is an unusual case where actually thickening the paint works really really well makes the product perform a lot better now this is a white and the viscosity of whites is too typically a little bit thicker i've been recently spraying some really dark bronzes some really dark blues adding a lot of that um tint color it into the paint thins the paint out quite a bit and um causes it to not hang as well and that's where your thickener will really come into play once again when it comes to the products itself thickening the products make sure you always you know do what the manufacturer recommends you know if they um tell you that you should not be adding a thickener to the paint you probably shouldn't be adding a thickener to the paint but there's quite a few products out there cabinet coatings and stuff that you can actually you know thicken the paint it does adding this thickener doesn't degrade the quality of the paint at all it doesn't change the color of the paint either so it's a great product to use i've had a lot of success with it so once i'm done stirring this in so i'm just going to put my lid back on and then i'm going to let it set for about a half hour stir it again and i can check my viscosity if you've never checked the viscosity of paint before you know when it comes to cabinet coatings there's especially spraying through an airless sprayer there are certain viscosities you're actually searching for i've got a video on um how to actually check viscosities of paint and stuff and um pretty in depth but i'm going to give you just a little look at checking the viscosity i've got multiple viscosity yo testers right here a sata cup ford ford cup a really cheap cup here's a zone viscosity uh meter right here this is actually a really nice one with a long handle on it i really like that one a lot um very professional looking viscosity meter but even these cheap ones can test your viscosity and the simple way to test viscosity is i'm gonna dip this thing into my product i'm gonna rise it out the product's gonna begin spilling out of your viscosity meter and you're gonna time it it's gonna be just pouring out and you're gonna you're gonna have a start a stop watch some type of way you can you know run your time stop watch use your iphone…