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Secure Paint Brushes with The Drip Clip for Drying

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Mystery Tool Bin Monday: Tools Not For Me

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The second tool showcased is 'The Drip Clip,' designed for hanging paint brushes after cleaning. After thoroughly washing a paint brush, insert The Drip Clip into the hole typically found on the brush's wooden handle. Then, clip the device onto a faucet, allowing the paint brush to hang freely over the sink. This method ensures the bristles dry straight and maintain their original shape, extending the brush's lifespan and performance. The host notes its particular suitability for DIY enthusiasts cleaning brushes in their personal sinks, acknowledging that professional painters might prefer alternative methods to avoid paint drips in client's sinks.

Goal: Drip dry paint brushes without damaging bristles

Tools and materials

  • Faucet

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this device so this little uh device it it might be hard to explain but I can show you like a faucet comes up and the faucet you know is circular this thing would just U click click onto the faucet so it's onto a faucet whatever the faucet sticks up you like this now you could T take and hang your paintbrush I don't know if I got a paintbrush in here but a typical paintbrush you know has a wooden handle has a hole in the handle this is going to slide into the handle and it's going to you know hang down on the faucet I think one of the big things is you click this thing onto you know the customer's faucet and and you're cleaning them in the customer sink and now this is hanging you know on the customer sink as a professional painter uh we can't do that so we don't want the customer coming in seeing you know paintbrushes hanging on their sink but you know hey it this could be a do-it-yourself product we typically clean our paint brushes in a 5 gallon bucket and um get them all clean and then hang them out in the trailer to hang dry you know or if I'm actually myself painting at home you know I would clean the brushes then I take them out I set them out on the deck you know to dry it home now one of the drawbacks to possibly you know doing this having your brush you drip dry from a faucet is if you don't get 100% of the paint out you know there's going to be paint residue you know dripping into the sink and that could dry that could stain the sink with the say um clicking on and off say a like my faucet is a bronze fauc faucet could it scratch the faucet I'd be kind of concerned if I had an expensive faucet you know um would it scratch it it's called The Drip clip is what it's actually called and then you can find it at the paintbrush cover.com that was

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