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Extract and Clean the Strainer

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Why You Must Strain Paint Before Spraying! | Airless Sprayer Tips from The Idaho Painter

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What happens here

After pouring, carefully lift the strainer bag from the bucket. Gently squeeze the bag to extract any remaining strained paint, allowing it to drip into the clean bucket. This method is noted to be quicker than passive bucket-top strainers. To clean the reusable strainer bag, turn it inside out so that all the collected debris is on the exterior. Then, rinse it thoroughly with water to remove all paint residue, making it ready for future use.

Goal: Lift the strainer bag from the bucket, gently squeeze out remaining paint, and then clean the bag for reuse by turning it inside out and rinsing.

Tools and materials

  • Reusable Mesh Paint Strainer Bag
  • Water

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and scrape this off. Now I'm going to take my strainer. I'm just going to lift my strainer out. Lift it up. And then I'm just going to squeeze out this way. You can use like a bucket top strainer, but you got to sit there and wait for it to, you know, feed through the bucket top sprayer strainer. Now I'm going to take this. I've got my, you know, stir whip in there. My hide stir whip. I'm going to turn this inside out. I'm going to fill this up with water. I'm going to take these off. These are throwaway. Set these aside. Fill this up with water and it'll actually just be clean. I'll just rinse it out. Shake it out by turn it inside out. Cuz anything that was strained now will be on the outside of the strainer and it'll just come right off. Now my bucket of paint is strained and ready to go into my sprayer.

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