Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Bugsy on September 28, 2009, 07:26:06 am
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Needed a tiny bit of paint to touch up a spot on my hull and the aerosol can was empty.
Cut the can open (I know it says you shouldn't ;) ) but my need was great and I did empty the gas first.
What was inside ................... not ONE but FOUR steel balls :}
You learn something every day .
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The paint does,nt mix itself,hence the little steel balls,
Wullie
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Yes but, how many people thought there was only one? :-)
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Never mind how many there are, what are you going to use them for? {:-{
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Never mind how many there are, what are you going to use them for?
Spares? %)
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Ballast :-)) O0
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I think that IS truely amazing these days, unless it was a very old can. What can be done by 4 balls can be dne by 3 and the customer wouln't know the difference and so on. So in the company I work for it would be down to one, and the size of that would be shrinking.
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I think that IS truely amazing these days, unless it was a very old can. What can be done by 4 balls can be dne by 3 and the customer wouln't know the difference and so on. So in the company I work for it would be down to one, and the size of that would be shrinking.
I suspect you will find that, somewhere on the Asian continent, there is a paint factory where the balls are put in manually, and they pay the workers per ball.....
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Never mind how many there are, what are you going to use them for? {:-{
Well, I've nearly got enough to make one of these
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/balls.html
If I can work out a way of drilling a hole in them :-))
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Great ammunition for a Catapult, {-)
Wullie,
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Sounds like a load of old spherical objects to me...
Rich
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Needed a tiny bit of paint to touch up a spot on my hull and the aerosol can was empty.
Did you find any paint in the tin? Does it ALL extract with the gas ?
ken
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Did you find any paint in the tin? Does it ALL extract with the gas ?
ken
I opened a couple of Halfords spray tins recently to save buying another. Depending on where the tube has ended up, you may get anything up to about 1/2 cu in of paint out. But of course the paint will be very thinned - so brushing with it will tend to wash away earlier paint. You can leave it to thicken, of course, or put it in an airbrush...
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Did you find any paint in the tin? Does it ALL extract with the gas ?
ken
Yes, quite a bit actually. The pick-up pipe is central so the paint lies around the inverted dome at the bottom. I've put it in an old 'pill' bottle and so far, its remained liquid.
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Well I never knew that
:-))