Pyrex or mixing cups???

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adrynalinjunkie

Just curious if anyone has done the math.
I buy gun solvent for 17 dollars a gallon at the local jobber.
I don't know what's more economical buying solvent to clean the pyrex out or just buying 50 cent 1 quart mixing cups?
What do you guys mix your paint in?
 
I mix in mixing cup, I like the mixing ratio graduations on them.

I recycle them.
I take a blue towel and wipe the mixing cup out, then I use the "clean" rinse thinner from cleaning my gun on a blue towel and wipe out the mixing cup again.

Cup is perfect for mixing primer next time.

I use virgin cups for base and clear.
 
That sounds like a good idea. I just mixed some epoxy in my big 4 qt pyrex. That damn bowl is so big I had to use a ton of cleaner.
 
Senile Old Fart;19594 said:
I mix in mixing cup, I like the mixing ratio graduations on them.

I recycle them.
I take a blue towel and wipe the mixing cup out, then I use the "clean" rinse thinner from cleaning my gun on a blue towel and wipe out the mixing cup again.

Cup is perfect for mixing primer next time.

I use virgin cups for base and clear.
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I do the same thing. I'm cheap, so I reuse my primer ones over and over.
 
I use labware, "tall form" or "Berzelius" beakers in various sizes, and use a gun washer and recycled solvent to clean them up.

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Occasionally I will break one, because when they are wet with solvent they become extremely slippery to a gloved hand. But since I buy them by the case, it's not really a problem. I have never dropped one full of paint, the accidents all seem to happen during cleaning.
 
Do all you high rollers use blue towels?
I still use standard white paper towels but they are Brawney!
 
I used to use Bounty plain white towels for everything, but recently they became "new and improved," and now leave a bunch of lint-like stuff on whatever we try to wipe down. So now we use Kirkland paper towels on the shop floor, and dedicated prep wipes from the paint store in the booth.
 
Whatever works well and decreases the amount of garbage, waste, and money spent IMO. mix cups, shot glasses, pyrex, soup cans, medicine cups, paint cans... a graduated paint stick will help make any cylinder or rectangular shaped container easy to use as a mixing container. one for epoxy, one for polyester primer, one for urethane surfacers-no need to clean them if you're mixing the same product in them over and over again.
 
Im with you guys on this.. I try and save what I can.. I re use all my primer paint sticks and I clean primer mixing pails with old dirty thinner.. Still yet I buy quite a few mixing pails.. I caused myself stiches a couple of times with broken shot glasses i used for tiny amounts of products.. I think those ER bills were far higher than the cost of a few mixing pails on whatever job I was working on or a little extra product used.. ;)
 
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