Dear paintingverse,
when I decided I wanted to try #painting with #acrylics I bought a few 20 ml tubes, because I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a new hobby, even if the price per liter was significantly higher, and I expected to only paint on A6 / postcard size, like I do with watercolours. They weren't metal tubes like I was used to in the 1800s :D but transparent plastic.
And then I got into myself some ideas on a bigger scale, and now I'm buying *huge*¹ 120 ml tubes. However I've found that the smaller tubes are quite convenient to use when painting on small scale on a cramped desktop, which is something I'm not planning to stop doing.
Does anybody have any experience with refilling smaller plastic paint tubes from of bigger ones? Is it even doable? If it is, I'd expect it's better to use the same brand/line/colour of paint, and possibly to avoid a complete refill, and only doing limited amounts at a time, to prevent wastage in case the biocides fail at their work and there is spoilage.
Also, I'm thinking I could either try to refill from the opening, or cut the seal at the bottom and easily refill from there, but then I'd need a solution to close it back in a way that doesn't let air in.
I guess that the alternative would be to buy empty metal tubes of the kind used by people who make their own paints, but that's too easy, right?
¹ I know :D
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Ho appena chiesto a @Diego Roversi di regalarmi un diamante, e per qualche strana ragione mi ha risposto “non ti serve”
il diamante: leroymerlin.it/prodotti/utensi…
(è uno scalpello per muri con punta diamantata, e devo ammettere che al momento non ho progetti che lo userebbero)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Kermode @Diego Roversi I think he was more worried about having stuff around the house that has no use (and I can't say he's wrong)
but it's *much* cheaper than a diamond ring, and potentially much more useful as well! :D
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@LaVi @Diego Roversi @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua in realtà coi loro prodotti di consumo (tipo il nastro di carta o i guanti usa e getta) non mi son neanche trovata male (contrariamente al nastro di carta della coop. quello evitatelo come la peste).
Però non so se ho mai preso qualcosa che non fosse materiale di consumo.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@LaVi
Da Leroy Merlin ci ho preso la lama per la troncatrice… ma era una Freud da 45 euri.
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