Re: Paint agitation

On Wed, 1 May 2002 12:26:01 -0400, "Tomb" <tomb@dreammechanics.com>
wrote:

>3) Does the inestimatble Mr. Bell realize how he made me smile? The
>image of him putting some sort of paddle into his paint on the tip of a
>5000 rpm Dremel (low setting for most of them) was rather hilarious...
>and would probably be very messy, unless he was lucky enough to own one
>of the older 295's with a foot pedal. 

You laugh, but my late father left behind something in his tool box. It
was a
barbecue rotisserie attachment. Apparently he used to put this on one of
his
power drills for stirring cans of paint. I always wondered why I've
never seen
this in a Home Depot, as it seems to me that it would make a cool tool.

And my Dremel goes much lower than 5000 RPM. Mind you, not so much that
I'd
actually think of using it to stir paint!

I would suggest glass marbles or perhaps beads. I don't know if the
metal
would react to some of the metallic paints or not. In any event we know
that
paint doesn't react to glass.

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@hyperbear.com
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