question from Oldie....any help gratefully received.........please read..

[RetroModeller&Son]

is it possible to remove the paint from a pressurised spray paint can to a
container to use with an airbrush?

if so, how?

[Ron]

Yes, get one of those red "straws" that come with WD-40 or something
(make sure it's never been used) and decant the spray paint into a glass
jar with lid and allow to outgas for several days.

Post by RetroModeller&Son
is it possible to remove the paint from a pressurised spray paint can to a
container to use with an airbrush?
if so, how?

[f***@webtv.net]

You can take a rag, wrap it around the can & punch a small hole into the
can thru the rag & let out the propellant. The rag will catch any excess
paint that may come out & keep it from going all over. Afterwards, just
pour out the paint in to a container.

[e]

Post by RetroModeller&Son
is it possible to remove the paint from a pressurised spray paint can to a
container to use with an airbrush?
if so, how?

i've used a plastic tube fit tightly in the spray nozzle and
stuck deep in a jar. even with a rag over, it's messy.

[Sam]

Chill the paint can before punching the hole as it will make the paint
thicker and a little less pressure and there will be less lose and a little
less mess.
Sam

Post by RetroModeller&Son
is it possible to remove the paint from a pressurised spray paint can to a
container to use with an airbrush?
if so, how?

[e]

Post by Sam
Chill the paint can before punching the hole as it will make the paint
thicker and a little less pressure and there will be less lose and a little
less mess.
Sam
damn, this group is a real edumahcation.

anyone have a good whiskey recipe?

[RetroModeller&Son]

[EmilA1944]

Post by RetroModeller&Son
is it possible to remove the paint from a pressurised spray paint can to a
container to use with an airbrush?
if so, how?

I've been doing it for years and years! I simply use a 2-oz Paasche color jar,
as it has a very nice tapered shape (wider at the bottom), and spray gently (oh
so gently!) the paint against the side of the jar (on the inside, of course).
This takes a bit of practice with "finger control", learning to depress the
spray can nozzle just enough to spray, without getting carried away to the
point of having the paint "blow back" out of the jar.

Once I have sufficient paint in this jar, I simply pour it into my normal
airbrush jar, and add about 10% lacquer thinner (which works equally well with
either lacquers or enamels, in my experience), get set up and spray away.

I have never felt a need to let the "rattle can" paint "outgas" for any length
of time whatsoever, after all, it has propellant dissolved in it if one sprays
directly from the can onto a model, and generally that causes no problems, so
my logic told me back 40 years ago it wasn't much different with an airbrush,
so I guess that either I am lucky, or my logic is pretty much correct.

While I have done so in years past, puncturing the spray can to release the
propellant so one can pour off the paint is fraught with serious danger. While
I hadn't had any serious accidents when I did this years ago, a couple of
friends did, so I don't worry about the last couple of CC's of paint in the
can--not worth having the can perhaps burst on me (which did happen to a friend
about 20 years ago). Also, at least in the US, spray paint cans are propelled
by butane, which is extremely flammable, and can be ignited by any open flame,
so I just am not going to take that chance either, by releasing a large
concentration of this flammable gas indoors.

Art Anderson