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Hey heads. Any of you who paint or are getting into paint. I use those one ounce medical cups to mix my paint in. One once seems to bee a good amount for most jobs. The point of my post is I found a good medical site where you can buy the cups. I just bought a box of 5000 cups for $33. Can't beat the price. These are so handy. They are packaged in sleeves of 100. I have seen some people selling them for $5-$6 a sleeve. Here is the site. http://www.mddepot.com
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Hey Rob, apart from the standard paint tins from retailer or jars. I find that film cannisters are great! The film shops are glad to be rid of them and they are air-tight. Great for air-brush colours too.
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Rob, I use the 3 oz. Dixie bathroom paper cups to mix paint and to paint from. They are just the right size and I can hold the cup and pallet in one hand while I letter.I also save them in my tool box and reuse them....when lettering windshields. Judy
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5,000 cups! I but them buy the sleeve of 100 for a buck each... I buy 2 sleeves every couple of months, I don't know what I would do with 5,000
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I'm the kind of guy who buys in bulk because I'm affraid when I run out I won't be able to find them again. When I'm painting a lot I could go through a sleeve a month. Plus I give a lot of them to my buds.
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We have 2 cats....and I use the cat food cans ( same as tuna fish cans) to mix and hold my paint...hold the cn at a slight angle, and use the bottom as a pallete. Also reuseable after the paint dries!
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Rob, many pinstripers use those cups including myself. I buy them through a very simular source, and pay a simular price. I always buy in bulk whether cups, mixing sticks, paint bottles and whatever else will last without deteriorating as you never know when the price is going to sky rocket. What I like about those cups are the fact that any solvent or paint will not harm the cup in any way, shape or form. I understand why signpainters use other cups as compared to these, after all these are only 1 ounce and most just like to waste paint ! hehehehe
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Hey Si... you forgot to mention the best feature of the cat food cans...They stack! making each new can a lid for the last can...I put a little color on the lable stack'em and I have my color inventory in really small area of my paint bench.
The new hardners however make the cans reusable after about two weeks (depending on the amount left in the can.)
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I've tried the soup cans, tuna cans, pet food cans, africans, mexicans, dominicans, republicans, trash cans.....no thanks I use my cheap one ounce medical cups! They are about 1/2 cent a cup you cheap bastards! LOL
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well I'm with bushie, I use aluminium beer cans and I have a gaget called a can cutter which I brought while living in Perth and it cuts the cans perfectly and also bevels the edge at the same time so you dont cut your brush hairs. A signie invented them years back when the softdrink cans etc. were made from tin and thought he would make his fortune in replacement parts but they turned to aluminium and they never wear out "bonus!
Best bit is I have to empty em first.hehehe I do also use dog, beans etc cans too, seems everyone around her knows i use cans now i cant use em quick enough..
Burp!
Rod
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Great timing Rob! I love those 1 oz. pill cups too. Over the years, I've tried just about everything and found I wasted more paint.
They manufacture those cups here in Canada, but nobody seems to have them. I'm presently trying to buy a carton through the local hospital. Thanks to you, I now know who makes them.
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