ᐅ Washing paintbrushes, nitro thinner, and other related materials

Hello everyone,

I am a trained painter and varnisher and had to work with primer today. Since I didn’t have an old brush available, I had to use a good one of mine, and well, I just tried cleaning it with nitrous thinner, but it doesn’t dissolve at all. Is there a way to clean it? Because if nitrous thinner doesn’t work, that’s a bit strange. I mean, okay, I had to dilute the primer with spirits, but unfortunately, I don’t have any at home right now to try cleaning it with (if that even works).
If anyone knows something, please let me know 😉

Best regards

Hello,

VolvoDriver schrieb:
If anyone knows anything, please let me know 😉

The components of denatured alcohol are: ethanol > 85% and mostly propane < 15%.
Ethanol is primarily known as drinking alcohol, classified as a component in beverages (e.g., wine, beer, liqueur). However, ethanol is also used in bioethanol (fuel).

So you have two options: either you have some cheap low-quality alcohol stored somewhere in the house and use that, or you go to the gas station 😀

Best regards

Is it true that you can clean a brush with beer or wine? Or is that just a bad joke :p I’ve already had the brush covered in nitro for a few hours, but I guess that won’t help 😉

Best regards

There wasn’t really anything serious written there. I think it’s a bit exaggerated, but oh well.

VolvoDriver schrieb:
Is it really possible to clean a paintbrush with beer or wine, or is that just a bad joke :p I have already covered the brush in nitro thinner for a few hours, but it probably won’t help 😉

Regards

It certainly works if you are painting with water-based paints, since the solvent is water-based. However, the person who gave that advice was probably a bit too enthusiastic with the solvent.

Almost said it 😉
So what do you use for this? Even my boss didn’t know.
A coworker mentioned something about a special thinner. Or is that nonsense too?