I know a lot of us have been looking for this stuff. I stumbled on it quite by accident! Tractor Supply Co. has it in 8 oz. bottles. It's in with the boot care supplies. (Laces, polishes, etc.) It's cheap too, less than $4 a bottle. Go git some!
awesome, ive been using turpenoid natural, which seems to be working well, ill pick some up and see if its any better, but for the price probably not now lets never have the term "boot care supplies" ever echo'd again on the HAMB, thank you.
One of Ed Roths secrets was motor oil or ****** fluid, when ever the brush was not in use, ch out his 101 pinstriping secrets book, you will all be impressd, the package even comes with a roth oo brush,
Don't put Neatsfoot Oil on your brushes. It will go hard and attract vermin. It's no fun opening your brush box to find that some roach has trimmed all your brushes for you.
i don't like the idea of putting motor oil or ****** fluid on brushes becuase of all the detergent in them (especially atf). I'm gonna let yall in on a little secret...the best thing I've found for putting on brushes is Royal Crown hair dressing. Its super cheap, has no detergent and its not a liquid so kinda encapsulates the bristles. Plus, it rinses out with mineral spirits really easily. I've have a couple brushes that I've used for over two and a half years and they haven't lost thier snap and still work really well. I attrtibute thier long lives to Royal Crown...it works good on my hair, no reason it wouldn't work well on my brushes...
i know someone that uses marvel mystery oil........and has been forever. has brushes that are 20+ years old and still workin great. he also uses laquer thinner too. go figure. but ive seen it and it works for him, first hand.
skratch...just leave this to the professionals...stick around you might learn a thing or two! just teasing man...are you gonna make it to the round up this year? anyway, the reason i'm not keen on motor oil is this: one time, I left the cap off of a 5 gallon bucket of 15w-40 or 20w-50 that we were using in a D-6 Cat. Somehow, a mouse managed to fall down the little spout into the bucket, which still had about 3 inches or so of oil in the bottom of it. A couple days after I used the oil, the boss told me to round up all the oil buckets that still had a little oil in them and put it all in one bucket. So as I was pourig the oil out of the bucket through a strainer, the oil-soaked mouse came out and got stuck in the strainer. I then got a screw driver and tried to pick the mouse up and throw it away, however as soon as I picked it up, it turned to mouse slime and slid off the screwdriver and settled in a puddle on the floor. At the most, it could have been in the oil for 4 days and by then all of its fur, muscle, skin and inerds just melted into a grayish-pink goop. It was possibly the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. So, thats why I'm weary of using motor oil on my brushes....but on the otherhand, like skratch said, there are lots of people who do it...
Im a 10w-30 kinda guy myself. Never had any problem with it. Skratch, i saw some stuff you did in Jasons aka Crash engine bay. I must say you have come a long way. Mike Ds chopper tank is pretty cool looking too.
That would't have anything to do with the dead mouse decomposing would it ? I've been using Neatsfooot oil for over 7 years,not a problem. We don't have ****roaches here,and my brush boxes seal tight enough to keep them out anyway.
I've always used mineral oil. I always had a hard time convincing my self that thick brown oil will come off my brush. Unlike Skratch I really don't know anything. I have some brushes that I've been using for 10yrs and they still work good for me.
what i've learned,i was taught by some the best(Frank Palmer,McPhail)puting your brush in oil(what you like)is just stop the (oil based)paint from drying in your brush and ruining the brush.i've used everything from hair grease to 90W.since i rinse the brush before i use it.i can't tell the difrence.anyways that's what i know.... Skratch
My brush is maybe a month old, so there's no telling what my treatment will do to it. But, i've been keeping it in ATF. It cleans out easy with the mineral spirits. I keep it in a Gladware container filled deep enough with ATF to submerge the whole brush. I was looking for Neats, but I couldn't figure out what the hell the stuff was to even know where to look. First I thought it was something you put on your feet. Then I got the idea that it was something you put on your boots. Regardless, I knew which part of the store to find ATF in, so that's what I bought. And I gotta think that quart of ATF is going to last me a long long time. And now for a tangent... A lot of people said to practice on gl***. I've been buying $1 8x10 picture frames. About the cheapest way to get a piece of gl***, and the end product even has it's own frame. You could stripe the frame too. I bought some poster board that has 1/2" grid on it for my reference lines. My scroll work is not yet meeting my own standards. But, I did one where I printed a photo of my car and taped it to the back of the gl***. Then I traced the major feature lines of the car. Laugh at my car, I don't care. But it has some real nice curves to practice on. I need to work on the consistency of my lines. But it sure is the****utic.
I'm thinking it prolly doesn't matter all that much as long as your brushes aren't falling apart. The idea is to keep the paint from hardening in the ferrule, as with any brush. Maybe I'll mix up some neatsfoot, MMO, 10W-30 and pomenade into my own special concoction and sell it on e-bay... "Neat Mystery Pomotorade" I'll make a MILLION DOLLARS!
Hey I just heard from a sign painter here in Fresno, that uses ****** fluid by the way, that if you don't get all the mineral oil out of the brush it will separate the paint, but ****** fluid won't it will just make it glossier. Hey when a guy has 30 yrs experience I listen. Told you guys I knew less than Skratch
i use marvel too...works great for me...just had it sitting here from racing slot cars way back so i gave it a shot it washes out with mineral spirits zach
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