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mattinker:

--- Quote from: vtsteam on September 23, 2020, 10:20:16 AM ---Along those lines (and I once mentioned it here), I find the best oil base (enamel) paint brush cleaner is:

After you're finished painting, add a small drip of salad oil and a squirt of ordinary liquid dish soap directly onto the brush, and work it in well.

Then rinse with water. Repeat a second time, sling off excess water, shape and let dry. The bristles stay nice and pliable, and the brush is truly clean. The cost is nil, and you always have the ingredients on hand.

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Steve,
That was basically the way my father who was a painter (artist, not house painter) taught me to clean brushes, no salad oil though, just soap. Washing up liquid soap is the best, but you can also use ordinary soap. To clean paint soluble in mineral spirits from brushes, I start by rinsing in white spirits, then use soap, liquid or otherwise (solid household soap works, you rub the brush hard into the block of soap), rinse with water and repeat!

Cheers, Matthew

russ57:
I've found clothes washing powder works well to clean brushes.
The powder seems to help remove the little bits that have started to dry around the base of the bristles, before it dissolves.




-russ

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