Rejuvenating humbrol enamels.

[One can but try...]

As I am too lazy and cheap to order a new humbrol paint (Hu11) if I don't have to I wondered whether it would be possible to rejuvenate a very nearly dried out pot (the lid was stopped going on properly due to a build up of paint around the rim at my younger brother's hands) with enamel thinners?

I have put a liberal amount of thinner in the pot and done a good few minutes of shaking and stirring during which time the dried mass has broken up and I currently have a thin soup with chunks in.

I have done this before with acrylics and water before but not with enamels and am curious as to if anyone has done this successfully to bring their paint back to life? If so am I doing it right?

[peebeep]

You need to work at the lumps with a suitable implement to break them up. A hotter thinner than enamel thinner is better for getting all the pigment into solution, I use cellulose.

[One can but try...]

Thank you, I don't have cellulose thinners (buying them would defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to do of course) so will just work at it as before and I'll attempt to proffer a more suitable implement.

James.

[peebeep]

Acetone, as in nail varnish remover, might do the trick.