Paintbrush

Checking the paint brushes. Bending the hair brush should immediately straightened, leaving no visible curvature. Otherwise, brush at work is not spring, making it difficult to work. In addition, this brush is ephemeral, gaining a little paint (it reduces performance) does not hold paint (it increases the losses of paint). Preparation of brushes to work. Before using the new fly-brushes and towels to tie a strong string to two-thirds the length of their hair. As you wear the hair tying gradually. Brush to paint glue bandage is somewhat weaker than for oil. Dry hair and beard are tough and leave the surface rough hair, reducing the purity of color, so the new brush must be dipped in water for about 1 hour. From the water and hair bristles soften, swell, and an increase in the amount not to fall out of the brush while painting. Soft hair and beard lay the paint smoother and cleaner. Before painting with oil paint brushes should be well wetted dry. And yet produced in this way can leave brush strips formed separately protruding hairs, so that the brush should also trim, ie, work of 10-20 minutes on a rough plaster, concrete or brick, pre-soak them in water or paint. Align brush by burning should not be, as this can burn the most valuable part of the bristles - flags. You can only burn brush from pure horsehair and herbs. If there is no broad-brush. A broad flat brush completely replace two or three slender, united in one strip of plywood. Instead of brushes. An old toothbrush, bent over the flame, becomes a convenient tool for painting or varnishing a small surface. Convenient brush and paint tubes, close to a wall. Simple kleevarka. Carpenter's glue on dissolution should not come into contact with fire, as it burns and loses its adhesive quality. Boil the glue in kleevarke (kleyanke) - special double vessel volume 1-1,5 l, between the walls of which there is a layer of water. The inner vessel is usually made of copper with tin plating inside or stainless steel (in a vessel made of black metal glue may darken), it either hangs at the outer sides of the vessel rests on the wire or strip, not giving him sink to the bottom. But to work on occasion, for example for repair, you can make kleevarku two cans falling into one another. Outer Bank - for water, domestic - for the glue. The tool will last longer. If you're on the right solvent, after working with varnish or paint brush put it in water for a day. Varnish or paint though harden, but will be loose and easy to remove with a brush. To paint brush, stained varnish or paint, does not dry out, put it in a jar with solvent and place in a plastic bag, the neck is tightly tie with string. To cushion the paint after use. Brush after use should be stored in a high and narrow cylindrical cup made of tin, filling it with drying oil. Under such conditions, storage roll at any moment can be used in the work (even after 2 months).