Aerosol paint can mixer

[Bar Nuthin 950]

Ran across a couple videos while looking for a paint shaker and saw this contraption for spray cans. I already had a piece of 3" PVC the right length. Just bought the 3" plug - stupid thing works like magic!!!

 

  

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 70,749]

Interesting concept! 

[Bar Nuthin 950]

1 minute ago, ebinmaine said:

Interesting concept! 

 

When you stop the drill, you can hear the shaker ball whizzing around inside the can. Can of Rust-Oleum, prolly setting a couple years, sprayed like a dream.

[HyperPete 496]

So, the one Adam likes has the shaft slightly off-center to facilitate shaking & mixing through wobble.  How does the one in the 2nd video achieve that?

Sorry, a bit critical, I know.

[Bar Nuthin 950]

53 minutes ago, HyperPete said:

So, the one Adam likes has the shaft slightly off-center to facilitate shaking & mixing through wobble.  How does the one in the 2nd video achieve that?

Sorry, a bit critical, I know.

The pipe is 3" - about a half inch wider than the spray can. The shop rag holds it against the side wall, plus allows you to retrieve the can. If you don't hold on tight, it takes on quite a wobble.

I'm not sure the wobble is as important as the cyclone action it gets from spinning so fast. I don't think the wobble in Adam's video was intentional.

I'll try to get a video of the one I made so you can see it.

Edited 15 hours ago by Bar Nuthin

[Bar Nuthin 950]

Here's another video.

 

 

[HyperPete 496]

Well it looks like It works well, and it's obviously very cheap, so I guess I'll have to give this a shot too! I think I have some three inch PVC, all I need is a test plug.

Thanks for posting this!

[squonk 42,546]

I watched the 2nd video. I was hoping he would paint it camo so he would lose it in his shop. 

[953 nut 57,921]

          Shaking a paint can is the best exercise I get some days, why would I want to mechanize it?                        

[Bar Nuthin 950]

16 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

          Shaking a paint can is the best exercise I get some days, why would I want to mechanize it?                        

 

Yeah, kinda reminds me of younger days. 

[Bar Nuthin 950]

1 hour ago, squonk said:

I watched the 2nd video. I was hoping he would paint it camo so he would lose it in his shop. 

 All I have to do to lose stuff in the shop is set it down!  My garage isn't very big, but yesterday I spent a half hour looking for a beacon light on a 4' pole. Ended up being right out in the open. 

[8ntruck 7,386]

. When I first started working as an e ginger, we had an old, semi retires engi per that had a work room in the product engineering area.  He would come in and tinker with stuff several days a week.  His toom was less than organized.

 

When he would set something down and loose it, he would take a Poloroid picture of his bench, and look for the item in the picture.  His theory was that the lost item had temporarily rotated into another dimension that we can't see,  but a Poloroid camera could detect.

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13 hours ago, Bar Nuthin said:

Ran across a couple videos while looking for a paint shaker and saw this contraption for spray cans. I already had a piece of 3" PVC the right length. Just bought the 3" plug - stupid thing works like magic!!!

 

  

 

 

 

I purchased a skill reciprocating saw at a garage sale. The blade mounting component was broken. After finding out i was NLA I turned it into a paint shaker. BIL donated a shoe with velcro straps. If straps are slightly loose the can will rotate while being shaken. Turn it on and walk away for a few minutes. BIL’s shoe was big enough to accommodate the tall cans also.

13 hours ago, Bar Nuthin said:

Ran across a couple videos while looking for a paint shaker and saw this contraption for spray cans. I already had a piece of 3" PVC the right length. Just bought the 3" plug - stupid thing works like magic!!!

 

 

 

[Bar Nuthin 950]

What I was originally searching for was a gallon paint shaker. 
 

Anyone have a good DIY hack?