Hi

Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes with white 
spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I should have bought 
Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the shops are now shut.

Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?

TIA

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>Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes with white 
>spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I should have bought 
>Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the shops are now shut.
>
>Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?


Cellulose thinners, but most people use a cheap brush & dump it
afterwards.
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> In article <xhabe.5311$TT6.243@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>, Martin <ngng@ng
> ngng.BARRIER.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>>Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes with 
>>white
>>spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I should have bought
>>Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the shops are now shut.
>>
>>Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?
>
> Cellulose thinners, but most people use a cheap brush & dump it
> afterwards.
> -- 
> fred


Thanks, Fred, for such a prompt reply.  Luckily, they're fairly cheap 
brushes anyway.  I'd wondered about cellulose, but the stuff didn't seem to 
smell the same as when I tried to spray cars all those years ago...!!


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> > Cellulose thinners, but most people use a cheap brush & dump it
> > afterwards.
> > -- 
> > fred
>
> Thanks, Fred, for such a prompt reply.  Luckily, they're fairly cheap
> brushes anyway.  I'd wondered about cellulose, but the stuff didn't seem
to
> smell the same as when I tried to spray cars all those years ago...!!
> Martin


From memory, I think the solvent is xylene.

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> Hi
>
> Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes with 
> white spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I should have 
> bought Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the shops are now shut.
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?
>
> TIA
>
> -- 
> Martin
>
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Sounds unlikely I know, but I was advised by a local hardware shop a long 
time ago to try Fairy Liquid and it seemed to work ok.

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> "Martin"  wrote in message 
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>> Hi
>>
>> Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes with 
>> white spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I should have 
>> bought Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the shops are now 
>> shut.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> -- 
>> Martin
>>
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> Sounds unlikely I know, but I was advised by a local hardware shop a long 
> time ago to try Fairy Liquid and it seemed to work ok.
>
> -- 
> Keith Willcocks
> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)


I heard that rubbing butter into a paint brush also works, never tried it 
myself though.

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>> "Martin"  wrote in message
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes
>>> with white spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I
>>> should have bought Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the
>>> shops are now shut.
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> --
>>> Martin
>>>
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>>
>> Sounds unlikely I know, but I was advised by a local hardware shop a
>> long time ago to try Fairy Liquid and it seemed to work ok.
>>
>> --
>> Keith Willcocks
>> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
>
> I heard that rubbing butter into a paint brush also works, never
> tried it myself though.


Wont clean it, but putting the brush in the freezer will stop it going hard
for a few days

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>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes
>>>> with white spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I
>>>> should have bought Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the
>>>> shops are now shut.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Martin
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Sounds unlikely I know, but I was advised by a local hardware shop a
>>> long time ago to try Fairy Liquid and it seemed to work ok.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Keith Willcocks
>>> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
>>
>> I heard that rubbing butter into a paint brush also works, never
>> tried it myself though.
>
> Wont clean it, but putting the brush in the freezer will stop it going 
> hard
> for a few days
>


Many thanks to everyone in this thread.  Am thinking of dispensing with the 
hammerite and painting with frozen butter soaked in fairy liquid 
instead...:-)

Seriously - you've saved me much hassle, and I've only had to sacrifice one 
brush (so far)...

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Martin popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and said

> Hi
>
> Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes
> with white spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I
> should have bought Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the
> shops are now shut.
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?
>
> TIA


 If it is Hammerite not Smoothrite, chuck the brushes once used,
buy a cheap set from one of the sheds.  I have found that unless they
are "proper" decoraters brushes at 20:00 each, time and effort
expended far outweighs (in monetary terms)the cost of a new brush.
YMMV.

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> Martin popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and said
>> Hi
>>
>> Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes
>> with white spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I
>> should have bought Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the
>> shops are now shut.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?
>>
>> TIA
>
> If it is Hammerite not Smoothrite, chuck the brushes once used,
> buy a cheap set from one of the sheds.  I have found that unless they
> are "proper" decoraters brushes at 20:00 each, time and effort
> expended far outweighs (in monetary terms)the cost of a new brush.
> YMMV.
>


Thanks soup - yes, it's hammerite and yes, I've chucked the (cheap) brushes. 
I agree it's unlikely the quality of brush would have made any difference 
anyway - it's jolly thick stuff, isn't it?

Thanks again.

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> "soup"  wrote in message
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> > Martin popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and
> > said
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Have just been using Hammerite, and assumed I could clean brushes
> > > with white spirit.  I've just discovered that doesn't work and I
> > > should have bought Hammerite's own special cleaning stuff, but the
> > > shops are now shut.
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest an alternative, please?
> > >
> > > TIA
> >
> > If it is Hammerite not Smoothrite, chuck the brushes once used,
> > buy a cheap set from one of the sheds.  I have found that unless
> > they are "proper" decoraters brushes at 20:00 each, time and effort
> > expended far outweighs (in monetary terms)the cost of a new brush.
> > YMMV.
> >
>
> Thanks soup - yes, it's hammerite and yes, I've chucked the (cheap)
> brushes. I agree it's unlikely the quality of brush would have made
> any difference anyway - it's jolly thick stuff, isn't it?
>
> Thanks again.


Only used it twice once for garden poles and once for a metal
fence in the garden .  The poles were the first thing I had ever
used Hammerite on ,to me it seemed like coloured glue it was
"stringing" and all sorts

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