[Bob Carriere]

Thanks for the excellent read.

In the late 70s there was a powder sold by paint suppliers called "Velveteen" which we mixed one to one.....but a quart of the powder was more than the paint. Based on old tales, using plain old gasoline * with no ethyl added) also made the paint duller.

From experience at the Barn nothing beats a drill driven paint mixer for old settled paint.Just recently we had to revive old NOS Randolph paint...... the residue was in there tight enough to free up the plastic propeller on the drill. We had to poor out half the can to make room for mixing......the two gallons were eventually mixed with a larger metal plaster mixer with all the paint in an old kitchen stock pot. Eventual yield....2 1/2 gallons....with added reducer.... we then screen the paint before filling the gun cup using standard fine mesh paint shop paper filters and still a light coating of the solids will eventually plug up the screen....so filters are used only once.

I have some 6 or 7 quarts of orange yellow lead paint..... quarts are heavy and very old but still liquid...... one of these days will have to try an old kitchen blender as suggested by Phil to revive it has it is now "verbotten".

Bob C