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When you tip out the bubbles in Interlux paints after application with a foam roller, do you use a dry brush or do you wet the tip with paint?
Scott
3 replies:
RE: Paint tipping question
Wetting the brush for paint and varnish is right on.....but, amazingly, when you tip out epoxy it really works better with a dry foam brush. Come in on the surface with a light touch and moving at a moderate speed and then lift off gently. Even an hour or hour and a half after applying this works well to pop the little bubbles and their is only a very small residue left on your brush which can be blotted off with a clean rag dipped in alcohol so you can use the brush again.
DocChicago
RE: Paint tipping question
Very timely for me, this one! Just started painting the Ches 17LT using a foam roller and foam tipping brush. Referring to the foam brush - do I tip from the just-laid surface back into the previous one (from a few seconds ago) or from the earlier one into the newly-rolled surface? This marine paint seems to want to set immediately! I am finding - close up - that there seems to be a definite vertical transition line between the two adjacent surfaces, even though I'm rolling-on only a short length of fresh paint and immediately tipping-out. What am I doing wrong (if anything)? BTW - thanks to whoever suggested 3M FineLine tape recently - it truly does give a razor sharp masked-off line.
Wordsmith
RE: Paint tipping question
» Submitted by Jerry - Thu, 1/22/09 » 11:28 AM
Start with a wet foam brush, but not overly wet. If you start with a dry brush you will end up with about a foot of goobered-up area until the brush gets wet and starts sliding smoothly. Same applies to tipping out resin and varnish. Good luck.