For the modelers who love spray cans but want more color options

[freakray]

Cons....
Fingers don't grow back like they used to if everything goes wrong with the hot & cold process.....
How do you know what color you now have in the can, this may work great when you want to vandalise the neighbours wall, since you don't really care what shade of light blue you have, but normally when you're mixing your own paint for a car, you don't want some random color.
Did I mention the inherent dangers of freezing and heating compressed gases?

Nice idea......too dangerous for my liking.......

[bends]

Are you opposed to the common practice of heating up cans before spraying to 'improve' flow?

[freakray]

I use an airbrush for the most part, and never place cans in boiling water when I do use them.
The inherent danger of deliberately causing an extreme pressure differential between 2 objects, with both containing contents under pressure, and then holding them in your hands while discharging pressure from one to the other has a few too many inherent risks.

As it is I have a friend who died doing something similar with spray cans, except he was only trying to discharge one after heating it when it all went wrong, now there are a mother and 2 kids without a father.

As an engineer with a good understanding of pressure vessels and pressure differentials, I think I know what I am talking about when I say it can all go wrong VERY quickly.

[racer917]

I'm with you freakray, too risky for me. Plus how could you reproduce a color if you needed more? You can't. Oh and bends, I do warm my spray cans in "warm" water, I don't heat them.

[bends]

Good logical explanation freakray. I would not try this mixing method just because it sounds like all sorts of things could go wrong, but I wanted to know your thoughts on "can warming". I warm them up using warm water as well, never to the point where I can't dip my hands into the water. Using boiled water would fall into my aforementioned "all sorts of things could go wrong" theory.

[fwdfreak]

to heat the paint a little, that i can do, but put it in boiling water :finger:

[phatmitsu]

Ya wanna know thew best way to get a custom color in a can.. go to your local paint shop and ask for it... easy... Most paint shops can put there products into a can.. Im talking a paint jobber shop not a body shop.. There is a shop here by me in Pontiac MI that can even put HOK paint into cans.. Or you can go to black gold and get HOK in cans,.. Either way its safer and better to do then the mix methiod... Later Rick S..