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    Paint stir sticks in bulk??

    Where can I get a box of wooden paint stir sticks for relatively cheap?

    I'm talking about the ones you get for free at the paint store, but it seems that every time I need one I'm out.

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    automotive paint supply store will have them

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    I seem to have piles of long, thin strips that I've ripped off edges of boards. They're too narrow to use for anything, so I cut them about a foot long and use them as paint sticks.

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    I'm far too lazy to deal with that.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Friedrichs View Post
    I seem to have piles of long, thin strips that I've ripped off edges of boards. They're too narrow to use for anything, so I cut them about a foot long and use them as paint sticks.

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    Google with "paint stir sticks" yields http://www.jamestowndistributors.com...ct.do?pid=2436

    Eleven cents each in quantities of 1000.

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    I am in the building supply business. If you go into your local hardware, lumberyard and talk to the person in paint, they will get you a box, or as many as you want.

    They likely have to pay for them, and will likely charge you for them..

    It may be different in the US. I dunno.

    We always have extra cases of them around and could easily look up the cost .. they are cheap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jason White View Post

    I'm talking about the ones you get for free at the paint store

    Jason
    I think you just answered your own question

    HD has galv pails full of them. Buy a pint of touch up paint and take 100 stirrers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Friedrichs View Post
    I seem to have piles of long, thin strips that I've ripped off edges of boards. They're too narrow to use for anything, so I cut them about a foot long and use them as paint sticks.
    Me, too. I've got a lifetime supply of stirring sticks already.
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    Wooden paint paddles are for amateurs... electric stirrers,,well,,

    Hello,
    If you go to a paint store - and look in the back room - you'll notice a lack of paddles being used.

    The two main reasons are:
    - Cost
    - They shed small particles.

    What most good paint store employee's (and ex-employee's such as myself) use is a metal spatula.
    They run ~ a buck or two at most stores.
    A kitchen supply store will have real heavy duty ones for about 10 times more.

    Wooden paddles will put a lot of crud into materials - dust, small splinters, etc.

    With a metal spatula, you can easily clean them both prior to use and after use.

    Water based just flushes off w/water.
    Solvent based just wipes off on the edge of a cardboard box & when it dries, a single edge razor blade strips it clean.

    Tip - cut the rounded end of the spatula off square w/some snips. That way you can get into the edge of the round cans and work all the settled material.

    Tip 2 - for "5's", go electric.
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    They're getting stingy with them lately. Used to be they'd give me 20 if I wanted. Now just one or two per customer.



    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Scoma View Post
    I think you just answered your own question

    HD has galv pails full of them. Buy a pint of touch up paint and take 100 stirrers

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    I've never had any problem with the wooden ones.



    Quote Originally Posted by Rich Engelhardt View Post
    Hello,
    If you go to a paint store - and look in the back room - you'll notice a lack of paddles being used.

    The two main reasons are:
    - Cost
    - They shed small particles.

    What most good paint store employee's (and ex-employee's such as myself) use is a metal spatula.
    They run ~ a buck or two at most stores.
    A kitchen supply store will have real heavy duty ones for about 10 times more.

    Wooden paddles will put a lot of crud into materials - dust, small splinters, etc.

    With a metal spatula, you can easily clean them both prior to use and after use.

    Water based just flushes off w/water.
    Solvent based just wipes off on the edge of a cardboard box & when it dries, a single edge razor blade strips it clean.

    Tip - cut the rounded end of the spatula off square w/some snips. That way you can get into the edge of the round cans and work all the settled material.

    Tip 2 - for "5's", go electric.

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    Com'on Jason, a block of scrap and five minutes at your new table saw and you could make a years supply. The time you spent running this thread and you could have made a life time supply.

    Richard
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jason White View Post
    I'm far too lazy to deal with that.
    He's lazy. Why discuss it further!

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    When I used Sears paint many years ago they gave out plastic stir sticks. I have been using them off and on for the past 30 or more years. All you have to do is not be lazy , clean them after each use and they will last forever.
    David B

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