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Re: chip brushes?
By:Ross Leidy
Date: 3/3/1999, 10:19 am
In Response To: Re: chip brushes? (Stan Heeres)

> Around here, they are the foam brushes and they are regularly, $.39 ea for
> 1" and $.45 for 1 1/2 and $.49 for 2"

> If you are talking about the cheap bristle brushes, they are horrible to
> use for painting, varnish or epoxy, they lose bristles all over the place.
> Foam brushes are 10/ 1 better.

No argument here that they're cheap and lose bristles. But I find that the foam brushes are just too flimsy. The foam holds alot of epoxy, but it doesn't seem to want to let it go.

Messages In This Thread

Cheap chip brushes
Ross Leidy -- 3/2/1999, 5:29 pm
Re: chip brushes?
Shawn Baker -- 3/2/1999, 6:32 pm
Re: chip brushes? use nylon
Dan Lindberg -- 3/3/1999, 6:55 pm
Fixing cheap chip brushes
Jay Babina -- 3/3/1999, 1:25 pm
Re: Fixing brushes - cyanoacrylate
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 3/3/1999, 2:29 pm
Re: chip brushes?
Stan Heeres -- 3/2/1999, 9:54 pm
Re: chip brushes?
Ross Leidy -- 3/3/1999, 10:19 am
Re: "cheap" brushes?
Shawn Baker -- 3/3/1999, 10:03 am
Re: chip brushes?
Jerry Weinraub -- 3/2/1999, 7:12 pm
Re: chip brushes?
Grant Goltz -- 3/10/1999, 4:14 pm