Rotating paint holder and shaker

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I am looking for either a company/individual or plans so that I can place my many paint bottle and have them always ready to use a moments notice. I am looking for a rotating holder that swings the bottles head over end slowly and continuously until I manually turn off the power.

Sarge

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http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.asp?MerchantID=RET01229&Action=Catalog&Type=Product&ID=27162

This is the only small bottle shaker I know of. They also sell a drill type butterfly paint mixer that you stick right in the bottle itself.
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Hi,

May I suggest you get one of the battery powered paint mixers ($10) from your LHS. I finally bought one two years ago and it is easily one of my most used modeling tools. And when you need to mix more than one color, simply put the mixer in a trash can, turn it on for a few seconds, and centrifigal force pretty much cleans it for you.

Mobilman44

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I cant find it right now but there was an article in MR about how to make one that comes on everytime you truen on the lights. It was at least one maybe two pair of dowels hooked to a motor. seemed like a good idea at the time.

Dave

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I got one of those paint shakers from Micromark. It is absolutely worthless unless your paint is fresh. If you have any bottle that has some build-up on the bottom from sitting to long you can put it into this shaker for days and it will still be unmixed. I also bought one of these from Micromark. it does work great.

Now I went a step further and bought a box of these pins below. They comein handy,

I then placed it into my Dremel Tool and used that to mix my paint. It does a great job. Never had any paint fly out the top of the little bottles either. Below is a pic of what I use.

Mike