Covers on Paint Bottles sticking

starmanmm · Post by **starmanmm** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:44 am

This has been a small problem for me.

I do wipe the top of the jar when I'm going to close the paint back up, but later on down the road, I seem to have trouble opening the bottle up again because the paint has mared the threads of the cap.

Any suggestions?

admiralcag · Post by **admiralcag** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:27 pm

Hot water and pliers. You most likely will lose the label, but it has never failed me.

Vern

Post by **TER-OR** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:19 pm

A bit of vaseline on the cap can help, too. Clean it first.

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:51 pm

I now what you mean. For some reason, Gunze caps will weld themselves to the jar. Even if I clean them. I'll try the vaseline trick.

Post by **TER-OR** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:13 pm

Yeah they do. But they make a pretty good seal, keeping the paint happy and liquid.

Rubber bands from Broccoli are good to help you open jars, one for the jar one for the cap.

SGluedMyFingers · Post by **SGluedMyFingers** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:33 pm

TER-OR wrote:...Rubber bands from Broccoli...

Oh God, the things we come up with. Hmmm, now I want broccoli.

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:35 pm

Or you could find a set of those gloves your wife wears when cleaning the dishes and pop that sucker open.

starmanmm · Post by **starmanmm** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:31 am

Hot water and pliers.

Yeah, I know this one.

But the vaseline is a new one and I won't even eat broccoli, so what makes anyone think that I would touch the rubber band?

If I brough some of that in the house (for the first time mind you) that will open up a lot of questions from the little woman!

dekesdragon · Post by **dekesdragon** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:39 pm

I also have a thin textured rubber pad that is labeled as a jar lid opener
about the size of a cd.
Hold jar in one hand, rubber pad over top of jar lid, twist
(a mouse pad is too thick, generally)

I use the plier method to, but I really mangle the jar lid
in the process.

TREKKRIFFIC · Post by **TREKKRIFFIC** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:47 pm

dekesdragon wrote:I also have a thin textured rubber pad that is labeled as a jar lid opener
about the size of a cd.
Hold jar in one hand, rubber pad over top of jar lid, twist
(a mouse pad is too thick, generally)

I use the plier method to, but I really mangle the jar lid
in the process.

I find holding the jar in my left hand with a rubber glove on and twisting the cap with a pair of pliers works pretty well. If it won't budge you can take a screwdriver or bottlecap opener to pry up the edge of the cap to break the paint loose from the threads.

macfrank · Post by **macfrank** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:23 pm

For acrylics, I'll put the bottle upside down and squirt some acetone along the lip between the bottle and the lid. Wait several minutes, then open the lid.

eeun · Post by **eeun** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:34 am

I've been using a solid rubber tire from a 1/8 motorbike model for years now, and it's rarely let me down.
Part of the other tire was sacrificed to make an emergency gasket for a kitchen tap. See? Those modelling skills are useful in the real world, too.

Jonas Calhoun · Post by **Jonas Calhoun** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:52 pm

I've got a pair of channellocks that I put the lid in. If that doesn't get it, I put the jar in a bench vise, and rotate with the lid.

Yeah, I might break the jar. But I wouldn't get the thing open anyway, so my theory is no big loss (I can handle the paint spill). Like kylwell said, those Gunze bottles just weld themselve shut.

Dan

Slide · Post by **Slide** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:13 pm

starmanmm wrote:
Hot water and pliers.
Yeah, I know this one.

But the vaseline is a new one and I won't even eat broccoli, so what makes anyone think that I would touch the rubber band?

If I brough some of that in the house (for the first time mind you) that will open up a lot of questions from the little woman!

i use hot water, and a "snake wrench" i took from my father's toolchest.

it's a rubber band that you loop around an object, and pull tight, then use the wrench (which locks the band in place with the preasure of turing the wrnch) on either part of the bottle, and a tight grip on the other, works every time.