I revived a completely dried up paint brush with pine oil soap
It was just a cheap single-use brush I was gonna toss anyway, but I remembered seeing a YouTube video from seejanedrill about using oil-based soap to clean brushes, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
I let it soak overnight in a plastic bag with undiluted pine soap, then cleaned it this morning with a stiff brush. Yesterday it was rock solid - now it's perfectly soft, like new.
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He watched paint undry?
we can only hope
It's not against the rules .......
that is a great thing to know!
Brand of soap please?
Murphy Wood Cleaner was the one recommended on the video but since that's not sold where I live I used "mäntysuopa" instead which is a traditional Finnish soap made from pine oil ie. tall oil fatty acid. This one specifically.
Murphy's is pretty good but pricey, here. I did a search but didn't find any USA retailer offering this product. Thank you anyway.
You can do this with old and tired wood decking as well. You clean it off, then you just work some oil based soap into it. Brings it back to life.
You are depriving brush companies from selling more brushes.
Pumice soap also works
See Jane drill is good content. I've been helping my father build things since I was a kid in the 80's but I've learned a few tricks from that lady that I use often and have come in quite handy 🤙
Holy shit I didn't know this could be done