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Was looking for pain thinner. You know, the old school stuff. Actual mineral spirits.
Sherwin Williams store, local 'kids' behind the counter walk me over to the shelf and point out the plastic jug 'Paint Thinner'. Also asked for a couple of gallon steel pain cans. They had cans, but were out of lids! Their answer was "We only have cans. People have been buying lots of lids". Well order more lids! (Apparently, this is rocket science!)
Just about to buy my two quart cans with lids, and I start reading the back of the jug of 'pain thinner'. Which, I can hardly read, as the fine print is so fine it's almost unreadable...
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Right on the back. Not intended to be used as a thinner. WTH!!!!!!
Front of the jug says "Paint Thinner", back of the jug in fine print it says "Not Paint Thinner".
This garbage is brush cleaner!
So I use a couple of four letter words at the clerks behind the counter, and explain, that I'm trying to thin oil based paint. I need PAINT THINNER! The girl behind the counter says to the other high school kid, "Go grab a gallon of the industrial paint thinner from the back".
He does, and comes back with a gallon of mineral spirits.
His comment is "We're only supposed to sell the other stuff. This is for industrial uses only".
I tell him, I'm painting steel I beams. That's Industrial.
The plastic jug of pain thinner was something like $39.
Two quart steel cans (Plus lids), and the steel gallon can of mineral spirits was $35 total. Cheaper than just the brush cleaner garbage.
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The bottom line is, without reading the fine print, loosing my cool and using four letter words, I would have screwed up most of a gallon of paint.
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