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Many people are interested in why, during the cold season, our online store delivers acrylic materials by transport companies with temperature control. Let's do a little experiment on freezing acrylic paints and find out what happens to them.

During the cold season, our online store stops delivering acrylic materials by Russian Post and delivers by transport companies with temperature control, because acrylic materials cannot be exposed to cold. Many people ask what happens to paints when frozen? Today we will conduct a small experiment.

We select several paints in different containers: several cans, a couple of acrylic contours and one tube.

Storing PF paint - why can’t it be stored in the cold, because it doesn’t freeze?

Each manufacturer indicates on the label of the paint container the storage conditions for this paint. This is, as a rule, a guaranteed shelf life, during which, subject to storage conditions, the paint does not lose its technological properties, and the coating retains its performance properties. Storage conditions different from those indicated on the label may change the properties of the paint itself and the properties of the coating or film after drying. For example, an anti-corrosion coating will not protect the metal from corrosion.

• For example, one manufacturer indicates that paint can be stored in a tightly closed jar in a temperature range from -40 to +40 Celsius, of course.
• Another manufacturer indicates that at temperatures from -40 to +40, the paint can be stored for only 6 months without losing its properties. At temperatures from -30 to +30, PF enamel can be stored for 12 months.
• If it is indicated on the can that paints cannot be stored in the cold, in general, this means that when exposed to low temperatures, the components of the paint are destroyed or the paint itself forms a coating after application and drying, the performance properties of which will not correspond to those stated in the documentation.

Each manufacturer indicates on the label of the paint container the storage conditions for this paint. This is, as a rule, a guaranteed shelf life, during which, subject to storage conditions, the paint does not lose its technological properties, and the coating retains its performance properties. Storage conditions different from those indicated on the label may change the properties of the paint itself and the properties of the coating or film after drying. For example, an anti-corrosion coating will not protect the metal from corrosion.

Paint storage conditions

• The containers should be located in a dark place where sunlight does not penetrate. This is due to the contents drying out when the jar is heated.
• Jars must be tightly sealed to prevent evaporation and drying out of the contents.
• Some types of alkyd and powder paints are flammable. Therefore, they need to be kept as far as possible from sources of open fire, lime and other flammable objects.
• Paint that is in metal containers should be stored in dry rooms to avoid corrosion on the cans. Rust can not only destroy the container, but spoil the contents of the jar. The same thing can happen if iron cans are left directly on a concrete floor.
• Cans should not be stored in places accessible to children, nor should they be in close proximity to food.

If you store paint correctly, it will retain its properties and quality for a long time. And for suspended repairs you won’t have to buy new building materials.

Toxic types of paints

Any type of paint is dangerous for the body, regardless of its composition, the only difference is the degree of harmfulness. The packaging always indicates the composition by which you can determine the danger of the paint and find out the necessary protective measures. Main components included:

• polyvinyl acetate (BA);
• polyamides (AD);
• polyacrylates (AK);
• cellulose acetate (AC);
• polyacrylic copolymers (AC);
• bitumen, pitches (BT).

The most toxic are synthetic dyes: oil, acrylic, polyurethane, alkyd. They may contain salts of heavy metals (mercury, copper, arsenic, lead, zinc, etc.), xylenes, formaldehydes and other toxic substances. Solvents are also very dangerous, as they have a high degree of volatility:

• butyl acetate;
• acetone;
• trichlorethylene;
• solvent;
• butanol;
• trichlorethylene;
• toluene;
• dimethylethylene;
• carbon tetrachloride.

Less dangerous paint and varnish materials include water-dispersion, silicate, emulsion, and adhesive paints. When using them, symptoms of intoxication, including allergic reactions, extremely rarely occur.

Comments

No matter how many times I've encountered, the varnish can still withstand frost, but when you take a putty that's frozen, you can immediately feel it starting to crumble.

Temperature differences are also undesirable for hardeners, mainly due to gyroscopicity

I have a place, but the hucksters don’t always have it at the market, and materials sit in the cold for weeks.

you need to somehow try to find one point that satisfies you and trust it, be a regular customer and then you shouldn’t push bullshit, it’s been checked!

Well, don’t tell me, the seller at least knows about it, I assure you of this, what is normal and what is a little outdated in his opinion, it’s like in a grocery store!

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Yes, I forgot about the truck. It’s behind the cordon of special trucks, but with us it’s always the same as always. I had a case when a neighbor in a field picked up another neighbor in tow, and the cable broke and this canoe hit him right in the backside! He comes to me and brings a vetch in acrylic Mobihel primer and Novol putty. I asked him where I bought it? At the market and it was winter, it was just 10 degrees below zero. I painted it and looked at some points. I immediately panicked! Starting from the compressor and ending with all the filters! In short, I rubbed and on a new and again point like dirt. That’s when I realized that the paint had been exposed to the cold and had frozen in the market. I polished it and called my neighbor, and it turned out great. I suggested that he change the paint, and he made me happy, and the joker said, let’s better celebrate this thing! .So this is how things are in the cold.

And the heat, what do you mean, intense heat, it’s simpler here, nothing dangerous!?

I can’t say anything about the varnish, I didn’t notice anything about the pigment and DX acrylic

I noticed that after freezing the varnish is less susceptible to polishing.

Why store paintwork materials in the cold? I just can’t understand that there is no place to store them? Definitely not.

agree. No one is immune from this. Even when buying material from a specialized selection, you cannot be clearly sure that it was not frozen, for example, in a truck at the border. I stepped on such a rake a couple of times. But what can you do.

The question here is not that they can sell bullshit, since the seller does not see the condition of this material through the metal can. And about the permanent point, you are right, if you are a regular customer, it will be easier for you to come and change it. I once encountered frozen paint only in a cylinder, so they changed it without problems, they themselves did not know that this batch was spoiled..

You didn’t understand the very essence, I’m not talking about outdated materials, but about frozen materials, I already wrote here that the supplier’s truck stood for, say, two days at -25 below zero, at the border and those boxes that were closer to the walls were frozen. After this, the truck was unloaded into a warehouse store, from where the storekeeper, and even more so the final seller, can know that these boxes are frozen, unless of course they are clairvoyant

Yes, frost is an unpleasant thing for paintwork materials, sometimes it also happens that frozen paint flies out of the paint pad in pimples like gravitex.

there are a couple of points. you will yawn. then you throw away the gun. and the supply setting is radically different from autumn-winter coloring, when there is high humidity and average temperatures.

And the heat, what do you mean, intense heat, it’s simpler here, nothing dangerous!?

Paints

Every aspiring artist should know how to store paints so that they remain usable. If paints are left unused for a long time, oil begins to separate from them. They can also harden, thicken, and become completely unusable. To prevent this from happening, you should adhere to the following rules.

1. It is best to keep paints in a wooden box, away from fire or radiators, in a dry place. When you need to store oil paints in tubes, when using, make sure that the tube does not burst or crack in the middle; to do this, start squeezing out the paint from the bottom (especially since this is where the paint usually begins to dry, especially if the soldering is loose).
2. If you need to store the paint mixture, do not allow it to come into contact with air. The shelf life of oil paint in an open container is 3 days, after which it cannot be diluted again. For small quantities, use foil for storage, carefully squeezing the air out of the homemade bag.

1. If you have a lot of paint layered on the lid of the tube, just cut off these layers with a stationery knife.
2. The storage temperature of oil paints allows them to be frozen. Therefore, leftovers can be transferred to an airtight container and placed in the freezer. Typically, in such an environment, paints can be stored for quite a long time without thickening or deteriorating. Before starting work, you must wait until the paint temperature reaches room temperature. After defrosting, you can continue writing with them.

Exposure to temperature changes

Now let's look at temperature changes when it is necessary to use a tool in the cold. At what temperatures can power tools be used? Answer: for any, but following simple rules.

During operation, the tool heats up, and according to the laws of physics, when heated, everything expands and increases in size. In cold weather, a hot instrument will absorb moist air around it as it cools, because the air is lower than the temperature of the cooling instrument. In general, it is better not to leave a hot instrument in the cold.

If after this you bring it into a warm room, it is also strictly forbidden to turn it on, even if it is still warm. You need to wait several hours until the “absorbed” moisture evaporates.

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In the opposite situation, when working first in heat and then in cold, there are no restrictions. You can continue to work in the cold with a hot tool brought from a warm room.

Also pay attention to power tool cords. With a cheap tool, it can become stiff and burst. If the cable is made of rubber, it is not afraid of frost and will easily withstand the test of low temperatures.

Another possible problem when using a tool in cold weather is that thick grease makes the rotor more difficult to rotate. This threatens the power tool brushes with freezing and burning. But again, when using normal lubricants there should be no problems: the tool warms up and the lubricant restores its capabilities, similar to starting a car in winter.

If the tool is equipped with a commutator motor, it may begin to spark in the cold. This threatens to damage the terminals and collector counters. Although they are essentially considered consumables for collector engines and their replacement is not a rare occurrence. But it’s up to the owner of the tool to decide - you can wait for warm days if you want to slightly extend the life of the manifold components.

Easy freezing

The temperature in our office refrigerator is not too low, no more than -3°C, which is quite consistent with the weather conditions of early autumn, when we begin delivering goods with warm shipments. Sometimes some customers, at their own risk, ask for orders to be delivered by mail. Now we will find out what they are risking. Place the paints in the refrigerator.

The next day we take it out. One of the circuits fell first victim of the cold. The tube burst at the seam and became unusable. Having squeezed out a little paint, it became clear that the paint had deteriorated - it had dried out and began to crumble into particles. The cold has not yet affected the second circuit and other paints.

During normal delivery, goods sometimes remain in warehouses overnight, where temperatures drop to sub-zero and paints freeze. During the day it gets warmer, the thermometer creeps up and the colors defrost. When delivering to remote regions, this process may be repeated several times. Let's simulate this circumstance, let our paints defrost and put them back in the refrigerator.

We take it out in the morning. Results: “Decolor” Decorative and “Acrylic Hobby De Luxe” became more liquid, slippery and less opaque. However, they can still be used. True, paint will have to be applied to the surface in several layers, which increases the consumption of material and ultimately hits the wallet. But “Acrylic-Art” both in a jar and in a tube survived the frost. Toughie!

Well, let's send our paints to colder lands.

How to transfer a drawing to a workpiece

Professional craftsmen immediately paint the workpiece, but novice craftsmen will need to first transfer the picture to the surface. There are several ways to do this. You can try different transfer options and choose the most convenient one.

Stencil technique

You can transfer the design to the workpiece using a stencil. To do this, select a design on the Internet and cut it out using a utility knife. This method is only possible for transferring simple pictures, since ornate patterns will require time, manual dexterity and accuracy.

A better option is to use tracing paper. To do this, transfer the drawing to the rough side with a simple pencil, then apply it to a wooden surface, secure it with tape and trace it on the back side. One pattern can be transferred up to four times. Experts advise using a hard roller. It should be rolled several times according to the fixed sketch.

Transferring a drawing using tracing paper

Many have chosen thermal transfer of the design using an iron. Thick paper and glossy magazine pages are suitable for this. You should print the pattern on a laser printer, then attach the side with the pattern to the workpiece and iron it

Due to the uneven structure of the wood, not the entire design will transfer well; in addition, it is important to choose the optimal temperature of the iron so that the pictures from the gloss do not transfer to the product either

Thermal method of pattern transfer

Point technique

The dot technique is an excellent option for those who do not know how to draw at all. The technique consists of applying a number of dots to the base, which are subsequently connected by a solid line. The more of them are applied to the sketch, the more accurate the pattern will be. It is also used to connect small elements, for example, blades of grass, stems, gaps between patterns.

There is a dot technique for painting on wood, in which a sketch is transferred to a workpiece in three ways.

1. Markings are made on the workpiece, the main points are marked and moving towards them using dots.
2. Each color is worked out sequentially on a wooden surface.
3. Consistent work with each section of the drawing; this option is the most successful, since the picture emerges immediately.

Drawing from sketches

Another option for transferring an image is as a carbon copy; for this it is advisable to select it according to the color of the picture, since stains may remain. You need to work as follows.

1. Print the drawing.
2. Place it on a carbon copy, the ink side of which should face the workpiece.
3. Secure the drawing with tape and trace it along the outline.

Transferring a sketch as a carbon copy

Experienced artists draw a sketch on paper themselves; it can be the whole picture or some part of it. Then the drawing is transferred to the surface and painted.

How to store paint so it doesn't dry out

I came across this little life hack on a foreign design blog. I have never seen it on Russian-language sites before. I think this advice will be useful to quite a lot of people.

Actually, what is the essence of the problem? If you have a can of paint, for example, like this.

Sometimes it can be difficult to open the lid, even if the jar was recently purchased at the store. And if you have already used it and you want to open it again, then sometimes this turns into a rather difficult task. I once saw a can of paint that had been taken out of a shed being opened. The jar had been there for almost a year, since the previous summer season. They tried to pry off the lid of the jar with a screwdriver for quite some time. The force was such that even the edges of the lid bent upward. At some point, the lid gave way and underneath there was a rather thick build-up of paint, which stuck to the lid itself and the top side of the can. It was this build-up of dried paint that prevented the lid from being opened. (Unfortunately, I don’t have a photo, but take my word for it – I saw it with my own eyes).

Why is this happening? Why does paint dry around the lid? It's quite simple. – No matter how well the jar is made, and no matter how tightly the lid fits the sides of the jar, microscopic portions of air will still penetrate under the lid. If the can is stored for a long time, the paint dries out. And the longer it is stored, the more it dries out. These are just like the annual rings of a tree, only made of paint.

The question arises - what needs to be done to prevent air from getting into the jar?

In fact, the answer is incredibly simple. – You just need to turn the jar upside down and store it in that position!

In this position, the gap between the lid and the edge of the jar will be constantly wetted with paint and a thick layer of “annual rings” will not grow.

You might think that if a can of large size, for example, holds a couple of liters of paint, and you turn it over, the lid will open and everything will spill out. – If you don’t close the lid properly and turn the jar over sharply, then, of course, it will spill out. But if you close it well, turn it over smoothly, and also hold it from below at this moment, then everything will be fine. After all, standing on a shelf, the can will rest on the lid and in this position it is simply not able to open.

The main thing is that when you are about to take the jar from the shelf, don’t forget to hold it underneath the lid. I'm sure that if you don't do this, nothing bad will happen, but just in case.

The same method is also suitable for plastic containers with a screw cap.

When I have a free minute, and this has been happening less and less lately, I draw pictures.

Accordingly, I have several boxes of paints that are sometimes stored for quite a long time and whose lids also dry out.

But now I know a simple way.

And you too!

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October 25, 2016

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What do the statistics say?

A study of specialized forums on this problem showed that a fairly large number of craftsmen not only store their tools in the cold, but also regularly use them at low temperatures. And statistics show that this mode does not lead to rapid failure of the power tool.

There is only one important factor: when the temperature changes from low to high, you must “dry” the instrument! Condensation inside a working unit is certain death. Also pay attention to your climate. If the humidity is high, still think about a warm room, or heating the garage to at least +5 degrees.

First aid for paint vapor poisoning

At the first symptoms of acute paint vapor poisoning, you must:

• evacuate the victim from the place of exposure to toxins;
• ensure a flow of fresh air (open windows, doors, unbutton tight clothes);
• give plenty of alkaline drinks (milk, mineral water);
• If paint or solvent gets on your skin, rinse immediately with plenty of water.

In case of chronic poisoning, first aid measures are ineffective; qualified medical assistance is required.