I use Nut Standard Pitch A2 Stainless Steel M3 (A2-70 cold-worked Stainless Steel, also known as 18-8 or 304 Stainless Steel)
Though some recommend 316 Stainless would be preferred over 304 stainless, have a few sitting in water & ipa since I bought them, no problems yet with discolouration or rust, but I only salt the ones I’m about to use.
500 for UKP£4.50, way waaay cheaper and easier to get than Marine BB’s in the UK.
9 surfaces to agitate the paint instead of 1, drop 3-4 in every Vallejo bottle & 6-ish in large primer bottles.
I also use an Ikea Coffee Frother, UKP £1.00, cut the end off, but with Tamiya pots, I cut a small hole in a clear lid, hold over the top of the paint pot & push the stirrer through.
You will soon remember not to pull it out while powere on… [:S][;)]
You can glass beads, too, at the craft stores.
I just shake jars by hand, or stir with a toothpick.
I’d use my steel balls to stir my model paints but the openings on these hobby paint jars just aren’t nearly wide enough.[:|]
Every year my son and daughter-in-law give me a fruit collection for my birthday. My daughter-in-law is a dr. and feels I don’t get enough fruit in my diet. Anyway, these are prepared fruit collections, ready to eat (to encourage me to eat them), and each piece of fruit is stuck onto a plastic stick about eight or nine inches long. There are about fifty of these sticks in a collection, and they pretty much last me a year! I can use both ends, so it works out to be a hundred stirring sticks!
Hi ;
I also use the Mc Donalds plastic stirrers . I cut them shorter and insert them into a generic top for the size bottle I am stirring . The top has , of course a hole punched in it the size of the stirrer shaft .
Chuck it to my dremel and using the foot control run it slow . Well stirred paint is the result . Then clean the stirrer in to the bottle with a brush and clean both till the next time.