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Old 16-02-2006   #11 (permalink)
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I always mix matt paints, enamel, acrylics or whatever, with a piece of bent copper wire (removed from a piece of 2.5 mm flat TC&E) stuck in my battery drill.

I shape it into something like a coat hanger shape so that it goes into the corners and acts as a suitable paddle without throwing the stuff out of the pot!
Another good item I use is the Badger mixer. Works, in fact is, a miniature mixing machine. Worth every penny of the tenner it costs, especially in saving the time in mixing the new style enamels.

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Any mechanical means is well worth the effort as mixing matt paint cannot be done too much.
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Easy way is if you warm it for a minute it mixes easily
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make you own with some coathanger wire like bunker said?
stick it in a mini rotary drill dremel
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