Someone posted once about using a can with rubber the end and paint in the middle to paint a blank quickly. If someone could please explain this in better detail I would greatly appreciate it. I would like to paint a few blanks, and this sounds like an interesting way to do it. Any and all help would be wonderful.

Christopher,

I remember seeing this article somewhere. You take the top third of a small plastic bottle of water and stretch a piece of rubber over the opening of the cap. You open a small hole in the center of the rubber. With the rod hanging, tip down; you place the tip into the small hole in the rubber. As you move the bottle up, it creates a small funnel and this is where the liquid is placed. As the bottle top is slid up, it coats the rod blank. I am not sure if this will work at all, but if I recall correctly, this procedure was for applying Permagloss. I don’t think it would work with paint, but I could be wrong.

Good luck,
Andres Perez
Miami, Fl

Perhaps this is what you are searching for.

[www.guidesnblanks.com]

that is it I saved it but could not find the darn think

Bill - willierods.com

Has anyone tried this?? I have and it was epic fail... I have tried nearly every method and stopped short of buying a Century paint squegee stand. Tube dipping works great but for one blank or changing colors it's not practical. I have in the past used all spray can method using one part touch up paint that is sold at auto stores and a certain brand of 2K auto clear in a can for the top coat .. yes it's 2 part in a spray can! The method worked pretty good but I had to move up to a pro spray gun to get all the colors that people wanted. IMO other then the Century machine or tube dip with the special curing finish that the blank makers use the auto spray is the only way to go.

The bottle method shown in the link left marks (streaks) on the blank no matter how small or big the hole was. Maybe a good quality rubber squegee material would work but finding it that thin isn't easy. I used latex glove, rubber glove, roofing type rubber and different rubber sheet I got at home centers and even a sponge with a hole all of it was a EPIC FAIL!! I even tried different paints and thick and thin.The Permagloss on a cloth or sponge and wiping it on by hand works better IMO. You can have the 2 cents!! LOL

The type of rubber membrane you use makes a huge difference. I have found only one that works, and that was cut from a punch ball balloon. With anything else, like John, a messy failure was the result.

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Ahhhhhhh..... I thought about trying a regular ballon but a punch ballon would be thick but not too thick. I might need to give that a try.