Paint bag

[Mr impatient]

Please what is a paint bag? what do they look like and what do they do? I use a container a seive and some muslin if I need it, what and how do paint bags work? what are they called?

In the UK it means nothing, paint bag?????

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

I think you will find more information searching for "paint strainer bags" on amazon or similar sites.

 

[spittybug]

https://www.homedepot.com/s/paint%20strainer%20bag?NCNI-5

 

[passedpawn]

Please what is a paint bag? what do they look like and what do they do? I use a container a seive and some muslin if I need it, what and how do paint bags work? what are they called?

In the UK it means nothing, paint bag?????

Right, paint strainer bag. They are used with paint sprayers to keep globs from plugging the sprayer. Here, they come in 1-gallon and 5-gallon sizes, same as the paint reservoirs used for those sprayers. If you find a store that sells the sprayers, you'll find the strainers.

 

[bernardsmith]

If you can sew you can make an equivalent bag by simply taking some muslin cheese cloth (real cheese cloth - not the junk material that has perhaps 5 threads to a centimeter) and sew up three sides.

 

[Mr impatient]

I thought it was something like how you guys describe it, we don't go in for spraying paint much over this side of the pond, specialist car resprayers etc but not so much anyone else.
The bags from Amazon look good though, I would need a support to hold them. I recon I need a designated area for this home brew stuff, I do have a workshop, but that is full of wood and tools and stuff, saying that I do have one worktop that I store my demijohns under. Else wise I am dodging the missus as she cooks etc and any one who has one knows how important it is to keep out from under her shoes.

Thanks guys.

 

[homebrewer_99]

I use paint bags...and recommend them. They are cheaper at the DIY stores...Menard's, Lowe's, Home Depot, etc.

 

[bernardsmith]

I thought it was something like how you guys describe it, we don't go in for spraying paint much over this side of the pond, specialist car resprayers etc but not so much anyone else.
The bags from Amazon look good though, I would need a support to hold them. I recon I need a designated area for this home brew stuff, I do have a workshop, but that is full of wood and tools and stuff, saying that I do have one worktop that I store my demijohns under. Else wise I am dodging the missus as she cooks etc and any one who has one knows how important it is to keep out from under her shoes.

Thanks guys.

Not sure that a support is needed. They are for use in a (food grade) bucket used as a primary fermenter. EITHER:You fix the bag inside the bucket (I think they generally come with elastic around the opening but even if the don't you can attach them using binder clips); you place the fruit inside the bag and you add any water to the bucket such that the fruit is submerged in the liquid. OR You fix the bag around the inside of your bucket and place the fruit in your kettle with water and boil the fruit then you carefully dump the fruit and water into the bucket so that the bag strains the liquid. You can leave the fruit quietly macerating in the bag in the bucket (even after you have pitched the yeast and nutrients etc ) and when you are ready to remove the fruit you simply hoist up the bag, allow the fruit to drain and remove the bag... done... and done.

 

[Mr impatient]

Not sure that a support is needed. They are for use in a (food grade) bucket used as a primary fermenter. EITHER:You fix the bag inside the bucket (I think they generally come with elastic around the opening but even if the don't you can attach them using binder clips); you place the fruit inside the bag and you add any water to the bucket such that the fruit is submerged in the liquid. OR You fix the bag around the inside of your bucket and place the fruit in your kettle with water and boil the fruit then you carefully dump the fruit and water into the bucket so that the bag strains the liquid. You can leave the fruit quietly macerating in the bag in the bucket (even after you have pitched the yeast and nutrients etc ) and when you are ready to remove the fruit you simply hoist up the bag, allow the fruit to drain and remove the bag... done... and done.

Thank you, you have done it again, lol, I was looking at the ones on Amazon and wondering how to use them, it is certainly something I will look into, Thank you.