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Title: dipping tubes
Post by: hitman on February 03, 2011, 01:27:00 PM
I made up some dipping tubes for cresting arrows out of 1 and1/2" pvc pipe and put caps on the bottoms and used caps on top to store my paint. I went in last night and the tubes were collapsed almost flat. Luckily they did not rupture and blow paint all over the house. Anyone have this happen.
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Post by: JEFF B on February 03, 2011, 01:32:00 PM
wow!!!!  :eek:  what happend was it to hot for them . looks like ya may have to make em out of aluminum tube and just put a cork in the top with a pin hole in it to let any presure out.
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Post by: lpcjon2 on February 03, 2011, 01:38:00 PM
Never heard of that Probably to thin of a wall on the tubes or the paint came under some type of presure
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Post by: JamesV on February 03, 2011, 01:47:00 PM
The paint could have had a chemical reaction to the PVC. What kind of paint. Hot paint like Lacquer will melt PVC and maybe the solvents in other paints. I think only water-based paint could be stored in plastic.

James.............
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Post by: Bjorn on February 03, 2011, 01:57:00 PM
Yes, had that happen too..................now I only use water based poly.
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Post by: chad graham on February 03, 2011, 02:03:00 PM
BOHNING EATS PVC!
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Post by: karrow on February 03, 2011, 02:06:00 PM
i would think lacquer based paints mite do that. but i dont know? i use pvc for my tubes and just dump what i dnt use back in the can and clean them out with thinner and i have no trouble
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Post by: Tree Rat on February 03, 2011, 02:35:00 PM
Make your tubes out of copper. 1" with a 1 to 1-1/2 adapter for a resevoir
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Post by: Swamp Yankee on February 03, 2011, 02:40:00 PM
Lacquer + PVC = mush.  Polyethylene golf club tubes work with corks on the ends.
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Post by: hitman on February 03, 2011, 03:24:00 PM
thanks guys. It was Bohning paint. Must have eat it up. Sounds good ,what several of you said. I'll do something different.