6 gallon pail

Does anyone have a supplier for a STEEL 6 gallon pail? I can get plastic easy enough, but no luck on steel yet.

I have a supplier for a Stainless Steel 6 gallon pail for the low low price of $230 hahahaha. I'll keep looking, as I am trying to find another supplier for the "traveling lid"...

try this: http://www.thecarycompany.com/containers/steelpails.html http://www.foxvalleycontainers.com/Steel%20Pails.htm http://www.yankeecontainers.com/PHP/site_menu.php?madeof=… good luck jim

OK you got me wondering. What do you need a 6 gallon pail for?

Hey Ken....some of us just like to try new things ....I don't really need a 6 gallon pail, but I might try one to see if there are any advantages. I don't like lifting the pickup tube out of the pail 8 or 9 times a night...it dribbles all over the machine, and I like a clean machine, so I use one pail in the machine all night. I can tell right when I'm running out of paint, so I go pour another pail in, prime while I'm riding to the starting spot. I never carry empty pails home with me...

Duh! I was reading 6 gallon and understanding a 15. Too early I guess. A 6 gallon is probably a good idea.

Not having joined the rest of the striping world with "airless" as yet, I assume that there are some very good reasons why the following suggestion would not be practical. Lets say you take a 6 gallon steel bucket. Cut a 1 1/2" or so hole in the bottom. Insert an 1 1/2 inch pipe about 6 inches long with the threads barely coming through the bottom of the bucket. Attach the pipe to the bottom of the bucket. Screw your rock catcher on flush with the bottom it so all the paint will drain out of the bucket. Outside the bottom of the bucket put a 90 degree elbow on the pipe. Do a little plumbing. Add a shut off valve and one small female cam lok and one larger female cam lok. Adapt two male cam loks to your pump intake hose and primer hose. Connect the cam loks together. Pour in the paint. Open the valve and paint. When you run low, just pour in another five (sorry \\\Stripes///). You do not have to worry about left over paint because you will pour out the entire contents of the five and the machine will suck down every last drop. (especially if the "bucket" is tapered at the bottom to drain to the bottom like gasoline tanker trucks. If the machine is not dedicate to one color, it may be relatively easy to switch paint colors following some of your suggestions. Shut off the paint supply with the valve. Pop off the cam loks. Replace the paint bucket with a bucket of paint with the new color. Connect the cam loks, open the valve and pump the unwanted paint into its proper container until the paint you want comes out. (I realize that you can only do this with the same type of paint, CR or latex.) The one plus is that you would never have to clean the outside of your suction tube. And the downside is.................?

....that Sherwin-Williams gives me a perfectly good bucket with every five gallons of paint I buy . Good idea actually but we are really making a mountain out of a molehill on this subject. Another case of "what works best for you".

Ware-ever, That solution might have been alittle over kill, but I thought it was a bangup idea; solves the problem at low cost ... Only problem I saw was ground clearance with the pipe out the bottom. One Karma sent your way for the thought process.

Here's whyyy, I got an item I want to soak in gun cleaner that won't fit in a five...Although I like the idea of pouring one whole five into the thing so maybe I get two! I still want to try the can punch Ken! But since Jpanz linked us up with a source that doesn't cost over two hundred bucks apiece, maybe I try all of them eventually.

If a roadmarking/striper paint manufacturer sold 5 gallons of paint in 6 gallon drums they would have an edge over their compeditors, unless you inform them they will probably never know the issues your talking about. I have to say I love these tins our paint comes in, the tins have two openings as you can see, a screw top that your pipes fit snuggly in and you can completely remove the lid as well if you wish and then securely lock it down again.

An each one comes with a lovely swirly paint job....how festive!

yes rather!

A six gallon bucket?? Never heard of one . I don't see why you need a six gallon bucket. Just put what ever you have too clean in a trash can or a 50 gallon drum?? (Line by Line)

You obviously read the thread, now you've heard of one and know where to get one if necessary. I'll stick with a pail that has multiple uses. The last thing I need is a garbage can or barrel to contend with, especially for soaking parts in thinner or gun cleaner! Good grief, you would have to finance a gun cleaner purchase to fill the bottom of either of those containers, and then wait for the law to come check for your meth lab. And I am limited in space and conscious of disposal situations. Good weekend to all...