How do you keep your tips?

Check out my tip jar I got from Grainger's. Been using this one for years. I think it's meant for medical waste. I use a strainer to get them out of the jar. http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww95/jaydjeffries/IMG_…

I haven't done it, but I've always thought about taking a one quart metal can, drill some drain holes in it (make it a strainer basket) and keeping it (submerged in acetone) in a sealed metal one gallon can under the line driver seat. It would be nice to go smaller, but I would worry about being able to easily get your hand down in it

I keep them either clean in a plastic bucket or on the machines, they're used nearly everyday no need for removal.

If it's not being used then it's still in the package.

in the package, then on the machine, then dumpster.

TXSTRIPES wrote on Jun 30, 2015:Go to #5

in the package, then on the machine, then dumpster.

So you don't ever change sizes depending on application...?

LineWorks wrote on Jun 30, 2015:Go to #6

TXSTRIPES wrote on Jun 30, 2015:Go to #5

in the package, then on the machine, then dumpster.

So you don't ever change sizes depending on application...?

No. A little practice and you can do most anything with just one size.

I hate changing tips. 3-19 for almost everything but curb then I put in a 2-13 or a 2-15.

ncstripe1 wrote on Jul 1, 2015:Go to #8

I hate changing tips. 3-19 for almost everything but curb then I put in a 2-13 or a 2-15.

I used a 2-11 tip before painting red curbs and it came out great but the yellow was thicker than the red so I had to use a 2-17 to paint yellow curbs and it seem to put on a little too much paint for my liking even when I turned the pressure down, so next time I have to do curbs I will try a 2-15 and see how that does.

LineWorks wrote on Jun 30, 2015:Go to #6

TXSTRIPES wrote on Jun 30, 2015:Go to #5

in the package, then on the machine, then dumpster.

So you don't ever change sizes depending on application...?

Nope. 319 on all 5 machines. never take off until replacement time

Same here, we only use 319 for everything

Changing tips takes time, time is money, don't waste time and you won't waste money.

What did the leper tell the prostitute? Keep the tip. (to be deleted I'm sure)

straightline wrote on Jul 1, 2015:Go to #12

Changing tips takes time, time is money, don't waste time and you won't waste money.

I dont agree this this at all. If you walk you can do everything with a 319. If you use a driver, then you would use more of a selection of tips.

jpanz wrote on Jul 2, 2015:Go to #14

straightline wrote on Jul 1, 2015:Go to #12

Changing tips takes time, time is money, don't waste time and you won't waste money.

I dont agree this this at all. If you walk you can do everything with a 319. If you use a driver, then you would use more of a selection of tips.

Never have. Just use the same tips for everything, an adjustment of pressure and a little practice is all that is needed.

I can see different tips for the riders and specialized work like airport runways and taxiways.

ncstripe1 wrote on Jul 3, 2015:Go to #16

I can see different tips for the riders and specialized work like airport runways and taxiways.

I can see that but I'm not paying my guys to go back to the truck for a different tip just because they have to do a stencil in the outback. Time is money, efficiency will make you or brake you.

I would never change a tip for a stencil, just move quicker with the 319. I do however change sizes for speed bumps, stop lines, or painting blue squares for handicaps where a wider fan tip actually saves time.

straightline wrote on Jul 3, 2015:Go to #17

ncstripe1 wrote on Jul 3, 2015:Go to #16

I can see different tips for the riders and specialized work like airport runways and taxiways.

I can see that but I'm not paying my guys to go back to the truck for a different tip just because they have to do a stencil in the outback. Time is money, efficiency will make you or brake you.

I wouldn't change a tip for a stencil BUT if I had a runway to paint I would. or if I had a rider id probably have to use a different tip from the 3-19 I normally use. I don't have a rider and I don't paint runways...as a rule so therefore I don't change tips, which I don't like very much anyway.

If you had a rider you would just get use to the bigger tip and still not change. I have riders for all my guys and just teach them to adjust pressure for what ever they are doing.