How to REMOVE STUCK Oil Paint CAPS - the trick that will save your nerves and your paint tubes

[@carpenoctem90]

Thank you for posting this. I haven't painted in years due to depression and you just saved all my paints. I'm so grateful to be able both physically and mentally use them again.

[@ursularita1689]

This is why I love KZbin. I can search 'can't get my oil paint cap off' and here you are. Thank you!

[@ubimelibiapes333]

Nice advice 🤗 One of the best advices I’ve got was from my old boss (he and his wife ran an artist’s materials shop): Use pliers and try to TIGHTEN the cap a little bit more - before you try to open it. Then you don’t ruin the threads since you are screwing in the “right” direction. I’ve often found this helpful - it cracks the paint and the cap becomes easier to open 😊

[@neenakandwal6191]

It worked! Thank you!

[@zis8885]

you actually helped me save a whole box full of paint! thanks a lot!

[@sadielyons5546]

The beginning is my mood 24/7

[@huberthanks3007]

Good tips, Florent. I use thin pincer nose pliers to unlossen caps from side not from top. So far, no problem. Another tip is when I have cleaned thread from paint, just add a little poppyseed oil or linseed oil to thread before replacing cap final time at end of a painting session.

[@Adushka1976]

From now on you're God of caps 😂😂😂 saved me my huge tubes 150ml of Rembrandt's

[@normalwizard7645]

i got my paint tube open while you were still doing the intro! this video really works!

[@rio7548]

I twisted the tube so much I saw paint and was like "finally!!!" Just to realize the tube broke at the end 😶

[@TheMcMeow]

Running the tube cap under hot water also always works. I had a tube of cremnitz white I hadn't opened in nearly 6 years and it really helped

[@B1ackDahlia767]

Lol, the struggle is real! Last year, I had 3 tubes burst at the bottom just like this, and paint got everywhere. It was, of course, pthalo blue. 😂

[@AutomHatter]

Thank you so much! I searched for this as my new tubes I just bought on clearance were sealed shut. The hot water worked like a charm!

[@crisalidathomassie1811]

Thanks so much for the tip. I have gone through this before and what works for me is just expose the tube of paint in hot running water from the faucet for a few seconds and it usually works with no trouble. The real problem is when the top breaks. Great video!

[@thomask1437]

I tried this with the hot water and It worked. I had given up on it but the water in microwave for I minute and magic, opensessamee. I used a toothpick to clean the treads and cap. Perfect. 😊

[@devandestudios128]

Also, don't tighten the cap completely. Snug it down all the way, then back it off a half twist. This helps to prevent a seal and from breaking the cap itself.

[@taffeta5436]

Thank you for a pleasant and calming demonstration.

[@kathleenloverso5654]

Another tip might help that I do with my nail polish... is to put a light coat of Vaseline around the threads where you screw the cap on. It works great for nail polish 😊✌🏼🌺💫

[@amysbees6686]

I put my tubes under hot running water, periodically checking to see if the cap loosens. If worse comes to worse (which it has!) where I'm utterly unable to reopen a tube, I finally bought a tube wrench. Works like a charm!

[@amysbees6686]

Btw been there done that with twisting the tube till it cracks. Not good.

[@scottkendall5655]

the opening "fight scene" was funny. good tips.

[@Raeburnsart]

I did some serious damage to my hands once trying to open some pretty old tubes.... the lids which are somewhat serrated at the top for grip, literally tore through my skin and didn't realize until after the third tube that wouldn't open and I was bleeding lol. Dedicated.!

[@CindyBarillet]

Bonjour Florent, un gros merci pour cette vidéo ! J'ai de vieux tubes de peinture dans cet état et je suis bien contente de pouvoir les récupérer :) Ce qui est embêtant aussi c'est quand la peinture sèche entre les rainures du capuchon.. Je ne suis pas assez soigneuse avec mes peintures à l'huile 😥

[@carolineullrich7323]

Thankyou I have multiple NEW 200 ml oil paint tubes, where caps will not come off. 🤯 trying this right now. Wish me luck!!!!

[@riplavabit]

Thanks, very encouraging… needed all three techniques 🎉

[@mavisseah2547]

Omg!!! Scrapping off the top bit worked for me!!! 😍🥰 Thank you!

[@patriziaelia1073]

Je n avais jamais pensé à l’astuce à l’eau chaude. Merci!!

[@MoniqueBourgeois]

Great tip:) Will try this soon on a few of my stuck oil paints...thanks so much.

[@MarinaLaine]

On ne prend pas assez souvent soin de nos tubes et voilà ce qui arrive ! Merci pour ces astuces !!

[@priyankaxart]

I am saved thank you it really works I was following all steps with you and I was doing it on a gouache tube👍

[@karawalter7190]

Thank you for your help kind sir ♥️

[@shankares]

It worked. Thank you.

[@janecourtenay3676]

Many, many thanks for this video. Someone gave me some very old tubes of paint - the paint is still soft inside but the caps are mucky and VERY stuck. I don’t want to throw them out so I will try this ... it’s my last chance, so hopefully it works! When I say the caps are mucky, I mean really mucky!

[@catherinecervas3726]

Thank you Florent!

[@JP-jy5zd]

Thank you, it worked for me 😊

[@aliciasavino9809]

WOW this is great..Thanks so much..... I did lose my temper, blame the poor husband🙂 I have like 40 tubes with same problem. Could the reason be leaving tubes inside enclosed porch each color in individual boxes with good covers still, temperatures in winter drop below -10 degrees.? well this year after i clean them all I will leave them inside the house until next May when i come back to the mountains.

[@27skld]

I REALLY THANK YOU! This just saved me a ton of time and money a

[@tanyaroberson9629]

Thank you!

[@jimjeetv]

Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU! I wish I had seen this before I broke 2 caps of my large tubes of Winton oil paints (black and white), my blood pressure is rising now just thinking about that struggle 🤣

[@rlindzer]

Terrific advice, thank you! 😃

[@minjujube]

This helped! Thank you so much!!

[@tommygrip]

Brilliant, Flores ;)

[@Shandromeda1]

Thank you so much!!!!! 💕

[@dalebertdurando1496]

If you get desperate after all the other tricks fail, you can grip the top of the tube (the harder metal part) with pliers then use the other pliers to twist the cap. Be careful to not puncture or smash the tube. Also I soak my caps in a paint stripper (or mineral spirits, etc) to get the paint out of the cap's threads - instead of the scraping with a sharp object.

[@EmmettPeriod]

Thank you.

[@dreanki]

I always love your videos!

[@jaylenesantini]

Cool. Any recommendations for how to get caps off of liquin or galkyd? Thanks

[@devandestudios128]

With liquin you can throw it away, blow up the bottle, shoot it. But no really, pry the outer, black cap off. There is a clear cap under it. Once you get the cap off the bottle clean the threads and cap as well as possible to help prevent it from cementing itself back on like super glued steel. Galkyd is just a matter of keeping the threads clean and the above measures in the video should help.

[@shadowstarr7]

Love the video and a new-to-me way to get that cap off, but you also need to clean those threads too! ; )

[@daphnemarais1540]

Fantastic

[@barbaraknowles8615]

I use pliers for the Gamblin tubes but nothing works for Winsor and Newton tubes......all day I've tried but no luck.

[@rsu1367]

How do you get a cap off a tin can of linseed oil that has an inner metal cap? In all there are two metal caps.

[@saimaarif499]

hi sir can u tell me if the caps are not closed the colour tube tightly then what i do? my colours are dryning bcoz of caps.

[@loati94]

I just had a tube twist make a hole :( its a barely new tube. How long till it dries up?

[@saltandiron3379]

Omg! When the cap cuts into your hands is the worst!!

[@jumanas4012]

omg i am a natural ! thats what i do, i just use hot water .

[@mavisseah2547]

Hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣 yes this is my problem now so I’m here. 😂

[@monsymont9139]

I got lucky !

[@mparwezk]

Florent... pour un Francais tu parles tres bien l' anglais.

[@marymary5494]

👌

[@cillagonk]

you just nead hot wather or a hair dryer

[@trojanette8345]

Forget everything. Try buying silicone jar grips or jar openers: m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716pEMDZUyL._AC_UL320_ML2_.jpg. It may be a lot easier.

[@Maria_Bu]

7 minutes to show me what I already knew. My tubes get stuck worse than that.

[@jazminalvarado8433]

Thank you