Testing A Handheld Cordless Paint Mixer - Does It Work ?

[@DanielGViola-e7e]

Totally enjoy your approach to exploring all aspects of airbrushing. Hoping this is the month of 100k subs. Good luck.

[@kimijonghighball9626]

I’m watching from the ER in Coronado, CA. Getting checked out from a bad fall. No broken bones, thank God!

[@ibidesign]

Heading strong to 91,000 subs: a testament to your great videos, Robert!

[@bobrivett7645]

Yahoo, bring on the 100k subs.

[@TD-ni9vk]

I'm imagining paint all over the place if one of those bottles gets loose. Thanks for showing this one but I'll stick with my Typhoon.

[@JHartModelworks]

Gonna stick with my trusty badger paint mixer. Works with everything.

[@EricGalley-i3y]

Hey there Robert, thanks for trying this mixer out on your video. I sent you the request on this mixer/shaker a few weeks ago. Looks to me that it is worth having it as a backup mixer. Thanks for all your videos my friend!

[@dorsk84]

I think someone with a 3D printer could make an adapter, with the flexible filament, to fit all the square and hex shaped bottles. With those hand mixer things. I took old paint caps, drill a hole in the cap, pass the mixer rod through it, then screw it on the paint jar. No splash or spill.

[@mikepoindexter9849]

I am considering that mixer. Thanks again for what you do.

[@Mopardudes]

Good evening sir hope all is well with you and the wife. I bought one kinda like the one you tested at a bargain bin place for 1 dollar and it works awesome and it's actually called a nail polish shaker and it's rechargeable to sir thanks for all the wonderful information to sir

[@scottp9425]

A jigsaw makes a Brilliant paint shaker. Remove the blades an blade holder. Get a small clamp put some sponge on the ends of the clamp. Insert the clamp end into the jigsaw tighten the screws that hold the clamp. Use 1 of the 3 speeds an your all good. Works Brilliantly l guarantee it. Sometimes U need to use what U have. Like also an orbital buffer with the sponge pads makes a Brilliant paint stirrer. Because it doesn't just spin, it does lots of small circles while doing a big big circle. So that orbit buffer for polishing your car. Works Brilliantly an already has the sponge pad!! Brilliant!! So U can shake your paint, an polish your car. Works a treat just put a towel down an put the buffer on the towel, an that will stop it vibrating all over the place. Really works Well. Aussie Skot.

[@Blu3ManiC]

Put the elastic around the bottle and insert it in the holder for a tighter seal instead of putting it around the holder. That will work for the slightly loose bottles.

[@xRaptorScreamx]

I had this for a while, that plastic connector breaks easlly, so they decided to sell it extra as replacement part. It does its job but the paint bottles need a ball in them to work better

[@nonamo5700]

I wound up making my own paint shaker using a jigsaw and a pill bottle. It's been pretty effective so far

[@windstormer7711]

Thank you for this complete test ! 👍

[@lylebriggs923]

Nice quick video an informative thanks Robert for the time an effort you put into the videos you make for us hopefully your day is going good today

[@goforitpainting]

WOW. I need it

[@Avalanche523]

Great video, as usual. Thanks for showcasing this mixer, always enlightening. 👍🏼

[@mikec2810]

Great test! I like this mixer and for the price I will have to give it a try! Thanks Robert!

[@teddyjones8027]

Great review but I'm going to stay away from that because it looks like I could hurt myself with and it would be my luck a cap would fly off and paint everywhere. Thank you for sharing, everyone keep yourselves and love ones safe and healthy and remember to SMILE 😊God Bless 🙏

[@joemiglionico6527]

Have you ever tried using a small orbital sander (without sandpaper, of course) as a paint mixer? I have not tried it yet, but I feel like holding a bottle against the moving part would do a decent job of making a bottle.

[@zetabola1]

Great idea!!!!!!!

[@LoneRangerUK1]

I used my De Walt sander it worked just fine.

[@zetabola1]

​@@LoneRangerUK1 nice information!!! The bottle against the sander directly, or you make some "base" to put the paint on? Maybe a 3d printed piece could be made

[@johndarcy1942]

@@zetabola1I cut the sanding disc into strips and just put 2 strips north south east west the paint bottle has no where to go my sander has a totally base covered in velco type material so i put the bottles directly onto the base.

[@zetabola1]

​@@johndarcy1942 I'm going to try it, right now I'm working far from home, but it's going to be the first thing I'm going to try for sure

[@scooterdoughmas3012]

it was worth a try stick with my badger paint stir or plain out patience 😁🤩😎

[@lylebriggs923]

Cool little paint mixer an it seems to mix up the paint perry will

[@kenpiscitelli2703]

Are you going to be testing the atom paint line

[@barbatosrex9473]

Ordered and on there way

[@kenpiscitelli2703]

What's the difference between the 3 thinners good vido

[@barbatosrex9473]

Leveling Thinner is slow drying, Thinner is standard and the Rapid is super fast drying that's made for metallic paints. It dries so fast the the metal flakes don't have time to settle to the bottom giving it a better looking metallic finish

[@VanHoering]

I have this very same paint mixer. It worked a treat... until it just broke after a couple of months.

[@DangerousDac]

Same thing happened to me with a vortex mixer. Just died randomly.

[@ITSREALLYNOTYOURFAULT]

If anyone already has one of them hand-held massage guns, then use that (i just tape the bottle to one of the attactchments)

[@Shooter_FPV]

Ha! Great idea!!

[@josephlo9579]

Have you considered reviewing life color paints? A lot of European modelers swear by them. Thanks!

[@thehazmatguy480]

This seems like a good budget alternative to something like a 4E's mixer. Nice.

[@Horology_Report]

I wonder if someone can make a 3d printed bottle holder that can attach to a 18v drill.

[@crispy_338]

Yep I drew one up in CAD and 3d printed it. Works really well

[@scottp9425]

A jig saw works Brilliantly. You take out the blades an blade holder. Get the small clamp put a bit of sponge on each end put your paint into the clamp. Then put the end of the clamp into the jigsaw tighten the screws an the jigsaw will go up an down an shake up your paints Brilliantly!! So if U have an old jigsaw just get a small clamp an your good to go, an most jigsaw's have 3 speeds. Sometimes U have to work with what U have. Works Brilliantly l guarantee it. Aussie Skot.

[@Horology_Report]

@@crispy_338 Do you have the stl online anywhere?

[@crispy_338]

@@Horology_Report I haven’t posted mine but there’s a few on thingiverse

[@aroncheek5092]

I have been thinking along these lines for a little while now as I seem to have accrued multiple rotary tools

[@doublenickelbob]

Put the eladtic around bottle then insert

[@ippaku]

Catching up on a video that I missed. Proud of Patreon member commenting to support the videos and the channel be well be you

[@barbatosrex9473]

Thank you my friend

[@CharlieHague-m8u]

Looks like it could be pretty handy. I need something like that for my craft paints😊

[@meticulous_al]

Rob, you are the best !

[@armstronggeorge1533]

I made one of those using a dog nail buffer and plastic medicine bottle it mixes all the eyedropper type bottles works great .the paint can't spill

[@sgtatarms4780]

More tools or is it just more toys? Either way, I am always amazed at how you find new things for us to work/play with. Thank you so much for your time and experiences. Do you have a link for the mixing balls?

[@barbatosrex9473]

amzn.to/3Vmr1B5

[@sgtatarms4780]

TY I just noticed the ones you were using appeared to have a whole in the center of them@@barbatosrex9473

[@jessicabevis8572]

Any word on when there will be a restock of your Blackened Blue 2 @ gundampros? It’s sold out at the moment.

[@decadentdave]

Nothing beats the 4E’s paint shaker. It’s been worth every single penny. The GSW one is cheap junk. You get what you pay for. Caveat Emptor.

[@yotsie32]

I've been super happy with mine. Does a better job faster.

[@decadentdave]

@@yotsie32it actually separates the paint from the solvent you can actually see that happen in his video at 8:35 with the Vallejo and it was too thin.

[@larrybrown1824]

I ordered the Triple E when you first tested it. May seem expensive to some, but I think it was worth every penny! This one seems to be....delicate. Not sure how long it will last. And having to jury rig some of the bottles...not sure how well it will work.

[@BrianMcKnight68]

I have a Typhoon, but this mixer seems to do pretty well for only $18. I’d say it’s a winner.

[@dan8402]

Nice review! I was looking online and the typhoon is like $100, but they do make similar ones for about $50 as well but they aren’t targeted towards the modeler.

[@bobrivett7645]

Thank you robert for this paint shaker/stirrer test. Not sure if its for me though. As back up...sure and its cheap. I have been using the badger model for many years and really like it. I bought last the Four E's vortex painter shaker and its wonderful. Thank for that review.

[@kingtone3734]

Can attest to Green Stuff World's shipping to CA - order arrived in eight days and shipping was very reasonable.

[@TheMugwump1]

Anyone with a multitool can turn it into a paint mixer. Just make sure to use the lowest setting. The first time I turned it on the 3d printed holder I used broke apart :) It will mix up a bottle in just a few seconds.

[@TwoHandsNY]

I said shipping was $5 at first but when you get to the cart it's $11- but they have your email by then!

[@CDRaff]

5:57 When the pigment is stuck to the bottom like that heat the bottle/jar in some hot water.

[@2shoestoo]

I will stick with my Badger has worked well for many years for $20

[@spyder9790]

Can copper BBs be used as shaker balls?

[@barbatosrex9473]

Don't use copper, it's reacts to the paint

[@spyder9790]

@@barbatosrex9473 thanks. Had some laying around. Now I know not to use them.

[@Elfhelm]

I have used this one - the plastic part, that you attach the rubber holder with paint simply broke - I gladly paid skiightly more than twice the price for this GSW to get proper Vortex mixer from Vevor.

[@thurow37]

Did you recently do another mixer video?? For some reason im remembering one..lol

[@VoltageDx]

What do you use for shaker balls because I been looking around and saw some metal ones but worry about them rusting even if they say they are rust proof ALSO love your airbush, I got one and its very nice in the hand

[@kennyburkamp4054]

They seem to be regular shaker balls like the ones you can get from the army painter

[@markwakeley3835]

I think Robert used Hematite beads. It a natural mineral impervious to rust. You can get them at any art stores ie: Michael's, Hobby Lobby. They also carry glass beads if you prefer.

[@bobrivett7645]

​@markwakeley3835 I believe this comment is correct. He showed them in some older videos. You can also buy of ebay and Amazon. I swiped a bunch from my wife's bead collection. Of course she figured that out and I buy her some new beads, they do come in different sizes.

[@VoltageDx]

Thanks for the advice I will look into some hematite beads. Seems like a safe bet.

[@decadentdave]

FYI GSW only posts positive reviews of their products. I wrote a bad review of their cutting mat and they didn’t post it.

[@EvilCerealBoX]

Gsw is so schiesty. I don't even trust their paint.

[@hhaste]

They also steal peoples designs and sell them as their own. They went as far as getting patents on _other_ peoples designs, to prevent the creators from selling things.. GSW is a terrible company, even if they do have the best brushable chrome. I guess Rex doesn't know about it. Hopefully he researches them and stops giving them any business in the future,

[@sprocket5526]

GSW is known to do some really shady business practices here in euro. One ilthd things they do often, is trademark and take out patents on stuff they don't own or invented. Here in EU its VERY easy and cheap to obtain patent and trademark protection for products made or SOLD in the EU. What GSW have done on multiple occasions is taking a product sold on aliexpress, take that products and trademark mark protect it the EU as Thwaite product preventing other other companies from importing this generic product from express. Obviously most Chinese companies dint care since they will sell anywhere, or they are not aware of the EU rules. GSW even Stole product designs from individuals that had been to open about a goid idea or a prototype theyvwerexworking on, GSW gets wind of it and the copyright protect this product idea that they didn't cone up with, BEFORE the original designer gets around to it. Just to underscore how corrupt this is, the EU patent and copyright protection agency/courts are located in the same city in Spain as GSW is located in. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.

[@codyarmstrong1038]

That's a neat mixer for sure!

[@crossbowhunter9118]

Why can’t gsw make that part out of aluminum?

[@voodoonights1671]

I would like to try this , but read a review that said that it separated the paint out. I presume the carrier fluid and the pigments. I suspect this would have been an acrylic not lacquer though. They only allow positive reviews on site as someone else said though, which gives me cause for pause as well as the poor reviews I read elsewhere.

[@AndrewC6]

😳😮🙂👍Wow, quiet the shaker. If you keep it up you might get butter.

[@cemdrahsan270]

It's a stirrir not a shaker.. This is centrifugal action which action push paint to the wall of the bottle.. I strongly recommended Vortex Turbo...

[@goodguysgunsllc9369]

You have the best reviews on friend! I was able to order the copper fire and BB2 along with a panel liner and several other colors from your line! Super excited to finally get to sample about $100 worth of your products! I absolutely love the lighter green anodized. I ordered 2 of them! 😅 thank you so much for your honesty and your help! I refer everyone I know to your channel! I will be a patron soon. My skills have greatly improved not to mention my confidence, thanks to you! Your paints should arrive Monday 🤞 God bless Robert! 🙏

[@Glasmn45]

Great review sir. I have to say I'm not all that impressed with the GSW paint shaker though. Just seems like a lot of work and too much chance of a bottle to go flying. I'll stick to my Badger paint stirrer and vortex mixer. 😉

[@BlackHoleEye]

I'm not sure if the vibrations are part of the design, or if it's just because it's cheap tat and might not be balanced properly.

[@chauffeurmarco]

😅😅 For the mixer, I think I'll stay with mine.

[@richardlange9094]

I know this may sound dumb, but how do you open a new bottle of Valleo paint without it flying all over place. I am an 80 year old beginner and have a mess.

[@aaronwitner4449]

Can you use spray paint from a candle in an airbrush and how much damage and where on the parts of the airbrush can you explain and tell me if I can or can’t?

[@barbatosrex9473]

I show how to airbrush paint from a can here kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6jMaqmGpdqLn6csi=pGe7nGVUjhH9pWPU

[@janvanrenselaar5998]

Ohh yes:INT Shipping. At a reasenable price?? We can get the paint from the boss himself in Europe. Great news. And that GWS shaker thing,i got one,but not overfilled with joy to be honest. Prefer the rotating Badger mixer.But that is my personal opinion. I don,t use the word BAD. But it is not my cup of thea.

[@xeon_one]

The most important question is the battery. Is it replaceable ? And if so, what type of battery is it?

[@barbatosrex9473]

Not replaceable

[@xeon_one]

​@@barbatosrex9473 So when battery dies its trash! Thank you for the update!

[@CharlieO_]

Green Stuff World is a very eclectic company. Gotta say, if my wife found that thing on my desk, she'd think I took up vaping. Looks good enough as an outside-the-bottle shaker, but given how fast it charged out, I wonder just how many recharge cycles it would give me - and should I buy another disposable item ??

[@barbatosrex9473]

In never charged it when I started the test. I just opened the box and started using it. I was told 1 charge will last weeks

[@CharlieO_]

@@barbatosrex9473 Alright... thinking....

[@55pepetube]

Accident waiting to happen.

[@AsimPaints]

Definitely inferior to a vortex mixer. You don't even need to spend $100 on one, they make cheaper ones for $30 that work perfectly fine. You should test out shakers for spray cans. I've seen one that's a drill attachment that you strap on the spray can and it shakes it up and down with just a drill, but they don't seem very popular.

[@jl7912]

After ordering, it turns out that the price is in EUROS, and the cheapest shipping cost is $11+, because the seller is in Spain. With 2 spare connectors, my final cost was $29. Inexpensive indeed, but not as much as expected.

[@scottp9425]

I think a good paint shaker is mandatory. But l didn't see U try it on a humbrol tin?? As l use alot of that enamel paint. But l have a variable speed paint shaker an a paint stirrer like the 1 U have the 2 white one's. It just has a different end on it. I don't really like this 1 U were testing. As it just spins an the vibration would be from the paint an container being uncenterted. I think the one's that vibrates work much better. Like l have the washes that are mud, medium mud, thick mud. I definitely don't think this would work with those washes. I would luv to see U try it with thick muds an heavy washes. If it would work with those l would purchase 1. But l don't think just spinning those would mix them, there to thick. So l would luv to see a video of heavy muds from Mig ammo, Vallejo, AK, etc. To see what's the best for mixing heavy thick mud, as l build a lot of Tanks l use this a lot. So a video showing what's the best to mix heavy thick muds would be Amazing. Great info a person usual. Great work. Aussie Skot.

[@bobrivett7645]

I use humbrol enamel paints, in fact just had a online delivered yesterday with about 20 or so tins. Beautiful paint, just hate their little tin pots.

[@uTube486]

Looks more like a paint spinner than paint mixer.

[@zazen69]

BackTaDaBenchhh!!!

[@lefthand1973]

I use a cheap massage gun. It works very well. Two for one.

[@CalebCosby]

Why don’t people just follow the directions. “Oh, it doesn’t seem like it’s mixing the paints. Better follow the directions now. WOW, it actually works.”

[@mohawksniper79]

Id Have to hide that from the woman 😁 oh my I turned into that old man telling dirty jokes at the plaza when I was in high school😳

[@edwardnash7411]

Don't hold it so tight let it shake more

[@treborrrrr]

Nah, this looks like a miss. The perfect example is how it left a nice circle of pigment at the bottom since it's just spinning the paint around.

[@jl7912]

I would NOT insert the cap into the adaptor! The illustration on the shaker box clearly refer to the bottles themselves, and NOT the caps. Rotating bottles by their caps is a dumb idea. This being said, however long I ran the shaker on some bottles that had been sitting for a few months, the pigment deposit would not mix. I was not convinced before ordering, but took a chance because of the low price. My conclusion : DOES NOT WORK.

[@chaley2935]

I would rather spend the money on a cheap nail polish bottle shaker.

[@davidsmithson9236]

I guess if you only paint a few minutes a week….

[@johnathan133]

Looks like cheap junk..

[@greyhulsey1531]

I just use my massage gun.