Ball bearings for paint pots?

[OSHIROmodels]

What's the issue with chrome? Is it just more expensive?

If the chroming cracks whem the balls are knocked together then they can corrode, depending what the actual ball is made from (usually low grade steel or brass).

cheers

James

[Dewbakuk]

Just bought 100 5mm stainless steel bb's from ebay, £1.55 inc shipping.

[Valerik]

If the chroming cracks whem the balls are knocked together then they can corrode, depending what the actual ball is made from (usually low grade steel or brass).

cheers

James

GOOD thinking that man!!

So chrome spherical agitators ONE to a bottle, until I finds me some stainless steel ones to double up.

Point taken.

Thank you Sir

Valerik

[Hammers]

Stainless steel will do you right  

Or lead shot. I'd go for the stainless steel though.

Putting them in drop bottle type containers has drawbacks though, they sometimes stick in the mouthpiece. The work best in hard containers as the pigment gets agitated quicker.

[katie]

I phoned round a few mechanical spares places and eventually picked up some stainless steel 4mm ones for very little.

They get confused when they ask "What size are you after?" and you say "Small, but it doesn't matter very much..." because normally it does matter a lot.

While there, ask if they have stainless steel 25mm hex standoffs[1]. They come in male-female (get a 2 or 3 dozen) and female-female versions (get half a dozen for making the ends) and then you can screw together rulers of just the right lengths for things...

(Get the hex versions because then the result doesn't roll off tables.)

It makes it easy to do things like make a 5" ruler for doing 6" moves of figures on 1" bases :-)




[1] They're used to mount circuit boards inside cases so the metal parts don't touch the case.

[FramFramson]

A friend of mine has some copper-covered steel bbs (1/8") and he can just give me a pile for free.

Has anyone used anything like those? I don't think copper would be be a problem would it? The copper should be pretty inert with water-based acrylic? I'd imagine there'd be far less chance of the copper cracking off.

[DS615]

I've read somewhere on the net that Reapers have little metal skulls in their paint pot... I don't know if that's true though

It is.  I have several of them.

[AndrewBeasley]

Anyone thought if these bearings are coated in oil or is this added after they are inserted in the race?

[bishop odo]

BB are a bad idea, because they do flake and rust, no lead, glass beads or marbles are good if they fit the bottle opening, and stainless steel won't rust so there really should be not oil on them, Reaper paints  use to put pewter skulls in there paints to act as an agitator,