Paint mixer, with two speeds

Paint mixer
Paint mixer

It’s just like a woman to use a vibrator to mix paints. Actually, this is my mother’s massager, which I inherited. I’ve never under these things because it’s tiring to hold in place while trying to work out that kink in your back. My husband gets easily bored and he won’t hold it more than 30 seconds before professing fatigue. So I decided it serves better as a paint mixer. I‘ve secured it to a piece of particle board with some adjustable clamps and then taped a medicine bottle that can accommodate several different sizes of paint. I’ve also made a series of reducers to get a perfect fit.

Long term, I think I’ll take out the motor and dispense with the massage head. How these things work is a heavy spring attached to the shaft of the motor, with a heavy weight at the end of the spring. The weight spins around slapping the inside of the massage head and transmitting the vibration. If I can attach my paint holder directly to the weighted spring, it should be much improved and probably far more dangerous.

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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