>I clean my various and sundry bromoil brushes with naptha or cigarette
>lighter fluid at the end of the inking session and flick the fluid out
>sharply, and then hang them bristles down and they are ready to use the
>next morning. I comb the bristles well with a hair-comb prior to inking
>to separate any bristles........
For both the devices, brushes and brayers, I use soap. The ordinary hard one ,
not parfumed, used in the old days for cleaning clothes and obtainable -again-
in nearly all supermarkets (in Holland it is called 'Sunlight' soap). You just
rub the brush -or brayer- under a running tap on the soap, 'dab and move' the
soapy brush in your open hand and rinse . No use to explain further, it is
really simple. Side effect: clean hands after cleaning the devices.
I only use white spirit to clean palette knifes and tiles; just pour some fluid
on a page of an on old telephonbook and rub the tile and so on. Just do it
before cleaning the brushes and brayers :-)
Once in a while I use some hair conditioner with the less ugliest smell , treat
the brushes, rinse after an hour and that is it. Normally one night is enough
to let everything dry. No need for combing, neither my brushes nor elsewhere.
Henk
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