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That looks a bit of a mess.
If you have never had a problem before, maybe, it is just that tube and not 'these' tubes.
I've had the same trouble with two new watercolour tubes in the past, I used too much force, the tubes can only take so much punishment.
I'm sure someone can give you advice when it comes to an over-tightened or stuck paint top.
Now, I put mine in the door jamb tighten it further and then untighten it while supporting the upper part of the tube. Rough and ready, but it works for me.
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by Carol Jones
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That sounds a bit risky, Carol - I’m sure I’d end up with paint all over the place! We’ve had this discussion before about stuck caps. If you either hold the cap under very hot running water or immerse it for a minute or two in just boiled water, it should come loose - works every time for me. I use watercolour, but I believe Alan said it works for oils as well - and presumably also acrylics.
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by Jenny Harris
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It (hot water: doesn't even need to be boiling) works with everything - but those caps are a total menace: designed to give a better grip, if the sleeve of the cap is stuck fast, all that better grip will do is rip the head off.
Daler-Rowney are not, in my experience, a lot of good at responding usefully to correspondence: nonetheless, I should complain to them about those damn' caps, because they make good paint and are worth persisting with.
The way to stop this happening at all is to clean the thread of the tube after every use: but who on earth does that.........?
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That sounds a bit risky, Carol - I’m sure I’d end up with paint all over the place! We’ve had this discussion before about stuck caps. If you either hold the cap under very hot running water or immerse it for a minute or two in just boiled water, it should come loose - works every time for me. I use watercolour, but I believe Alan said it works for oils as well - and presumably also acrylics.
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Carol - we just KNEW you did.
It was a very old tube of Mars Red which caught me - the cap was almost fused on, and impatient to make progress, I took pliers to it: ripped the whole top of the tube off, and somewhow or other the bottom part came with it (the tube was so old the metal was, as it were, bubbling - it was clearly failing, but no, Jones knew best...). An armful of Mars Red later, I reflected on that well-worn but still true adage 'more haste, less speed' - could have been worse; it could have been Pthalo blue, which seems to resist swarfega, bleach, and a scrubbing brush.
I'm a lot more careful with things these days.