Micro-MarkCordless Mixer for Model Paints – Battery-Operated Mini Mixer for Acrylics, Enamels, Inks & Hobby Fluids – Quickly Blends Paints, Pigments & Mediums

I have used this paint mixer several times to mix model and hobby paint. I find it a very simply designed tool, inexpensive and works very well for my needs. It is a little too easy to touch the plastic start switch that makes contact with the flat metal battery connection thus turning it on when you are not ready. But this is an easy fix (this is also the battery cover that slides in place on a rail) slide the battery cover/switch lever off. Heat the plastic a little with a candle flame or small heat source and bend the contact lever back a little to create more clearance away from the metal contacts.This may sound complicated but when you have the mixing tool in front of you it should be much easier to understand my instructions. With that minor detail taken care of I am quite pleased with this little tool and wish I had it a long time ago to mix paint.

Works great! Mixes paint in testers bottles really fast!

I am a professional painter working in egg temepra. Rather than powder pigments I prefer to use a pigment dispersion (pigment in a water body with a binder). Many of the pigments separate considerably to the point where shaking will not help. This little mixer does the trick! It makes the pigments homogeneous with very few bubbles even after 15mintues of mixing. The small size of the head fits perfectly into my 2oz. bottles with a 1in neck opening. Many other products are too large. The shaft is a bit shorter than the bottle but it swirls well enough to pick up and incorporate the pigment at the bottom of the bottle.I would agree the plastic aught to be sturdier but I believe it will hold up well. For the manufacturer, I would happily pay a little more for a sturdier plastic housing. If you are having difficulty with the batteries, check out the video. It will help you figure out how to install them properly. Overall, thank you. This product is exactly what I needed to prepare my paint.

Since getting back slowly in building car models ,I needed a small mixer to mix the small jars of Testors enamel paints. And this mixer does it great. Yes it is a little difficult to open the battery compartment,but I found out that if you press on the top edge of the plastic tab used to operate it and push it straight back it will pop the battery cover right out. The cover and plastic tab for running it are all one unit. You might find one a little cheaper, but this unit is from micro mark and I feel go with a company that been out there awhile. Also use a flashlight on your phone or ant light source to see inside to find out which way the batteries.Also this little mixer even mixed paints that had separated in the bottles. Just go slow at first ,so as not to make a mess 🙄. For cleaning the end off I use a alcohol wipe, and then some orderless mineral spirits. If it has dried a little I will put some of the mineral spirits in an empty jar and run the mixer in it. After about 30 seconds or so it's clean.I would highly recommend it.

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What a great tool for mixing model paint!!!

There honestly couldn't be less safety features on this tool if they tried. It operates by bending a metal tab in to a contact that sparks like crazy and half the time the lever gets stuck down as it sparks and literally smokes.I'm surprised this tool exists because it tries everything it can to weld itself together at the contacts in a permanently on position.It spins fine, but at what cost? AT WHAT COST!?

If you have small model railroad paints in small bottles, they often have pigment on the bottom and clear liquid above. This little mixer solves that problem in about one minute.Batteries are put in....one south and one north....it does not matter which way as paint doesn't care whether it is mixed clockwise or counterclockwise.....as the motor will run either way depending on battery orientation. Those whining about no instructions......get a life.This little tool works great!