Reply To: Advice for disabled gamer

[maledrakhParticipant 11996xp 2]

I feel your pain, I have arthtitis creeping up on me as well. Not too bad yet luckily, but I am told it will get much worse as I age.

I tried nail varnish shakers, but they took too long.

One option is to put your paint pots into some sort of container and strap that onto your washing machine when it goes for a spin.

For my part, I landed on the following solution, inspired by a video by some dude on the internet:

 

When I give any old paint pot a good seeing to in this, the paint becomes as smooth as silk,  Even Scale75 which is notorioius for separating in the pot! I also have some ancient (25+ years old) paints this has worked wonders for.

I have epoxy glued the end of a small woodworking clamp to a spare jigsaw blade, using a ziptie to keep it from flying off in case it comes loose again. (which has happened a total of once in the year or so I have used this -the epoxy simply let go leaving a perfectly smooth impression of the clamp end).

I taped some foam at the end where the tip of the bottle goes, as I have paint on the tip so it is easier for me to find a given colour down in the drawers where I keep them.

A few seconds shakes the pot really well.

 

Edit: forgot about the clippers.

IF the problem is small or thin handles, as I struggle a bit with, you can make thicker more ergonomic handles with some polycaprolactone thermoplastic, which is sold under different names such as “friendly plastic” “Worbla Art Deco” “Polymorph”, This is a less sticky variant of hot glue sticks. Dump the pellets in hot water and it becomes moldable like clay. When is cools it sets to hard plastic.

I used this to make a handle I actually could grip for my scalpel:

I added the “schürzen” because I kept slipping and slicing open my fingers where I held it. The skirt stopped that.

And please keep the phallic plug jokes to yourselves you filthy lot ;P (it’s too small for that, and bloody sharp at one end. Come to think of it you probably can make that sort of thing from this plastic as well.)