How long can I keep brushes in water / turps / cleaning fluid?
This is one of those “how long is a piece of string” questions. Different combinations of brushes and cleaning fluids will cause the brushes to have different failure modes, and in turn storage lives. For example, a cheap steel collared brush suspended in water will not keep as long as a good quality stainless steel collared brush suspended in mineral turps. Similarly, different atmospheric conditions affect the rate of cleaning fluid evaporation. Overall the factors that determine how long you can keep a brush in a BruKon brush container are the quality of your brushes, the collar material, the type of cleaning fluid, as well as atmospheric temperature, humidity and the tightness of the seal around the brush handle. In practice, the BruKon brush container has been developed to satisfy the brush storage needs of most professional and consumer applications.
