5 off Spare Plastic Caps for 30ml, 60ml & 100ml Zero Paints Bottles

A cap always gets lost at the worst moment

Anyone who has ever put a bottle of paint down without its closure knows how it ends. The solvent evaporates, the surface thickens and the next day the expensive paint is a syrup that can no longer be brought back to its original state. And a closure is easily lost: it rolls under the bench, it sticks to the top with a dried drop, or the inner thread breaks off.

Insurance against a ruined bottle

A set of five spare caps is a small thing that keeps an opened bottle of paint from being ruined. It fits three sizes of bottle, that is thirty, sixty and one hundred milliliters, which covers the usual range of this brand from individual shades to thinners and varnishes. The improvising with cling film, adhesive tape or a cap from another brand that never quite seats falls away by that.

When it comes in handy on the bench

• when the original closure gets glued up with paint and breaks off while being unscrewed
• when decanting paint into an empty bottle for a mix of your own
• on bottles that are opened often and whose thread wears out
• as a reserve in the box of paints, so that nothing has to be found in a hurry

A few tips on maintenance: it pays to wipe the thread of the bottle with a cloth moistened in thinner after every use, otherwise the remains of paint dry into the groove and the cap stops sealing. Store the bottles upright and in a cool place, not on a windowsill. And if you mix your own shades, mark the contents directly on the cap, because identical closures on several bottles can take up more time while you are looking than one would think.