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cheaper paint mixer !!
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Posted: Sunday, October 19, 2014 - 01:38 AM UTC
Ive been buying Badger hand held paint mixers for years . They mix the paint in the bottles very effectively and they were reasonable inexpensive! my latest one was on its last legs and I went to order a new one from Micro Mark. The price was $10.45 , it went up ,but still not too bad. When I got to the shipping cost it was almost as much !! it would have almost doubled the price of the order ! . I decided not to buy it. Recently while in a grocery store (Shop Rite in my case) I saw a drink mixer ! I wonder!! I bought it and was going to experiment with the blade when I realized all I had to do is pull the old blade off my Badger and stick it on this drink mixer ! it worked great ! fit perfectly. and was only 5 bucks !!Give it a shot ! Its the same size and even comes with batteries.
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Posted: Sunday, October 19, 2014 - 05:14 PM UTC
Hey Louis, great find! Could you post a picture, or give us the brand name and model number, so we can all pillage Shop Rite?
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Posted: Sunday, October 19, 2014 - 08:28 PM UTC
Im going to attempt to send a picture of the new mixer with the old badger shaft on it, however I never had any luck sending pictures ! I will get the name brand for you when I go to shop - rite in a few days .I threw the package away and there's no name on the mixer .Their hanging from a card over the soda aisle .
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Posted: Sunday, October 19, 2014 - 08:43 PM UTC
I tried to get the pic into the reply ,,,,unsuccessfully. I did get it into "photos " so try to look into my pics and see it. hit photos on my reply then "my photos" Feel free to post it if you know how to lol.

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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 - 03:19 AM UTC
There are no images in your gallery?
j76ljr
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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 - 04:12 AM UTC
https://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/500/thumbs/mixer1.JPG
I copied and pasted try this
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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 - 04:21 AM UTC
Hi Louis,
Trumpeter makes a paint mixer cheaper than Badger one.
best
Antonio
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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 - 04:57 AM UTC
Hi Antonio I had both badger and trumpeter badger is much better quality,and lasts twice as long. But this one is $5 no shipping charges ! Its a drink mixer !
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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 - 05:12 AM UTC

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Hi Antonio I had both badger and trumpeter badger is much better quality,and lasts twice as long. But this one is $5 no shipping charges ! Its a drink mixer !




I hear you Lou,I know you are on a fixed income now
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Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 - 06:44 AM UTC
LOL Anthony ! just galls me to pay almost double for shipping ! the m drink mixer in Shop Rite works just as well for $5 . I spent almost $250 at the Danbury show, I usually don't worry about money! even retired . lol




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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 12:13 AM UTC
https://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/29478/thumbs/front31.JPG. Let me know if this helps
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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 12:18 AM UTC
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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 12:29 AM UTC
I had my motor go in my Mixer a couple weeks ago after about 10 years of service. I couldn't find a replacement locally, but I happened to pull it apart before going out and while I was at the LHS, I saw they had electric motors there..and one of them looked nearly identical to the one in the mixer. I got it for $3.95 and just had to solider one part on it and I was good to go!

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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 12:48 AM UTC
very nice. this mixer was $5 and I just had to pop the old blade in . took 2 seconds
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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 12:49 AM UTC

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very nice. this mixer was $5 and I just had to pop the old blade in . took 2 shttps://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/29478/thumbs/front31.JPGeconds

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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 01:46 AM UTC
I just use a piece of brass rod, bent at 2 90 deg angles and stick in my Dremel.
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