This is in connection with home decorating and paint and paint brushes and cleaning brushes after use.
2006-08-25 11:25:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
They both clean brushes. White spirit is best for cleaning off gloss paint etc. (decorating) & turpentine is more often used by artists (thinning oil paint and cleaning brushes. Turps is also smellier
2006-08-25 11:34:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turpentine is distilled from pine sap. It has a distinctive smell and a medium solvent effect. White spirits are also known as mineral spirits, which is a pretty ubiquitous solvent used with many household and commercial paints and stains. It's also useful as a cleaning agent. Turpentine and mineral spirits work on pretty much the same things, so if you can clean your brush with one, you can clean it some more with the other. Some people find the odor of turpentine objectionable and look for low-odor mineral spirits, which works pretty well as a substitute. The main difference is the source and the smell. They work about the same in my experience, and I have quite a lot of experience.
2016-03-27 06:05:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turpentine is complex hydrocarbon obtained from the distillation of tree resins - chemical formula = C10H16 (approximate)
White spirit is derived from paraffin and is a mixture of saturated aliphatic and alicyclic C7 to C12 hydrocarbons with a maximum content of 25% of C7 to C12 alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons.
Both are used to dissolve paint and clean your brush.
2006-08-25 11:35:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turps evaporates more slowly and smells stronger than white spirit. Polyclens type cleaners are best for brushes.
2006-08-25 16:48:22 · answer #4 · answered by cdrotherham 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prefer white spirit
Not sure of differences
May just be the chemical compounds
2006-08-25 11:29:27 · answer #5 · answered by mise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turpentine is oil based
white spirit is solvent based
2006-08-25 11:55:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its mineral spirits not white spirit and it just means paint thinner mineral spirits is the thing to use
2006-08-25 11:35:06 · answer #7 · answered by john s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White spirit is ok with scotch and ice , Turps is crap. ( an old slapper from Liverpool told me that, Her name is Gypsie on here).
2006-08-25 11:34:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
turps leaves aftertaste in ya gob
2006-08-26 00:58:08 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not much
2006-08-25 23:22:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋