About all that latex paint...

I just opened a one year old can of latex paint with 2/3 of the galllon
still remaining and, just as had feared, the inner rim had rusted.
Opening the can had deposited a thousand little flakes of rust on the
surface. With a tip of a rag I dabbed the surface and was able to remove
the largest ones but the littlest of the devils sunk beneath the surface.
Can latex paint be strained or is it too thick to pass through a paint
strainer? Is there a better way to do this?
TIA,

Trick of the trade (even though I'm not a painter).....store your
paint cans upside down!!!! You will NEVER get the rust/crud forming
around the rim! Its a trick I learned years ago and paint now lasts
10x longer than before. The reason it works is because no matter how
tight you reset the lid, air seeps in and out over time when your
store cans right-side up. By turning the can upside down, no air can
get into the can. Try it....it works!

Chuck

Panty hose, cheese cloth? Or get a cloth strainer (1 or 5 gallon size)
from HD. Strain away.

Either that or a piece of window screen and you should be OK.