Re: 'shake well'

From	occam <occam@nowhere.nix>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english
Subject	Re: 'shake well'
Date	2026-07-04 08:28 +0200
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On 04/07/2026 04:33, Rich Ulrich wrote:
> Useful vs un-useful instructions: 
> 
> Spray paint comes in sealed containers that say "shake well" 
> and that make that functional by  including inside some heavy
> ball bearing -- you can listed to it rattle around, as it stirs and
> mixes. 
> 
> But my lifetime experience with other sealed containers has
> taught me that a juice container (say) with sediment on the
> bottom will NOT be mixed by shaking unless there is air inside. 
> You can shake it and SEE that the sediment is not affected. 
> But they still may say, 'shake well'.  
> 
> 
> Half-empty makes for effective mix-by-shaking. which may  be 
> okay if you are pouring everything back together.  
> 
> If the container is transparent (even, just at the bottom), you
> can see what is stuck on the bottom.  But what do you do for
> a cardboard container? 
> 
> I have 250ml boxes of food ssupplement (like Boost or Ensure),
> with a small cap; filled to the brim.  I want to pour HALF a 
> container, after mixing.  I have not found a proper stick for
> stirring, and I haven't tried somegthing like tying a thread on
> a nut, to make a removable bounce-mixer.  
> 
> I suppose that a vibrator might work some for this mixture,
> but the only 'vibrating' instrument I have is my iPhone, 
> which does not shake all that vigorously. 
> 
> What do you do? 

You've had the sensible suggestions. Here comes the geek suggestion:
 Drop a /clean/ steel ball bearing into the bottle (cf. spray can). Now
shake the bottle - holding it vertically - so as to force the ball
bearing to go round the base of the bottle (think Evel Knievel, riding a
motorbike in a large barrel).

[Background]  We discussed old ink bottles here in AUE in the past. This
is the method they used to use to stop inks from forming sediments in
bottles. ]

P.S. A small glass marble will also do, but these don't come as small as
ball bearings.

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'shake well' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-03 22:33 -0400
  Re: 'shake well' Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 00:03 -0400
    Re: 'shake well' Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-03 23:05 -0700
    Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 12:02 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-04 08:46 -0400
        Re: 'shake well' Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-04 20:26 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 09:28 -0400
  Re: 'shake well' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-04 06:38 +0100
    Re: 'shake well' Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-04 08:49 +0200
  Re: 'shake well' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-04 06:51 +0100
    Re: 'shake well' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-04 08:48 -0400
  Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 08:28 +0200
  Re: 'shake well' Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-04 08:43 +0200
    Re: 'shake well' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-04 08:02 +0100
      Re: 'shake well' nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-04 11:53 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-04 20:05 +0100
    Re: 'shake well' Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-04 22:59 +1200
      Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 16:25 +0200
        Re: 'shake well' HVS <office@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2026-07-04 16:11 +0100
          Re: 'shake well' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-04 16:27 +0100
          Re: 'shake well' richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-04 15:40 +0000
            Re: 'shake well' Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2026-07-05 10:06 +0100
        Re: 'shake well' Charles Hope <clh@candehope.me.uk> - 2026-07-04 16:00 +0000
        Re: 'shake well' Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-05 18:05 +1200
          Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-05 08:45 +0200
    Re: 'shake well' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-04 08:39 -0400
  Re: 'shake well' nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-04 11:53 +0200
    Re: 'shake well' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 12:05 +0200
      Re: 'shake well' liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-04 12:29 +0100
        Re: 'shake well' Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-07-05 00:20 -0700
        Re: 'shake well' nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-05 09:22 +0200
  Re: 'shake well' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-07-04 21:49 +0800
  Re: 'shake well' Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-04 20:01 +0100

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