How to Paint with a Fire Extinguisher

Graffiti is not funny.
Its not a joke.
Extinguishers are not fun.
They are serious.
Using an extinguisher to paint a wall is an act of pure anti-social behavior.
So is telling someone how to do it.

Step 1: Get a Fire Extinguisher

First, find yourself an extinguisher. It cannot be a red extinguisher, it must be silver or chrome so that you can see your stupid distorted reflection on the side of it. It also can be identified by the "bicycle tire" valve on the top near the handle/trigger. You can often find these in industrial buildings and large school buildings.

Step 2: Empty your Extinguisher

Now, spray out the funky aged juices from within the extinguisher. Make sure it is empty and out of pressure before opening. Open using a large wrench.

Step 3: Fill the Extinguisher

Get a bucket of water based paint. Decide what color to use. I recommend finding something that is dark or that is very light. Humanoids are likely to choose colors close to neutral gray to use on their homes and businesses to keep things calm. Go For Contrast. MAKE A FUNNEL and pour 3/4 of the paint into the empty extinguisher. fill a full bucket with water, AND USING THE FUNNEL,pour into extinguisher now containing paint. Close the beast aka seal the chamber. Tighten the top nut and shake vigorously.

Step 4: Pressurize the Extinguisher

Take your filled organ to a gas station and get some change. You can pressurize an extinguisher with any sized pump you want. I've fully charged one using a dinky fuckin nike bike pump that was shaped kinda like a vibrator. But gas station air compressors are the quickest and are often manned by overworked immigrants who are barely conscious. Fill the extinguisher with air. You'll feel the paint begin to severely grumble and gurgle. This acts to mix the paint and water once again. Keep the pressure on for approximately 3min. I often will often fill it with air until the compressor turns off.

Step 5: Paint with your Extinguisher

Once you've reached your target make sure to check the nozzle on the hose for any dry paint or material that may block the flow. Test spray a few dots on the sidewalk to double check. Now the faster you move the better. It will replicate a hand drawn scribe if you are quick and calm. If you go to quick though you'll blow it and if you go too slow you'll run out of ammo.

TIPS: using different ratios of paint, water, and air will result in different types of spray,
more paint and water, and less air will give a thinner line.
More air than paint and water will result in a larger spray but will run out of paint very fast.

Comments

[allmercy]

On Ebay I sell them seller ID Allmercy just do the advanced search by seller and put my ID in and buy one or two or ten.

[stealthop]

i went to your e*** store and i noticed the ones you have are the small sized ones . do you have little ones only ? i want a big one .

[stealthop]

iv' been looking all over for this information and wouldn't you know i found it here on instructables ! great ible , great art , just great thanx !!!

[ak40simba]

things my crew does is to help people know about the bs and lies thay dont know or see an griffiti for me is the best way to show that

[ilpug]

Even more ridiculous, get glow paint, fill this thing with it and hit walls, makes everything look like aliens exploded there.

[GreenD]

I don't get it. You support troops and love america, but then you deface the property? Those troops are defending the very thing you are trying to destroy? To get my side of the story straight - i don't support troops, and i support complete coloration of all walls everywhere (even houses & private property) but I don't go bombing houses or churches simply out of respect. Complex issue but you seem like you have no idea why / what you are doing.

[enteruncreativename]

No one with an ounce of self respect would ever go out and bomb a church or house. It is in the graffiti book(not an actual book but it is a PDF/passed on by word of mouth.). The whole intention of this book is to make it clear to any toys on where to tag/get up at. Yes I used hip lingo but use google if you don't understand.

[jazza 123]

ayye im livin in australia and i cant find a chrome one is there a another one that i can get ?

[Ponchobrown]

Katsu you are the man.

[vityasty]

Buy a fire extinguisher on site www.aptv-spb.ru

[Pyrowuzzup]

i think its a nice concept but the results seem alittle sloppy. if you dont care much about detail i guess it would be fine though.

[moverstreet]

who cares about detail if you could write your name 4 stories tall!

[krampus]

comment war ..huh? crew with moral means the bombers that dosen't steal paint and stuff. does not bomb on privete porperities. and that is a good thing. but come back to my mind who give a damn bout that? each person has their own point of view. some said is good some said is bad. just relax... do what you do best. go bomb it.

[iBurn]

 +1

[Tren509]

+1 more.

[biofueljunke]

thats cool and all but ill stick to rustoleum pilot markers and shoepolish mops

[struckbyanarrow]

i did it with a red one but i put my own shraderl valve on it i did some stuff with water to test and it works great!

[jungla]

Ok, you don't want to go and do the extinguisher thing.

You want more control and you want to make your tools yourself.

Read this: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-your-own-Sembrador-de-Terror-Terror-/

And go big.

[NOS586]

thts amazing, now i dont  have to carry 10 cans of the same color

[moep]

I don't think Keri was suggesting that only a crew of 20 stop defacing public property. To assume that her argument only applies to your (iburn) crew is insane. I love graffiti, i think it looks better in most areas when it is actually good and not some gangster tag crap. Thats just ugly. It doesnt make it legal however and no matter how much you love it, it is still illegal. The argument she is making is that everyone stop defacing public property. Now i cant do the math on that one, but it is a hell of a lot more than the cost your crew in causing. Its not ok just because a big business can afford to deal with it. Thats just your way of feeling ok about defacing it. Graffiti has a bad name from the ugly graffiti that is on public property. I think most people like the way true graffiti art looks, it's just rude to deface someone elses stuff without permission. Having said that, I think allowing good graffiti on approved public canvases would be good for the graffiti artists and good for the city to add some flavor. Our public system is corrupt yes, and money is stolen, yes, but not every dollar that is saved is just stuffed into somebody's pocket. What the hell do you think pays for the busses and metro systems to be tagged. Is that money stolen from politicians? How about police, fire, road maintenance, etc...? Is all of that money getting skimmed off the top? Surely some is, but most of our money does go into public service. Private business is a different matter, but if everyone had your attitude, Wal-Mart and McDonalds wouldnt be in business. IBurn, you sound like someone who is probably tagging real art, that is a plus, but others dont. Your crew might be responsible, with "morals", but others aren't. This isnt about you and your crew, its about the issue of public defacement as a whole. Graffiti on publicly approved areas are often very nice, the perfect place to express your art and for it to stay up for people to see and to give your art a good name in society. It is hard to fight this battle for the graffiti artists when there are plenty of others out there just set on defacing something that is not already tagged.

[Temoe]

People say that tagging is the ugly side of graffiti. Maybe it is to some people. But think about it this way, there are some ugly girls out there but i choose to get to know them before i judge. Alot of you do not know about graffiti, so you can't judge. and to callmeshaun: you may not thinking that you writing your name is art, but i have spent year drawing my name possibly tens of thousands of time on paper and elsewhere. I have developed the style and shape of the letters, and i have not even skimmed what some people can do with simple one colour tags. So please don't judge if you don't know about the commitment it takes x

[148wmcquiston]

1. It also takes a lot of commitment to be a terrorist 2. I do know about graffiti: I have to walk by it every day, have to clean it off my school, and carry polite conversation with the losers I know are tagging Those who graffiti do it simply for the adrenaline thrill, not because it makes great art (and there are studies that back me up).

[phatheadted]

nice man

[KIKO1]

where can i get those silver / chrome extinguishers?

[allmercy]

On Ebay I sell them seller ID Allmercy just do the advanced search by seller and put my ID in and buy one or two or ten.

[stephenniall]

You can do this with a red one just have to take the top off n Pressurise it its how i made a flamethrower

[OliB]

Good stuff Katsu ive seen some extinguisher tags here in brasil and they are DIZOPE!!!

[Very Keri]

"You can often find these in industrial buildings and large school buildings" Are you suggesting I first steal a fire extinguisher and then turn it into a giant can of spray paint, then go deface someone's property? I hope you get caught, I really do.

[rinoh1r]

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[Very Keri]

You are just so cute! I wanna pinch your widdle cheekies!

[khazm]

id rather look at graffiti than concrete, brick, plywood, steel shutters, or just about anything else gray and boring.

[Very Keri]

That's fine, but if you alter someone else's property without their permission, it's vandalism. It doesn't matter if you recreated the Mona Lisa on the side of an office building, if you didn't have the owner's permission, it' s still illegal. (so is stealing fire extinguishers, btw) I don't have a problem with graffiti style. I live near a seawall (pictured below) where it's o.k. and even welcomed that you paint something on the wall so long as it's decent and not something incredibly stupid like "steve wuz heer, b**ches", which makes up over 95 percent of the graffiti you see.

[crack_shot_556]

thats not graffiti.... its fish painted on a wall

[iBurn]

Well...I don't know what graffiti you look at, but whenever our crew is out tagging and we see one of the "Steve wuz heer, b**ches" we paint over it. Though we almost never see anything like that, or anything offensive for that matter. We're a crew with morals, we don't tag private property, we don't tag over anybody else's tags or graffiti, and we try to make it a challenge. Now stop giving it a bad reputation.

[Very Keri]

It's cute that you say you're " A crew with morals ". If you alter ANYTHING that is not personally yours, you're committing a crime. Say for example, you paint an overpass, or a public fence. Who do you think has to pay for that crap to be painted over? If you guessed our tax dollars, then you're right! Furthermore, I don' t know how you define " private " but if you're tagging a business, then that business has to then pay for someone to paint over it. Nobody WANTS graffiti on their business and the city doesn't want it on public property either. They don't leave it up there because they like it. They leave it up there because they can't afford to keep painting over it. You know you're doing something wrong, otherwise you would do it in broad day light, in a crowded area with no fear of getting caught. I'm not giving it a bad reputation, you are. If you love your "craft" so much, stop defacing public property and do it on a canvas or plywood and sell it, or advertise your " graffiti " services for people that might actually WANT it on the outside of their business. Quit being a punk.

[iBurn]

There's a critical difference between crimes and morals. For example, at our school it's illegal to use anything to get around the internet filter; ever tried to do a report on Marijuana with filtered content? Doesn't work. It's also illegal to copy a CD onto your computer, or lend it to a friend so they can copy it onto their computer, and god forbid that anyone should do that. I'm pretty sure that McDonalds can afford to paint 3 square feet of wall, what with their 1.1 Billion Profit last year. I'm fully aware of the fact that taxes help pay for graffiti clean up, so, let's assume that our entire crew of 20 people, stopped tagging today. How about you do the math and figure out how much taxes would increase due to those 20 people no longer tagging. I'll even help, about $2 of each persons taxes go towards graffiti clean up. Now, if we subtract say...best case scenario, Two tags a month per person x 20 people x 30 years of tagging x 3 sq feet per tag = 43200 square feet total. $3,000,000 spent annually on graffiti clean up in my state. it costs about $20 to remove 20 square feet. 43200 x 20 = $86400. $1,000,000 - $86400 = $991360 still spent per year. 196818 citizens in my city / $86400 / 30 years = Congratulations, I just saved every resident in my city 7.5 cents a year, you have enlightened me.

FYI-We typically use washable spray paint.

[MINIMOOSE101]

good one paint isnt that expensive its the labor hell ill paint over graffiti for 2 dollars a tag

[Very Keri]

Since you're so smart, you would be able to figure out that said money could be put to better use, like fixing pot holes or hiring more law enforcement, no matter how "insignificant" it is. As far as businesses are concerned, where do you think that money they use to clean up spray paint comes from? Yes they have billions of dollars, but they have to allocate some of that money toward cleaning up spray paint. Do you think that isn't reflective in their prices? Even companies like Wal Mart have to raise their prices to compensate for all their theft prevention and merchandise loss. Do I need to give you an economics lecture? Since your logic is leaning in this direction, do you not think that if you steal a $20 item from a company that makes billions of dollars per year, that it's still OK? What is the difference then in stealing the amount of money from a company and doing the equal amount of damage to their property? You know what you're doing is wrong, but you try to validate your actions by arguing that your part in it so insignificant that you disappear in the grand scheme of things. The fact of the matter is you're still contributing to the problem. I love your choice of the word " typically ". That really drives your point all the way in. You seem like a smart kid, but you're wasting your time and money ( in addition to your victim's ) on something as trivial as graffiti. You could be helping your community instead of hurting it.

[iBurn]

I could be helping my community by cleaning up the graffiti, but it's obviously not leaving anytime soon, so why further waste time on something so insignificant? Of course the money could be put to better use, but it wont. It'll go to fund something totally moronic, like getting that CEO (who's been working Oh-So-Hard) on a private jet to Hawaii.

[67spyder]

I am a CEO of a company that owns one commercial property.  The City we are in passed a law making it illegal to own a building that has graffiti on it.  So instead of boarding a private jet, I get in my Chev Aveo (which is insurance salvage that I repaired), drive to the paint store, buy another 5 gallon bucket of paint and go paint my building again (nine times in five years).  It makes no difference if the graffiti is good art or illegible gang signs it costs me quite a bit more than the 7.5 cents you calculated.  Not all commercial buildings are owned by big faceless corporations and graffiti on anything that wasn't done with permission hurts people.