Brings back memories of my teen years painting apartments during the summer. Our barrel type paint mixer bent and broke so the boss took off to get a new one, I told him I would just make one but he said no, he'd run to get one. The nearest store was about 30 minutes from the apartments and as soon as he left I grabbed some threaded rod and 3/4" washers and welded them to the threaded rod in about 10 minutes. By the time he got back with a $25 mixer I was half done painting the first apartment. He looked at the mixer I made and never bought another one!