Is there a safe way to get paint out of a clogged spray rattle can?

Do you have another can that you could use the nozzle, or is the clog in the center tube?

If the nozzle is removable, I would try to soak it in the recommended cleaning solution for a day or two. If it is in the center tube, I would ise a thin firm tool like a needle or straight pin to probe for dried paint, and/or use the cleaning solution there, also.

Turn can upside down push trigger and hold till pressure is exhausted.

Cut the can in half?

It sounds to me like maybe there isn’t enough pressure in the can….

When I was a kid we had a big woodpile in the sideyard. My dad had been making new shutters for the house and had a faulty can of green spray paint just as you are describing. It seemed to have lost the pressure to expel the paint.

I decided to help out my dad and took the can to the woodpile.

It took three blows with an axe before I perforated the side of the faulty can and the second the axehead went in the paint sprayed out- coating everything with drops of paint including myself, the axe the side of the house and window.

Clean up was a major drag.

So my advice to you is that if you do try to perforate the can seal it into a plastic can or covered box.

But if it was me I would just buy another can of paint.

What @Dog said. Reminds me of the question about jam with botulism. Just get a new one. The time it takes to read all our answers, the effort it would take to get the paint out – the potential mess and damage it could make – gotta be worth a few bucks?

Turn it upside down and spray, like nitemer mentioned. What comes out looks more like thinner than paint.

I would just go buy a new can of spray paint. Its like 95 cents and to me it would be worth that to quit jacking with an old can that won’t work.