Clean spray foam can nozzle?
dbr
save the rest to use later? I find if you don't use it all right away the nozzle
and dispenser tube permanently clog.
Joe
On rare occasions I have been able to get an extra use from the spray
cans by blowing out the tubing and can outlet with compressed air. A
shot of lacquer thinner helps somewhat. Long term, though, it is
pretty much hopeless. Sure would be neat if they marketed a much
smaller sized can maybe in four packs for those many small jobs we
have to do.
Joe
Robert
When you're done spraying the foam and the can still has some material
left in it, you can unscrew the nozzle and put pipe cleaners in both
ends of the nozzle. Also put a pipe cleaner down the hole the nozzle
was screwed into. After the foam hardens on the pipe cleaners, just
pull them out and the dried foam sticks to them.
RickH
For any aerosol you should always turn the can upside down and spray
until just propellant comes out. This will ensure that the nozzle
passage is clear for the next time. What happens when you do this
with the foam? Eventually you should just get propellant, then just
cap it for next time.
DT
came out and a folded booklet was inside the cap of each can, along with a pair
of disposable gloves?
Anyway, when you are done, unscrew the parts. Dampen some flat wooden
toothpicks and shove one in each of the holes, large end first. So that's one
toothpick into the can, and one in each end of the plastic nozzle/trigger. The
foam will harden around the toothpicks and it just pulls right out later.
It doesn't work as well for the tube since it is too long, so I give it a
squirt of lacquer thinner or acetone when I am done. This dissolves the sticky
foam. You can also clean the parts and can with the solvent, but if you leave
even a little bit it will jam, so the toothpicks work better.
--
Dennis
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length down the tube with a small loop at the end will pull the dried foam
out. Another with a small loop into the top of the can with the nozzle
removed, and a final wire threaded through the nozzle. The small loops allow
the wire to grip the foam and pull it out without the wire pulling out of
the foam. Done this so many times that I now have a number of spare nozzles
and tubes.
"DT" <dthomp...@wowway.com> wrote in message
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Jim Elbrecht
The foam I use [great Stuff] sprays just fine upside down.
I've had about a 50% success rate in re-use. [using the pipe-cleaner
trick mentioned in this thread] Now I tend to find a bunch of spots
to spray it until I've used up a can- and wait until I think I can use
up a whole can before I start one.
Jim
Buck Turgidson
> spray, and save the rest to use later? I find if you don't use it all
> right away the nozzle and dispenser tube permanently clog.
Do like I do and take extra ones from the existing cans at the Borg. That
leaves the can unsaleable and it gets returned to the supplier.
If they can't make a product that will allow you to use more than 20%, they
deserve returns.
Terry
They should also clearly display disposable gloves with the product as
well.
alvin...@notmail.com
They actually do sell a smaller can now. I went to buy some and they
had the regular size cans for $5 or the small (half the amount) size
ones for $4.89. Now that's a huge savings.......
Why not just include more nozzles, or even sell them separately. Even
at 25cents each they could make money on them.
The bottom line, they WANT you to waste half the can so you buy
another can......
I often wonder what those in industry use for nozzles who apply this
stuff all day every day. Many of the pre-fab homes are filled with
large amounts of foam. I know that dont come in aerosol cans, but is
applied by machine. Yet, they must have nozzle clogging too.
@yahoo.ca.spam samurai
wrote:
I've cleaned the plastic tube out with wire, 14 gauge after it has
hardened(like the next usage) and also cleaned out the part in the
aerosol can with the same wire, and it worked no problem.
I think the plastic tube can come apart also, making it easier to
clean.
I like the idea of sticking a wire into the tube after usage, that
would make it easy to clean.
samurai.
dbr
problem too.
stockthomas
http://www.homeownershub.com/maintenance/Clean-spray-foam-can-nozzle-261617-.htm
stockthomas wrote:
Hey guys,
A company sells spare nozzle packs that work with great stuff and other
brands. They are in my local hardware store, www.xtendafoam.com , saves me
the hassle of trying to clean out a nozzle or throw away half used cans.
samurai wrote:
> samurai.
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Red Green
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:29:10 +0000, stockthomas
> <jwpatrick_at_in...@foo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hey guys,
>>
>> A company sells spare nozzle packs that work with great stuff and
>> other
>>brands. They are in my local hardware store, www.xtendafoam.com ,
>>saves me the hassle of trying to clean out a nozzle or throw away half
>>used cans.
>
> What the hell. Three posts for the same thing. Sure sounds like
> spamming to me.
>
> The spare nozzle is a great idea, but if it costs more than a half
> buck you may as well just use as much of the can as possible and toss
> the rest. After all, the can of foam is only $4 or $5. So I sure
> wont spend more than a half buck to save $2 worth of foam, which
> likely wont come out of the can anyhow because the tip of the can
> where the nozzle goes is likely clogged.
>
Sure it's spam. That dot...@foo.com is that asshole homeowners hub website
that skims from newsgroups.
Anyway, after you use the foam, toss the nozzle it in some paint thinner.
If I recall, the recommended chemical to remove uncured foam is acetone.
Shaun Eli
Worked once.
Then the next time I tried to use it, nothing came out, so I pulled a
little harder on the trigger and broke it.
Now I have no idea how to dispose of the can- not for recycling, but
if I put it in the garbage, when the truck crushes it it'll make a
mess.
Guess I have to wait for Hazardous Substances disposal day (every few
months around here).
Copyright 2011 by Shaun Eli. All Rights Reserved.
Red Green
4381-b96c-c...@fv14g2000vbb.googlegroups.com:
On your next trip to the Borg, leave it in a cart. Works with tires too.
Red Green
4381-b96c-c...@fv14g2000vbb.googlegroups.com:
> I followed the directions- sprayed upside-down until no foam came out.
On your next trip to the Borg, leave it in a cart. Works with tires too.
aemeijers
They make dandy plinking targets for your .22, or even a good air rifle.
Good square hit, and instant gratification.
BTW, I've seen the inside of a packer truck up close. It, and the
operators, will never even notice. Bang the side of one sometime- that
is THICK steel.
--
aem sends...
John Gilmer
>
> They make dandy plinking targets for your .22, or even a good air rifle.
> Good square hit, and instant gratification.
Oh yeah!
I've done that.
Once, just for the heck of it, I took a pick ax to the can. It
sprayed over everything including a slightly worn white shirt. Being
on the cheap side, I continued to wear the shirt as if nothing happened.
Only one person ever asked my how my shirt got that yellow, THICK
stain. I was quite honest.
aemeijers
Once, in the apartment I used to live in, I had to store my spray cans
in milk crates on the shelf above the washer and drier. One night,
peacefully wasting time on the computer like I am now, I here a loud
noise in the kitchen. A spray can of some sort of foaming automotive
cleanser had picked then and there to rot through with a catastrophic
failure, and sprayed stinky foam all over the other cans and dripped
down through the milk crate and wire shelf all over the W/D setup. Took
me hours to clean up the mess. Only time in 40-some years of buying
spray cans that has ever happened to me- they usually just quietly (but
neatly) lose their pressure and die on me.
--
aem sends...
k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz
I keep such things in a solid-bottomed container. I've rarely had that
problem, rather something else leaking and ruining cartons. I just find it
easier to store things in solid trays. If I have to clean out the cabinet, it
goes much faster, too.
f.bu...@gmail.com
Stormin Mormon
carb cleaner had some time to work?
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Christopher A. Young
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Jackbear
>
> Do like I do and take extra ones from the existing cans at the Borg. That
> leaves the can unsaleable and it gets returned to the supplier.
> If they can't make a product that will allow you to use more than 20%,
they
> deserve returns.
the inability to use all of the product but becoming a thief - a common
shoplifter - isn't on the list of acceptable options.
--
Paint...@unlisted.moc
immediately after use. When you want to use the can again, pull this
wire and the dried foam comes out. This may not work for long time
storage, but if you want to use the can within a few days, it works
everytime.
cl...@snyder.on.ca
job.Particularly if you get it when it's fresh - but I've done it days
later too.
Oren
>>All you got to do, is stick a piece of bailing wire in the nozzle
>>immediately after use. When you want to use the can again, pull this
>>wire and the dried foam comes out. This may not work for long time
>>storage, but if you want to use the can within a few days, it works
>>everytime.
>>
>a thimblefull of acetone and a puff of compressed air does the
>job.Particularly if you get it when it's fresh - but I've done it days
>later too.
cl...@snyder.on.ca
pipe cleaner can bet "glued in" by the foam too. When I rinse with
acetone and blow the tube out, it's pretty much as clean as new.
Oren
>>Stuff a pipe cleaner into the tube. I works a bit longer.
> longer than totally clearing the tube??? I don't think so. And the
>pipe cleaner can bet "glued in" by the foam too. When I rinse with
>acetone and blow the tube out, it's pretty much as clean as new.
cl...@snyder.on.ca
years from now.
A pipe cleaner can be stuck in, never to come out again - or might
come out with a lot of pulling.
Paint...@unlisted.moc
cl...@snyder.on.ca
was in reply to flushing the rube with acetone and blowing it
perfectly clean with a blast of air. The baling wire might be easier
to get out than the pipe cleaner.
I tried the pipe cleaner once - after that the acetone was tried -(it
got the pipe cleaner out) and I haven't bothered with the pipe cleaner
since.
Paint...@unlisted.moc
>>
>>Bailing wire does the same as the pipe cleaners.
> The answer saying to use pipe cleaner because it would last longer
>was in reply to flushing the rube with acetone and blowing it
>perfectly clean with a blast of air. The baling wire might be easier
>to get out than the pipe cleaner.
>
>I tried the pipe cleaner once - after that the acetone was tried -(it
>got the pipe cleaner out) and I haven't bothered with the pipe cleaner
>since.
might break since it's got a very thin wire inside. Bailing wire is
17gauge up to 12g. You can grab it with a plyers and it wont break.
Cheaper too.
cl...@snyder.on.ca
mary...@gmail.com
> Is there a way to use only part of a can of urethane insulating foam spray, and
> save the rest to use later? I find if you don't use it all right away the nozzle
> and dispenser tube permanently clog.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Five-Expanding-Foam-Insulation-Sealant-Straws-Great-Stuff-Dispenser-Nozzles-/122481663824?hash=item1c8479df50:g:oykAAOSw-3FZDe1L