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caulking tubes

| Posted in General Discussion on November 12, 2002 02:30am

OK ya’ll laugh now! Got that out of the way. Can anyone give me information as to where I can buy new plastic caulking tubes? I use a caulking gun to make cheese straws. I cut the nozzle off and put in a half star die and pump away. I used to use a cookie press but am getting older and my shoulder won’t tolerate that anymore. If you can help me, you’d make life easier. Yes  I left this message at “Fine Cooking”

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Cotton Picker (Yes, I did pick cotton and also worked as an Ag-Pilot)

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  1. Gabe | Nov 12, 2002 02:40am | #1

    Buy a new refillable shiny metal caulking gun instead.

    Will pay for itself in the long run and never wear out.

    Gabe

  2. r_ignacki | Nov 12, 2002 03:24am | #2

    I got something better.... go to a flooring store and buy a caulk gun for squiting adhesive on vinly cove base. Big quart size sucker, the best part is it has a nozzle that puts down not one, not two, but three beads of adhesive. Man, hehehe, you be one bad cheese straw makin dude.

    listening for the secret.......searching for the sound...

  3. alias | Nov 12, 2002 03:48am | #3

    how about making your own with P.V.C. And makeshift extruder attached...????? bear

    1. Piffin | Nov 12, 2002 06:25am | #4

      If we can make pumkin guns, we can sure make cheese guns...LOL.

      Excellence is its own reward!

      "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." --Marcus Aurelius

      1. booch | Nov 12, 2002 08:34pm | #8

        When cheese guns are outlawed only outlaws will have cheese."The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships-- and sealing wax--Of cabbages-- and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot-- and whether pigs have wings"

      2. alias | Nov 13, 2002 12:29am | #9

        what the hell is a pumkin' gun??????

        1. billyg83440 | Nov 13, 2002 12:43am | #10

          I think there was a thread on this recently.

          Forget where, but there is an annual contest to see who can build a launcher to shoot a pumpkin the farthest.

          Saw a bit about it on tv after Halloween. Everything from catapults to what looked like an old railroad gun that they claim can launch one close to 1 mile.

          Pumpkin guns, "where engineering and fun collide."

          P.S. In a pumpkin war, I want the railroad gun.

          1. toolin63 | Nov 13, 2002 07:22pm | #12

            I've seen that on ther telly. Big compatition somewhere looks like fun. Kinda like wife throwin.

          2. r_ignacki | Nov 14, 2002 07:56am | #15

            Cheese straw... they got holes through 'em too.   Like, for, .. chop a line, snort.... sssnnnnnnnnnooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttttttttt.......  then eat the straw. No evidence.listening for the secret.......searching for the sound...

  4. DougU | Nov 12, 2002 06:32am | #5

    Cottonpicker

    If you find the plastic caulk tube you can buy a air or battery powered caulk gun and really save on the shoulder!

    Just think of how envious the other guys will be.

    Doug

  5. PhillGiles | Nov 12, 2002 06:00pm | #6

    refillable caulk gun

    http://www.brigadier.ru/eng/brigadier/pad/934.htm

    adhesive gun

    http://www.iafsystems.com/html/floor_repair_adhesive.html

    here's a bakery item, a cookie press with a caulking gun action

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004T136/102-8563933-0028168

    .

    Phill Giles

    The Unionville Woodwright

    Unionville, Ontario

    1. dusterpilot | Nov 12, 2002 08:27pm | #7

      Thanks, Phill

      I went to those sites and looked at the refillable caulking guns. Great! If I can't find tubes I will go to that.

      Cotton Picker

      Nashville, Tn

  6. toolin63 | Nov 13, 2002 07:18pm | #11

    Whats a cheese straw?

    1. dusterpilot | Nov 14, 2002 12:00am | #13

      Sharp cheese, Butter, Flour, Salt, Hot Hot Pepper, mixed and press through a die to form into strips and then baked.

      1. toolin63 | Nov 14, 2002 12:49am | #14

        And then dipped in wing sauce MMMMMMMMMMMMMMSteal my tools and DYE!!!!!

  7. Deleted | Jan 23, 2020 04:18pm | #16

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