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   Keith Roberts | Apr 11, 2012 10:44am | #1

   How to keep caulking from drying out

   Go to youtube and type in " How to stop a caulking tube from drying out." and also " How to keep a can of Great Stuff from curing."

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   brettly | Apr 11, 2012 03:14pm | #2

   fantastic, looks like a great product.

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   Keith Roberts | Apr 12, 2012 09:42am | #4

   Any chance of getting on your site there ?

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   dugg | Apr 11, 2012 08:38pm | #3

   yet another way to save the day... using "Great Stuff"

   About 25 yrs ago, when these products first came out.... the manufactors would supply a few pipe cleaners in each box.  Per the instructions on the box........ when you've finished the job, but still have some foam left inside the can, just dip the pipe cleaners in some water, and shove one down the straw, another up the screw nozzle that the straw is attached to, and cut off a small piece of a pipe cleaner, and shove it down the threaded tube on top of the can. The water will attract and adhere to the foam, and than harden. Within an hour, you can literally grasp the tip of each pipe cleaner, and unscrew it out of the top of the can.... flex the straw a bit with your hand, and pull the contents of the staw straight out. In the same manner, you can now unscrew out the small section that was lodged in the bottom of the nozzle where the straw was connected.

   Relatively cheap way to go. I purchased a few bundles of pipe cleaners from Amazon a few years ago, and still have a ready supply. I've used this process over the years, and it's never failed. Since the manufactors no longer supply this ready fix, I suspect that they just want you to chuck what ever you have left over, and buy a new can!! Guess that's call progress! LOL!!

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   xxPaulCPxx | Apr 12, 2012 02:13pm | #5

   Hey Keith, you may have a great product - but we generally don't like blatent marketing here.  I know there have been posts here in the past talking SPECIFICLY about keeping foam and caulk good.  Do a search, find those posts, then you can answer those posts with your new and improved product.

   That way, you are improving the information flow to the people who use the forum FIRST, and marketing your product second.  That earns you ALOT of good will.  Otherwise, there is no difference between you and a spammer shucking viagra.

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   calvin | Apr 12, 2012 02:52pm | #6

   Dammit Paul

   At my urging he sent me a couple of tip no cloggers and I've been putting them to a test on two types of caulking that heretofore have been known hardeners-one quick, one over a slightly longer period of time.

   I'll come back with a report soon after checking.

   I for one enjoy small time operators that have something that might be useful to us that work everyday to improve our trade and business.

   He's no spammer.

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   xxPaulCPxx | Apr 14, 2012 07:24pm | #7

   Notice I wasn't being mean - he does look like a small time operatior looking to catch a break!

   In the line above all our posts here, I did a quick forum search on "caulk tip" and got back 17,700 results... ten pages worth of questions that could possibly be answered by his product - all Google Searchable too!

   ...and I look forward to hearing what you have to say.  As a DIYer, my projects tend to go on Muuuuuch longer than a pros, so having caulk or foam still functional over time would be of interest to me too!

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   IdahoDon | Apr 14, 2012 09:06pm | #8

   Electrical tape over the end - tight, works on all caulking, and for spray foam a 16d nail forced into the end with a little extra squirt to bring the liquid unexpanded foam into the tube will keep for weeks or months - simply cut off the tip with the nail and your good to go.   It would be hard to replace those simple commodities with a gizmo, but if they were cheap enough I could see doing that, but you wouldn't make much money  :)

   I'm always glad to see someone make a product that's useful - a girlfriend's dad used to market a painting pail that slipped over your wrist - I used it for years and thought it was great - but I wouldn't buy more than one of them ever 10 years.  :)

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   woodturner9 | Apr 15, 2012 08:13am | #9

   looks like putty

   Keith Roberts wrote:

   I sent a few sample of 2BLOK out to some of you guys but now able to show you all just how 2BLOK works.My youtube video title is " how to stop caulking tubes from drying out." And " how to stop cans of great stuff from curing."

   Have a look...

   Keith Roberts

   Can you tell us more about this product? In the video, it looks like a piece of window glazing such as Glazol - is it something different?

   Thanks.