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Addressing Caulk Manufacturing Issues: Air Bubbles

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The presenter elaborates on a frustrating issue often encountered with caulk: air bubbles trapped within the cartridge during manufacturing. These air bubbles can cause the caulk to leak continuously, even from a 'dripless' caulk gun, due to inconsistent pressure. When an air bubble escapes, it often results in an audible 'pop' and can cause the caulk to splatter onto nearby surfaces or the user, leading to mess and wasted product. The video stresses the importance of finding manufacturers that employ rigorous manufacturing processes to minimize these air bubble issues, making application smoother and more efficient.

Goal: This step covers the video's detailed explanation of air bubbles in caulk cartridges and their negative impact on application, leading to dripping and splattering.

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so the caulking i do use is tower caulking i'm going to talk a little bit about you know why i use this product first and now i'll tell you caulking is a really annoying thing when you get caulking that is not manufactured and not put in the tubes properly and it never used to be an issue up until about five years ago there was only a few companies that had i would say really crappy manufacturing processes where they would get air bubbles in their tubes of caulking and i'll talk a little bit about what the air bubble does and how annoying that is and and it is extremely common in some of the best caulkings out there and it's some of the paint companies um one of the suppliers that i buy from uh all their caulking is um apparently not manufactured very well and not the caulking itself but the process of putting the caulking into the tube that causes to have air bubbles in it now if you have an air bubble anywhere in a tube of caulking what that causes is it causes the caulking to leak caulking even if you're using a dripless gun so it's going to leak caulking because of the air bubble inside the tube and um the difference in air pressure or something like that i'm not an engineer but it's it's really weird so when you squeeze the trigger there's this um the the pressure feels a little bit different on the handle you've got to squeeze and release and it's a little bit harder to squeeze the caulking and get it out when there is an air bubble in there but eventually that air bubble is going to get to the end it will work itself out and when it does come out the end of the caulking tube it's what we call a pop and because it makes a popping sound the bubble is coming out and caulking usually splatters when that pop actually occurs and occasionally it splatters in your face and that's why it's extremely annoying once the bubble comes out the caulking will never drip again on a dripless gun but i've had people purchase from us these expensive dripless guns and the caulking still drips and they say the gun is not gripless and it's not actually the gun it's the caulking tube that has an air bubble in it and so you want to find a manufacturer that has a really good manufacturing process that doesn't have air bubbles in their caulking so with all the tubes of caulking that i've used all the different manufacturers out there i'd say the majority probably 90 of them have a lot of air bubbles in them and it's very frustrating tower caulking is the one caulking i finally…

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