Proper Use | Expert Lumber Staining Machine

this is Chris yaho here on pain live TV today I'm going to give you some tips and tricks using the expert Lumber staining machine pretty staining machine to do lumber for decks fences pergolas absolutely incredible machine I've used it for a while quite a bit and I've come up with some pretty cool tips and tricks that's going to make it less frustrating for you it's going to work faster more efficient and you're not going to damage your rollers or brushes doing it first tip I'm going to be talking about is setting up your rollers right here properly so they spin freely and stuff so you don't damage them these are foam rollers and you can damage them you know if you don't have this thing set up properly what I learned is you know if you don't have them set up you could be creating a lot of drag and friction on the roller itself and the drag and friction is not going to cause them to just roll over smoothly and effortlessly on the wood and it could actually grab like right here it's not you know splitting these uh rollers right here very good and these are just foam rollers they house the product they has house the oilbased or latex product you're using and if they're not spinning as the Lumber's going through you'll actually start to tear these rollers so these rollers before you start using it need to be set up proper and you don't want it like smashing down on the lumber on the sides or the top and bottom really hard so I've got a 2x4 you know it's more set up right now for like a fence pick it so I'm to adjust this up a little bit now it's got kind of like just a/2 in Smash on the roller on the top and the bottom and I got you know like I got a/2 inch smash on this one side got more of like an inch smash on that side now it's going to roll nice smoothly that's how it should roll it should not very much friction at all there's too much drag once again you're going to damage these rollers the rollers are replaceable you can get a replaceable rollers you can get replaceable brush is also in a kit you actually can get your know replaceable valves but tip number one is make sure these rollers are set so it's effortlessly um pushed through and you don't damage the rollers all right tip number two that I'm going to be talking about is using your guide bar to get your your staining machine set up properly and used properly so you're not making a big mess with your machine and you're not throwing stain everywhere so I'm going to get this thing set this guide bar is is kind of it's a support bar but it's also a guide bar to guide your Lumber in so it's splitting the brushes right here my back brushes top and bottom it splits right through those brushes and it's going to back brush the top and bottom evenly now if you're not using the guide bar for um for some reason as a guide or a support you could end up taking your Lumber running your Lumber in in an angle like this if I'm running my lumber in at an angle it's putting a whole lot of pressure on this top roller and what's going to happen it's going to like a sponge it's going to kind of ring that roller out really fast it'll ring it out really fast empty it out and then if you're say you're running like a a long 12T board it's going to run out of uh your stain or paint too quickly and you might have to adjust your valve so it doesn't run out so fast but you don't want it to go at an angle you kind of want to use this bar is a guide to push it through so you're not ringing out this top roller so just use get this guide this bar set up properly so you can get your Lumber your picket coming in straight and not coming in down in an angle I just recently saw a video somebody using the machine they're using 12T boards they're sending it in at an angle like this much and it was and it was smashing the um all the stain out of the the front roller too fast and and then they were getting towards the end of their their run of their siding boards they were having to back brush them with stain cuz this thing was already run out what's going to happen is you're going to have to actually adjust your valves to actually pump out more product if you're improperly doing that and eventually at some point in time it's not going to send out enough product if you're not just sending it in in what we call a level horizontal position so another tip I want to give you when using the expert staining machine is we're sitting in our lumber you know in a flat level horizontal position we've got our valve set up so it's loading our rollers across here evenly do not try to send your pickets through too fast and you'll learn like a proper pace and a proper flow right here as the the pick it comes through if it's completely saturated from the front to the back in all sides you got everything running uh smoothly now if you're back brushing that board at the end you're sending it too fast sending it through too fast or your valves aren't open you know wide enough if your valves are open all the way your Reservoir is completely full here spilling out you're still having to back brush it then you need to just slow down your pace of running your pickets through I typically have my valves open halfway and then I'm sending a picket through probably about you know this pace I'm probably just running it through this pace I'm watching it and I'm just watching this pick go through every single time if I see that it's dry on the back it's got to be back brushed next time I'm just going to slow it down a little bit so you can't just not pay attention and not watch what you're doing so it's going to be sending it through you're going to be watching it your flood and you should actually see the product itself kind of flood in the front right here and it kind of like spilling out on that pick it if you don't see it flooding spilling out you're going too fast or your valves aren't open wide enough so the next tip I want to give you is right here is the bucket itself I actually put a strainer on the top of my bucket right here so everything that's pouring into this bucket is being strained you have a strainer on the top right here but it is pretty wide anytime you're using using like rough saw Lumber you are going to get like sawas material into you know your stain it's going to be coming down you know through your petcock valve and then you need to actually strain that before you dump it into the top so whatever you do always have even if you're doing um you know all the 2x4s you know for a fence or smooth deck boards there's still going to be a certain amount of sawdust or you know wood particles that are going to come loose and stuff so just have a bucket top strainer right there in your on your bucket to strain your product the last tip I want to give you is adjusting and leveling your machine you'll see like the machine itself if your your Val your hole down here anything starts to get clogged or if you're keeping it you know the petcock Clos and then opening it you know one thing is is you should have your machine itself level and stuff so I don't break out a level to level it but I just eyeball it the feet and the legs they SL slide up and down and they are adjustable there is just a um wing nut right here where you can adjust your feet so if you're sitting on unlevel ground and it's you know up too high on one side you can lower it raise it on the other side just make sure your machine is level right got another tip that I want to you know show you it's with these um rollers right here so the rollers on the outside I'm going to show you little trick and this was an issue you know I ran into the roller knot spin you know freely and causing a lot of drag when the picket or the uh Lumber was going through and it was actually tearing up the roller itself this the the foam roller and that is how this thing is actually attached it's so you got a pin center pin that goes through and then this thing the foam roller is on a sleeve right here right there just like that so it slides on this sleeve it's going to go down this is what holds it in place in order for this thing to spin freely inside the sleeve and have your foam roller spin freely the keepers that are attached to this sleeve have to have a certain portion exposed right here so I got about A4 of an inch exposed now it wasn't exposed and the keeper was sitting down there and the sleeve was actually inside when you slide this on the sleeve is going to be riding on uh the end of your pen right here it's going to cause drag and friction and what I noticed is it doesn't spin as freely because of the drag you know on that keeper right there so I want to make sure this thing is sitting up about A4 of an inch now there's going to be less drag sitting on the end of that right there and it's going to spin a lot Freer and it's going to be a lot easier and you're not going to D roller