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Maintain Optimal Staining Pace

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Proper Use | Expert Lumber Staining Machine

What happens here

It's important to find the correct pace for sending lumber through the staining machine. If the boards are fed too quickly, or if the stain valves are not open sufficiently, the boards may emerge dry on certain sides, requiring additional back-brushing. A proper pace allows the stain to 'flood' or 'spill out' slightly on the front of the board as it enters the rollers, indicating that the wood is completely saturated on all sides (front, back, and edges). The presenter typically sets the valves halfway open and adjusts the feeding pace to achieve this visual indicator of full saturation.

Goal: Learn to maintain a proper and consistent pace when feeding lumber to achieve complete saturation and prevent dry spots or excessive back-brushing.

Tools and materials

  • Expert Lumber Staining Machine
  • Lumber (e.g
  • fence picket)
  • Stain product

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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

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