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Benefits and Usage of Flex Tint Cartridges

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Transform Your Log Cabin: Staining with the Sashco Flex Tint System!

What happens here

Jim elaborates on the innovative design of Sashco's Flex Tint. The colorants are pre-thickened to prevent settling and are packaged in caulk-gun cartridges. This allows contractors to load the cartridge into a standard caulk gun and extrude the precise amount of colorant into a clear stain base (e.g., a 5-gallon pail). This method ensures all material is dispensed, eliminating waste and the need for shaking or scraping. The system provides precise control over the amount of colorant added, making it easier to adjust color intensity on-site (e.g., adding more to darken a light color) and ensuring color repeatability across different batches or future projects. The standard recommendation is one full cartridge per 5-gallon pail for specific colors, but adjustments can be made.

Tools and materials

  • Caulk gun
  • Wood samples

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this problem we said all right we want to do it a different way we're going to do it this Asheville way we want to be um giving you guys a solution to that problem and make it as easy as possible so um we have a flex tint program which which does that we've taken the colorants in here and we've taken them up to the point where they are not going to settle out anymore so no more having to shake the bottle whatever else and we put it into a caulking cartridge yeah right which means all we do is we can throw it into a caulking gun and use it and take it the all the way to the end extruding out all the material to a positive stop right that means you got out everything you can get out you don't have to sit and rinse and whatever else you get it all out in one shot to a agreeable endpoint we put a little extra in there to account for the stuff that's still left in the Duke right and so um this system can you it says Sequoia so that's apparently a color if you wanted to match that exact color you would put that entire tube into a five gallon or a gallon can you use less to create your own colors or is this a system to only create specific color that this is a system that's designed for just one five gallon pail um some people do put more in if their color is maybe too light right maybe you come down and you're you're looking at it and you say ah that color is a little too light for my tastes right or for the customer at the last minute you know what I'll throw another tube okay you can do that pretty well as long as you stay to one tube right um or one tube increments of colorant you're going to be able to be repeatable between pants right if you go to the half tube thing yeah yeah are we necessarily repeatable pale to pale maybe not so you might run into some color differences there and if you're doing if you're doing a 55 gallon drum great right I think that that's an important note is be repeatable so you want to be able to um be consistent be able to create another five the exact same color I do see where this system could be really beneficial and that's where I mean I think at one point in time I had a storage facility that had over fifty thousand dollars worth of leftover paint from job sites that you keep storing here you only mix what you need so I'm driving um 200 miles to a location remote location I can buy I believe it's the tent base and if I bought extra say I get 10 20 gallons extra I can take that 10 base not 10 dip moving to the next job site…

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