Mortar from sealant gun.

[sPoNiX]

Its it possible to use some sort of sealant gun to apply mortar to joints in brickwork?

sponix

[mcbrien410]

I have washed one out and used it for applying plaster into narrow gaps. For mortar/cement you'll probably have to cut the nozzle to a larger diameter.

Just suck it and see!

[Tony Bryer]

[Brian Sharrock]

QVC have demonstrated such a gun, (Dugar) IIRC: The nozzle applicator is a copper tubing off-cut which can be deformed with pliers to the gap required - Two 'nozzles' are included with the device - but thereafter you just cut-off and deform what you need.

[Des Higgins]

How do you get the plunger base (the bit at the bottom of the tube that moves when pushed) out?

Des

[Rob Morley]

Blow it?

[Lobster]

david

[Steve Firth]

I've used one to repoint a house in lime mortar. Well worth the money IMO, it saved lots of time. The only pain is filling it, I made "sausages" of mortar on a flat surface and became handy at sliding them from the trowel into the gun.

[Chris Bacon]

Apparently it works with "most mortars" that "don't contain sharp sand or aggregates". Huh? If you use a fine sand with a lot of plasticiser they might work I suppose...

[mike ring]

Tony Bryer wrote in news: [e-mail]:

That's a lot like one often demonstrated on QVC; they make it look very good. (And if their idiot front men can use it, anyone can)

mike

[mcbrien410]

Des, I used a long Chop Stick to push the plunger back before refilling. It was quite a job and I did have to hit it with a 'mmer. I've also got some long pieces of 6mm. dowel. Try a metal skewer.

Chris.