DrFfybes wrote:Stompa wrote:richlist wrote:
What surprises me is that nobody supplies a cap to screw on a part used tube that would seal it.
From what I can make out they all have the same thread.
Well you can get this sort of thing:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-x-Closure- ... 33aefd60e4assuming the size is correct. But the postage is a bit steep!
I suspect it is a pretty common/standard thread size. Possibly a squeezy sauce bottle mayonnaise lid would fit.
I'm coming back to this thread, because I've just gone through the usual routine of reaching for a bit of sealant, only to find that it's all dried out, and that's even after trying to do a half-decent job of keeping the tube-ends sealed and air-tight....
I know there's been a bit of discussion around what else can be used to seal the ends when we want to store half-full ones back in our cupboards, and the above Ebay link to the Ottoseal caps looked really interesting until I realised it would cost almost £17 including delivery to get them to the UK!
Then I asked why we always make things hard for ourselves....
We know that the nozzles themselves fit the tube-threads, so why not just buy some cheap spare nozzles and make something out of those?
I've seen these Screwfix ones that cost £1.50 for 5, and that includes some nozzle end-caps too -
https://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense- ... pack/6830xI reckon if we cut them short, just above the ridged 'grip' area of the nozzles, just above the thread itself, then we could then squeeze a large blob of gap-fill or similar hard-setting gloop into the open-end where we've sliced it, and then we've got something similar to the expensive Ebay caps for next to nothing!
I think I'm going to give this a go. I'll also probably shove a large, round-headed nail into the tube itself, to that the nail-head seals the opening on the tube to some degree, and then I'm going to knock up a couple of these make-shift caps, and see if my sealant tubes can last a bit longer that they seem to.
I'll report back....
Cheers,
Itsallaguess