Reusing them after a while becomes problematic. But there is a fairly simple way out of this difficult situation, without the use of solvents or thermal methods.
Will need
In addition to a can of dried silicone or liquid nails in a nozzle, we will need the most common accessories and materials:
- construction knife with replaceable blades;
- flat blade screwdriver;
- gun for squeezing out sealant;
- construction tape.
The process of cleaning the nozzle from dried sealant
It all depends on the volume of frozen silicone. If the plug has formed only at the end of the nozzle in its spout, then this is the simplest case. Dealing with it is not difficult.
To do this, use the blade of a construction knife to cut the nozzle along the longitudinal axis from the base to the end and usually at the exit the blade plunges into a small plug and removes it from the nozzle at its tip.
We tightly wrap the nozzle with the cut with construction tape, leaving the hole in the spout open, and insert the can into the gun for squeezing out the sealant, and put it into action.
Perhaps, after some increased initial force, the further process of squeezing silicone out of the can will proceed without requiring additional force.
If the sealing of the silicone canister was not sufficiently reliable after cutting it, then the dried silicone plug can become large.
We remove the outer winding, cutting off the most durable parts with a knife. Then use a screwdriver through a longitudinal cut to impact the plug and remove it in one or two steps. Then everything is the same as the first time: we tightly wrap the nozzle with construction tape, place the can into the gun and squeeze out its contents without any difficulty.
Liquid nails, like silicone, can harden in the nozzle of the spray can if it is poorly sealed. If this happens, it doesn’t hurt to tap the nozzle with the shaft of a screwdriver to loosen the adhesion between the plug and the material of the nozzle, and also to determine the size of the plug by sound.
Then everything is the same as in previous times: a longitudinal section of the nozzle, removing the plug with a screwdriver, wrapping the nozzle with tape, placing the can in the gun and putting it into action.
