Stir that black jack

[aart]

The guy at Ace stirred it with paint shaker machine and it was PERFECT!

@Akm78 what size pail did you have?

 

[paneubert]

When I did mine, Lowes said they won't shake the 5 gallon pail of Black Jack. They said it's to thick and could damage the machine.

Wonder if it depends on the type of shaker. The Home Depot I worked for originally had the "slide in the paint bucket to a metal holder at an angle (not fun to try to load a 5 gallon bucket into something at an angle....), strap it in, then spin at an angle" type. Like the earth rotating around the sun at a tilt. But then they got a kind where the bucket goes in to a chamber normal/upright, and a plate lowers electronically from above to "squish" the bucket top and bottom. Like a trash compactor. I assume it measures the pressure of the squeeze and stops when it is a certain pounds of force. Can handle any height of can/bucket, so that is cool. Then it sort of does tiny vertical shakes. No real side to side shaking. I bet the spinning type could really be thrown off balance by BlackJack. Like a washing machine overloaded with a large bed spread of comforter. But the vertical shimmy kind should be able to handle it.

 

[Akm78]

This was after the first coat went on?
We were wondering in another thread if a shaker machine could handle BJ57.
If it's still cold where you are might take longer to cure...
.....and hopefully it will still cure properly.

All they had was one gallon cans which I suppose makes a difference. I think if I’d had the first gallon shaken I could have covered the whole slightly bigger than 8x8 floor with one can but I wasted a lot.

So bought a second can and they shook it and covered the rest and have about 3/4 left.

 

[aart]

All they had was one gallon cans which I suppose makes a difference. I think if I’d had the first gallon shaken I could have covered the whole slightly bigger than 8x8 floor with one can but I wasted a lot.

So bought a second can and they shook it and covered the rest and have about 3/4 left.

Cool.... I didn't think BlackJack57 came in gallon cans.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Cool.... I didn't think BlackJack57 came in gallon cans.

It does, but not all places carry it. I ended up with the 5 gallon and have quite a lot left. I don't think any place would want to shake up a 5 gallon can of this stuff.