What is the Selleys Sausage Gun, and when do you need one?

The Selleys Sausage Gun is an applicator tool, not a chemical. It is specifically designed to discharge high volumes of adhesives and sealants packed in sausages up to 600mL in volume — the soft foil packs that trade users buy instead of rigid cartridges once a job gets large enough that reloading a standard caulking gun becomes the slow part of the work.

The one thing to check before you buy: this gun is built around a barrel with an internal dimension of 50mm diameter by 350mm long, and it accepts most commonly available 600mL sausage packs. If the product you are applying only comes in a rigid cartridge, the gun still covers you — sausage and cartridge plunger plate fittings are both included, so you can swap the plate and run a cartridge through the same barrel.

Specification

• Internal barrel dimension: 50mm diameter x 350mm long
• Accepts most commonly available 600mL sausage packs
• Sausage and cartridge plunger plate fittings included

What the 600mL capacity means in practice

A sausage pack is a foil tube with no rigid body of its own. The gun's barrel is the container, and the sausage sits inside it, so the barrel dimensions are what limit which packs will fit rather than any adaptor. That is why the 50mm x 350mm internal dimension is the number to check against the pack you intend to use.

The practical consequence of the format is reload speed and waste. Because the sausage is cut open inside the barrel and the spent pack is a thin foil skin rather than a plastic cartridge, changing over mid-job takes a few seconds and leaves very little behind. On a job where you are running out a long bead — a full splashback perimeter, a run of construction adhesive along studs or joists — that difference compounds across the day.

The second thing worth understanding is the flow control. The gun has a metal release plate that stops the flow when you press it with your thumb. On a high-volume gun, the pressure stored in the plunger continues pushing product after you let go of the trigger, so the release plate is what stops a bead running on past where you wanted it to end. Get in the habit of using it at the end of every run rather than only at the end of the job.

Where to use it

The stated use is straightforward: to extrude adhesive and fillers supplied in sausage packaging. If your product comes in a sausage, this is the tool for it. If it comes only in a cartridge, fit the cartridge plunger plate instead.

How to load and use it

1. Unscrew the black end cap and fix the nozzle into the cap.
2. Place the sausage inside the gun barrel.
3. Cut the clip off the sausage while it is still in the gun, using a pair of scissors or secateurs. Doing this with the pack already seated in the barrel is deliberate — an opened sausage has nothing holding its shape.
4. Replace the end cap, with the nozzle attached, back on the gun barrel.
5. Cut the gun nozzle with scissors or secateurs to the opening you need.
6. Extrude the product by squeezing the large black trigger. Stop the flow by pressing the metal release plate with your thumb.
7. To reload, unscrew the black end cap, dispose of the used pack, and load in the new sausage.

Note the order in steps 3 and 5: the sausage clip is cut before the cap goes on, and the nozzle is cut after. Cutting the nozzle last means you can size the opening to the joint in front of you rather than committing to it before the pack is loaded.

Safety information

This is a applicator tool — a physical product rather than a chemical one. Selleys does not publish a safety data sheet for it, and none is required: safety data sheets cover substances and mixtures, not tools and textiles.

There is therefore no GHS hazard classification, no signal word and no hazard statements for this item. That is a statement about what it is, not a gap in the documentation.

The ordinary care that applies to any cleaning tool still does: keep it clean between uses, replace it when worn, and remember that a cloth or applicator used with a hazardous product carries that product's residue — handle and store it accordingly, and wash it before reuse.

Common questions about the Selleys Sausage Gun

What size sausage packs does it take?

It accepts most commonly available 600mL sausage packs. The barrel's internal dimension is 50mm diameter by 350mm long, so check your pack against that if you are unsure.

Can I use ordinary cartridges in it?

Yes. A cartridge plunger plate fitting is included along with the sausage plunger plate, so the gun handles both formats.

Do I need to cut the sausage before putting it in the gun?

No — load the sausage into the barrel first, then cut the clip off while the pack is still inside the gun.

What do I cut the sausage clip and the nozzle with?

A pair of scissors or secateurs for both.

How do I stop the product flowing when I release the trigger?

Press the metal release plate with your thumb. That releases the pressure on the plunger and stops the flow.

Where does the nozzle attach?

The nozzle fixes into the black end cap, and the cap then screws back onto the barrel with the nozzle already attached.

How do I change over to a new sausage mid-job?

Unscrew the black end cap, dispose of the used pack, and load the new sausage into the barrel.

What is it actually for?

Extruding adhesives and fillers supplied in sausage packaging, and discharging high volumes of adhesives and sealants generally.

Is it suitable for small jobs?

It is designed for high-volume work in 600mL sausages. For one-off jobs using a single small tube, a standard applicator is the simpler choice — though the included cartridge plunger plate means this gun will still do the work if it is what you have.

You can see the rest of the range on the Selleys accessories page, and the adhesives most often bought in sausage format under Selleys Liquid Nails.