Life of a auto tool.

Al Taper

Whats the life of a box? I was talking to a sale rep from Ames, And he was telling me just rent , you will never need to buy a box. I would think they would last a long time. Change a blade here and there. But the life, I would think is a few years.

brdn_drywall

those ames sales reps will say anything for rental commission, when i first got into this business i bought a used set of Columbia tools they were an old school set but served me well for a few years till i purchased new sets when i grew from a contractor to a drywall business, the old columbia's still run as well as all the newer ones do, i can honestly say we have never broken a box yet and i think we've broken every other taping tool out there lol.

alltex

I bought a 10 and 7 inch tape teck boxes in about 1980 and they still work fine. Don't rent buy.

Muddauber

If you take good care of your tools they will probably out last your body.

Ames sucks! They can take their Chinese Tape-Techs and stuff um.

Steve

Flat boxes are very low maintenance tools. You would have to do something involving gross negligence to break your flat box.

tapingfool

I've had my tape tech boxes for over 15 years and they still work great, just change the side plates and blade every so often!! I heard about the china outsourcing with tape tech..I wouldn't buy new china made stuff....send e-mails to them telling them to bring tape tech jobs back to the US!!

thesprayking

If you rent a pump or a box from ames for seven days, Then keep it for another 10 or so days it would cost at least 50-75 bucks because they charge you by the day when you go past your 7 or 16 day rental period. A new box or pump at most would cost $350 Do they think that we dont know how to do math? A while back I had to rent a pump for a few days and it was absolutely WAY too expensive I should have just bought a new pump. Tools kept clean and NEVER dropped will last a lifetime with maintenance (blades, shoes, cables etc). I have boxes and handles from when I was a apprentice.

Capt-sheetrock

Buy, renting is a rip ff