cooper

Has there been anything invented or something innovated that you find yourself using now that you weren't five years ago? I saw those sanding blocks on a string, seemed a little goofy.

But I use the radius 360 sanding heads when sanding texture, the pans with the rubber grip, and the stilts with the double side supports.

Anything I'm missing that is popular in your guys' neck of the woods?

Brockster

Good topic! I'll be interested to hear what people are also doing...



Mexicans.

The new round pan and mixing paddle by Shreetrock rocks. Also my little pan compressor with a 25' air hose with the toolshop 1/4" by 1" staples to attach corner bead instead of nailing.

cooper

Are the mixing paddles that great? I have been using a beater that is probably... 15 years old?.... and it is real simple, 1 bar and a square on bottom with angle sides to the square. There is something about those Sheetrock brand paddles that catch my attention. I like new shiny things. But I always wondered how they mixed and how well they clean up if you have no water pressure on the house... ie. with a bucket and brush...

Brockster

They clean just as easy but it does take a minute to get used to how fast it mixes the mudd and the feel for how thick it is. When I don't have my new paddle now and have to grab an old one I laugh at how long it takes to mix up a bucket.

brdn_drywall

skywalker stilts you could run a marathon in them, i used the stilts your refering to 5 yrs. ago. and the aplatech graco system sprays the mud on as if it were paint

JCardoza

There now is an electric hopper! I use it for patches and small jobs. made by Wagner... Sold on http://all-wall.com

t8per

Do you guys use 3m spray glue for putting plastic arch material on? It works awesome. We have been using it for years.

Cardoza, How do you like the wagner patch gun? Will it spray a variety from small tight pattern ti big and ugly?

wnybassman

We have been doing that for many years now and it sure is a time saver. We never used the crimp on tool, so before staples we hand nailed as well.

Apple24

spray on trim tex glue is the only way to fasten all plastic beads works excellent, just don't wait too long to stick. Mark 5 with apla-tec box handle,just drilled a hole in columbia box. Oh yeah the best mud out there has to be lite-blue from proform creamy as hell.

caveman

Bead Boxers

ceilingmark

Hi Cooper,

Please check out my invention, liftalone. I would welcome any and all comments.

JCardoza

ta8per, I haven't used the Wagner hopper all that much only because my guys are always doing my small repairs for me... I've done big and ugly splatter and KD patches with it very successfully (don't use any tip for heavy) and it seem to do fine orange peel fairly well... It doesn't seem to like thick mud very much but then again what hopper does? It sprays acoustic very nicely... again I don't necessarily recommend it for spraying large jobs but it works great for the small stuff like a room or patches. tomorrow I'm planning on shooting 16 closets and a missed wall spread out over 4 floors of condos with it.

Brockster

Good luck with that! I had to stop and clean out the nozzle because it clogged up with dried mudd while I stopped for a minute to re-mask a soffit. Other than that it worked fine. However, like you said, "It doesn't seem to like thick mud very much" but with the cfm's you get you need thinner mudd.

cooper

How does one check out this invention? Website... ?

Al Taper

Hey Caveman do they work well for you?

AARC Drywall

I cant seem to get them to work for me...any hints ?
J

Bevelation

They don't actually work.

Wears your blade unevenly and prematurely.
Guide wheels are a joke. You could fill bead if you wanted to without them.

When are you going to hit the bead? Obviously not after you ran the base coat on a flat with the bead intersecting. Have fun trying not to gouge the flat.

Your finished product might look like hot stuff before you sand it, but it's deceivingly humped. You won't get good shape with it like you would coating by hand.

Their video comparison is biased, too. The guy coating by hand is pretty slow. You wouldn't see a pieceworker coating like that.

Anyway, I have them, and they basically are there just for show right now.

Whitey97

good to know about the bead boxers. I almost got sucked into buying them a few times now.

Best invention ever......No Pock! lol, oh wait... Dawn dish soap has been around for about 50 years... nevermind

Al Taper

Bevelation

^^lol