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I have recently had to stop using a MT 13ss I have had for years. It has worn on the right hand edge in the middle. So if you held it square against a straght edge the toe and heel touch but the Middle has a 3-4 mm gap that rappers to nothing at each end. The left edge is fine.

I Put this down to me being left handed and use g s+c almost all the time. It has worn like a shovel.

Anyone else have this trouble. It makes skimming with it a nightmare.
 
Yeah I have seen others with trowels evenly worn on left and right edges. Like 50mm at the toe and 80mm at the heel
 
Yeah gone through two, personally I don't do too much s+c and both trowels got worn out both sides, I've put it down to running the trowel off of angle beads
 
Yes mate. My mates a welder and he's got a disc for polishing aluminium and i just wore off the top edge a bit to even it up again.
No I've got it back I don't use it for s&c anymore just skimming.
 
we never used the same trowel for floating that we used for setting. we floated with a new trowel that we are breaking in.
file the trowel down, or purchase a new one.
 
ImageUploadedByThe Plasterers Forum1412018869.131481.jpg obviously if you try it go easy and don't over do it
 
carlos said:
I have recently had to stop using a MT 13ss I have had for years. It has worn on the right hand edge in the middle. So if you held it square against a straght edge the toe and heel touch but the Middle has a 3-4 mm gap that rappers to nothing at each end. The left edge is fine.

I Put this down to me being left handed and use g s+c almost all the time. It has worn like a shovel.


Anyone else have this trouble. It makes skimming with it a nightmare.
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Mine are the same , but i think the wear comes from skimming against the beads when troweling , my render trowel wears in a different way
 
always happened Danny, though before the ready to go ones they used to wear along the length always the toe more than the heel because of the pressure. I think the wear in the middle now is due to the shape of them.
 
my old mt is the same. slighty concave in the middle. i dont understand it:RpS_confused:
 
I think it's to do with the permashape bend in them. It puts more pressure in the middle of the trowel as it's the first bit to touch the wall and render
 
Trowel wear huh?...


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..just a little bit. (.and no, I don't use it as I chucked it after this pic) :rolleyes)
 
Hahaha, believe it or not it was a fantastic trowel until I chopped a snot off a wall with it and split it so I cut it down but it split further.
Shouldn't have done really but you do things without thinking. It was more flexible than a s*p*r*lex and left a fantastic finish.
I had it in my bag for weeks so it rusted (didn't want to part with it being a tight Yorkshire git). The edge was worn to buggery after taking off jimps with a carborundum stone (being very thin it jimped easily). My mate was embarrassed to see me using it but couldn't fault the finish it left.
 
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