fixing a Skimming Trowel handle

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Cromcruac

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hey folks,
me again. Been skimming out a large house with my good skimming trowel of 8 years, perfectly shaped and broken-in.
I always preferred wooden handles as my hand tends to sweat and timber handles grip better(notice i didn say wood:RpS_laugh:)
so i would change the permashape for a wooden one.
Anyway, i noticed a crack forming on the underside, and with every hard/dry rub it split more, so it got moveable. WD-40 'd the nut several times, tried to remove it and BANG, nut busted with the end of peuter broke as well.
Trowel is important and i just wondered is there a way of fxing this, id happily use the permashape handle on it now if i could fix the nut problem... have any of u kind ppl had this problem .....HELP
 
Just buy a new trowel mate regular use with a bit of s+c and you will have one worn in, in no time
 
haha yeah, but I love my trowel. Reglar use on a new trowel wont finish like an 8 year old one. Put wood glue all into handle and still feels weak esp at harder rubs. Think Marshalltown shud do a repair shop the *****.
 
Mines done the same thing but mine is rubber handle, also 8years old. I pumped it full of grip fill. Looks trampy but works ok.
 
You could take the handle off. wrap foam round the shank and layer after layer of gaffa tape and create an ultra comfy handle
 
now that is trampy....................:RpS_biggrin:. why not just cover the handle shaft in expanding foam and then grip it when its still wet and then you'll have an ergonomic custom handle.....................:RpS_thumbup:
 
How you gonna get yer hand out of the set foam? Or is that it connected to your hand so you are at one with it
 
it becomes an extension of you.....................:RpS_thumbup:. last time i had some expanding foam i was on the top lift of the scaffold and the can wouldnt spray, its seems like the gas had leaked from it. so i lobbed it down into the skip and young clarky was cleaning one of our drums out and the can punctured on some rubble and covered him in foam ..................took him ages to get cleaned up............... its a bitch to get off aint it.:RpS_lol:
 
Lol about a month ago I used some and threw the can into my tote bag. Straight away I thought you idiot if that'd punctured on a knife or chisel itd covered everything. 2 mins later I completely forgot and threw a tool In there and caught tside of the F*****g can didnt I. Luckily got it out while it was still hissing
 
I told my old neighbour to lick his fingers and smooth off some expanding foam he was using:RpS_laugh:
He swore that it affected his dart throwing for weeks after :-0
 
The job i've been on this week has a student doing the labouring during his summer holidays. Some genius decided to let him fit 100mm kingspan, this week he had been using foam on all the dodgy cuts on a vaulted ceiling. His hair style is certainly unique now :RpS_laugh:
 
bubbles65 said:
Kinda like a blonde Rastafarian? :rolleyes)
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We were telling him that the only way to get rid was to shave his head but a sparky told him to just use thinners :RpS_sneaky: the sparky will now be hunting for a lighting wire we forgot to put through a ceiling, a honest mistake :RpS_biggrin:
 
yep happend me when i kicked a ball of it that looked set, the inside wasnt though.... front of trouser diarrheea look:RpS_angry:
 
Artisan998 said:
now that is trampy....................:RpS_biggrin:. why not just cover the handle shaft in expanding foam and then grip it when its still wet and then you'll have an ergonomic custom handle.....................:RpS_thumbup:
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id say id have to change handle a few times...
 
Cromcruac said:
will do thanks. Were the trowels you fixed all wooden handled? might do the rubber one if it works better?
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I have never had to fix a trowel handle with it just know that if you use it the right way it will stay stuck :RpS_thumbup:
 
Always best to have a few trowels on the go at the same time, its a f**k*r if something happens to your only trowel.Its also a bit stuppid , a plasterer without a trowel, for the sack of £30-£40 quid for your main tool.
 
kebab king said:
Always best to have a few trowels on the go at the same time, its a f**k*r if something happens to your only trowel.Its also a bit stuppid , a plasterer without a trowel, for the sack of £30-£40 quid for your main tool.
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Heres the scenarioKebab King,you have no trowel because of unforeseen circumstances,there is £45 in your wallet it's Friday and you wanted a nice mixed kebab meat in a tray with chips and garlic mayo in a tray later. That will cost £6.50 and the Marhalltown trowel is £42.50 what you gonna do?:-)
 
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