Spent $180 on a Wizbang auto-taper and it's gathering dust in my truck

I bought that Wizbang auto-taper thinking it would speed up my flat work big time. First job in Raleigh it jammed up every 15 minutes. Mud consistency has to be perfect, and even then the tape wrinkles. Took me twice as long to finish. Ended up ripping it out and going back to my hand tools. Anyone else waste money on a fancy tool that let you down?

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the_viola7d ago

@reesel50 hit the nail on the head, same thing happened with my fancy nail gun till I went back to basics and just learned to swing a hammer better.

michael_jenkins396d ago

Yeah that's the thing @the_viola I watched my buddy spend five hundred bucks on a laser measuring tool just to check if a wall was straight. He spent twenty minutes lining it up and I just grabbed my old four foot level and had it done in ten seconds flat. There's something about trusting your hands and eyes over a screen that just makes the work feel right you know. I've got a whole drawer full of gadgets at home that I thought would make life easier but they just ended up being paperweights. Sometimes I wonder if we're just buying stuff to avoid learning the real skills that make a person good at this kind of work.

reesel507d ago

$180 gathering dust in a truck... that's about right for half the tools I see on jobsites. People act like a new gadget is gonna fix bad technique or something. I've seen guys spend more time fiddling with settings than just running the tape by hand. Not everything that's new is actually better, you know.