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Posted by Steve B on April 12, 2007, 11:18 am
>>
>>> Personally, I don't think the hurricane of sheetrock dust is worth it.
>>> Most drywall contractors I've seen still use a keyhole saw.
>>
>> Ah! Another contender for the "I've never used the tool, and don't know
>> how to drywall, but I know it's junk" crowd!
>
> "Junk" has different contexts.
>
> A tool can be crappily built, mis-advertised and mis-represented, and
> still be narrowly useful, as many posters have shown.
>
> There is no way the Zip I now have could withstand prolonged
> industrial/trade use--proly not even much home use, for a variety of
> reasons, just one of which is that half the goddamm parts are already
> missing--and likely inevitably so.
>
> No way you could re-tile a g-d bathroom with it, or peel up a kitchen
> floor's worth of linoleum, or usefully sand anything but the edge of a
> 2x4.
> iirc, the mis-infomercial spent mebbe 5%, if that, on valid shitrock
> applications.
>
> Perhaps "hustle" is a better word than "junk".
> Like the drill doctor, where they claim a 1/2" bit costs $20, or a
> fractional drill set $100, when decent 115 pc drill sets can be had for
> $29.
> Or the instant sharpening of a carbide masonry bit--give me a break. You
> couldn't sharpen a masonry bit that fast even on a green wheel on a 8"
> pedestal grinder.
>
> A pedagogic note:
> God Forbid that the Pubic be TAUGHT how to sharpen drill bits by hand.
> Not saying the DD is bad or junk--it may or may not be--proly is--but it
> is F'SURE a hustle.
>
> Or the ""7,000 lb truck" running over an Oreck. Please.....
> The back wheel of that goddamm pickup coulda run over my slippered foot
> without doing much damage.
> Not saying the Oreck is bad or junk--it may or may not be--proly is--but
> is is F'SURE a hustle.
>
> Sleight-of-hand is *necessarily* employed by junk vendors, vending largely
> junk.
>
> Even if said junk can be useful.
>
> Better, as NotEnoughBrains suggested, to buy the Porter Cable, if for no
> other reason, to spite the Junk Peeple.
>
> So, the "I don't know shit, but I know it's junk" crowd can indeed not
> know shit, but still be right, just on Marketing GP.
>
> Would be interesting, tho, to survey drywall contractors, to see what they
> think, and why.
> Would be a hoot if ATP were correct!!
>
> Oh, this is funnier'n'shit.... I was a supervisor for a drywall
> construction firm in Manhattan. :O
> Didn't know shit about shitrock then, either. :)
> Except that it was goddamm heavy..... :) :)
> Thank god my house is plaster & lathe... :) :) :)
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So, DO you have any recommendations for products based on your own personal
experiences and vast intellect? Or just criticism?
Steve
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