I could find a Joint compound like bucket that was shorter and wider.
standard JC buckets are to “narrow to hold tools well or get mud or grout or thinset out of …
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
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U need a 2 gal bucket.
shorter ... and there for looks and feels wider.
good compromise.
or .. a real tool box!
I'm torn between my replacement of an older favorite ... same thing ... 'cept sears stopped making it so I bought a bright orange Klein ....
and the one Santa got me as a replacement ... a heavy duty Plano ...
they're into the toolbox market now.
the Plano is what I wanted ... same details but longer ... so I can fit a handsaw and hacksaw in there ... 'capt with the very same tools I had in the other (smaller klein) ... it feels way heavier.
guess the other was more compact?
Jeff
Buck Construction
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Pittsburgh Pa
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Doesn't the durabond get balled up in the corners???I don't feel safe in this world no more I don't want to die in a nuclear war I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
nah ...
I mix it loose and keep it on the top shelf ...
easy access thru out the day.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
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kitty litter buckets.
zak
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"so it goes"
Try a thinset bucket.
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
I like the birdseed buckets, They are taller than a five gallon so when you sit on them, your knee are not in your chest
Ya but that means the lower buckets help with the elimination equation.
be the aqua equal.
I went to the doc's the other day and he said I had P-32 Syndrom...I drink 16oz and pee 32
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For scooping anything out of it, go get yourself one of the new drywall tools at Lowes thats curved to fit the inside of the bucket. Something like $6 and works beautifully!
Great idea...wish I would have thought of it.
Thanks! I picked up one of these shapely scoopers on your say-so.....and immediately began wondering why i hadn't invented it right before you did.
They are awesome aren't they! So why didn't WE think of it earlier?
Mike
I think we now need to go to work on improving it, as in a 'combo' tool: you still need a straight blade for scraping down the sides, and the curved one for scooping up...thinking...thinking...
Edited 3/1/2007 11:24 pm ET by splintergroupie
The bottom needs to be a hemisphere ...
obviously the same radius as the bucket...
and the tool...
I had the same idea about my mud pan.
have the cross section be a semicircle instead of a trapezoid...
Now I gotta check out one of those tools!I don't feel safe in this world no more I don't want to die in a nuclear war I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
I have seen the semi-circle mud pans. Seemed like a great idea. Can't remember where I saw them - not in person - on line.
The scoops work great - have been using one for several years. Also find a large rubber spatula to be extremely useful. I just buy the large commercial Rubbermaid ones from Sam's club.
I have a round-bottom (not a semi-circle; more like a parabola) pan, made by Stanley. My critique is that the round pan is a lot easier to use and to clean, and the shape is easier on the hand, but there are only four small points of contact at the far ends of the pan on which to set it down. You can't set it on top of the mud bucket, for instance, and the points are so close under the bottom that it tips easily if the mud isn't in the bottom of the pan and the knife just so. It's for mudders who never take pee breaks, is my surmise.If someone were really on the ball, she would invent a pan that disassembled for cleaning...the round pan would come out of its end caps and lie flat. And it would fit in the dishwasher better.Speaking of handy tools, i use one of those slightly concave trowels for doing seams. You slap on the mud with a regular knife, then use this trowel to mold a slightly raised hump of mud over the tape. After it dries, the seam is just about flat.
what a friggin' baby...wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
lol
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you sir, are emboldening the narrow buckets!I don't feel safe in this world no more I don't want to die in a nuclear war I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
does your Macrobiotic Buddha-Chow come in bigger buckets???
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Comes in a Bush-el bucket...and what might that be filled with?
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I agree with Zak, you just described the buckets that our scoopable kitty litter comes in. I switched to these from joint compound buckets a few years ago.
Can't think of the name of the stuff.......
But it's green rubbery goop for showers, comes in a bucket that size for about $90 I think.
Great stuff for hammer handles too, wrap with mason's line then a coat or 2 of the green goo. Great grip.
Whatever it's called...damn.
Tile store has it, they can probably remember what it am.
Joe H
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JoeH, is this what you are talking about? Is is great stuff for tiling.
Nope.
Laticrete is the brand, green stuff.
Might be the same kind of stuff but I've never used Bonsal.
Comes with some fabric that is a heavier type of insulation netting. It's like fiberglassing a surfboard or boat. Paint the goop on, stick the cloth on and more green goop on top.
Works good & handy size buckets.
Joe H
Joe,
That sounds like Hydro-Stop that you are describing. I love that stuff, it works great for a lot of things, roofs and flat decks included.
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