Removing 1/4 round

[Daris Mulkin]

Tom Welcome aboard. Haven't seen or talked to ya in a while how ya been?

Daris

[BrianM]

Sean Moore said IIRC he's talking about the Crain "Cushion Back Cutter", AKA: Dolphin cutter, top cutter, double cutter, pointed nose cutter with the tan handle. I think it's the #301 but hey, I drink. Yes, it works well... not sure why I didn't remember this trick to share. Perhaps it's because I'm out here in Denver now and not back in D.C. where you could have 100 years of paint on 1/4 round. Loop pile cutters are worthless. I gave mine away and the dude I gave it to seems to have realized the same fact. I was taught to use the damn thing for every row cut seam and hated every second of it. "Top cutter" all the way. Why adjust the gap when you can just change the pressure you are pushing down with? We are trained and paid to know how to use knives.

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Once in a great while I'll use the loop pile cutter. It still deserves it's little corner of the tool box for my purposes. 200 s/y of stretch carpet for me tomorrow in a school in Pasadena. That's the second one in less than a month. A new personal record! I'm going to get two apprentices that have close to zero stretch carpet experience. I might have to start drinking early.

[Sean Moore]

BrianM said ** Once in a great while I'll use the loop pile cutter. It still deserves it's little corner of the tool box for my purposes. 200 s/y of stretch carpet for me tomorrow in a school in Pasadena. That's the second one this month. A new personal record! I'm going to get two apprentices that have close to zero stretch carpet experience. I might have to start drinking early.

hah! you nailing the strip? Tell 'em to take the front plate off of their cars when they nail the strip, use it to protect the wall. If they hit anything they will have to carry the scar around on the front of their cars for as long as they have those plates.

[BrianM]

Sean Moore said hah! you nailing the strip? Tell 'em to take the front plate off of their cars when they nail the strip, use it to protect the wall. If they hit anything they will have to carry the scar around on the front of their cars for as long as they have those plates.

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God I hate pounding tack strip into concrete. Maybe I'll just let the apprentices loose and go pretend to be measuring things. I'll walk around with the blueprints, schmooze up the customer, point at stuff and look important. It's Friday, F it.

[Sean Moore]

BrianM said * God I hate pounding tack strip into concrete. Maybe I'll just let the apprentices loose and go pretend to be measuring things. I'll walk around with the blueprints, schmooze up the customer, point at stuff and look important. It's Friday, F it.

"Hurry up! I have to let this pad relax for at least an HOUR before I can seam this room! I have to watch it too, never know when it's going to go all sideways on us! Keep nailing!"