Beginners Guide to Taping Walls & Ceilings with Automatic Taper 

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Yeah. "Auto Taping". Where is that switch? I always love the comments... "That's way easier than doing it by hand!" Excuse me... you've got easier confused with faster! Then I give them a full tube with a fresh 500" roll of tape on it and have them experience the easy part. Lift that above your head on that 10" ceiling.

Thanks for the kind words Gordon! Glad you were able to learn something my friend!

Damn! Sorry to hear about your leg dude. Hang in there. And there's a lot of us that are tired of sitting around right now. Covid certainly didn't help anything.

No problem 👍

Every part of these tools is replaceable. They have to be cleaned thoroughly and maintained in near perfect condition. Unless you plan on doing large commercial jobs or entire houses this may not be the tool for you. Not sure if they still rent these

Personal preference

No, we do not. We used to but it was too temperamental to work with so we switched back to paper in corners.

We have a video specifically on this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sFyP26QXHzU.html

Taping mud or all pourpose. It needs to have glue in it

Yes, you nailed it, we film these videos to discourage people from learning. Spoken by someone who's clearly never used an automatic taper. It's not that easy to use at first.

A 6" knife is my go-to carry. I use it for just about everything. It's a good average size for spotting screws, wiping tapes, cleaning 3 ways etc etc. I usually run the taper and have my guys wiping behind me so I only carry a 6". If one of my guys is running the taper and I'm wiping tapes all day then I'll grab an 8" like you. Holds more mud and fills the bevel better. And yeah, those old-school single sided cutting blades were awesome. Haven't seem those around in years though. And thanks for the kind words man. We try to give as much info as possible for the people watching and learning.

@@drywallnation Yep. I carry a 6 in my back pocket all the time... well not to bed. LoL! I work exclusively by myself. I have turned into a legit drywall contractor... well Me , Myself and I Drywall. I have hangers that I use when there's more than I want to deal with. They don't like to finish. I don't mind hanging until it's ridiculous for me to deal with. I hang all my own metal. I know what it's supposed to look like. Back "in the day", when all we had were Ames taping tools (until their patent ran out). We, and the company I worked for, would get parts for free from Ames for renting their tools. When my dad quit doing production work, and between him and what I collected, I have quite the supply left over. I've got some of the old blades still made in the U.S.A for 7", 10" and 12" skim box. Very high quality and they last forever too. I should retire, but after 50+ years of doing this.... and people won't leave me alone. I'll continue to work at it. And I'm trying to build a car. I've found there's nobody out there, at least in this area, which used to be an unusual hot bed for drywall work, knows the proper way to use the tools. Everybody that knew has died off. Now there area bunch of geemos who have never been taught how. Every time I think that I've slowed down, I watch these guys work and shake my head. When someone sees me work, they can't believe I'm the only one on the job. I tell them to get out of the way. LoL!

It's Fibafuse, not mesh tape. We've been using Fibafuse for over 9 years and it's better in every sense than paper tape. We only use paper tape in our corners. Educated yourself on a subject before leaving ignorant comments.

No. It's an instructional video to help people. Not a speed race.