Trouble with drill when mixing thinset - Tile Advice

[One Day]

After mixing by hand, then SDS drill with a whisk, then Rubi mixers (bad idea!) I got this a couple of years ago. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B019PYQ...t=&hvlocphy=9046582&hvtargid=pla-427842354199
It just makes life WAY easier.

 

[Brian the Tile]

Shops are close so for now it's by hand...already a moster blister in my hand. Brian and plan I'll be terrified to shake hands with you!

Lol

 

[Qwerty]

But you have forearms like a bison's neck

Tennis elbow started a couple of years ago!

 

[Blunt Tool]

These new lightweight adhesives 15kgs and 8 litres of water, mechanical mix is required. Adhesive manufacturers nowadays would say guarantee out of window if they found you hand mixed IMO

 

[Qwerty]

These new lightweight adhesives 15kgs and 8 litres of water, mechanical mix is required. Adhesive manufacturers nowadays would say guarantee out of window if they found you hand mixed IMO

Lucky I don't get on with them!

 

[Blunt Tool]

Lucky I don't get on with them!

Bet Isomat states mechanical mix? Yes?

 

[Qwerty]

Bet Isomat states mechanical mix? Yes?

No idea. Haven't used it on a job yet, only at Isomat head office

 

[Old Mod]

After mixing by hand, then SDS drill with a whisk, then Rubi mixers (bad idea!) I got this a couple of years ago.
It just makes life WAY easier.

Haha Mark, from the sublime to the ridiculous, you never disappoint mate.

Oh on the subject of Rubi mixers, had mine since 2005-6 never even had to replace the brushes!
Well....... that was up until I just said it of course, which is worrying cos I’ve a whole pallet of slc to go down next week.

 

[One Day]

Haha Mark, from the sublime to the ridiculous, you never disappoint mate.

Oh on the subject of Rubi mixers, had mine since 2005-6 never even had to replace the brushes!
Well....... that was up until I just said it of course, which is worrying cos I’ve a whole pallet of slc to go down next week.

My first Rubi Duplex mixer from about 9 years ago was brilliant. Lasted about 4 years. The new ones are complete rubbish though. I think the insides are made of pasta or something?!

 

[Old Mod]

My first Rubi Duplex mixer from about 9 years ago was brilliant. Lasted about 4 years. The new ones are complete rubbish though. I think the insides are made of pasta or something?!

You need to keep feeding the cockroaches inside Mark, or they give up and die.

 

[Blunt Tool]

I was mixing adhesive with my Rubi mixer on Friday just right after taking 12 boxes of 600x300 porcelain tiles up 2 flights of stairs. The sweat from my brow dropped into the top cooling vents into the motor and black smoke started pluming from it. So come on Rubi there are some tilers who break a sweat now and then and need a mixer designed for them!

 

[WetSaw]

Rubi are Spanish, you need to start working like a Spaniard to get the best out of their tools. Your mistake was not stopping for a coffee and *** between each box of tiles. If you'd have done that you wouldn't have broken into a sweat and it wouldn't have dripped into the mixer!

 

[Andy Allen]

I mix all adhesive by hand, SLC by mixer & grout by cordless with mixer

Even if your doing a 50 m floor??..

 

[Qwerty]

Even if your doing a 50 m floor??..

I don't do many large floors. Mainly bathrooms & Wet Rooms. Those larger floors I have done I mix smaller amounts of rapid or semi rapid.