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Snapped a trowel handle in Phoenix last August
Was working a retaining wall job off Baseline Road. Hit a pocket of really hard decomposed granite. Trowel handle just cracked right in my hand. Had to drive all the way to the HD on 75th Ave for a new one. Any of you guys had handles go bad from heat exposure?
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samwalker23d ago
Man, I don't know if I'd blame the heat that quick. Phoenix is brutal but trowel handles are usually pretty tough. I've left my tools in my truck bed all summer and never had one crack like that. Sounds more like you hit a bad batch or maybe it was already weak from the factory. Hard DG will put a lot of stress on anything, could be the handle just gave up from the work, not the sun. You sure it wasn't just an old trowel that was ready to go anyway?
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kim.xena23d ago
Oh come on, you know Phoenix heat is no joke. That plastic handle was sitting in direct sun for hours, baked to over 150 degrees in the truck bed, then hit with hard DG work that flexed it just enough to snap. A defective handle might crack in storage or light use, but this was clearly a heat-weakened one giving out under real pressure.
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valw3623d ago
Mine did the same thing last July and it wasn't even that old, you know?
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