Masonry Magazine September 2008 Page. 22
TOOLS
Kraft Tool - Wire Brush with Metal Scraper
cleaning the joint after removing the mortar. "You're always going to leave some debris in the joint," Cook says. "The brushes get the dust particles and anything else you left behind out of the joint so the new mortar will stay."
Replacing and finishing mortar
CONCORD, MASS.-BASED Quikpoint Inc. offers a tool for quickly putting mortar in the joints. The Quikpoint Mortar Gun attaches to a drill, which turns an auger that moves mortar from a hopper through a steel nozzle into the masonry joints.
Kraft Tool - Hawk Trowel
"This fills the joint completely in one application with no air pockets. This thing flies like mad," says Al Aronie, company president and Quikpoint inventor. "It's much faster, especially for someone who's not real experienced. We've had people say, "We started a business because of this"
Quikpoint-Mortar Gun
After inventing the Quikpoint about 20 years ago, Aronie refined it over the years with several design changes. He made the last major change three years ago, increasing the hopper size to hold three, rather than two, quarts of mortar.
Kraft Toc
Caulking Trov
"It's a real delicate balance between what people can hold and how much they want to hold," Aronie says. Aronie recommends using lime in the mortar or Gibco's MRF additive, a lime substitute that retains water, to allow the mortar to be squeezed through the nozzle. The tool cleans up by running water through it. "It's a super easy item to clean up," Aronie says. "It has to be simple to be used with mortar."
Kraft Tool has a full line of hawks and tuckpointing trowels, or caulking trowels, for putting fresh mortar in the joints. "The caulking trowels are one piece forged carbon steel and come in various widths from 3/16 inch to one inch," Cook says. "The trowels are flexible to allow you to work mortar into the joint."
For finishing the mortar joints, the company offers slickers and jointers.
MASONRY WALLSCRAPER
Removes excess mortar from block.
• Removes fins and burs from concrete wallform joints.
Less chance for injury while laborers work on scaffold.
• The time saved climbing up and down scaffolding will pay for itself on the first day
Also available: 6' extension handle that extends wall scraper to 11'.
WALLSCRAPER PAYS...
CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
"DOES NOT PAY"
Constructed from light weight durable aluminum
Head swivels for easy use in difficult areas and corners
Durable 6-foot powder-coated handle
Uses a standard 7" rubbing disc as an abrasive pad
QUICK & EASY DISC CHANGES!
MASONRY JOINT CLEANER
16" halfround slotted carbide, " cutting slot.
One side for verticallone side for horizontal.
V-joint
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INDUSTRIES
Kraft Tool Jointer
"There are several ways to finish a joint, depending on the building's architectural style, Cook says. "We have slickers for flat, concave, convex and grapevine joints." IMAS
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