Koolglide! My favorite tool

[kingsolver72]

This has to be my new favorite tool as a carpet layer.
I learned about these in 2006 and went to a seminar and was certified to use one. Then I found out how much it and the seam tape cost. I couldn't justify the expense. Fast forward to a week ago..a place that I sub for has one and asked me if I would like to use it. One word...BET!
Now the Koolglide is a seam iron. Not just a seam iron. It sits on top of the carpet,sends a radio frequency to the tape underneath the carpet. No smoke or odor from this thing. It doesn't get hot. My seams are nicer because the tape is so much thinner. There is absolutely no tape telegraphing. Man I love this thing.
Ok, let's hear about what technology has done for your life to make your job easier/better.

[ERASER5]

Well, I read about a tool called a Koolglide on the internet. Does that count?

[Woogeroo]

About the only thing technology does for me is help me read about old trucks... and keep in touch with a few folks.



-W

[68C15]

Enhanced On Board Diagnostics II

we're rockin' right along now. Combined with mode $06 and $09 there is a bunch of info for us now.

[Palf70Step]

I feel since I never heard of it till now.

[kingsolver72]

Hey Bill, there are lots of carpet installers that have never heard of it. I wouldn't expect that most folks not in the biz know about it.

[special-K]

I thought it was a new Harley model.

[Sillyoldman]

I'm not a carpet installer it sounds helpful!

[kingsolver72]

Originally Posted by special-K

I thought it was a new Harley model.

Yep, ultraglide, streetglide, roadglide and Koolglide.

Originally Posted by Sillyoldman

I'm not a carpet installer it sounds helpful!

It definitely is. I'm wondering if lockdoc has used one?

[Gumby]

sounds like a good idea, I can member working for a guy and the stinkin hot iron, constantly burin him self and fighting to get it right with a big hot hunk of metal ya gotta take in and out of the seam.

[LONGHAIR]

Originally Posted by kingsolver72

Yep, ultraglide, streetglide, roadglide and Koolglide.

It definitely is. I'm wondering if lockdoc has used one?

I'm a bit more old-school in my HD lingo.....Duo-Glide, Electraglide, Superglide, Wide Glide, etc.

[Gumby]

Originally Posted by LONGHAIR

I'm a bit more old-school in my HD lingo.....Duo-Glide, Electraglide, Superglide, Wide Glide, etc.

and most of those are to describe the riders body style

[kingsolver72]

Originally Posted by LONGHAIR

I'm a bit more old-school in my HD lingo.....Duo-Glide, Electraglide, Superglide, Wide Glide, etc.

Yeah I ain't been around bikes for a while. I forgot more than I remember.
Not sure what I just said but it sounded good to me when I thought it.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by LONGHAIR

I'm a bit more old-school in my HD lingo.....Duo-Glide, Electraglide, Superglide, Wide Glide, etc.

And the first...Hydra-Glide,right?

[special-K]

Originally Posted by kingsolver72

Yeah I ain't been around bikes for a while. I forgot more than I remember.
Not sure what I just said but it sounded good to me when I thought it.

You just listed the ones others less familiar (or younger) would recognize...right?

There are some models everyone knows and they call everything else that name. Like Road King,I had a guy walk up and tell me all about he had a Road King just like my "every piece torn off and changed yet still looks all Harley" Heritage Softail that looks nothing like a Road King. Then again,the color changed on his bike three times before he stopped telling his story

[LockDoc]

Originally Posted by kingsolver72

It definitely is. I'm wondering if lockdoc has used one?

I'd never heard of one either. Of course I did most of my carpet work when Shag was popular..... I haven't installed much since I retired from the floor and wall covering business, except for myself and family.... Old school works good enough for that. The only carpet I had much trouble with was Berber but I never ran my iron on the hottest setting either.

LockDoc

[kingsolver72]

Originally Posted by special-K

You just listed the ones others less familiar (or younger) would recognize...right?

There are some models everyone knows and they call everything else that name. Like Road King,I had a guy walk up and tell me all about he had a Road King just like my "every piece torn off and changed yet still looks all Harley" Heritage Softail that looks nothing like a Road King. Then again,the color changed on his bike three times before he stopped telling his story

Yeah I don't want to be that guy, I have enough annoying qualities that I don't want to be the one upper,can't keep my story straight.
I know it sounds cliche but there does to me seem like a difference with Harley davidson. I'm not a brand snob. I don't dislike other motorcycles. I'll ride with or wave at anyone. I just don't hang out with a guy that would wheelie up your back because he thinks he's on a rocket.

Originally Posted by LockDoc

I'd never heard of one either. Of course I did most of my carpet work when Shag was popular..... I haven't installed much
since I retired from the floor and wall covering business, except for myself and family.... Old school works good enough for that. The only carpet I had much
trouble with was Berber but I never ran my iron on the hottest setting either.
LockDoc

I know what you mean. I'm not in a hurry, I keep my iron on low. I haven't retired the old iron yet but I don't miss using it.
But this Koolglide doesnt get hot. They call it inductive heat. This thing has a microprocessor. It uses radio frequency energy. The tape has foil on it. It uses a concept from the 1800s called eletromagnetism. I guess they've had and use this technology for a while in large scale industrial equipment. They since have figured out how to apply this inductive heating process in smaller equipment.
I really don't know how it all works but I like it a lot.