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Hey, what's up everybody?
Gene Fetty back at you with
another episode of our all
access podcast.
This is number twenty nine.
Can't believe we're knocking
on thirty already.
These weeks seem to be just
absolutely ticking by.
I forgot to put my phone on.
Do not disturb.
Let's try that again.
Anyways, welcome back.
I thought that I was tired
last week when we did the
little behind the scenes.
from getting set up.
Now I'm officially exhausted.
This was an incredible week of training.
But man, it's a it's an ass kicker.
That's for sure.
So I'm gonna go through sort
of how the class went,
some of the highlights,
some of the stuff that
really surprised us.
And before we finish that,
we're going to talk about
this big mamba jamba,
the JVF monster ginormous
glue gun uh that I have to
say jonathan was right
about uh that thing is
insane anyways uh so before
we dive in uh man I just
don't understand people I
think last week talked
about we're losing dylan uh
and we are,
this is her last official week.
Uh, we're hoping to shoot a podcast, uh,
number one final show with Dylan, uh,
with, with an outro.
Uh, I told her I was going to make her cry,
uh, on this show,
but I don't want to do that.
Uh, I like her too much.
Anyways,
new Dylan was supposed to start tomorrow.
This is Sunday, whatever this is,
the thirtieth and a new Dylan.
who shall remain nameless on
this episode was supposed
to start tomorrow.
So I sent him a text on
Friday because when we left it,
like offer was accepted,
everything was good.
See you on the first said, Hey,
we're really excited for
you to start on Monday.
And then I get a reply back.
Me and John were actually
sitting at the cigar bar.
He wasn't having a cigar,
but I was just relaxing
unwinding from the long week of training.
And, uh, new Dylan texts back like, Hey,
uh, did,
did you mean that send that to me?
Like, uh, yeah.
Are you not planning on starting Monday?
Nothing goes down.
Wait a little bit longer.
I'm like, you know what?
Screw it.
That's a weird response.
I'm going to give them a call call.
rings a few times.
I'm certain I got the send
the voicemail button.
Hey, new Dylan.
Uh, what's up, man?
Like your, uh,
reply back's a little cryptic.
What's going on?
Give me a call or shoot me a text.
Ghost town.
Nothing.
So, right.
Start figuring the inevitable, I suppose.
And, uh,
Saturday morning or yeah.
So yeah, Saturday, that was Friday evening,
Saturday morning,
still chewing on me that like,
can't even get a response
back from this dude.
And, uh, I'm like, all right,
I'm going to shoot him a text and be like,
Hey, did I miss it?
Clearly,
clearly I missed something from you.
Did I miss the communication?
Something send it.
Guess what?
Ghost town, nothing.
I don't know, half an hour, hour later, uh,
he calls and, uh, he's like, Hey, I, uh,
you know, I sent you a voicemail,
get some stuff going on and I just can't,
uh, I just,
I just can't make this move right now.
And it's, it's family related.
And honestly,
if it's family related and
there's some huge family issue,
take care of family first, for sure.
But all I got was like,
I left you a voicemail.
Now I'm pretty anal about my voicemails,
right?
I've been running my business for years.
I don't generally miss much there.
Um,
we have a CRM system that logs all
inbound calls and, and all voicemails,
right.
That nobody deletes.
Uh, and right.
We still have our company
cell phone mainline phone, uh,
that also has voicemail and
there are no voicemails anywhere.
I just,
and listen,
like if the dude is having issues,
go take care of your issues.
I get it.
Uh,
but have decency to make sure somebody
gets your message.
If you're leaving a message,
like I just can't,
I just don't understand
people today that won't, uh,
like just step up and take
some responsibility or
shoot me a text or shoot me
an email or message me on indeed or,
call Shannon and leave a
message with Shannon or any
of the social channels on
any of the businesses,
like really easy dude to get ahold of.
I don't think I'm an intimidating guy,
but like, you know,
to find out less than hours
from when you're supposed
to start your new gig, then you're out.
I just, man, like,
I just can't wrap my head
around what kind of person would do like,
it just,
Man, end of rant.
But seriously, what the truck?
You know,
like I'm trying to keep this PG-thirteen,
but like, man, it burns,
just burns my ass.
So now I'm going to be without a Dylan,
without a new Dylan and
back to the drawing board.
I guess the good news is we
did have a bunch of applicants, but man,
like I sort of put that to
bed and thought we were there.
Anyways, maybe.
Maybe we can talk Dylan into staying.
Dylan, if you're watching this, just stay.
It's good here.
We had fun.
It's a good place to work.
Or maybe you guys can reach
out to Dylan or DM the social.
She watches them all week.
Tell her not to leave.
Tell her to stay.
Dylan, we don't want you to go.
Anyways, just playing.
She's got a new gig.
It's going to be a great gig for her.
I really am super excited
for her to get that.
Anyways, that's it.
That's enough.
I just wanted to get that off my chest.
And and we'll see who we
find moving forward what
media looks like here moving forward.
But, you know, it's not the first.
Not the first.
little bump in the road
we've had to get over in the last year.
And certainly probably not
going to be the last,
but here with my water here
is to figuring it out and DBAP, right?
We're just going to push
through and power through.
All right.
So how did the class go?
So you guys have listened to us talk.
We've had a few episodes with Sean.
I've talked about it.
We've done videos.
that first level up slash
smash school that we did
two years ago was incredible.
And it was truly
life-changing for the students,
life-changing for us to see
people grow and learn.
Right.
But admittedly, the last time it was,
it was a smaller class.
We weren't quite sure how to market it.
We had not done a training
before is what it is.
This class was,
We were pretty good size class.
And the experience level,
we experienced this the last time.
We experienced it again this time.
And it's just so cool to see.
So this time,
we had a couple of students who are
newbies, but like,
pretty new sub two years or
two years ish experience.
And neither of them are pushing full time.
Right?
They've got other other jobs,
other services related to PDR,
and they're not pushing
full time on up to
we had a veteran guy here with, uh,
twenty-three years of experience.
That's where I'm at.
I'm at twenty-three years.
Twenty-three years of experience.
And, and when we see that,
or at least when I see that,
I get a little nervous.
Like one, can these new guys keep up?
Two,
am I going to be able to teach an equal
Right.
At least experience wise,
eight or time in the business wise,
am I going to be able to
deliver enough value or are
we going to be able to
deliver enough value to the
veteran guy that he feels
like this class is worth it?
So we dove in,
we spent some time in the
classroom on Monday,
sort of going over what the
class was going to be like,
getting to know everybody.
It was also cool that I did not know,
other than having met them at MTE,
I didn't personally know, I mean,
met them at MTE this year.
I didn't personally know any
of the students.
So these are all new to me,
new to us people,
which is really cool to be
able to bring in people
you're not familiar with
and do a training.
So we jumped in,
talked about some of their weaknesses,
some of their strengths,
what they're looking to do
through the week.
And really the whole class,
it sort of surprised me was, well,
I guess it didn't surprise me.
The number one thing
everybody wanted to work on was deep,
sharp damage, right?
And I guess it's sort of a
day-to-day you've got to do,
but at the end of the day,
it is the most technically
difficult damage to do.
be it glue pulling or pushing either way,
right?
It's difficult damage.
So, in fact,
I think you can probably head
over to the auto appearance page.
The social is falling on the
bottom at auto appearance
institute across the board.
And you can probably see
some of the damage that was
put in that these guys got to work on.
part of the beauty of the class is after,
after we got through that and we got, uh,
went out and,
and we got a little long winded.
I don't know if you know this about me,
but I can talk a lot.
Uh, I think John was like elbowing me.
Hey dude, come on, we gotta go.
But I wanted to get my information out.
Uh, anyways, we went out to the shop and,
uh,
I talked long enough that I
didn't have to do the nasty
rail dent demo,
sort of threw John under
the bus and he got to do
the first glue pool demo on the rail.
I've walked through being
able to use technology,
old school shout out to
Keith and Shane from
attending some of the
advanced skills seminars.
Um, also that's coming up in October.
Check that out.
Uh, but anyways,
seeing how they use the
cameras and the TVs, uh,
and getting that really
over the shoulder technician shot, uh,
we were able to really dive
in and show the nuances that,
that in this case,
John was doing on like
exactly where he's knocking
down exactly how he's
pulling up exactly how far
he's pulling tab placement, um,
we were able to show exactly
what was going on.
Now, when we went out,
the good news is everybody,
I guess we knew the new guys would be,
but everybody was afraid or scared by the,
the dense that we'd put in the rails, uh,
to, to teach with, uh, essentially,
right.
If you want to picture it, uh,
our four tip cherry cap
knockdown and probably like
four good strikes these
dents were on the kia uh
every bit of four inches
tall I think is right where
we we probably said so four
inches deep all gluple with
that gnarly little cherry
cap pit down in the bottom
like it was ugly ugly stuff um
couple of the guys that one
fact the one guy he was
like I just stay away from
rails I'm not comfortable
with them and we threw him
right to the wolves uh
another guy was like I
don't know if I can do this
I don't know I've never
gone anything after
anything this sharp I would
pass on this all day by the
end of the week everybody
was able to repair those dents to a
really high level.
Like some of the guys were
glassing them out.
I mean, like glass, glass, full retail,
full body shop.
Perfect.
Everybody, everybody,
even one of the new guys, uh,
was struggling like on day one.
And honestly, I thought he was gonna,
I thought it was going to tap out.
Thought he was going to be like, man,
I'm in it for my head.
Even in talking to him while
we're sort of coaching him along,
he's like,
I don't know if I'm ready for this.
I may have been off more than I can chew.
Um,
And, uh, which I felt, uh,
I stepped up to the challenge.
Like I love figuring out how
to help someone figure out
what is going on.
Um, we'll work through,
we worked through with him.
His last dent of the week, uh,
was a pretty sharp, uh,
maybe not quite as deep as that, uh,
our Ford shot,
but a deep or a sharp shot
through the body line on a rail.
And he got that to,
I'm going to call it every
bit of ninety to ninety five percent.
And this was a dude who
admittedly at the beginning
of the week was like,
I stay away from rails.
I don't even do these.
Incredible to watch that growth.
From there,
we moved into pushing some
really sharp dents.
So even sharper than that.
Those rail dents took a nice
phenolic tip and like just
really tapping and wrapping to get a deep,
like right borderline stretch.
If you're an old school PDR college guy,
tech, PDR college tech,
and you got the depth gauge,
we're talking straight steel,
regular steel, middle of a flat panel,
one point five five millimeters,
one point six millimeters.
a right teetering on that
stretched face or stretched metal.
Like if you make bad pushes,
you're in trouble.
If you make good pushes,
you might get lucky and get
this thing flat.
Um, we did both get to demo this.
Uh, it's also our favorite dent.
Uh,
nobody was quite as confident this time
in class, but at the original class,
this is the dent that we
demoed and really,
if you follow perfect
procedures and don't miss, right?
If you hit the center of the
dent and just use good metal theory,
good PDR theory, it's a hard,
it's a difficult dent to fix,
but it's not hard dent to fix.
Like follow the steps and it fixes good,
not easy, but good.
Last class, all the students were like,
okay,
got this they watched the
demo we walked through the
theory they're like how
hard can this be and then
for like the next three
hours they all proceeded to
eat crow and and could not
no matter how hard they
tried get those dents up uh
on the first try right or
on the first dent we ended
up a few dents in before
they were putting out uh
good good high quality stuff this one
Nobody was feeling cocky
coming into these dents.
And maybe they heard that
story and we scared them a little bit.
But they came in and tackled them.
And it was really cool to
watch these light bulbs go
off for the veteran guys.
So we had twenty three years,
I think about ten or twelve
years and eight years would
be our veterans in the class.
And as we started,
or as they started moving
the dent and applying what we taught,
it was so cool to watch
them learn how to fix
damage that in their career,
either they've struggled
with or passed on or whatever, like,
I can't remember which student it was,
but to fix that dent,
you're essentially creating a volcano.
knock the rim of the volcano down,
recreate a volcano, wrench and repeat,
rinse and repeat.
And, and the one guy was like, man,
I've been trying to avoid
volcanoes my whole life.
And he's like, these dents kill me.
I don't know what to do.
And once he learned again,
once he learned the right way, uh,
it was off to the races.
Uh,
and he was taking these dents and doing
really, really high quality repairs, uh,
right away.
Like day,
day one was the second day of training,
but day one of,
of pushing this kind of dense, incredible,
uh, to watch.
Um, from there we wanted to take creases.
And again,
it was the same thing like
creases that are deep
enough to be scary creases
that are deep enough that
they're denting the paint from the impact,
uh,
Watching John teach that and
show the step-by-step and
just exactly his process of
how he goes and works it
clean and how he moves the
metal and how like using
the stinger paddle
technique or a stinger
knockdown technique,
I was able to work that down and clean.
And then to watch students
and especially the newer
guys go after their creases
and work so incredibly clean
Just blew my mind.
Even Mac, my son,
who assisted all week in the class,
he was like, you know,
when the guys were there,
we had some extra panels
set up with our demo panel.
He's like, dad,
you got to give me one of those creases.
I got to try it.
And he came in and man,
that little shit who is
just a couple of months
into his PDR journey is
fixing a crease that.
I don't know that I could
have fixed it at eighteen
months or two years into my journey.
And he stepped up and he got
that thing flat and it just
needs detailed out just a
tiny bit like unbelievable
to watch these light bulb moments go off.
Then we got into playing with the
Shrinky boxes, working out some deep,
deep stretched metal.
I don't know that any of the
guys in the class had
gotten to play with the boxes before.
I think it's version two power PDR box.
And then of course,
the brand new SB four from
Keith from Black Plague.
In fact,
I know a couple of the guys at
class hopped on the website
and ordered them up to to
add them to their add them to their
arsenal of tools.
Um, again,
really cool to watch how
learning how to use new tools, right?
Just truly levels up what
those guys got going on.
Uh, it's, it was such a fulfilling week,
moved into some body lines
and with body lines,
we started introducing some
lateral tension.
Uh, and I got to get up,
I get to get back up on my soapbox, uh,
because so many, uh,
videos show the lateral
tension I call it the
social media pop right put
your straps on put your tab
straps on whatever your
whatever your tool is put
your two by fours on and
everybody's pulling and
pulling and pulling until
pops the den out that's not
how it works it's not how
it's supposed to work at
least right should be
moving metal in multiple
directions uh they got to see
the right way to use lateral tension,
how it really truly assists
in moving metal,
get to learn some metal flow.
And then from there,
we started moving into some
big smash work and showing
just how crucial being able
to do accurate
controlled large damage glue pulling is.
It's very cool to see when
you break it down and slow down.
And most of my, you know,
or I guess a lot of my glue
pull trainings are in body shops.
We're just trying to go and
get to rough in.
It was fun here to get to
take it to a little higher
level and really get
nuanced and get down in the weeds.
It was more like my advanced
glue pull training.
that I get to do this week
instead of beginner large glue pull,
glue pull training.
And I'd love nerding out on that stuff.
That's where we got to put
the JVF Pro handgun into play.
Again,
little review coming up at the end
here on that.
And then like on the repair
side of things,
We get to move into as we're
sort of as we're finishing
the week with the guys,
we get to move into their
own smash repair.
So we have a little bit of fun with it.
It's sort of like tell a
story and you know,
how did this damage happen
and then you damage the door.
So we had a shopping cart story,
a drunken stupor story, a moose story,
like the guys had had a lot
of fun creating damage.
And then you're not creating
the damage necessarily that
you're going to fix.
We do a blind drawing of the
panels that are damaged.
And so you may or may not
get the damage that you're going to get.
So do you hit it hard to
challenge somebody?
Do you back off a little bit
in case you get it?
You want to be the hero?
Nobody held back, by the way.
But it was cool to watch
these guys make the damage.
And then as we moved into Smash,
and not everybody decided to do Smash.
A couple of the newer guys were like, hey,
I'm not quite ready for this.
I don't even know how to do that.
Let's work on some more technical stuff,
which we did,
which was part of the beauty
of the small class.
We're able to tailor the
training to exactly you.
But the Smash guys,
they all got challenged to
take their time on it.
Right.
Even,
even going back to advanced skills
seminar, man,
I can't remember if it was like,
sixteen or seventeen.
The year I'm talking about
for you veteran guys is they had the like,
tan metallic Explorer and I
think it was a Chevy Cruze
and they cut the wheel and
the bumper creased the back
door on the right rear door,
if memory serves,
the right rear door on the Explorer.
like a double crease in
smash the bed line bed or
body line and everything
like that bryce is fixing
it right so that part of
the seminar bryce does his
big moves gets everything
started and then gets it up
to call it the boring part
right the the part that
everybody says they want to
see but when you're
watching somebody like just
picking out little lows
It's not very exciting to do,
but it's what it takes to
make that damage right.
But anyways,
it gets to that point and then
we break and then we go inside.
And I think that Keith and
Paul Corden were doing a sales training.
And at that point in my career,
I felt like I probably
could have given the sales
training or at least, you know,
ninety percent of what
those guys could do on
sales because I was a student of theirs.
I'd already sort of studied that.
I'm like, man, you know what?
I want to go on much Bryce work.
Right, what's,
like Bryce does these amazing repairs,
even back then, amazing repairs,
next level,
bigger stuff than I would take on.
Like, what's the answer?
What's his secret sauce?
So I went out and he was
working on the side of the,
it was the big white tent
at the back of the Carib maybe.
Anyways, and I get back and I'm like,
all right, dude,
it was me and I think maybe
Troy Brewer sat down and we're like,
all right, Bryce,
What's the secret sauce that
we're going to watch you do this?
And he's like, boys,
there's no secret sauce.
You just got to sit here and
push and push and push and
push and push and finish.
Like you're just working
this out to the highest level possible.
And there's not really a secret.
Kind of like in the middle of the repair,
my repairs and probably your repairs.
look just like Bryce's repairs.
Bryce is just gifted to
another level with patience
and drive and determination
and attention to detail.
And he camps out and makes it work, right?
Makes the panel do what the
panel needs to do and fixes
the lows and fixes the texture.
We got to experience that
here with the students, right?
They all
said, one,
I would maybe never try to
tackle this damage before this.
So they wouldn't even give
themselves the opportunity
and they would tap out.
Two,
showing them how to use good large
glue pull repair techniques, right?
We're able to take these big
smashes from like super
scary and maybe not doable to like, oh,
there's not really anything
on this door I can't fix.
Let's get after it.
right,
by following the right repair path
and everything like that.
As they're moving through, they all agreed,
all the smash guys, they were like,
I never give myself enough
time to make this stuff right.
I never give myself enough
time or permission to sit here and try,
right?
A lot of them were like, man,
I would tap out already.
I would tap out already.
But we left them, you know,
the better part of Friday
and half of Thursday.
So let's call it ten hours
to spend on these doors of
real push time with us
being there to coach and
walking through and showing
what they're doing.
They all, like the big giant light bulb,
was they all figured it out.
And I can remember going
back to when I was learning
how to do Smash.
Before there was
Dentrainer or AAI or real world PDR.
Hell,
hardly even like I started doing
smash before YouTube was even a thing.
You know,
maybe you would see some sort of
video on dording.com.
Like a Sal Contreras was
doing some bigger stuff or
Marty Runick was trying to
tell us to use lateral tension.
And nobody would.
Like we just figured it out
over years and years and
years of chasing the craft.
It was really cool to watch
these guys come together
collectively as a group
outside of their comfort
zone and sit down and put the time in.
And I know, right,
and sort of like giving
them a little exit interview,
like wrap up at the end of the week.
I know,
we know that they all were able to
push themselves beyond what
they thought they were
capable of because they had
good instruction.
Pat myself on the back.
Just kidding.
But because they had coaching,
they had somebody there or
people there to help push them.
And we gave them the
permission to camp and figure it out.
And honestly,
you're here to learn what the
hell else you're going to do.
You're not going to quit.
You've got to go after this
stuff and get it.
And then, of course,
some of my favorite stuff to talk about,
the guys who were,
we had a mix of wholesale, in-house techs,
business owner, like, again,
a great spread across the
room or throughout the room.
We got to sit down and talk
sales and marketing, which is like that.
That excites me as much as
anything in business is like,
how do we market it?
How do we get people in the
door and how do we sell it?
I think it was supposed to
go for two hours and we
ended up going for four.
And we were all like the small room,
the great conversation, the questions.
And it was just a freaking blast,
like such a good week.
Several of the guys in the
class sort of when we were
wrapping up talked about
just how much this class
feels like a fast forward to them.
Or even like the the twenty
three year old guy or
twenty three year guy.
He was like,
I wish this stuff was here ten years ago.
Imagine where I could be if
I would have done this ten years ago.
And I had the same really the same.
reactions.
When PDR college started
coming out when advanced
skills started coming out,
when I signed up and coached with Keith,
right,
it was it was a it was a purchase
to fast forward, my knowledge,
my skill set and my career.
I mean, just unbelievable.
What an unbelievably humbling week,
fulfilling week, it was an ass kicker,
like it took it out of us.
We would me and john,
he crashed at my place.
But
we would go back home and like eat dinner.
And then we were like, Oh, we're done.
You were just had to be sort
of in veg out mode to to
even get through.
Like, we left it all on the table.
And the guys picked it all up.
The students were all over it.
If any of the students are
listening to this,
drop a comment somewhere.
Uh, and we're so grateful for you guys.
And it really truly was
amazing to watch all of the
growth that happened here,
right here in the shop,
in this room and right there on that,
in that shop.
Uh, man, stay hungry guys.
Uh, keep an eye out.
We've got a lot of good footage.
Uh,
we'll be sharing some of the stuff that
went on there.
Um,
If this sounds like
something that you might be interested in,
I've got to update the page,
but we will have a waiting
list for the next the next training.
Looks like it's going to be
in just under a year is
when we will do it.
But keep an eye out the level of training.
Man, just a proven concept that.
Just unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Loved it.
Thank you guys so much for
coming and allowing us to
drop a little bit of
knowledge on you and you
guys for putting in the
work to make it happen.
So, so freaking cool.
Anyways, man, the class was awesome.
Like I'm pretty stoked.
We were, it was a celebratory weekend.
It was great.
So last week,
I think in the podcast,
I showed you the K-Power Junior.
I think that's what it's called.
Awesome little tool and the
remachined feet for those.
One, I like them way better.
They fit into things.
They even fit into,
we did some lateral tension.
with the black plague edge
straps grabbing onto the
edge of the panel on both sides, uh,
and that adapter.
And then there's a tension K
power adapter.
And instead of trying to finagle something,
there's new feet slide
right into there and lock in.
It just helps expand the
entire Kiko system.
I love everything in Kiko or
so much of everything in
Kiko is a system based, uh,
tool set,
you're able to come in and put it
all together.
Hats off, Team Kiko.
You guys continue to kill it
with innovation and great tools.
Speaking of great tools,
the other tool was the new
Bad Mamby Jamby Pro Glue
Gun from Jonathan at JVF
Tools straight out of Belgium.
This was not a gift.
bought this one hundred
percent with my own dollars
uh especially for uh
showing off in class this
thing wow so I think I
think jonathan said five
sticks you have to cut the
sticks up and it's
definitely going to be time
to switch to pellet glue
for me uh we got to cut the
sticks up I think we ended
up I thought comfortably getting uh
Six sticks of glue in here.
If you look at the side,
it's got a max fill level.
Well, in my infinite wisdom,
I was picturing that a
little bit higher up here
and overfilled it a little bit.
I was going to open it up and show you,
but I actually have it
glued shut because I put
too much glue in.
So when you go right when
the gun sits this way,
you can't lay it down on its sides.
You got to make sure that
your glue is low enough
that it doesn't catch your rings up here.
The directions clearly say it.
This is not a flaw with a gun.
This is just me being a guy
and not paying enough
attention to the rules.
Anyways.
This gun, Jonathan told me, he goes,
listen, I'm going to warn you.
If you start using it,
there's no going back.
And I was like, all right,
Jonathan makes good stuff.
But like, how good can it be?
Because those tech,
tech eight twelves or eight tens,
the like hundred and ten
dollar plug in collision guns from Anson.
amazing guns, right?
Like they just heat up fast,
they recover fast,
they flow out a ton of glue.
I thought I had reached like
the Mecca of plugin guns with those.
And they're amazing.
And you can buy a lot of
those for one of these.
However,
The key when you're getting
into large glue pull repair
or you're teaching a class
with a bunch of technicians
doing large glue pull repair,
you need a large amount, not just of glue,
but a large amount of melted, ready to go,
properly heated glue.
This
gun because it doesn't so
your typical gun melts part
of the stick and you know
so like your like the
illimitant guns the small
trifectas the stuckies like
the the cordless call them hail guns
are only going to melt a
couple inches of glue.
And if you squeeze a couple
inches of melted glue out, right,
force your stick in,
you're going to run out of hot glue,
hot melted glue,
and then it needs to warm
up and remelt and get that
new solid glue to a liquid
state to hot enough.
collision guns right kiko
cam auto uh the cordless
from anson the plug-ins
from anson all of a larger
chamber that melt more of a
stick of glue and those are
higher wattages so they
recover faster but still if
you're going to get into
big straps the big jvf feet um even like
as we get into more complex repairs,
like we're gluing a bunch
of tabs on the panel,
even just a bunch of tabs
can burn up your melted hot glue.
This gun,
now I think with shipping was
like seven US.
This gun, because it melts,
it doesn't just heat a little bit.
This cylinder in here looks like
Call it like about the
diameter of the small energy drink cans,
like a small Red Bull can
and not quite as tall,
maybe as tall inside,
like small Red Bull size.
This is a chamber.
of melted glue.
So it will take that five or six sticks,
five and a half sticks, whatever it is,
it will take it and it
melts the entire thing.
And now instead of a small amount of glue,
you've got five or six
sticks worth of melted glue
And the trigger,
I'm not quite sure how it works.
I understand how a regular glue gun works,
but I haven't taken this apart.
It must like pressurize the pot, I suppose,
and shoots the glue out.
Man, like I couldn't run out of glue.
Even running around the room, filling up,
you know,
three or four different lateral
tension setups at the same
time and some big tabs.
Like I've never put that
much hot glue out at one time in my life.
it's a go-to like that thing.
If you're serious about large damage,
glue pull,
and you're getting into these
large straps, these large tabs,
multiple tabs, I think, right?
Like this is going to become a must have.
Uh, and really even for wattage,
like this is a, uh, a five hundred watt,
uh, plus or minus gun.
Um,
So the plug in Anson's are two fifty.
So two of those equals the
same power as this one gun.
And the two of those do not
equal anywhere near this amount of glue.
Now, I understand it's an investment,
but if you are getting
serious about big glue pull,
this is where it's at.
I can't wait to continue
doing more and more with
this to continue.
put it through the bases and
see how it lasts.
And Jonathan, I tip my hat to you,
my friend,
not that I expected anything less killer,
absolutely killer product.
Uh, you come up with here, um,
we're dealing with hot glue.
It's fricking hot, really hot.
I recommend.
as we're getting into this bigger,
scarier amounts of glue on bigger tabs.
Over the last year or so,
I've started wearing gloves.
And I was never a glove guy before that.
But when I'm getting into this,
get after it.
I've been liking, they're like a cotton,
heavy duty,
they call them barbecue gloves.
You go on Amazon,
you get a twenty four pack for, you know,
fifteen bucks or something.
And then I'm putting a
nitrile glove or a latex
glove over top of that to
keep the cotton from
getting all nasty on here.
Right.
And it's commercial.
Maybe not even commercial,
probably more like industrial gun.
This nose nozzle is hot.
Don't touch it without a glove.
The heating chamber,
the whole tube on the back
of the gun when this thing
is plugged in is hot.
You will burn yourself.
Wear gloves around this thing.
Take some extra precaution.
Certainly you can burn
yourself on any hot glue,
but like we're talking
about some gnarlier temperatures,
some higher heavy duty stuff.
On the bottom,
this little magnet is super helpful.
Run it on a toolbox, holds it up,
it keeps it steady.
If you're gonna go on something else,
it's got the regular old
kickstand on the bottom
that will kick out of your way.
I like the magnet because
sometimes when you're
trying to come in with that kickstand,
it wants to get in your way
and you gotta fold it out.
With the magnet,
if you're on a magnetic surface,
it actually holds the gun
up and it doesn't even
touch the kickstand.
It's there.
And so that's,
you can check this out at jvftools.com.
Man,
definitely a GlueRoo approved product
on this.
So, wow.
All right, guys.
That's a wrap.
This week is a wrap.
I'm tired.
Keep an eye out for this
week's episode coming up.
Dylan's farewell show.
Hopefully we can put that all together.
If you have any questions or
comments for Dylan, comment them in here,
DM us,
and we will give some shout outs to
you and to her when we record.
I think we're going to try
to record on Thursday this week.
So that'll be the second or third.
Don't remember the third.
So we're looking at
recording on the third.
So get your comments or
questions for Dylan in before the third.
And we will be sure to give
you a shout out on the show.
She still watches all the
social and everything.
She's still employed here.
So she will take notes.
Dylan, take notes.
These guys are these people are DMing you.
with Dylan content.
It's for the podcast.
Take notes.
I'll let you do an outline,
maybe even a script for this one,
but that's the last time
you get to make me do a
script and then you're out.
Uh,
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appearance Institute across the board.
Uh,
you can check out any of our virtual
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on the website.
Um,
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
Glad I still have a voice.
I hope I wasn't too rambly
for you this week,
but I was just pretty
stoked about how it all went.
So until next time,
number thirty is coming up.
See you on the show.
