Good video and technique/advice. We need to repair a very small crack in our similar rain barrel. I think the most important comment you made was (paraphrased) " when the barrel is full of water it will expand"... same is true with temperature changes - expansion and contraction. I think that your repairs, which appear to be very good, will eventually start to leak again... hopefully, if it does leak again, it will be later rather than sooner.
The little staples in the gun are not for smoothing out the plastic it's for holding the plastic together you push them in across the cracks while hot the let off trigger let cool then pull gun off.
wow you would recommend gorilla over flex seal? that's surprising since flex seal is the 'premium' popular product. i was trying to decide between the two.
@@MakeItorBreakItNow yeah, I doubt my new boots will last 10 years! But I still have the old ones to fall back on LOL They are not quite as old as the watering can was.
Good video and technique/advice.
We need to repair a very small crack in our similar rain barrel. I think the most important comment you made was (paraphrased) " when the barrel is full of water it will expand"... same is true with temperature changes - expansion and contraction. I think that your repairs, which appear to be very good, will eventually start to leak again... hopefully, if it does leak again, it will be later rather than sooner.
So far so good, I laid in a lot of plastic and the mesh also seems to have made a difference this time...
The little staples in the gun are not for smoothing out the plastic it's for holding the plastic together you push them in across the cracks while hot the let off trigger let cool then pull gun off.
Thanks Billy, that's exactly what I strived to do here...
wow you would recommend gorilla over flex seal? that's surprising since flex seal is the 'premium' popular product. i was trying to decide between the two.
Gorilla is way better than any Flex product I've used to date. Flex just has good marketing, for me their products are not reliable.
You mean I could have saved my 40 year old watering can?😎 Nah, after all those years it just got more and more brittle, but 40 years is not so shabby.
I'd be happy with anything that lasts 40 years... Rarely happens now adays...
@@MakeItorBreakItNow yeah, I doubt my new boots will last 10 years! But I still have the old ones to fall back on LOL They are not quite as old as the watering can was.
@kleineroteHex same way of thinking as I 😁