DELKO taper drywall taping tool – the Delko Taping Tool and Internal Corner Attachment

I have used many drywall tools and thought this might make it a little easier and faster, but nope unless you use something to hold it when you put it on the wall it pulls it off. I even put it on its lowest tension setting and still pull off the wall. You will need to hold the start until the end then ripping it off or cutting it is a whole another problem. Your best bet is to not buy this. Much easier to just do it the old fashion way. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON THIS. You have been warned

Works great!! Makes taping so much faster. I used one years ago. I don’t know why I waited so long to get another one

This tool is simply amazing. I had been working and wrestling with tape for weeks by hand, got half way through the job and found out about this tool. Got it in the mail and was able to finish the entire rest of the job in less than 4 hours. Im using this for a commercial office and it does the job well.

As another reviewer noted, there are no instructions, but Youtube has great instructional videos. To get it going good you need to run the tape through the middle of the banjo and put your watered down mud on both sides of the tape. This enables a nice coat on the bottom and top of the tape for when you go at it with a knife to smooth the paper out. I set my guage to 4 to allow enough mud to flow out and found that to be a good number to work with. Also, it does get a little more messy than with a knife, but the job is also faster. I wore gloves to cut down on cleanup and also used a sponge with a brilo pad attached to clean the banjo afterwards. Very quick to clean.

So let me first say it does save time when used properly. By that I mean though it works well with quick set compound but you must make sure it is thoroughly mixed. It can’t be contaminated with bits of dried mud. It will stiffen up the flow and jam up the tape feed. I do recommend it but if you’re a novice or DIYer like me stick to using premixed joint compound and thin it out with a small amount of water. Mix what will fit in the hopper at a time. Be sure you thoroughly clean the unit between uses even between loads. I can’t emphasize this enough that there can’t no be any hardening compound left behind. The tape will not slide smoothly and it will poss you off.
Definitely beats mudding, applying tape and scraping off an over abundance of compound.
Also, I feel it is more oriented towards right handed people being that the strap is on the right side. Of course I’m pretty uncoordinated with my left hand.
I hope this review helps prepare you for a better user experience.

Takes a little time to perfect but works really well