Trouble with drill when mixing thinset

[Rosa]

Hi!
I was using my drill to mix the thinset and smoke started to come out of it and it smelled like burning.
Has this happened to anyone else or it is only my cheap drill not been up to the job?
Is there a way to prevent this?
Thanks for any advice

 

[WetSaw]

Use a proper mixer or a better drill. Maybe you were trying to mix too much at once and too thick for your drill to cope with.

 

[GoneGuy]

I always mix with a paddle mixer, unless it’s grout and use my cordless drill

 

[roadking]

Think you may need a new drill

 

[Simon Dale]

Used our paddle drill outside in a blizzard, smoked and stopped working. Hit it with a hammer next day and works

 

[Rosa]

Thanks guys,
Yes pdc it was thick..4 adhesive for 1 water in weigh, and I pour all together. About 8 kg..
Addey I guess you have a good one?? The cheapie ones might break also and the others are very expensive...t's only one diy job...
New drill is on the list yes!
Thanks for your answers

 

[Rosa]

Hahah no way! I will definitely try that!
Thanks Simon

 

[GoneGuy]

Thanks guys,
Yes pdc it was thick..4 adhesive for 1 water in weigh, and I pour all together. About 8 kg..
Addey I guess you have a good one?? The cheapie ones might break also and the others are very expensive...t's only one diy job...
New drill is on the list yes!
Thanks for your answers

This is the one I have, had it 2 years
Energer ENB677MIX 1220W Paddle Mixer 230-240V - https://www.NoLinksToThis/p/energer-enb677mix-1220w-paddle-mixer-230-240v/6283k

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Keep an eye on Aldi - they often have good value mixing paddles for £49.00!
CTD are doing Rubi for the same just now.

 

[Rosa]

Thanks a million guys, those are affordable

 

[Unused Account 1]

Get a mixer with decent size motor just got a 1600 erbauer from screwfix decent price last one lasted 3 years ,easily mixes a bag at a time

 

[Brian the Tile]

My mixing paddle is on the end of my arm its called a hand with a trowel in it,forearms like popeye

 

[Qwerty]

I mix all adhesive by hand, SLC by mixer & grout by cordless with mixer

 

[Dumbo]

I mix all adhesive by hand, SLC by mixer & grout by cordless with mixer

But you have forearms like a bison's neck

 

[Rosa]

Shops are close so for now it's by hand...already a moster blister in my hand. Brian and plan I'll be terrified to shake hands with you!

 

[One Day]

After mixing by hand, then SDS drill with a whisk, then Rubi mixers (bad idea!) I got this a couple of years ago. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B019PYQ...t=&hvlocphy=9046582&hvtargid=pla-427842354199
It just makes life WAY easier.

 

[Brian the Tile]

Shops are close so for now it's by hand...already a moster blister in my hand. Brian and plan I'll be terrified to shake hands with you!

Lol

 

[Qwerty]

But you have forearms like a bison's neck

Tennis elbow started a couple of years ago!

 

[Blunt Tool]

These new lightweight adhesives 15kgs and 8 litres of water, mechanical mix is required. Adhesive manufacturers nowadays would say guarantee out of window if they found you hand mixed IMO

 

[Qwerty]

These new lightweight adhesives 15kgs and 8 litres of water, mechanical mix is required. Adhesive manufacturers nowadays would say guarantee out of window if they found you hand mixed IMO

Lucky I don't get on with them!

 

[Blunt Tool]

Lucky I don't get on with them!

Bet Isomat states mechanical mix? Yes?

 

[Qwerty]

Bet Isomat states mechanical mix? Yes?

No idea. Haven't used it on a job yet, only at Isomat head office

 

[Old Mod]

After mixing by hand, then SDS drill with a whisk, then Rubi mixers (bad idea!) I got this a couple of years ago.
It just makes life WAY easier.

Haha Mark, from the sublime to the ridiculous, you never disappoint mate.

Oh on the subject of Rubi mixers, had mine since 2005-6 never even had to replace the brushes!
Well....... that was up until I just said it of course, which is worrying cos I’ve a whole pallet of slc to go down next week.

 

[One Day]

Haha Mark, from the sublime to the ridiculous, you never disappoint mate.

Oh on the subject of Rubi mixers, had mine since 2005-6 never even had to replace the brushes!
Well....... that was up until I just said it of course, which is worrying cos I’ve a whole pallet of slc to go down next week.

My first Rubi Duplex mixer from about 9 years ago was brilliant. Lasted about 4 years. The new ones are complete rubbish though. I think the insides are made of pasta or something?!

 

[Old Mod]

My first Rubi Duplex mixer from about 9 years ago was brilliant. Lasted about 4 years. The new ones are complete rubbish though. I think the insides are made of pasta or something?!

You need to keep feeding the cockroaches inside Mark, or they give up and die.

 

[Blunt Tool]

I was mixing adhesive with my Rubi mixer on Friday just right after taking 12 boxes of 600x300 porcelain tiles up 2 flights of stairs. The sweat from my brow dropped into the top cooling vents into the motor and black smoke started pluming from it. So come on Rubi there are some tilers who break a sweat now and then and need a mixer designed for them!

 

[WetSaw]

Rubi are Spanish, you need to start working like a Spaniard to get the best out of their tools. Your mistake was not stopping for a coffee and *** between each box of tiles. If you'd have done that you wouldn't have broken into a sweat and it wouldn't have dripped into the mixer!

 

[Andy Allen]

I mix all adhesive by hand, SLC by mixer & grout by cordless with mixer

Even if your doing a 50 m floor??..

 

[Qwerty]

Even if your doing a 50 m floor??..

I don't do many large floors. Mainly bathrooms & Wet Rooms. Those larger floors I have done I mix smaller amounts of rapid or semi rapid.