welcome back to steve rob reviews today i'm going to review a very interesting tool that i have i've
used this quite a bit and it's a bandit tool for steel banding i've used it for poly banding too
but i'm going to demonstrate this today on my pressure tank now this is a pressure tank i'm
going to be using up in my camp in northern ontario and i'm going to show you how this
all looks and how i've set it up so far but you could see how i've stuck one band on already
and when you're thinking about an object that's very hard to try and
capture you could do it with say two or three gear clamps or big giant zip ties or that kind of stuff
but this is stainless steel i'm using and it is just terrific stuff to work with and
this is the tool to use so i'm going to show you exactly how this works and how
handy this could come in for so many different projects that you could
you know you can think of and for me i put it on stuff that you know like years ago i would have
to jerry-rig a whole bunch of stuff where this comes in so handy and everything is stainless
steel so you don't have to worry about rusting or anything you just got to buy the clips and uh
the banding and i got like a hundred foot of half inch i believe it is for like 40 bucks so i mean
that's gonna last me a long time right so let's get to it and i'll show you how this operates
well here's the project we're working on and this is just a uh six gallon pressure tank and i've put
all the fittings on here so this is going to go up at my camp now i got this rigged up on my solar
water pump system and last year i was pumping a hundred feet this year i'm going to go 200 feet
and i want to use this tank because well the pump shuts off too hard too fast and it's hard
on the pump when you don't have a pressure tank so this is going to go in this year
so you can see what i've done here is i just notched out a little spot for where they welded
the seam in the middle and this is what the band looks like when it's installed and you can see
i put a just ran this through my table saw just put a couple of grooves in there right and this
is going to hang up up at my uh camp i got a spot right for it and uh here's one of these clips here
and this is just an amazing outfit all stainless steel and here's the wire and the first thing you
do is just get a piece of the wire and just bend it over and i'll show you how this all operates
and uh here's the roll there for 40 bucks for 100 feet and all you need really is just the hammer
and just the tool and that's all you need right here so let's get to it i'll give you a close-up
exactly how this works well the first thing i think i should show you is this little bar here
and if you take a look if you can take a look right down inside here
you can see that the jaws move in and out and that grabs a hold of the banding so you know
this releases it and this engages it and it's got some teeth in here and it holds on to the banding
and if you take a look at this end right here this is where the slot is and inside here
when i move this bar over you can see what it's doing up here is it'll cut it for you
so i mean and the position you're using this in is like this and this goes in and out
right and as you tighten this down it pulls the band
this way so i'll demonstrate putting this band on this tank and we'll see how easy it is
okay so there we are right there we have it all ready to go you just got your buckle on
you slide this right in over the top like this you got a piece hanging out so there it is it's
on there right now so all i have to do now is put the tool on so remember the ears go on the
far side of where you're pulling so you're going to be pulling right from here so i'll get the tool
i'll show you how that goes on and i'll show you how it works okay so there we are right there and
you push the uh the stem as far forward as you can to take up all the slack because like i say
as you tighten this up it's going to pull this way so now we can just start cranking
and you'll get a feel like i mean that is pretty tight right there
so i want to make sure that it's got a good tight seal on the band
okay like i'm i'm really torquing down on this pretty good okay so the whole idea behind this is
what you have to do is you have to bend this up and fold it over now you'll never be able to fold
it over when you have so much tension on the end here so you gotta take off about a half a turn now
it's not going to loosen anything up here and that lets you go a little bit further now you can go a
little bit undo a little bit more and you can bend it over now when it's bent over just like this
and it's like this now you can use the cutter and cut it off and i mean is that
slick or what now i'll give you a close-up shot of how this banding band holds this on
for good so there you go there you can see what's left and all you have to do is just
hammer this down
you know it's it's it's a little bit harder with stainless steel than the other ones
and then you just fold these ears over
and that is it right there okay so here we are right here and i mean can you think of
a way to put a band on there like that and it is on there like uh guitar string tight
and all i got to do is just put a hole through here and then i can mount it where it's going
to go if you want i'll put a link down below and show you the projects that i'm working on
you know up my camp with this water tank and you know this is a great tool to have
i i recommend it highly i mean it cut that stainless steel wire like easy right and uh
you know this is it right here and all you do is there's a piece left over and of course i'll
keep this piece you never know where you need a little piece of uh you know to make like uh
little uh hooks punch a couple of holes through this banding comes in great you know for like uh
hanging uh pipe or whatever you want but i highly recommend this thing i mean
i believe i paid like just over a hundred bucks for this and it's well worth i mean it's
all hey it's all all cast this is like all cast steel there's no plastic cheesy stuff on it
and the brand name is bandit but uh i really like this thing it comes in handy for so many you know
things and like you say how often is somebody going to be doing something like this i don't know
but you know for a lot of you out there that are you know that are thinking about doing projects
where you have to actually fasten something in a particular way that's not so easy well
just try and think how you would have fastened it you know something like this
i guess you could use like bungee straps or you know ratchet straps bungee cards string you know
but no no i'm going with this thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel
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you