Hey everybody, this is Becky with RIDGID welcome to job site live, today we're talking
all things sectionals, it's going to be a really uh exciting job site live with two
of our one of our product managers we have Brendan and we have Tim, Tim covers our Pittsburgh area one
of our sales managers, we pull them in today uh, if you have questions throughout today's
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job site live for you, we're going to go ahead and get started go ahead Tim.
Hello everybody, uh we're going to go through the entire sectional line that RIDGID offers.
We'll be starting with our models that will do sinks and drain lines anywhere from three
quarter inch up to four inch, we'll talk about the k50 and then we'll also talk about the k60 which
is the next step up which will do anything from an inch and a half to a four inch line.
Then we'll talk about the larger sectionals so 1500 and t5208 our largest sectionals right here
so for those machines, we have a clutch mechanism and the clutch mechanism is nice it drives down
and one of the biggest things about sectionals versus drum machines is that sectionals are you
know more preference, a lot of people can use drums versus sectionals it's uh they both do the same
thing but um sectionals you're able to bring which however, much hair you want whether it's 60 feet
or 100 feet versus drums where it's kind of an enclosed system now the advantage of the enclosed
system is it does contain the mess better, so again again personal preference they do the same thing
but sectionals are a little easier to learn at the beginning just the nuances of drum machines so
with this sectional we have the 50 1500 right here and when you use this machine you want to have the
appropriate working gear, so we have our glasses, we've got our earplugs and we've got our gloves
and make sure to use the appropriate gloves for the um, sectional machines you want to make sure
to use the mitt, that's provided with all sectional machines it's this little staple knit and that's
because when you turn the machine on, it'll spin it over at 700 rpm and you can pull it out and
then once again when the clutch goes down you want to have that hit there, so you don't grab anything.
Again grabbing very bad thing, so uh another advantage to sectional machines
is we have this cable decoupler it was released or later on about the single pins but uh, this
decoupler's a great innovation for each tool, so again talking about sectionals you just add on
the front just whether it's a cutter head or the entire cable it's all that click connect and a lot
of people out in the field ask what type of cutter head or auger on the front you want to use this
retrieval or inspection auger. That way you can go into the drain figure out what's down there
and a lot of times what you'll find is there's a baby wipe a rag
or something like that that can be uh pulled up by this point right here and pulled back out so
you can get some of the water flowing as you pull that back out, you're able to adjust and
you can look at these different cutters right here, we've got some more aggressive cutters for roots
a spade cutter over there if you've got more of a hard blockage, so again we offer not only
the inspection cutter heads but we also offer the more aggressive cutter heads.
To ensure that whatever blockage it is you're able to attack it. So what we'll do is we'll open this
up and we'll put the cable down there again, the great thing about sectionals is you put it down
and you're good to go.
So this cable is 15 feet, so you get pretty far out what you would do is you bring it out
add another section of cable throw the other cable in, so that you're using this guide hose
and one of the biggest things is this guide hood is for your safety. You want to make sure that the
exposed cable is not spinning on the ground um, sometimes when you're outside it's okay
but when you're in people's basements whether they have a rug or some sort of finished basement.
That's really important to keep that ground clean and prep free let's be honest so um,
again 1500 great machine and it's been the workhorse of ridge tool for a very long time.
Recently, we launched the 5208 so this is a 5208 transport cart along with the cable carrier right
here, it's a great product you contain the mess with these cables you're able to clean
them out, a lot of guys will take their hose at the end of the day and clean this table and...
Another huge advantage about the 528 is it's designed for tight
locations, whether you need to pull a toilet or whether you need to get behind a
hot water heater the 528 is a great tool for that so what we'll do is, pull this toilet.
Get it out of the way... now a lot of people have a difficult time because it's narrow.
You bring our 5208 over here and you're right next to the drain right there, no hassles again it's a
sexual machine so this 528 is really lightweight, it's the most powerful compact machine on the
market and it uses the same tools as the 1500, so if you have both machines it's very easy to switch
over you've got the large cable there, you've got the cutter heads you just switch over to a 5208.
So i'll bring it over to Tim. Okay once you go down a little smaller we jump down to the k60, the k60
will do inch and a half through four inch lines out to 150 feet. A lot of septic tank contractors,
maintenance contractors, anybody that is doing roof stacks will choose the k60. The cable is half the
weight of the 1500, it's also a lot smaller units so it's easier to get it up onto the roof keep in
mind, if people out there are doing roof stacks. If you're using a 1500 and you have 100 feet of cable
going down that stack, that weighs 186 pounds and you have to pull that back by hand
so if you go up with the k60, the cable only weighs 90 pounds per 100 feet it's a lot easier bringing
that cable back once you've used it, it works just like the 1500, it has a guide hose that feeds on
to the back you always want to feed your cable on whether a 1500 or a 60, you want to feed the cable
from the front to the back, please don't couple more than two cables together at one time because
you don't want any cable running out the back of the guide hose, because that cable is just going to
roll across the floor, cause a mess and also I've seen many times in the field where a contractor's
helper will stand in the back and put the cable between their shoes to hold it from rolling around
the rug, please don't do that because if it grabs onto a shoelace or a piece of loose pants, that's
an accident waiting to happen. Okay so the k60 uses the pin key to decouple the cable, you can also use
the rigid trident because, it's inch and a quarter on one side seven eighths on the other. The key
also keeps the clutch... locked in when you're carrying it. There is a gfi on all of our machines,
this gfi is there to protect you if you're in a wet environment, if you're standing in water.
Please if the gfi ever pops, doesn't work for some reason, don't cut the cord off and
put your own plug end on because, that's against osha requirements and again that is an accident
waiting to happen you could theoretically die from electrocution, so if something happens take it to
a RIGID service center get it repaired with the right cord and right gfi on there you'll be safe.
The k60 uses both 7 8 or 5 8 cable, all you do is loosen two screws on the adjusting end.
Open it all the way up, put your cable in and only put the clutch handle a little
less than halfway down and then turn the nozzle clockwise until it's tight.
You're set for that size, because when you're using a k60 or a k50 or a k1500.
You don't ever want the clutch handle to go all the way down, because that means there's
a good chance that the cable is going to slip and not get a good grip uh your, your clutch may
be worn that's an indication of a worn clutch, you always want to keep it right there in the middle.
The k-50 is actually my favorite machine it's a crossover machine
it's the only machine on the market that will use both sectional cable and drum cable, so this
takes 5 8 cable, this machine will do from inch and a quarter through 4 inch lines up to 100
feet so you have the same guide hose, that fits on the back it's got a little detent pin on it
there's a little hole right on the coupling, so you just mount that
let that snap in, feed your cable through the back and then you can start feeding cable out, this is
your clutch mechanism. When you feed the cable you may start to see it torque a little bit if
it's getting stuck in the clutch, if that starts to happen just let up on the clutch. Torque will take
care of itself go back in and continue cleaning. If the customer has a sink that is clogged up
that's why I like this machine I can take the 5a sectional off I can take one off our drum
adapters, that takes either a quarter inch 5 16ths or three-way cable. Feed that in through the back...
Lock it in place, tighten your thumb screws and then you can feed on as much table as you want, hit
your clutch, what I was talking about with torque build up, when you're in the drain cleaning this
it'll it'll spin in your hand but if it starts to get stuck in a really tough clog you'll start to
see this cable. Torque up on itself that happens just let off the clutch and straighten itself off
and go when you're done. Feed the cable back in, loosen up your bolts, remove it. The cables come
up you can carry the cables in a variety of ways you can either use, the standard open reel cage
that most people use, we also have the plastic drum adapter which is solid, it's a little easier
to carry this around and also when you're pulling cables out of the line, they're wet they're full
of residue, you put them inside the plastic drum nothing gets on the floor, everything is clean.
Most of your drum cables are going to come with an auger head on and again like we mentioned
before, almost 90 of clogs are something that can be grabbed onto a rag, a paper towel, toilet paper,
a child's toy whatever that's why you're going to use an auger. Once you bring that auger back,
if the water is still backed up, you could check for residue on there, if there's grease you can
switch to a grease cutter, if there's a little bit of roots you can switch to a root cutter, go in
clean the line and go from there but you should always go in first with an auger, to investigate
what the problem is and then you shouldn't have any problem. On a k-50 I have seen in the field
a couple of times, there are three legs on it, but if you'll notice the rear leg is shorter than the
front two legs it makes the machine sort of taper back, that's because as you're pulling cable back
through and there is water on the cable, the water is going to run through the machine run out the
back through the guide hose it's not going to sit in the machine and possibly do damage to the motor.
Okay all right go ahead and answer or ask any questions through the
question button at the bottom, looks like we have one question how much does the k60 run.
The k60 will do up to 150 feet of 7 8 cable the cable is in 15 foot sections.
All right, all right we have another question sectional or draw machines what is the difference?
Uh so we kind of highlighted earlier the biggest uh difference is preference so
sectional machines um, that we've talked about being able to carry the cable that you want
sectionals allow you to kind of aggregate whether you want 60 feet 100 feet or over
200 feet with the drunk machine. Guys can learn on that but you're kind of limited by the drum
capacity so most drums, only have 100 feet of cable, so that's the biggest difference but
again it's all about preference both machine or both types of machines can clean both types of
two inch to eight inch strings, it's a cost factor as well if you're using a
drum machine and you have 100 feet of cable, if you were to keep that cable or break that cable.
You have to replace the entire cable which could be hundreds of dollars, where if you're using
a sectional machine and you break a cable, you're only replacing you know a less than hundred dollar
piece of cable that's anywhere from seven to fifteen feet long, so it's a little less expensive
owning a sectional machine a lot less maintenance. Maintenance is also a big thing as far as the
cables go, now the machines themselves all have a grease fitting in the front back on the bearings.
If you're using a machine daily I would grease it daily, just one pump of grease is fine you can't
over grease it just like you're greasing a bearing on a car, if you do it'll come out the side, wipe it
off and go from there. The cables are the most important part.
Uh you want to keep those cables greased up as best you can, if you want to put them in a barrel of oil or you want to soak them
with wd-40 rust is the worst enemy to a cable, so as clean as you can keep those cables is just how
much longer they're going to last for you and the rust is another challenge to the spring pins that
we showed earlier, when those get a little rusty and you can't get them disengaged and you're on
the job you might get a cable stuck together and that's nobody wants that, so keeping those
cables clean and making sure those spring pins reject go back and actually engage your cables.
All right we have another question what is the best way to transport your cables?
As we mentioned before, there are a couple different ways we have our open carriers.
Uh the larger machines like the k-60 and the k-1500 will hold 75 feet of cable.
Um so you can put six or seven links in each one maybe have two of them, these are open cage
so you want to make sure your cables are sort of dry as best you can, but we also have our new
plastic enclosed drums. Where everything sits inside it, if there's any water or residue they
go inside the drum they don't go on the floor and that's the same uh plastic material that
we use on our drum machines, so it's very robust waterproof and very drop resistant. Okay we have
another question here, what's the maintenance requirement for the k60. The only maintenance on
the k60 is what we mentioned before, you have two grease fittings, one on the side where the adjuster
is where the guide hose goes on one, just under the clutch hose, again if you're using this thing daily
give it a you know a pump of grease baby, that's regular bearing grease. The grease is your best
friend if you don't breathe that up, all that residue collects in around the jaws of the clutch
and and just it it'll help the machine, run a lot longer for you. Okay another question here battery
adapter in the future? Uh at the moment we you know we do have some handheld uh tools like the king 40
k45 at the we don't have any uh opportunities for um battery-powered large machines but potentially,
you know we're always into new things you guys give us suggestions and we'll work into it.
All right we have one more here, what is the most ordered slash bought sectional machine?
That's a hard one most popular maybe honestly uh the k1500 has been around for a long time, that's
probably the most ordered and most demanded sectional machine in the market, because the
capacity is from two inch all the way up to eight inch, it's a workhorse and if you have the room on
your truck it's great, going to outdoor into fields and stuff septic systems where they do have the
room, you're gonna get to everything. K-60 is great but the k-1500 has the power it's three-quarter
horsepower, you're not gonna find anything more powerful in the market. All right we have one more question,
how far can each machine go and what size pipe? Starting from the bottom, the k50 will
go from inch wool to three quarter, up to four inch, out to 100 feet now when you're
using a drum adapters you either have 25 feet 35 or 50 depending on the cable you have in it.
The k60 will do 150 feet of 7 8 cable, it'll do 100 feet of 5 8 cable. For the larger machines
um we've got three versions of the k-1500, there's the regular which is three-quarter horsepower,
we've got sp which is a full horsepower and then we've got our gas which is even more powerful than
that, for those um the three-quarter horsepower can do two to eight inches, the larger machines can do
all the way up to ten inch uh drains, so for both of those they can the smaller machine goes up 200
feet the larger machines go 250 feet out and those are for huge applications so you're talking about
malls you know more of the semi-commercial where it's going to be a long distance between cleanups.
Uh one more question what's the difference between the k60 and the k-5208? So the biggest
difference is capacity the k-60 does 5 8 and 7-8 cable the 5208 has a much more powerful motor,
um kind of the equivalent to the k-1500 and has the same capacity
seven eighths an inch and a quarter cable as the 1500, so it is a little more heavier than the k60
but it's able to get those larger uh drain lines, which the k-60 would not be able to get.
Okay well that's it for questions, all right well thank you so much and uh
from myself, Tim and everybody else at RIDGID I really appreciate your time thank you.