Bucket hopper with your own hands: description, instruction and recommendations. Stucco hopper bucket

The hopper is a special device that helps to simplify and speed up the plastering of walls and ceilings. The device is small in size and allows quick and easy application of the solution without losing quality on any surface. Even unprofessional builder can use it. Such a plaster shovel is perfectly suitable for processing a large area. You can make it yourself with your own hands from improvised materials.

Design features

Each bucket hopper is equipped with a compressor that allows spraying solutions. At the base there are nozzles, on which the air flow is supplied. Full clearing of the air mixer from the mixture takes place in 3-5 seconds. Thanks to this, one master can plaster 60 square meters per hour of work. M of the surface by a layer of 1-2 cm.

Advantages of hopper bucket

The positive aspects of such adaptation are:

• Fast execution of finishing works.
• Easy to use. Any person can handle a hopper, even without relevant experience and specialization in this field.
• Reducing the time for finishing 2-3 times.
• No requirements for solutions, as well as the possibility of using various impurities and fibers.
• Providing better adhesion of finishing mixes to the ceiling or wall.
• Reducing the consumption of the solution.
• Low cost.
• Versatility (plaster hopper hopper can be used for finishing works of building facades and internal premises).
• Due to a stronger impact, the best quality of the solution is provided in comparison with manual work.
• Easiness of cleaning from the remnants of building mixes (even from absolutely dried up lumps). To remove the remaining solution, the hopper for the plaster is blown with an air stream, washed with running water and dried.

Types of pneumatic pick-up truck

This device of factory production is ceiling and wall. These two models differ in the design of the handle-holder. At the wall hopper it is bent at 45 degrees, and at the ceiling versions - at 90 degrees.

Application

The bucket hopper is universal. In addition to plaster, it can be used for work:

• With concrete mixtures;
• Cement-sand and cork compounds;
• Textured paint ;
• Liquid wallpaper.

Principle of operation

To spray the solution should be started immediately after its preparation. The spreading range is selected depending on the desired result. As a rule, the hopper is kept at a distance of about 4-5 cm from the treated area.

Plastering the surface with such a bucket is quick and easy. The principle of the device is as follows:

• The mixture is poured into the tank;
• The compressor pumps the air mass and delivers it to the ladle through the hose;
• Adjustment and supply to the air nozzles is performed by means of a valve on the handle of the hopper ladle, after which the solution is sprayed.

To perform more complex finishing plastering works, manufacturers offer their customers additional adapters and attachments that allow using this equipment in a hard-to-reach place.

Recommendations for work

When working with a device such as a hopper hopper for plaster, you can not use a pressure that exceeds 6 atmospheres, because this can lead to an accident. For a uniform application of the solution, it is necessary to observe a pressure not exceeding 4 atmospheres, but in the case that it is necessary to compensate for the loss of air during the period of its supply through the hose, it is possible to raise the figure to six.

When working with a pneumatic pot, a distance of 5-10 centimeters should be observed between the wall and the nozzles. To obtain a thick layer of the solution, the distance can be reduced to 2 cm. To apply a spray to the surface that will serve as a supporting base for further finishing, it will be necessary to move the device away from the surface and spray the mixture under maximum pressure.

At the end of the finishing work, you should immediately clean the hopper. If the remnants of the solution are removed very difficult, then for cleaning this device it can be lowered into a container with water for 30 minutes. This time is quite enough for the lumps of the mixture to lag behind the internal surface of the equipment.

If the pneumatic cord is not cleaned in time, the valves of the device may become clogged, which will lead to its breakdown.

Hopper bucket with own hands

Despite the fact that the cost of buckets for plastering is relatively low, and the hopper can be rented inexpensively, some craftsmen prefer to make such a working tool themselves. As a rule, we have to collect only a ladle with our own hands, all other details are purchased.

In order to make such a device, it is necessary to do the following:

• Draw the outline of the bucket that will be manufactured.
• Correctly calculate the scale of this circuit.
• Adapt the drawing to the desired size. Hopper ladle drawings can have completely different. At their own discretion, they can be improved.
• According to the drawing drawings made, it is necessary to cut out all the details from the metal from the metal.
• Using welding equipment, it is necessary to weld the elements cut out with the help of the Bulgarian, creating a single structure from them. Can be used to connect elements instead of welding self-tapping screws. But it is very important that there are no gaps between the edges of the parts, otherwise the product will simply leak. Solve the problem by using metal overlays and corners.
• We choose the appropriate diameter of the inlet nozzles (most often it is 2-3 mm).
• Determine the power of the compressor, which will be inserted into the device. That's all - hopper bucket with your own hands is ready!

After completing all these steps, the tool will be fully usable. The bucket is recommended to be equipped with a strong and comfortable handle.

In general, self-made hoppers are almost as good as factory models, except for one limitation: a self-made tool is only suitable for plastering works with walls. The ceiling is treated with a self-made bucket is very inconvenient.