That’s what I have been experiencing over the last 2 days also. I’m going to keep at it until I can feel efficient with the tool. It’s the only tool until then, I’m stubborn that way!
answered you on your YT Video Marcus and I reiterate that these handles are NOT cheap plastic. To work optimally they don’t have to be bashed and smashed around. They are designed for precision blading and it you want an example of how they should be used then check out the co-designer and long term tester PolznBladz YT channel. My original prototype is nearly 5 months old now and still going strong. Used on a pole 90% of the time. Instead of automatically assuming it’s ‘cheap’ plastic it’s more helpful to share what you were doing when it split.
Well,I’m speaking from experience and I have use unger and wag handles over 10 years going on some of my older handles. It has been dropped while still on the pole and never had a handle split on me. It’s just not heavy duty compared to others. I’m sorry if people got offended but for me I guess I’ll have to baby it for now on when I get my new handle.
I like the channel, the handle is okay, the flip pad is great for store front uppers and big panes of glass. But for residential I dont care for the excelerator as a whole, so far.
So what im saying…
Storefront it a good tool.
Residential I dont care for it, so far
I’m going to keep at it until I can feel efficient with the tool. It’s the only tool until then, I’m stubborn that way!
Not sure if it would contribute to the crack, but my understanding is that this tool was designed to be used with a moerman tip. I do not have one and use my excelerator on my cheapo Lowes Ettore pole, and it is a very tight fit. Wonder if that fit puts too much pressure on the plastic. Just throwing the idea out there.
Edited to say, it looks like Polzn Bladz already made that suggestion on your your youtube video comments. And to @anon35812390’s point, Bob (Polzn Bladz) is the guy who pioneered the design of this tool. Nobody on the planet has more panes of glass cleaned with this tool.
Regardless, you do great work with it. I’d drop a few bucks on a moreman tip and keep cranking out the panes.
I dig it real good!
The angle adjustment makes it so great for a swiveltool.
I use it also as a hand tool and it works great. Especially after I put ducktape on the channel after Lukes advice.
I now choose between Excelerator handle with liquidatorchannel or Sorbo Quicksilver channel - it all depends on the window at the job.
I got mine last week, only complaint is with the crappy rubber tbh, I’ll put an ettore uncut in it tomorrow and see how it goes, like it fixed as a hand tool use it for resi and commercial and swivel on a pole.