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Ian Sprigg • October 7, 2020

Plastic Tools v Highly Engineered Tools

A world of safety systems and windscreen mounted technologies now dominate the windscreen industry. The best tools, the best calibration, the best windscreen adhesives and the best of British PLASTIC windscreen repair tools!

A £3.00 plastic windscreen repair injector as commonly found in a DIY windscreen repair kit costing £10 from a homeware store can also be found in some professional windscreen repair kits costing £600.

Wrapping a £3.00 plastic injector around a £600 case and contents is not the GT way.

At GT Smart we only have highly engineered tooling at a price which is not too far away from a plastic £600 equivalent.

Plastic injectors commonly use syringes which are not UV resistant and compromise the quality of the resin before you have even used it. GT Smart engineered injectors do not use syringes so the resin is not compromised by ambient UV before you start a repair.

Did you know that medical grade syringes are intended for single use medical use applications and not for dispensing UV unstable windscreen repair resin? Worse still the windscreen industry professionals then repeatedly use the same syringe (not fit for purpose) without cleaning so that pristine resin is mixed with residue from a previous repair from the day before.

The point of use where a syringe is no longer used is where the syringe loses its rubber plunger or where its cured and contaminated resin residue makes it inoperable.

GT highly engineered injectors use 66% less resin (4 drops) without a syringe as opposed to (12 drops) with a plastic injector and a syringe. If not properly disposed of needles and syringes can contaminate the environment as well as being an additional unnecessary consumable cost too.

A small investment saving on a plastic injector windscreen repair kit is soon lost when you factor in that you will be using 66% more resin at an inflated price.

Safety matters until it comes to windscreen repair where UV compromised resin is injected into a plastic injector using un stable UV dispensing techniques from the 1990's. This happens hundreds of times a day in the UK!

Professionals at work in an insurance and safety driven sector. Raising the bar is an unwelcome inconvenience but it does really matter.

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