Standard modular brick. Per its title-sourced sizes ⚑, the 18182 has no 3/8" end — the modular brick standard lives on the 18170's verified bar. A buyer who tools only standard brick never needs this member.
Slab edges. The line's confusable-pair rule: jointers compress wall joints in stiffening mortar; the 18040's quarter-round rounds a fresh slab's rim. Mortar board → jointer; ready-mix truck → edger.
Raking, cutting, filling. Removal is the raking tools' trade (silica boundary attached there); filling is the pointing trowels' and bag's. The jointer only ever compresses what's already placed.
Non-concave profiles. The class makes concave joints — the profile the BIA ranks best for weather — and this page claims nothing else.
Everything in the jointer craft transfers at class grain
steady bearing pressure, runner riding the finished channel, never striking below thumbprint, never carving what should be compressed, rinsing before mortar stones onto the working faces, and dry storage — polished working surfaces print their own neglect into every joint after. What this page cannot do is anchor those fundamentals to this SKU's build the way the 18170's guide anchors them to its printed one-piece high-carbon bar; until Hyde's record speaks, care advice here is class advice ⚑.
Asked before buying
BUYER QUESTIONS, ANSWERED BEFORE YOU ORDER
Is this the same tool as Hyde's catalog 18180?
Unverified. The catalog's 18180 carries the identical size pair and description class; no source states the relationship, and this store inherits nothing across that gap .
What is it made of? How long is it? Is it offset?
Unpublished, unpublished, unpublished . The title gives sizes only; the class gives form; Hyde's record gives, for this SKU, nothing yet.
What walls need 5/8"?
Stone veneer, rougher and older masonry, rustic block — the wide-joint world in §2. Standard modular brick never does.
Can the 18170 cover me instead?
If your joints stop at 1/2", yes — and its every spec is verified. You reach for the wide class only when walls outgrow that bar.
When do I strike?
Thumbprint-hard, heads then beds, in laying order — the class craft in §3a, which no gate diminishes.
Why does this page keep flagging things?
Because the alternative is inventing specifications for a tool Hyde hasn't published — and a store you can trust about the 18170's printed 10 inches is one that tells you the 18182's record is empty.
