Many years ago, when I first bought a machine to apply copper foil, I
was, like most newcomers to the game, totally driven by price. Nevertheless,
I wanted the machine to do two things:
speed up my work
and improve the quality of my foiling.

In the UK there are two kinds of foilers that do this:
The plastic bearing foilers retail at around £30.00 and the Diegel at
almost double that, at £50 odd.
Well, as far as I was concerned there was no contest, I bought a Glastar, although I think the Inland foiler is nicer looking.
Many years later, when I owned Broadland Stained Glass, I was sent a Diegel machine to try out. I screwed it to the bench and gave it a go, and was hooked almost immediately. Here are the differences:
Just these three reasons alone were good enough for me to change forever. Although the Glastar and Inland claim to crimp, they only part crimp and it is necessary to finish off the job. In the case of the Diegel, the advantage of the tape being flat and therefore being able to exactly centre the glass, outweighs the disadvantage of no start being made on the crimping.
My recommendation:
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