Re: Re: Essential wiring 'tool'

["Michael" <michaelhims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I must say that I hear so many stories of cheap power tools failing
yet I've yet to have one fail on me and I use them pretty frequently (+/-10
hours a week) every month for the past year....

Typically brands are the Performance Power ones though that's only 'cos I
tend to shop at B&Q. Take my angle grinder - left out for nearly 6
months last winter - all rusty on the outside yet it started fine when I
turned it on. Same with the Screwfix brand (ProPerformance?) though since
they're sister companies I imagine it's the same tools just rebranded....

I even bought a Budget (name of the brand) bench grinder for 5 squid from
Makro - expecting it to last  less than a day - one year+ later it's still
going strong...

Aldi typically has pretty good quality - I've bought an air compressor off
them and it's still going after days of use (not continuously)

So don't go writing cheap tools off just yet :-)

Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Bendall
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Essential wiring 'tool'


All my tools are Bosch and none of them have failed on me. I have
used a Green SDS drill in impact mode to take down a brick raised
pond. Still going strong (pond was two skip fulls of blocks). Also
have an eletric Green hammer drill, which was used to drill through
2' of wood, at one point the bit got stuck and the drill started
smoking. Seriously though I had knackered it but let it cool down and
it seems none the wiser.

So when it comes to tools I always spend a little extra and get a
quality brand (normally German and usually Bosch).

Last purchase was a Bosch GWI 10.8 V-LI Professional Compact Screw
driver. It is less than 10cm for the head so gets in all the small
areas and great for between joists.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Neil Ball" <neilball@...> wrote:
>
> I bought one last year and found it to be quite a handful to use -
it needed
> a really powerful grip to keep it from kicking back and running off
up or
> down the wall. I certainly could not have used it safely on a
ladder. It may
> have been that the lightweight bock I was cutting into was simply
too soft
> allowing the blades to bite in much more than in harder material. I
would
> say it would last for a day or two before the bushes on the motor
needed
> replacing.
>
>
>
> On a similar vein the SDS machine I bought at the same time was a
dead loss
> - it burnt out the bushes within a few hours. Fine if you only
needed it for
> a few holes but I was using it to cut out electrical back boxes
throughout
> the entire house (a new build) so I took it back fro refund and
bought a
> Bosch "professional" SDS machine from Screwfix for about 4
times
the price
> of the Aldi model.
>
>
>
> Neil B.





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