At a glance, it looks a decent printer for £250 – heated bed, excellent choice of filaments as well as PLA (conductive, flexible)

Seems this is all we have to look forward to in the uk:

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Lol, prices keep dropping – I recently purchased an ultrasonic cleaner from Aldi for $25Au. It does the same job of cleaning my cartridge cases as the 'Name Branded' one from the local firearms dealer which retailed for $149Au.

Same specs, same transducer, different badge.

Might just give this one a go – It would be nice if it could print in wax.

Hey, Neilo, Australia is often used by some outlets as a 'test case' for consumer acceptance of new toys.

* Danny M *

Aldi related. Bought a very nice black magnifying desk lamp there yesterday. Well made and good looking. Not particularly cheap at £20 but the quality shows.

Rik

Oops Lidl actually, but then my pun wouldn't work…

But then I'd need medication.

Neil

Picked up a set of 5 flex head spanners for a tenner today, so 2 quid a spanner

I hope it is better than the earlier incarnation I had. Nicad era – the batterries and charger were good but the actual nail gun was carp. A relatively inexpensive purchase, but failed at about the time the warranty expired.

Finally got one ! … Aldi special buy day, Inverter welder + auto dimmer helmet.
Short summary; All ref to Manufactures' … usual disclaimer applies.

Spent a couple of hrs playing with it this afternoon, nice piece of kit so far. Comes complete with earth clamp, tongs, welding mask, wire brush instruction manual, fitted UK 13 amp plug, having got the auto dimmer helmet I didn't bother assembling the supplied mask. Claimed rod range… 1.6 – 2.5 mm rods, max amp rating of 80 amps.

Had to go & buy a pack of rods from M/Mart on the way home, was a bit dubious about 2.5mm rods so opted for 2mm, ( 5kg pack of unbranded rods so quality wise ? ) The setting quoted for 2mm rods in the manual is 40 – 80 amps…2.5mm rods are quoted as 50 – 100 amps… so max of 80 amps may not be quite enough for these. set up for 60 amps & gave a couple of passes on some black angle iron, amazing how much chicken sh1t I ended up making. I thought I could still do a reasonable pass but the years since having done any have taken their toll, talk about wandering all over the place, not maintaining arc gap etc. still the resulting passes showed that 60 amps was a little too high so dropped down to 50, … bit sticky… upped to 55 – 58 ish, seems ok so will use that as base line amps.

The auto dimmer helmet worked straight out of the box, is solar powered with Lithium ion battery back up, claims not to need changing, extremely quick dimming action, < 0.7 millisecond claimed. The only point of note was that the earth clamp had just a spring for the action & no copper braided connection, cable just fastened to clamp.

Other than that I'm pleased with my buy, now just need to re-practice not making chicken sh1t, Oh & something to weld…

George.

Just used an Aldi sharpening grinder for the first time since I bought it a while ago, it did a reasonable job on the kitchen knives.

Thought this video would bring a smile to your faces!

Cheers

Martin