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[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

Posted by JimmieS on 10/03/2017 10:56:25:

Many 'emergency' spare wheels need 60 psi to keep them happy.

daveb – long trip on a Matchless?

I had one about 50 years ago (350 single), did a lot of mileage on it, very reliable indeed. The spark plug inflator wouldn't be any good with a single and whilst it may have worked with the twins, a flat tyre on one of those would have been the least of your problems. I lost patience with mine when a broken con rod smashed a hole in the crank case, I threw it into a skip. Dave

[JimmieSParticipant @jimmies]

My comment was tongue in cheek. Long time ago I had a '39 350 AJS. Cost me a £5 in running condition. Fastest going bike I ever had – was stolen within a week.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Today:

Parkside brand "Countersink Drill Bit Set"

Set of 7 [3mm — 6mm drills] in a fitted plastic box, for £2.99

Cheap and very cheerful, at less than 50p each

… should be fine for wood and plastics.

MichaelG.

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

I've recently been getting my drills from 'UK Drills'. Good price & reasonable drills.

The tip angle on the last set I got was a bit steep though, around the 100 degree mark not 118 degrees. Cuts well in steel, but due to the steep angle they snatch a bit too much in plastics and I've wasted a good few quids worth of pen blanks as the tip exits the blank, and snatches, shattering the blank.

**LINK**

BTW their 7 piece set £2.34 + post.

Regards,

Richard.

[John FlackParticipant @johnflack59079]

My good lady has just purchased a polished granite slab from Tesco Direct AKA chopping board under £15 about usual breadboard size about half inch thick. Might have alternative use???

A check today showed no stock (but not discontinued) might interest the LIDL alert group

The finish is equal to my straight edge. Would impress your mates at coffee break time

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 14/03/2017 15:13:57:

Today:

Parkside brand "Countersink Drill Bit Set"

Set of 7 [3mm — 6mm drills] in a fitted plastic box, for £2.99

.

Also available on ebay, at £9.99

**LINK**

MichaelG.

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

"The finish is equal to my straight edge. Would impress your mates at coffee break time"

How do you work with a curved straight edge? Is it flat in all directions? The one I checked was not.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 14/03/2017 15:13:57:

Today:

Parkside brand "Countersink Drill Bit Set"

Set of 7 [3mm — 6mm drills] in a fitted plastic box, for £2.99

Cheap and very cheerful, at less than 50p each

… should be fine for wood and plastics.

MichaelG.

Nicer presentation on these than the bubble pack set I got a month ago. You can also use them as depth stops by reversing them. The drills are slow spiral and tapered, so may particularly useful on plastics and may find some esoteric uses, but I think some of mine will need the tips grinding before they work well.

[Ex contributorParticipant @mgnbuk]

My good lady has just purchased a polished granite slab from Tesco Direct AKA chopping board under £15 about usual breadboard size about half inch thick. Might have alternative use???

Maybe, but probably not the use you are thinking of !

I bought an Aldi one thinking it might make an "economy" surface plate. Checking the reflection of the store lights in the polished surface showed no obvious distortions, so it looked like it might be a possibility and it was cheap. But a visit to the CNC CMM at work soon revealed that it was far from flat – subsequently I tried a knife-edge straight edge in a "Union Jack" pattern across the surface. Daylight could be seen between the SE and the granite plate, so no feeler guages required to find the errors (it was substantially hollow in the middle).

Might make a nice cheeseboard, rather than a chopping board, but it will take a lot of work to make it a useable surface plate.

Nigel B

[JimmieSParticipant @jimmies]

Coming to a Lidl store near you (should you live in Northern Ireland) from Monday 8 June: auto darkening welding helmet, folding work bench, wire brush set, inverter welder, magnetic welding holders plus other bits and pieces including

Welding Electrodes 1 Kg priced at £3-99 suitable for general engineering and SHIP BUILDING STEEL. I know the Titanic was built here, but come on!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Looking at the battery charger posts, I recently bought an iMax B6. it takes a fair bit of understanding, but once you have it working it is very good.

I wired up an ancient 6 sub-C cell nicad pack and put it through three automatic discharge/charge cycles. the capacity went up considerably with each cycle so I'm putting it through four more.

It also does all sorts of Litium batteries, Nicads and Pb-gel. I'm afraid my home-made charger will be pensioned off.

Neil

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

Ahh . 2 months on, the Lidlls Lithium drill is brilliant, very pleased.

Its been abused a bit… and got white paint drips all over it ! Dropped it twice ..

Noticed if you use too much pressure on a 10mm drill bit and almost stall it , it will cut out for a few seconds . I've driven a lot ( 2 whole boxes,only one charge ) of No. 12 x 3" screws on the low gear which didn't make it cut out though . I've run the battery right down … and then a bit more … several times , before recharging it . That doesn't seem to have bothered it. Battery capacity is impressive compared to my old nicad drills . I've charged it 10 – 15 times, doesn't heat up like a nicad . The motor magnets attracts swarf to the side of the casing … see pic .The chuck doesn't grip drill bits as tight as other drills chucks i've had .. but i do lean on it somewhat !

 

 

 

EDIT !! Looking at the picture i took when it was new , the magnet is built into the case to secure the Pozi bit !! Not motor magnets !  Well that fell off and was lost before i ever used it…. Auto swarf pika uppa now ..

Edited By Hacksaw on 05/05/2017 23:45:09

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Presumably one cannot over-discharge the battery? That would likely be the reason for it cutting out at stall – over-current dragged the battery voltage down to the max discharge level (and the protection circuit told it to shut down!).

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by not done it yet on 06/05/2017 04:37:58:

Presumably one cannot over-discharge the battery? That would likely be the reason for it cutting out at stall – over-current dragged the battery voltage down to the max discharge level (and the protection circuit told it to shut down!).

More likely over-current protection. The lithium packs will also be protected against over-discharge.

Saw Fatmax drills with two 18v packs for £80 in Tradepoint – tempted. But then Makita for £100…

[the artfull-codgerParticipant @theartfull-codger]

I was in perth w a a few yrs ago & built a toylander land rover for the grandkids & used son in laws ozito drill [exclusive to bunnings superstore] ^ was so impressed that when I went last yr I bought their latest brushless drill & 2 lithium ion batteries,really good drills [perhaps not up to makita professional] but I've just put a new metal sheeting roof on our barn using it to screw them down & the battery lasted most of the day,I was well impressed, btw the sheds a 21mtsx 9mts & used 400 text screws, we put about 300 in before a recharge,bunnings have now taken over homebase in the uk & you can buy ozito stuff over here now,

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 06/05/2017 12:16:50:

Posted by not done it yet on 06/05/2017 04:37:58:

Presumably one cannot over-discharge the battery? That would likely be the reason for it cutting out at stall – over-current dragged the battery voltage down to the max discharge level (and the protection circuit told it to shut down!).

More likely over-current protection. The lithium packs will also be protected against over-discharge.

Saw Fatmax drills with two 18v packs for £80 in Tradepoint – tempted. But then Makita for £100…

Makita ain't what it used to be.

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

But then Makita for £100…

Makita ain't what it used to be.

Too true. I bought an expensive Makita screwdriver/drill and have regretted it. Turned out to be rubbish quality.

I expected it to last me out (my previous Bosch and Hitachi nicad batteries were no longer an economic proposition). I found its concentricity went awry after little use. Works well, but no accuracy. Clearly needs some decent bearings which will last a decent time. I only used it occasionally and it was rubbish by just over one year (yes – a one year manufacturer's warranty).

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 06/05/2017 12:16:50:

Saw Fatmax drills with two 18v packs for £80 in Tradepoint – tempted. But then Makita for £100…

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Bought two drills and 4 battery's for about this price [ each ] some while ago 1 1/2+ years ? from Argos on offer to replace the varied selection of old Hitachi drills and flat batteries I had accumulated over the years.

Very pleased with them, they have done sterling work and still impressed with them.

They are just badge engineered model of the DeWalt at twice the price.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by John Stevenson on 07/05/2017 08:54:29:

They are just badge engineered model of the DeWalt at twice the price.

If I could get a Badge-engineered DeWalt at half the price I would be pleased 😛

Neil

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

Ozito look curiously like the Einhell brand sold by others

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

 

 

 

Parkside Drill update , purchased May 2017 until January 2022 . Well, it just about holds a charge still after much abuse . Rubber bits peeled off , the casing hasn't broken or cracked . The Drill /Screwdriver selector switch did fail recently causing it to jump into neutral when drilling , along with a dreadful screech of mashing gears !! .A detent spring holding the selector in place , had just disappeared.. when i took it to bits to look . A new one was made which kind of worked .. Anyway for 29.99 it did ok !!

 

 

 

I saw that Lidlls was selling drills again today .Gone up to £39.99 .This time they're up at 20v 2Ah..slightly larger ,a fair bit heavier .You get a set of screwdriver bits and a few drills ,which appear good quaility . ( As good as the 107 drill pack i bought last week ! ) The chuck is all metal now. Now the other good thing is the 20v battery is interchangeable with the Parkside Impact gun i have , that is 4Ah .It does make the drill somewhat heavier though . Pics

 

 

 

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Edited By Hacksaw on 03/01/2022 14:15:32

[Clive FosterParticipant @clivefoster55965]

Battery interchangeability and likelihood of getting replacements when the originals die are the important drivers for me. Much as I respect the value for money aspect of Parkside (LidL) and similar affordable brands I figured Makita would be a better long term bet as being, apparently, committed to the LXT system. 18 volt in my case.

Looks to have been a decent bet as pattern replacement batteries can now be found quite easily at suitbly lower prices. I'm unlikely to induge but when pattern equipment can easily be found its a reasonable bet that the potential market is big so OEM is likely to find long term support worth it. Lithium batterries do seem to last longer. My oldset 2018 vintage ones are holding up well. As is teh drill and driver but I'm lighter than many on my tools.

Clive

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I got a decent Parkside PABSP 20 and yeh yeh it's fabby bla bla but its pretty darned big and its actually quite heavy

The best cordless I ever got was the Aldi Titanium brushless drill which was really light and compact so it could be used all day and squeezed into tighter spaces for joinery work stuff. Its main weakness was a rubbish electronic clutch so you had to be careful

I've found these drills to be very useful for avoiding drill breakage if you're hand drilling deeper holes in steel with smaller drills, just set the clutch to kick in so you can reverse it if it jams, also handy for reaming work

Edited By Ady1 on 03/01/2022 15:10:14

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

A new 16v parkside original battery for the old drill is 17 quid online . It still charges but it is dying . The drill is tired too though! I don't know anything about Li ion but it was at 3.5v dead flat an hour ago .I've charged it till the light went green (3/4 hour   and it's now at 16.2 v . And the old drill is working ok , but only for an hour or so ..

Lidls often have the newer "x " fit 20v batteries for cheap.  

 

I've many a time run it down to flat and then slippped in the charger for ten minutes to finish a job..and then not charged it fully for a while . is that a good way of ruining a Li ion battery ? It's been charged hundreds of times !

Edited By Hacksaw on 03/01/2022 14:51:20

Edited By Hacksaw on 03/01/2022 14:53:28

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

As mentioned in another thread there's a nice box of 100+ hss drills for 15quid in Lidl at the moment

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