Cheap tools that work

[eddielarge]

Hi
I use cheap cutters from screwfix at £4.99 used to be £2.80 last year . i prefer these to any of the dearer option they also cut 3.5mm screws cleanly .




My point is ,, what other cheap tools have people found that they think are better than the top brand versions.

I know i said you get what you pay for , but sometimes cheaper is better

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/27403...rs-150mm-6;jsessionid=YVUFS0KYTCPY0CSTHZOSFFA

 

[Mr Mark Sparks]

i buy cheep for the stuff i abuse like you said cutting screws etc
but my screwdrivers hacksaw etc are good
i need to stop buying cheep grips and crushing my fingers

 

[eddielarge]

i know what u mean cheap grips are a no no

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Anything form Aldi, 3 year guarantee

 

[rocker]

Most of my stuff is cheap. I can't afford much decent stuff at the moment as still starting up on my own, and I'm brassic. I'd love to have all knipex and dewalt stuff but it's all academic - it's not how much you pay for your tools, it's what you do with them.

 

[UNG]

it's not how much you pay for your tools, it's what you do with them.

Even cheap tools if treated with respect will last for years, the most expensive if abused will be destroyed very quickly

I've bought cheap tools to last one job and years later they are still being used

 

[eddielarge]

you have read my post wrong its not about cheap tools or expensive tools its about tools we have found that are cheap and are actually better,

 

[UNG]

I'm sorry it's you that has read my post wrong

I was making the point that longevity of any tool of any cost is proportional to the use / abuse of the user

The fact is that a lot of the expensive brands do budget ranges now

 

[eddielarge]

I'm sorry it's you that has read my post wrong

I was making the point that longevity of any tool of any cost is proportional to the use / abuse of the user

The fact is that a lot of the expensive brands do budget ranges now

No mate not questioning your comment , was just making a point that my post was to get a list of actual tools that i could look at buying rather than a general coment

 

[UNG]

Ok fair point

 

[KNIPEX]

I hope you dont cut through any live cables or have to do any live working with those cutters though mate.

 

[gaffer]

No VDE rating then.

 

[eddielarge]

I hope you dont cut through any live cables or have to do any live working with those cutters though mate.

they have gone through live cables,, and if i had to do mains work i have my other tool box of tools.

But day to day cutting of cables i rate these higher than knipex.

if you blow them up they are cheaper to replace and if u cut 3.5mm screws they dont damage the cutters, as with my knipex ones they have dents in the blade.

CAN WE GET BACK TO THE POINT AND SUGGEST TOOLS RATHER THAN FIND FAULT

I like them and was trying to help, when they were suggested to me i laughed. dont knock till u try

 

[gaffer]

Sorry Eddie,I bought a silverline wall chaser about 3 years ago for seventy quid.I use it nearly every week and its still going strong with the original discs,paid for itself over and over again.

 

[eddielarge]

Sorry Eddie,I bought a silverline wall chaser about 3 years ago for seventy quid.I use it nearly every week and its still going strong with the original discs,paid for itself over and over again.

where did u get it have u got a link so i can look always after chaseing tools. i spent £250. on the full set of square hole cutters when they 1st came out . they are in my garage not being used( waste of cash u live and learn)

 

[gaffer]

Dont know anyone who bought those box cutters that is still using them,good idea but they never quite worked properly.I went onto silverline tools website and got the name of their local distributer ,and then ordered it off him.

 

[Phil]

£15 circular saw

 

[rocker]

What box cutters geffer?

 

[gaffer]

The ones for cutting out single and double flush boxes,fit on your SDS drill.

 

[rocker]

Nice. Ive been looking at them from, oh whoever it is who make beaver bits. Are they no good then?

The reason I asked is that yanks call stanley knives box cutters. I remember thinking on 9/11 'that's a fairly elaborate terrorist plot'.....

 

[pennywise]

That has to be the single worst tool ever devised the manufacture must have thought that we all live in gingerbread houses as thats all there up to chopping into It's up there in my top 5 still hasn't knocked off the magnamole or what ever it's called.

 

[rocker]

Wait, what the heck is a magnamole?

 

[Guest123]

A set like this one...



Magnamole.....MagnaMole - Talpa Products Ltd - Home

 

[pennywise]

Take it away take it away my retinas are burning

The magnamole, a solution for a problem that had been solved by super rod years before tat!

Magnamole Magnetic Cable Guide - MM-800 Magnamole Magnetic Cable Guide - MM-800 : Jonard Industries Corp

Didn't see your link Lenny well done that man

 

[gaffer]

Never had one myself,but they seem to be one of those tools that end up in the back of the shed gathering dust.

 

[eddielarge]

A set like this one...



Magnamole.....MagnaMole - Talpa Products Ltd - Home

Mine was a twin set one with a single box and core bit and a seperate case with twin cutter , what a waste lol

 

[Guest123]

Gotta love Tony Cable's video.......


Christ Eddie you really splashed out......on trsash!!!

 

[pennywise]

It made my blood boil when i watched the pitch on the den, almost as much as when the guy pitched and got funding for chock boxes

 

[gaffer]

Take it away take it away my retinas are burning

The magnamole, a solution for a problem that had been solved by super rod years before tat!

Magnamole Magnetic Cable Guide - MM-800 Magnamole Magnetic Cable Guide - MM-800 : Jonard Industries Corp

Didn't see your link Lenny well done that man

Magnamole what a waste of time.And a coat hanger before super rods

That has to be the single worst tool ever devised the manufacture must have thought that we all live in gingerbread houses as thats all there up to chopping into It's up there in my top 5 still hasn't knocked off the magnamole or what ever it's called.

A top 5,what great idea.
1.Box cutters
2.Magnamole
Whats next...........

 

[pennywise]

Stud finders!!

 

[Guest123]

These at number 3 surely.....

 

[eddielarge]

Magnamole what a waste of time.And a coat hanger before super rods



A top 5,what great idea.
1.Box cutters
2.Magnamole
Whats next...........

No 3 the device CEF tried to sell that you drilled through and it collected dust...

 

[rocker]

Hang on, people actually bought that crap? I have known about this product now for precisely seven seconds, and I can tell you it will be useless.

Anyone remember those 'admail plymouth' adverts in the nineties? Gator Grip springs to mind. I wonder if anyone on here had one?

EDIT: They are doing that drilling-through-dust-collector thing in the local poundland now. When i used to smoke I found a pack of ten lambert PVC taped to the wall worked quite well....

EDIT VOLUME TWO: lenny that link ain't working dude.

 

[UNG]

It made my blood boil when i watched the pitch on the den, almost as much as when the guy pitched and got funding for chock boxes

The guy with the choc box didn't want the money he just wanted the marketing expertise to expand into international markets if I remember correctly

 

[pennywise]

Good point I wouldn't have given him any

These at number 3 surely.....

I did have a pair of thought's they broke in two days used to call them terradactyl strippers

I use these now

CK T3942 Automatic Wire Stripper - Hand Tools & Storage, Pliers, Wire Strippers

 

[gaffer]

Had to google gator grip,never heard of it .Still plenty of people still trying to sell off old stock!

4.Those silly little plastic SWA stripping tools.Why invent a tool to replace a tool that is better anyway.

 

[pennywise]

Funny thing was about a year before that SWA stripper came out I tried my dads pipe cutter on some cable just to see if it would work, oh well there's always the next big thing i suppose

 

[gaffer]

Sorry again Eddie we've ended up talking about tools that dont work lol !

 

[rocker]

Gator Grip was a device that eliminated the need for a full socket set by way of getting one massive socket filled with dozens of retractable SEWING PINS. You pushed this thing onto a bolt (even a rounded or corroded bolt) and the pins supposedly gripped the bolt so you could tighten/loosen it.

I see stuff now and again on the shopping channels (me and the missus often watch them to comment bitterly on the jewelery) and some of the stuff nearly sucks me in. Like theres this magic saw thing, with a diamond encrusted string for a blade, and this fella is demonstrating cutting crazy shapes into porcelain tiles by hand. Or these wrenches that have a hinged bit on that you can just slap them onto a bolt on a pipe and it will support your own weight. It takes my whole willpower to resist buying them, but they must fall apart in two seconds otherwise why would they be on bid up TV?

 

[eddielarge]

Sorry again Eddie we've ended up talking about tools that dont work lol !

LOL, also the oozie box i think its called ,, its just extention rings for flush boxs . but someone puts a name to it and in now rich (maybe) a bit like mega rod they just ripped off the plumbers pipes