Tool purchases

[Mussels]

I bought myself one of these and used it for the first time this weekend.
The price is reflected in the quality but once I deciphered the awful instructions it does exactly what it's meant to.
https://www.toolstation.com/qep-diamond ... ter/p10565

[ZRX61]

I bought myself one of these and used it for the first time this weekend.
The price is reflected in the quality but once I deciphered the awful instructions it does exactly what it's meant to.
https://www.toolstation.com/qep-diamond ... ter/p10565

Bought one of those years ago, used it for several tile jobs. Mate borrowed it to cut 4 frigging tiles & broke the fence.

[ZRX61]

My contraband fuel, er, I mean *utility* jugs showed up from Arizona...



As did my remote fuel tank...Also illegal here...

[demographic]

I bought myself one of these and used it for the first time this weekend.
The price is reflected in the quality but once I deciphered the awful instructions it does exactly what it's meant to.
https://www.toolstation.com/qep-diamond ... ter/p10565

I have one similar, one of those tools I lend out and get really evasive whenever the borrower wants to give it back to me.
Takes up a fair bit of space and it's nice to have offsite storage for it.

[DefTrap]

I bought myself one of these and used it for the first time this weekend.
The price is reflected in the quality but once I deciphered the awful instructions it does exactly what it's meant to.
https://www.toolstation.com/qep-diamond ... ter/p10565

I also have a love/hate relationship with one of these. I do tiling rarely enough that I'm effectively a beginner again every fecking time so I'm dead clumsy with a proper tile cutter. This makes it easier for dim tiling twits to get passable results. But by Christ is it crappy, flimsy, messy. I think I have an even flimsier version of the one pictured.

[Ant]

They're great for chipping the glazing from a tile.

[mangocrazy]

This is the one I bought when faced with doing a significant amount of tile cutting at the moneypit in France. It has a water bath under the top surface which dramatically cuts down on dust and gives a superior cut. But the standard Rubi blade is a bit meh. Buy a decent Marcrist or similar and you're good to go.

https://www.buybrandtools.com/acatalog/ ... -230v.html

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[cheb]

The type pictured above also have a water bath, I've got one I'm trying to pass off to anyone daft enough to want to borrow it.

[mangocrazy]

The type pictured above also have a water bath, I've got one I'm trying to pass off to anyone daft enough to want to borrow it.

Yes, realised that after I'd posted. But it does look horribly flimsy.

[cheb]

looks can be deceiving, but not in the case.

[Mussels]

This is the one I bought when faced with doing a significant amount of tile cutting at the moneypit in France. It has a water bath under the top surface which dramatically cuts down on dust and gives a superior cut. But the standard Rubi blade is a bit meh. Buy a decent Marcrist or similar and you're good to go.

I hadn't thought about the blade. I bought a replacement at the same time that's probably better so I'll swap them before I do any more.

[Ant]

If you're doing cheap ceramic tiles, a bed with a blade on it will be ok, sort of, but they still chip the glazing. If you're doing porcelain tiles, you'll need the blade on top of the glazing, not coming up from underneath.

[Mussels]

This one cuts downwards and I didn't notice any chipping, but they are ceramic.

[Ant]

In fact, I've even done huge 10mm thick porcelain tiles with an angle grinder with a diamond blade on it. I got one of my kids to spray a hose pipe at the tile surface every so often. I found I could cut straighter like that. I have one of those wet sump bed cutters too, but they're not great for large tiles.

[Bustaspoke]

I bought this battery tester the other day.



Both the SV650 & Street Triple are known for having electrical charging circuit issue's,so far I've had no problems & I intend to keep it that way!
I was talking to a mechanic the other month about upgrading the SV650 Reg/Rec to a shindengen Mosfet,but he said to save my money & just make sure the battery's charged.Both of mine are connected to optimiser chargers but I notice after a couple of days without use & not connected to the optimate,the Street Triple low battery LED warning light flashes,so I don't think it's holding it's charge

[Rockburner]

A few more Imperial spanners....

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I had some Elora from a previous bundle, so figured I'd stick with them. They seem pretty good.

[MrLongbeard]

Some adjustable spanners.
I've never liked the traditional adjustables, could never get them to fit just right, always too loose or too tight, always needed adjusting every time they were taken off the nut / bolt.

These are different, push 'em open and they close up on the nut themselves and stay tight, but 'ratchet' when you loosen up so handy when you can only get one hand in a space.

With the caveat that I've only disassembled 1 pushbike to take down the tip and moved my bench vice I reckon they're all right, although I've no idea how they'd cope on nuts with buggered heads, still can't be worse than a traditional adjustable.

PXL_20230415_185857883 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

[Rockburner]

Some adjustable spanners.
I've never liked the traditional adjustables, could never get them to fit just right, always too loose or too tight, always needed adjusting every time they were taken off the nut / bolt.

These are different, push 'em open and they close up on the nut themselves and stay tight, but 'ratchet' when you loosen up so handy when you can only get one hand in a space.

With the caveat that I've only disassembled 1 pushbike to take down the tip and moved my bench vice I reckon they're all right, although I've no idea how they'd cope on nuts with buggered heads, still can't be worse than a traditional adjustable.

PXL_20230415_185857883 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

ooh - I want some of them. Where did you buy them from - didn't know they came with a foam mount.

[cheb]

I can attest to the usefulness of these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154631049833 ... R4yk6PTzYQ

It's a Stanley adjustable spanner that locks like a mole grip. I bought mine years ago via Ebay from a UK seller.

[MrLongbeard]

ooh - I want some of them. Where did you buy them from - didn't know they came with a foam mount.

Cheapest I could find were ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275538682348 , they don't come with the foam drawer mount