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Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:40 pm
by Yorick
Sadlonelygit wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:35 pm
Anyone bought a cheap cordless impact gun off ebay.
I'm away from my windy tools and have some heavy duty nutting to undo!
Looking for any recommendations >£40
When I was in Portimao recently, they needed to change the front sprocket on the GSXR1000 I was riding.
Out came the Makita 18v impact jobby.
Wow, it came off easy. I need my 18" bar for the job when I do it.
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:55 pm
by Sadlonelygit
Yorick wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:40 pm
Sadlonelygit wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:35 pm
Anyone bought a cheap cordless impact gun off ebay.
I'm away from my windy tools and have some heavy duty nutting to undo!
Looking for any recommendations >£40
When I was in Portimao recently, they needed to change the front sprocket on the GSXR1000 I was riding.
Out came the Makita 18v impact jobby.
Wow, it came off easy. I need my 18" bar for the job when I do it.
Unfortunately doesn't quite come within my budgeting constraints!
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:59 pm
by Yorick
Sadlonelygit wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:55 pm
Yorick wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:40 pm
Sadlonelygit wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:35 pm
Anyone bought a cheap cordless impact gun off ebay.
I'm away from my windy tools and have some heavy duty nutting to undo!
Looking for any recommendations >£40
When I was in Portimao recently, they needed to change the front sprocket on the GSXR1000 I was riding.
Out came the Makita 18v impact jobby.
Wow, it came off easy. I need my 18" bar for the job when I do it.
Unfortunately doesn't quite come within my budgeting constraints!
Oops. Should be...
<£40.
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:07 pm
by Felix
If you are spending 40 quid expect 250 to 300Nm no matter what the advert says. I have two what are claimed 540Nm. Probably closer to 300Nm max. They do take abuse mind as one i use a lot and is coming up for three years old.
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:30 pm
by Sadlonelygit
Felix wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:07 pm
If you are spending 40 quid expect 250 to 300Nm no matter what the advert says. I have two what are claimed 540Nm. Probably closer to 300Nm max. They do take abuse mind as one i use a lot and is coming up for three years old.
Cheers
It's for a top strut bolt.
It's either buy a specialized kit for @£60, or get a leccy dugga for £40 which will come in far more use. The one I'm looking is Makita battery compatible.......which maybe means some new/sh DIY kit coming my way!
There's a method in my madness!
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:40 pm
by Felix
Sadlonelygit wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:30 pm
Felix wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:07 pm
If you are spending 40 quid expect 250 to 300Nm no matter what the advert says. I have two what are claimed 540Nm. Probably closer to 300Nm max. They do take abuse mind as one i use a lot and is coming up for three years old.
Cheers
It's for a top strut bolt.
It's either buy a specialized kit for @£60, or get a leccy dugga for £40 which will come in far more use. The one I'm looking is Makita battery compatible.......which maybe means some new/sh DIY kit coming my way!
There's a method in my madness!
Cant quite remember for sure but i did two steering bearings on my van and i am sure i used the cheap one. Once you have the pressure of the bearing it should not be that tight, well that may depend on who did the last bearing.
What about a Torque Multiplier. This may depend on the footing. Great also for in the boot of the car when the garage rattles your wheels up to not fucking budging tight
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126540057911 ... R6KmocHuZA
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 9:01 pm
by Newey
Rockburner wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 10:05 am
Not "purchases", per se..... but on Sunday I picked up a few things from my Dad's old workshop....
These Draper socket sets were always in disarray when my Dad was working on something... but even after what must be at least 40 years now... there's only 3 sockets missing from the 3/8" set! (the 9,12,14 mm sockets and a couple of extensions)
The 1/2" set is complete.
A load of taps and dies : mostly imperial, but there were a few metrics as well
And this:
it weighs a metric fuckton.... empty!
This is probably why:
The only reason I grabbed it is because the missus wants it for her leatherworking tools.
I've still got and use the exact 1/2" set, bought it off the wife's catalogue (that most women used to run, Janet Frazer and Freemans etc.) told her it would be useful for jobs around the house lol
King Dick was the brand supplier to all dockyards/naval bases, I still have them all that were supplied during my Shipwright Apprenticeship.
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2024 3:47 pm
by ZRX61
A rather spiffy hold saw set, biggest is 6in
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:45 pm
by ZRX61
Dewalt DCF900B 20V 1/2 hog-ring impact.
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2024 11:55 pm
by ZRX61
New Dewalt light arrived today, thought I better get pics of all (well, most of) the recent purchases...
Light:
Rattle gun:
Circ Saw
Hole saws:
Brake tools
Bearing/bushing kit:
Radiator pressure test gubbins:
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 8:28 am
by demographic
I've got one of the De-Walt LED light things, its an older model by quite a way but still chucks out a good amount of light.
Problem now is that as subcontractors provide more and more cordess tools on sites the main contractors can't even be trashed providing site powerleads.
We've still got to charge stuff up and usually only want to provide light in the odd dark area, not across the whole bleedin site.
I sometimes feel that we're providing cover for shite site agents.
Decent light though.
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:44 pm
by Sadlonelygit
Money well spent. Need bolting down properly to the garage floor once I get back home, but a nice little sideline of €20 tyre changes might be coming my way.
Nowhere within 25 miles fits bike tyres, and only if you buy them from lbs, at a significant mark-up from the online sellers
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Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 8:43 pm
by mangocrazy
I take it you've got the tyre bar for aluminium rims? The one for steel rims will wreck ali rims for fun. I've lost count of the amount I've saved in changing my own tyres.
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 12:44 am
by dern
Not a tool purchase as such but the avoidance of a tool purchase. Last time this engine hoist working after a seal failure I pissed about with a new seal kit and oil and it took a couple of hours. Now it turns out the seal kits aren't available and I was about to buy a new hoist and I find out you can simply buy a new vevor ram for 30 quid and jobs a good 'un...
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Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 12:46 am
by dern
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:16 am
by Count Steer
Nice acquisition. Hours of fun.
PS There's a market for old Cuban cigar boxes but, sadly, I don't think you'd make much for that one
otherwise you could have recouped some of the cost).
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 12:35 pm
by Eclipse
That looks like a Clarke ? Very similar to my Warco. May the tinkering begin
Mine in a similar state for transportation.
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:15 pm
by dern
It is a Clarke. Not the greatest reputation but something to get started with.
Got it out of the van today and got it on the stand. I got the milling head on too but didn’t photograph that. It’s missing a couple of bits so I can lock the tail stock in place or the milling head in place yet. Should be easy to source or make though.
Got some steel and loads of tools. Just need to work up the courage to start ‘making chips’
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Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 8:59 pm
by mangocrazy
Good stuff! I'd love to have a lathe, even though I haven't got the foggiest idea how to use one. My big problem is lack of space to put one. The only space I realistically have is in the cellar, and that means carting a bloody heavy piece of kit down narrow stone steps...
Re: Tool purchases
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 10:56 pm
by dern
mangocrazy wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 8:59 pm
Good stuff! I'd love to have a lathe, even though I haven't got the foggiest idea how to use one. My big problem is lack of space to put one. The only space I realistically have is in the cellar, and that means carting a bloody heavy piece of kit down narrow stone steps...
I've no idea how to use it, that's what youtube is for
Christ, don't buy one of these and attempt stairs. This isn't even that big and it took four blokes to get it in the van. I've wanted one for years and have only just moved to a house with (arguably) a large enough garage to consider one.