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So what have you done today..?

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by figaro, Mar 17, 2012.

  1. Thank you Andy hope your well x
     
  2. Enjoying retirement :D. Andy
     
  3. Yes very low fat fruit veg salad and fish
    Little and often and soup
    Been 3 weeks of very little food to calm
    gall bladder
     
  4. Bought a new cordless drill, been looking for ages, so actually bought one.
     
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  5. you can't leave it at that. Make and spec?
     
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  6. bosche 2.0 amh battery nothing special, £87 B&Q. Resisted the £118 version, its for hobby and diy not building extensions :)
     
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  7. I rarely use a cordless. Why use a screw when a nail will do? I'm all about the nail guns! But a good cordless is vital at times. Bosche ain't bad, my 36volt volt bosche hammer drill was epic until it got robbed.
    my mate donated me a 24 volt dewalt but it's not a patch.
     
  8. Its only 18v, have bought 12v before a d don't last long so trying the bigger one. Two batteries so hoping this one could last a days use of building the recycling bin storage or workbench build I have planned. :upyeah:
     
  9. You could get a Festool there cheap :Jawdrop:
     
  10. didn't want cheap, have done that before and they never last not work that well

    Its why its taken me so long to buy one!!
     
  11. 18 volt is cracking for a regular cordless. My 36 was an impact drill. My 18 volt dewalt could actually break ya wrist an nearly has mine a few times !
     
  12. Well... The day started off well....

    1. Woke up.
    2. Got wife breakfast
    3. Sun shining (thought... Get the rsv back together - test ride!)
    4. Started getting rsv back together.
    5. Break for lunch....
    6. Get up of tea.... Number 3 son runs head first into said cup of fresh tea.
    7. A&e for 8 hours getting son bandaged up and stripped skin and blisters removed.

    Although it was an accident and my other half tells me not to blame myself but I do as I was holding the cup of tea.... He got take out pizza out of it and is currently negotiating Nintendo switch out of me at the moment.... They gave him laughing gas while they stripped the blisters off which was quite funny as he kept taking so much he passed out then got straight back on it...

    Try again with the rsv tomorrow...

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  13. festool are great ergonomically and innovation wise but I can't justify the price tag. As a jobbing chippy my tool bill for new stuff and repairs runs in at about 2k per year ( more last year as 4.5k of tools got robbed out my van).
    the company that I'm going back to work for on Monday are called kiwi builders, I'm the only kiwi there, the other 20-30 are Polish "chippys" and all have festool. I rule the roost but they take the piss outta my dewalt and Makita gear .
    but as I keep telling them, tools don't make the man. Good tools are essential but there is a limit, they have all the gear and no idea
     
  14. Sound like half the trackday paddock ;)
     
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  15. Picked the new Multi up, back home n then out to Brum to watch Cirque Du Soleil doing Varekai....thoroughly enjoyable, incredible acrobatics n good scoff if a bit pricey.

    Back home n having a drink :thumbsup:
     
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  16. My son has Makita drills and Festool gear, Festool do seem to set the bench high with there ideas and the rest follow, we were at the FFX tool show last weekend which was very busy and some good deals to be had.

    Pants about your tools being taken some people just have no morals and respect.

    I remember when the first Gulf war started ,i was working at Piccadilly and we (the Decorators) had a massive snowball fight up and down the scaffolding with all the Kiwi chippys found them good fun but most had a finger tip missing :Wtf:
     
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  17. Got up at 5am. Half a cup of tea.
    On the road from London at 5.50.
    Dropped the Mrs off in Peterborough at 6.40 to Babysit
    in-laws with dementia.
    Half a cup of tea, on the road north at 6.50
    Arrived at Scott Leathers in Barnard Castle At 10.30
    What a lovely place. Need to go north more often.

    Got measured by Jim for new set of leathers.:grinning:
    Off the peg just does not fit me, my arms n legs are too long.
    They do great stuff.
    Keep you posted about that.

    Fish, chips and mushy peas, had to be done.
    Drove back to Peterborough.
    Out to dinner with two brothers and 3 wives.

    Now on here. Great day.
     
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  18. Poor little sausage. How old is he?
     
  19. I have all my fingers but did manage to chop the top of one in half length wise in a bizarre accident with an unplugged chop saw. Also put a 8 mm masonry bit through my pinky finger that took out a piece of bone in it's travels. That hurt.. But in over 20 years of doin this stuff ( touch wood) I've not been too clumsy!
     
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