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You can buy the batteries and other consumables at kompernass website but you can't buy the products there. The batteries for the newer 20v versions are cheaper to buy in-store (obviously) but as with everything its first come first served. I tend to get there just as they are opening before...

All the floorboards I've replaced have had to buzz abit off them due to being imperial equivalents. Just screwed them down as normal. You won't have the Tounge or groove on that one but it doesn't matter. As regards to hardboard/plyboard. All depends. It can cut drafts down and even the flooring...

Im after some advise on the below petrol strimmers. If I was perfectly honest, I had no inclination to spend this amount of money on a strimmer/brushcutter and I could probably get away with a meaty electric one but after being very disappointed in a £50 electric wonder from Argos I'm going...

Quick question regarding mainly the sanding attachment. For folks with multitools in general (all brands) do the hook and loops sanding pads that you attach with the attachment wear the hook and loops out first before the abrasive side? I'm wondering if it's just the quality of...

My first instinct was to open it up but as soon as I do they will wash there hands of anything that potentially could go wrong in the next 3 years. Cheers for the inside tip though, always worth noting down for future reference.

Ingersoll Rand used to manufacture there own piston/resip air ends until it was easier to buy them in. When it was Rand compressors their units were superior and many are still about but they are far from it now. Overpriced yank crap in my view with odd voltages which don't need to be. No Piston...

I thought exactly the same. Work bought me the new brushless dewalt battery drill and it's really robust, but for DIY renovation of the house, I cant justify spending over 200 quid everytime I want a power tool. I bought the cordless impact driver from Lidl a few months back and it's very...

I watched a video on YouTube about cleaning it up with fine grit but it was fairly full of contamination. It ran for a few minutes after reassembly, then blew the fuse on the extension lead. Feels rough to turn so I bought another. If I had more time to play with it I'd have tried further, but I...

At least I know I'm on the right track! Cheers

Seen quite a few gates on the tinterweb of different frame joints and after some guidance and experience from those who have already make their own. I can buy a gate from screwfix or a few on the net but primarily (unless convinced otherwise) I've decided to make my own. More because the gap...

Thanks for your replies. I was more interested than anything. I did take another look inside and replaced the brushes with a second pair I bought. Cleaned in the insides down best I could and reassembled. It did work for a short time, just enough to cut me a square guideline in concrete where...

Honestly I couldn't remember but it was 5-6 years ago and I'm sure it were around the £20 quid mark which if it would have worked, would have been a steal. Probably abit of my own nativity thinking at 10.8v cordless screwdriver were going to have some torque to it. My dad has an old black and...

I have a 10 year old Aldi powercraft 4 inch grinder which I had used to grind lips off brake discs, cut the odd brick in half and such on. About 12months ago it started with the intermittent stop/starting which turned out to be brushed. Luckily they supplied some spares which I changed. Over...

I bought a Aldi cordless screwdriver and I must say it was pants. Zero umph to screw anything in. The fact I was using it to take some slack out of the screws of a rubber lined pipe clamps made it alittle more insulting as they had a metal male/female thread. The Lidl parkside router I bought...

Update: After finally getting round to stripping it down, found the 2 plastic pins at the bottom broken. So in effect, the pins where forcing the brass connectors apart as there was no resistance to stop it at the other side. Hence why it was intermittent! That's actually played into my hands...

Fair point, especially when 5-8mm of that 25mm will be material thickness and internal chamfer on the angle iron. Think id better up the ante to at least 35mm, maybe even 40mm!

No real dimensions as yet as I need to affix the concrete posts in down the side of the house and a post where the gate with be hung from. Once this is done and I have an actual measurement, my thoughts where to ask the guy up the road. I guess you could say I got impatient and started wondering...

The initial cost of buying the welder and reel is quite expensive. If I had projects on the go all the time, I'd have no problem in buying all I needed. I've not needed to weld anything in a very long time (apart a few things my dad too to his place of work) and as much as I know MIG gives a...

I'd looked at machine mart and toyed with the idea of the Clarke MIG102NG but then thought surely it's just easier getting him to make it. But I know what I want and how I want it to look. So it's actually easier for me to just make it! Cheers, I'll consider this greatly over the next time...

I've only ever welded things at work so this is abit new territory for me. I wouldn't call myself a fully conversant welder but I have attended night school and can use both MIG and Stick with decent welds/good penetration. Im looking at either paying me lado a few doors down that owns his...