What could possibly go wrong?!

[canduit]

Available from Argos. In 1984.

 

[endecotp]

Pretty sure my dad has one.

 

[DaveHerns]

I've got one of those with a single speed D500 drill. Don't use it but might be a collector's item one day! Mine dates back to the early 70's though.

 

[endecotp]

Yes I was thinking ‘84 sounded a bit late.

 

[mattylad]

feck! I had one of those 3 houses back, the kitchen worktop has a nice big gash in it (luckily I do not).

My jigsaw broke and I had to finish cutting and grandads old saw was all I had. Not seen it for years (which does not mean I dont still have it lol)

 

[crank39]

You can still see them for sale on ebay but why the hell anyone would want to buy one nowadays, maybe just as a collectors item to show the grand kids how we used to cut would in the olden days, not with waterjets and lasers like now

 

[rsgaz]

It's for sale in a 1979 edition...
https://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argos-no12-1979-autumn/186

...for £7.29. With a couple of actual circular saws for £21.99 (5 inch) and £48.99 (7½ inch blade)


edit: found it's last entry I think, still for sale as part of a kit at the end of 1986!!
https://issuu.com/retromash/docs/argos-no26-1986-autumnwinter/206

 

[Tigercubrider]

I remember my dad being so chuffed when he bought a b&d drill. He'd bought a very big house in terrible condition and did almost everything by hand for a couple of years because funds were tight. He even spent an hour every night straightening nails to reuse! I still had it until the mid 80's for sentimental reasons

He also had an orbital sander and jigsaw eventually
They did nothing very well

Amazing now that you can buy lidl/aldi or screwfix tools for so little

 

[crank39]

My dad's pride and joy tools where a solid brass brace and bit, all his wood bits had a tapered shank and would just push into the brace, also had a selection of metal bodied wolf drills, after he passed away a put them all away in the loft, couldn't bare to part with them, they're useless tools but they're his useless tools

 

[^woody^]

My old man had all those. A dull green/beige colour IIRC and in a big blow-moulded case - it always seems a bit James Bondish when he got all the gear out and started connecting things together.