Couple of things at Lidl

I'm intrigued, not what?

Tony

Tony,

Google is your friend

especially when some of the answers may be objectionable to some.

MichaelG.

I've purchased quite a few small tools and other sundries at Lidl since they opened a store locally. Most have been fine for the price and the occasional use most will probably see. Their boxes of assorted screws, nuts, bolts, washers, heat shrink (etc etc) are very good value and always come in handy. This week a box of 12 tubes of acrylic paint (for £1.99) caught my eye and I'm sure will get used for some of my modelling.

However, their bench drill also looked tempting (for the £50 price) so was an impromptu purchase. On arriving home it was assembled and briefly run (I didn't get as far as actually drilling anything). The noise was awful and the quill slop didn't even meet my usually forgiving (e.g. fairly low) standards. The general build quality of the parts was very poor. It was quickly re-packed and taken back. A refund was given - not without question - they asked why I was returning it and I simply told them that on reflection, it didn't meet my needs. The Manager shrugged, his biggest problem seeming to be that my reason wasn't on his returns form.

Afterwards, I decided my (old) 1/4" drill was a better bet for my indoor workshop needs and I'd be better off spending my time improving that than wasting it trying to sort out a basically crappy one. Of course, I haven't actually got a round Tu-It yet (one reason I purchased the cheap drill)

So whilst I've generally good things to say about Lidl, not everything they offer is always good - even for occasional use......

Regards,

IanT

If anyone from across the pond (Me also) thinks the language is somewhat confusing, try figuring out just what
You folks eat. Names and words never dreamed of over here. Toad in the hole, black pudding, TREACLE????. On the other hand, Doubleboost is starting to make sense to Me and it has Me worried for Myself.

Treacle sounds a lot more interesting than Molasses, says John, checking to see what he's trod in.

Mole, what?

Frank

JS

Electric impact wrench OK but how do you reach up to reverse it?

Must be a small mill or a very tall person, advantage of air its remotely controlable!

He has me worried too. I watched him following "dogma" and running his boxford flat out and the same come very light cut again to get a better finish on his ER chuck. I guess he will figure out why the finish was good by the tommy bar holes though and do it the right way.

John

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You are joking ???

If not, just move the switch, even the air ones you have to remote mount the reverse switch / lever

It actually the reverse of what you say, why I want one.

I have one of the Warco WM40 which is the next size up from a standard Bridgeport, add to this I have fitted a 4" riser block and I use a 4" thick pallet as a duck board but need to really stretch to swap tools.

Plenty of air kits about but I don't want to run a compressor just to swap one tool and at £30 chopping one of these up is a no brainer. I know it will work as I have tried using a borrowed cordless impact wrench ad it works well.

A few years ago I bought one of those articulated arm air tappers, brilliant bit of kit, should have bought one years earlier. However I noticed that unless I had a fair few holes to tap the compressor didn't get switched on. I have a fair sized compressor, about 15cfm Hydrovane and it needs this. The little quiet Bambi won't hack it, in fact on long runs of M12 I often had to run the second 15cfm Hydrovane which is only where as a backup.

About a year ago I spent an interesting afternoon with a 3 phase motor, a VFD and an old machine mart 1/2" air drill and converted the head to electric. The result is It will now go up to M16 instead of M12 and is available for just one hole immediately, if needed.

Or see MEW 239

Neil

Why would their lawyers have advised them over this before you had notified them of the problem. ??

And you know for a fact they had millions in stock ??

And if the pressure switch had failed as it looks like it did in your case then the blow off valve would have taken over.

You had better stick to buying from Woolworths then

Edited By John Stevenson on 26/03/2016 22:47:04

...and why waste time and building up more pressure whilst "walking calmly into the house" to shut it down, what was wrong with switching/pulling the plug straight away?

He probably wanted to go round resetting all the clocks, central heating routers etc

I think we can ignore this word of warning from someone who admits he hasn't shopped at Lidl

Not yet bought anything machinery wise from LIDL, but the ALDI stuff (taps and dies, angles grinder, electric drill, electric chainsaws - got two just in case I killed one, appear to be unkillable) is very good indeed - I shall pop down to LIDL tomorrow...

LIDL did have some power washers in, but I didn't know how good their stuff was -

Steve

My cheap supermarket compressor has given me around 10/11 years service and is used at least three days a week. My only complaint is it is a bit to loud. I seem to recall it was £49.99 with tools from Neto. I have not seen a Neto store in years are they still around ?

Netto UK stores bought by Asda. Came back with Sainsbury's as a partner, but only a small number of stores so far.

Use Lidl angle grinders all the time . On sale this weekend for £19.99 .

Aldi angel grinder look the same but seem to be of a slightly lesser quality

Last Hitachi grinder I brought was nowhere near as good and twice the price

Lidl have their welders in this week btw, if anyone wants a 40 quid buzzbox

Got a nice basic pack of HSS drills for 4 quid yesterday

I also got a nice pack of Masonry drills for 4 quid, these can be amazingly useful for drilling case hardened metal and stainless steel

Edited By Ady1 on 17/10/2016 11:22:00