Couple of things at Lidl

I picked up a reasonable set of mini-'mole' grips at lidl the other day, normal, long nose and one with the 'square' jaws for reaching around a flange. The latter works really well for clamping the drill vice to the table and more flexible than my usual big bolt.

Also, mini-humidifiers (proper refrigerating ones) that might suit a small and slightly damp workshop.

Neil

You probably want a D-humidifier rather than a humidifier in the workshop.

I've found the D ones best, the C humidifiers are too small and the E humidifiers are too big. (sorry) JD

Schoolboy snigger,

There's many a slip twix cup and lip.

Neil, don't waste your money, just throw a bucket of salty water all over the workshop. It will do the same job at a fraction of the cost

I bought the mini mole grips last week. I am very pleased with the quality of the grips. How can they make three pairs of grips for £4?

Mike

Chinese slaves?

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... and no need to amortize someone else's design costs.

MichaelG.

And no real reason to use decent steel, just use what melted steel that leaks out and puddles up on the floor.

I bought a set of diamond needle files there last week seems like good quality to me. Love their instore bakery too especially the cheesy rolls. Keith.

You will almost certainly find that those 'Mole' grips will break at the pivot point if you ask them to do more than what a decent pair of tweezers would do !

If you keep the receipt you will have at least a 12 month and often a 3 year guarantee with any tools from places like Lidl and Aldi

If it breaks you take it back in when you buy a pint of milk and they hand you your dosh back, no quibbles

Their entry level stuff can be good for newbies, I never dreamed of being able to weld, ever, but 40 quid for a box and a 5 quid pack of rods introduced me to gluing metal together

They had sets of ring and open spanners last week, a fiver for each, so a tenner for a full set of ring and open spanners

A packet of fags costs a tenner nowadays

Edited By Ady1 on 16/06/2015 08:59:08

The only thing I ever found really useless was their drill grinder, for a fiver, but I still wound up with two fine stone cup grinders for a fiver so didn't bother taking it back

...'A packet of fags costs a tenner nowadays'...

For our country cousins across the pond.... fags are cigarettes here... not ... ...

George.

Got the angle grinder and a couple of packs of disks for 27 bananas today

I already had the grinder stand from last year so I put it all together and chopped some metal up in moments which made a nice change from the usual tedium of hacksaw work

If I blow it up in the next 3 years I'll take it back and get my money back

The quality for a mere 20quid is pretty impressive(so far...)

They are doing an impact wrench for £30 on Easter Monday.

Very handy for anyone contemplating a power drawbar for a mill.

Most of the kits are air powered and having to run a compressor for the odd one off tool change is noisy and wasteful.

For £30 you can't go wrong

I see they also have a scroll saw offer. It looks like many rebadged generic types. Anyone know if they are decent enough to use for non-ferrous sheet?

I bought a couple of sets of these about 2 years back, they get used and abused and haven't broken yet

Boughr a numberof tools from Lidle over the years. All ok if you do not push them too hard. Best buys have been chain saw sharpener £30 and 60 ltr vaccum cleaner with integral power socket for power tools. Never bought spanners due to earlier mishap with a cheap one only buy top quality ones now.

Hugh

I bought a cheap digital caliper from Lidls about 2 years ago, still working on the same battery !. The food seems a lot better than it used to be as well.