Middle of Lidl

[mr brown]

i like parkside . their impact driver feels very similar to my makita ,and the drill chuck is the best single handed chuck i ever had .

einhell makes parkside and elu
dewalt makes black and decker

 

[wildebus]

i like parkside . their impact driver feels very similar to my makita ,and the drill chuck is the best single handed chuck i ever had .

einhell makes parkside and elu

dewalt makes black and decker

Actually, Black and Decker - or more exactly Stanley Black & Decker - make DeWalt (along with loads of other brands).

 

[wildebus]

True but I have a piece of plush carpet (well it was plush some time ago) it cushions me from the stones, is low profile and rolls away for storage and best of all it cost nowt!
I did have a crawler when I had use of a barn when doing a nut and bolt restoration of an old TVR S3 and made Good use of it.

K

Well, I have not used the Crawler as a crawler yet, but it has been in constant use as a stool which is acting as a raised wheely stand for various boxes as I do my shed sorting.

I dropped into ALDI on Friday out of curiosity (I very rarely go there) and they had some Dollys on castors for a tenner each. Looked good so I bought a couple and went back there today and bought 4 more!
Decent enough kit and considering at that price they were only £1.50 more expensive then a pack of Castors I had bought on Amazon to make my own Dolly
Added some 3D-Printed catches to two of the Dollys that I can attach a Bosch L-Boxx to, to be able to wheel it around the shop. Will be modifying another to attach to the base of the Sortimo I-Boxx rack I built to match.

 

[wildebus]

Actually, Black and Decker - or more exactly Stanley Black & Decker - make DeWalt (along with loads of other brands).

I thought I would list them as it is quite surprising (and a couple of them I was not aware of myself)

Some of the well known brands S/B&D make/own:

DeWalt
Black and Decker
Stanley Tools
Facom (iconic French brand)
Mac Tools (often seen as an alternative to Snap On for garages with their Lorry Reps)
Craftsman (now seen as a cheap Chinesium product importer)
Irwin

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Most of my selfbuild tools came from Lidl, I still use two small drill drivers which live in the van, and SDS drill, grinders, jig saws etc, their little £4.99 drill and other tool packs are well made and don't break, I have a three cone drill set I was using down at Merlins a couple fo weeks ago. the Aldi stuff is less good, most of Lidls stuff is Einhell, although I bought a cracking double bevel compact mitre saw from Aldi,

 

[Trigger]

I tend to avoid the cheap knock-off and "me-too" kit. Too many experiences of things just not delivering. And I would never buy from TEMU out of principle regardless of the price and quality of the crap they are selling.

My most recent sad Parkside purchase from LIDL was an 18V Heat Gun. It was pretty cheap - but in truth not that much cheaper than a proper mains Heat Gun, and more expensive than a small Heat Gun.
I bought it as having a battery powered Heat Gun can be very handy when doing stuff in a Motorhome and I happened to have a Parkside 18V battery and charger going spare anyway, so seemed like a good use for it.
But .... it is much too low a power to be really effective and if I had mains, I would be reaching for my 25 year old Bosch gun.

Yes, it means I am paying much more than I could for tools, but I now virtually exclusively buy German Brands of tools, where they are either made in Germany (such as Knipex), made in countries who have a fine reputation for engineering such as Czechia (where Wera tools are mostly made), or from Companies who do make their tools in Eastern Europe and Asia, but have stringent QA/QC processes, such as Bosch.

There are always the outliers where you come across the odd good example - like this LIDL car creeper - and recently got a specific Klein Tools (high end American brand) socket set from the US, but generally given up on the rebranded stuff made from Chinesium and put together by 13 year olds in a sweat shop.

I would never buy from TEMU either because of the ridiculous game you have to play before you can get in to the pages I tried losing the game deliberately recently but could not deliberately lose it just takes you back to the beginning each time the whole setup strikes me as buying a load of TAT maybe I am wrong but won't ever be buying from them

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Temu Is a bit of a skill, a bit like Amazon, on both I use ctrl + the item, so it opens a new page/tab leaving the main one as you left it.

 

[trevskoda]

I would never buy from TEMU either because of the ridiculous game you have to play before you can get in to the pages I tried losing the game deliberately recently but could not deliberately lose it just takes you back to the beginning each time the whole setup strikes me as buying a load of TAT maybe I am wrong but won't ever be buying from them

Temu runs well on a pc, not well on a mobile, never had any bother with it, had some probs with ebay over the years.

 

[mr brown]

i tend to double up on tools but i can get carried away ;

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Me too, if I can't find one, I'll buy another, it guarantees the original will be staring at me.

 

[marchie]

Me too, if I can't find one, I'll buy another, it guarantees the original will be staring at me.

It was worse for us when we were renovating our [now sold] French hovel. We would arrive, start work and then realise we had forgotten something, so would buy a duplicate, which would inevitably be carried back to Scotland ... Next trip, 'I've forgotten x tool', so nip down to the Bricolage warehouse and buy a duplicate, which would inevitably be carried back to Scotland ...

And that is how I became the proud owner of 6 cartridge guns that make me look like a bbudding retailer of said items ... I could make a film about them, and call it 'The Cartridge Family' but sans David Cassidy ...

Steve

 

[Pudsey Bear]

It was worse for us when we were renovating our [now sold] French hovel. We would arrive, start work and then realise we had forgotten something, so would buy a duplicate, which would inevitably be carried back to Scotland ... Next trip, 'I've forgotten x tool', so nip down to the Bricolage warehouse and buy a duplicate, which would inevitably be carried back to Scotland ...

And that is how I became the proud owner of 6 cartridge guns that make me look like a bbudding retailer of said items ... I could make a film about them, and call it 'The Cartridge Family' but sans David Cassidy ...

Steve

OH god, Mr Bricolage, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, makes been & queued look like my garage, they have everything, I made sure I needed something this last trip too, 16mm ss c/sunk screws and ss screw cups to match. And they had them. Feck you B&Q.

 

[mr brown]

certain power tools don't need to be good quality . i somehow have 10 routers , most are nameless rubbish and are fitted for rounding over,chamferring etc, but one is an ELU 1/4 inchand the 2 half inch big ones are Trend and Milwaukee
a lot of tools comee from boot sales ,routers are often birthday presents that never got used and go for a fiver .
only got 4 jigsaws , Festool , makita bosch and a parkside cordless
not sure why i have 3 p/side cordless drills and 3 impact drivers 2 are makita but there's usually one within reach .as for the makita tyre inflator but it's handy

 

[Pudsey Bear]

He who dies with the most toys wins!!!

 

[marchie]

He who dies with the most toys wins!!!

There's a joke there, somewhere, involving the Manager of the bottom club in the Premier League - what do you call a man with 11 tools? You can guess the punchline

Steve

 

[Chasn]

The most useful Parkside tools I use are the cordless soldering iron, the tyre inflator and the tap and drill sets. The crawler/stool is also good. All of this depends on your style of DIY.