Tools you have bought/desire

Tool = Festool. Lovery bit of kit as always.

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Just got a good deal on screws in Screwfix

£10 discount from £30 to £20 then another 10% off for code on the app

Big old box of 1400 screws for £17

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Should have said, 10% off everything via the app

I’m after a twin ~30V/5A Bench DC PSU as a Fathers Day present for my Dad, is there a particular brand to go for or just wing it with an Amazon lucky dip?
It’s for him to be playing around with Pi/Logic Boards/Sensors/Motors etc for a Charity who make one-off custom disablity aids for people.
Looking through RS/Farnell there are loads of various models.

Update - Ended up with an RS Pro model for piece of mind.

After trashing two ratchets on the Landy it was time to fork out for a decent half inch drive, this didn’t disappoint.

Needed a 32mm spanner to free up the gearbox drain plug, Facom ordered. Did the job, required one foot and serious leg power to shift it.

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Nice, I’m a sucker for Wera kit!

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I love an AA claw

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I’ve just upgraded…

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Time for a decent, ie safe, trolley jack. 3T and over 50cm lift with low profile too boot.

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Last weekend I decided to paint the garage door and put up a wind chime. Running around like a blue arsed fly trying to find the sanding mouse thing I know I own but can I find it? Can I bollocks.
Google threw multitools as the ‘new’ sanding hotness at me, also good for utterly fucking anything I put my hand to so I’ll have one of those please. Unfortunately they are only sold ‘naked’ without having to wait for delivery, and fuck that noise. So a new drill with 2 batteries included it is (to be fair my old drill eats batteries, smells funny when in use and is as weak as my resistance to a new watch). One sprained credit card down at screw fix and some lovely blue plastic is coming home with me.

After charging it all up it was too late to do anything so next weekend it is.

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Releasing your inner Reg Prescott is to be applauded.

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Used a mates Makita orbital sander to do a front door a few weeks ago. Really good tool if you need one for biggish areas. His was the corded version

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By which time you will have found the old one

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I assumed the simple act of buying the new stuff would have caused the old one to condense out of the vacuum within 20 minutes of the new arriving. That’s always the way here …

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I have a multi tool one which are great for cutting architraves if you are putting laminate or floor tiles down.
The problem with the sander part,and the same for mouse sanders is that they melt the Velcro part if you work them to hard,meaning you keep having to buy new pads. They are great for a bit of skirting or window sills. The art is trying to keep them flat,and not putting to much pressure on the pointy bits.

Personally,if you have to do the garage door every two or three years,I’d spend a bit more on an orbital

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Cheers, I’ll keep that in mind. It’s only the side access door not the double up and over so fingers crossed I won’t melt it although fists of ham and all that.
Anyway if it does go all tits up. Another new tool yes.

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So after a local garden center closed down and the wife bought a ton of bushes which didn’t actually all fit in her car so

This weekend we spent 5 hours putting in 4 of them. I’m sure they could use the local soil here as ablative material for atmospheric reentry.
After nearly dying doing this I gave my landscape gardener friend a shout and he came and planted the remainder in about 45 minutes.

This of course means I need some hedge trimmers so this has just arrived.

The bushes are in recovery at the moment so hopefully I can trim things without opening up an artery at the weekend. Should be a laugh.

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When an Immortal is beheaded, there is a powerful energy released from their body -
enjoy the Quickening.

The wife nearly bought me a chainsaw for Father’s Day (apparently hedge trimmer == chainsaw in her world) I had to regrettably put the brakes on that for prison, self harm, shenanigans reasons.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

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If she wants to buy you some hedge trimmers for Fathers Day make sure you buy her a steam iron for Mothers day

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