Bought one of these a couple of weeks ago. I usually use a hacksaw to make off armoured cables but this thing has made the job so much easier. I had a big board to do last week and I reckon it’s paid for itself three times over 
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I see Screwfix are now selling Festool 
I needed a 3mm nut spinner.
My Wera set is 5mm to 13mm
So instead of just buying the one I needed I of course succumbed to this
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Nice 
I’ve only got the little wera set from the Christmas selection box a few years ago.
They are a joy to use
I saw a delicious little Wera ratchet set today in one of the electrical trade places I deliver to but £87 + Vat was a bit steep for something I sort of already have but Halfords Advanced.
At least it says RS and not Radiospares
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Still has the same part no & surprisingly inexpensive for RS.
Made in Taiwan now rather than W. Germany.
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For anyone who needs a torch these are great for the money. I bought one recently and was surprised by the quality. Really solid and bright.
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Bought a new half inch / 4tpi bandsaw blade from TuffSaws. The UK forums rate them highly, I can see why.
I’d accepted a rough cut was part of using a small underpowered saw, I was not expecting that the Record blades that came with my Record saw were basically shit.
Pushed this scrap through without trying and got a magnificently clean cut.
Wow.
That is cut and held together in the vice with very little pressure for a photo
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Buggered it on its first use. pushed through some reclaimed wood and hit a screw that i couldn’t see.
FFS.
Just purchased 2 more and a thinner one.
(This happened because I only ordered 1, which was silly really)
Ooof!
Time to DIY your own X-ray mahcine?
That’s the switching tube, not the X-ray tube itself
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/tetrode-th-5186-therapy
Of course anything operating with electrons in vacuo at 100kV will generate X-rays. That thick copper anode block will shield quite a lot of them but some will, no doubt, escape.
Even at 25kV, where colour CRTs operate, there will be X-rays. As General Electric found out the hard way in the early days of colour TV
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don’t know if he’s still alive (doubtful) but there was a guy on youtube who used to do crazy things with very high voltages.
He drove an old valve to emit X-rays on one of them, may even have been a kV lightbulb 