Cheers - Understood the diagram I have just phoned the repair shop and
they told me that the adjustable torque settings ring 0-18 range won’t give max torque but the drill setting (one click round from setting 18) will. I tried that and they are right it does give much more torque. However I am now convinced that
the torque ring is not operating as it was when new.
I will try your experiment later and also read the drill manual before sending it back again
cheers
If it has a “hammer” setting, use that too. Does seem a curious use for a hand drill though I must say.
This time last year I was trying to help a chum put some 8" fenceposts in around her paddock - a chap showed-up with petrol-power auger - and even that couldn’t make much impression in the dried-out clayey silt we have round here. We really needed a tractor with a proper fencepost drill.
Overkill for spuds, but even so - get yerself a proper 5’ crowbar and use that as a dibber - save a lot wear’n’tear on your drill.
@Wayward Just came across these Shozaburu shears.
I have an old pair of those in the largest size and another smaller pair. They are very good indeed and I have often lusted after a new pair of large but I have too many anyway.
Whenever buying new tools I think of the guy I started under, who is still the best craftsman I’ve met in the trade. He had only 2 ancient, pretty blunt pairs of trimmers and a pair of pinking shears and when I asked him why he didn’t get new ones, he gave me a little smile and said that he didn’t think it would make any difference to the quality of his work, so why invest? A lifetime of shiny has been lost to me because of that fucker’s voice in my head. 
This is the saddest thing I have ever read 
I love good shears. Mine are crap giant things that I sharpened up. Wifelet was making a quilt the other day and all I heard was “Christ, these things are lethal” as she probably sliced through 10 layers.
So which ones should I get to trim my yellowed, gryphotic toenails? 
I love them just as things and the very best ones are a marvel. My assistant, who has just resigned actually, has an enormous collection. I have often thought that he likes the tools more than the actual job!
Errrrr doesn’t everyone?
Goals.
Er, no! See my earlier post.
My assistant takes it to the extreme, obsessively collecting stuff rather than obsessively learning. I think he almost feels like he is buying experience.
That’s how you get better, buy more expensive things, don’t you read magazines and forums?
and they are good enough to sell left handed models
I’ve just bought the same set… £24
funnily enough i have just been looking to add to my Wera flat bladed 335/334 screwdrivers. But pricey on Amazon.
Just accidentally a Festool impact driver and percussion drill. Today was expensive
