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Post by jeepers on Jan 30, 2023 10:57:18 GMT
Exact same thing here with the toilet seat; when we finally found the manufacturer name, the one we needed was three times more expensive than a bog-standard (arf) one and built so badly it broke 12 months later when the non-stainless attachment rusted through. Stop trying to turn every product into a lock-in you cunts. And then you discover that the only way the fitter managed to get the seat on properly, is to put the seat on before installing! Bought a replacement for the upstairs loo, but absolutely no way I could contort myself to fix from the bottom. I have since discovered top fixing seats, so much easier. That would drive me to rage. |
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Post by technoish on Jan 30, 2023 11:24:31 GMT
I fitted a new garden gate lock on our garden gate this weekend to replace a simple bolt. Well chuffed with myself!
Had to drill out the space for the mortice lock. Now the door can be locked/unlocked from both sides, and it looks good.
Next I need to put in a bicycle anchor in the front garden to lock the new e-cargo bike.
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Post by elstoof on Jan 31, 2023 7:42:52 GMT
Some fuckhead threw a bit of wood at my front door last night, broke one of the panes of stained glass. Arsehole
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Post by minimatt on Jan 31, 2023 9:33:29 GMT
what a cunt, sorry to hear that  |
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Post by nexus6 on Jan 31, 2023 9:50:14 GMT
Some fuckhead threw a bit of wood at my front door last night, broke one of the panes of stained glass. Arsehole was it original old stained glass or new stuff? Fucker either way, but the old stuff can be beautiful and tough to replace. |
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Post by elstoof on Jan 31, 2023 10:07:22 GMT
Original stuff, think this piece should be ok to replace. There’s a some bits of similar wood in the front yard of a few houses down my street, little shits must’ve grabbed scrap from a house doing work and started lobbing it around for fun
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Post by nexus6 on Jan 31, 2023 12:07:15 GMT
That's crap. Good luck getting it restored. A cost you could do without.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 31, 2023 12:32:09 GMT
Wankers.
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Post by mrpon on Jan 31, 2023 13:49:03 GMT
Neighbours with nest cams pick it up?
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Post by technoish on Jan 31, 2023 21:25:24 GMT
Hmmm, tried to install a bicycle anchor in my front garden, and broke two masonry drill bits. Proper Bosch ones as well. They clearly don't make bricks like they used to a hundred years ago. When I tried to drill some holes in my neighbour's extension wall, the brick kind of crumbled.
Will have to see if I can get some adamantium ones.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jan 31, 2023 21:26:48 GMT
SDS drill?
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Post by nexus6 on Jan 31, 2023 21:30:33 GMT
What are you drilling in to in the garden?
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Post by technoish on Jan 31, 2023 22:43:37 GMT
What are you drilling in to in the garden? My house. |
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Post by technoish on Jan 31, 2023 22:45:00 GMT
just a regular hand drill thing. Ryobi. |
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Post by minimatt on Jan 31, 2023 22:53:02 GMT
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Post by technoish on Jan 31, 2023 23:09:44 GMT
Cheers, I had actually just ordered some Bosch expert bits - there weren't that many options that were also 90mm long. I can just park the bike in the back garden until the bits arrive. For my insurance it needs to be properly anchored to something fixed if publicly accessible. You need to get thru two locked garden gates to get at it at the back and so it counts as private storage. (I have it locked up to some scaffolding current there anyway, with a new Litelok that seems fairly angle grinder proof - have seen videos of people needing like 4 discs per cut, and you need to make two cuts, and that is using a wired grinder. I am a bit paranoid as it's an ebike worth almost £7k incl the accessories! |
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Post by minimatt on Jan 31, 2023 23:15:57 GMT
ouch, yeah wouldn't want that going walkies
if you end up really needing an SDS drill then the titan ones are angry wee beasts that aren't remotely reliable or accurate but will cut a ragged hole in just about anything till they shake themselves and your wrists to bits, and are ~£80
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jan 31, 2023 23:17:07 GMT
I would not trust any bike lock known to man with a £7k bike.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jan 31, 2023 23:18:24 GMT
ouch, yeah wouldn't want that going walkies if you end up really needing an SDS drill then the titan ones are angry wee beasts that aren't remotely reliable or accurate but will cut a ragged hole in just about anything till they shake themselves and your wrists to bits, and are ~£80 You can get a Makita for about £100. SDS drllls are a game changer, if you own a house then buy an SDS drill. |
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Post by X201 on Feb 1, 2023 6:30:01 GMT
If you’re buying an SDS check the cable length, so that you’re not constantly moving an extension lead or struggling to reach high places.
I’ve got the Bosch professional one below, didn’t realise how much of a bonus the 4m lead would be, but it’s brilliant when you’re chiselling plaster off the top of a wall etc
Bosch GBH 2-26 2.7kg Electric SDS Plus 240V
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Post by Dougs on Feb 1, 2023 6:45:49 GMT
I would not trust any bike lock known to man with a £7k bike. Same here. Worth more than most cars! Definitely wouldn't be leaving it out on the street whilst I popped into a shop anyway! |
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Post by technoish on Feb 1, 2023 11:44:57 GMT
It's a fairly big beast of an electric cargo bike, using it as a car replacement (haven't actually used the Audi EV now for like 3 weeks, since we got the bike... Thinking of looking at cheaper alternatives to that now). And it is insured. It's bit more like leaving a motorcycle parked.
Have now ordered that Bosch sds plus drill for pick up from Screwfix. And some sds drill bits because of course regular ones are not compatible.
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Post by jeepers on Feb 1, 2023 11:53:38 GMT
An SDS drill will change your life.
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Post by X201 on Feb 1, 2023 12:14:10 GMT
Yep, you'll wish you'd bought one years ago.
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Post by minimatt on Feb 1, 2023 16:21:33 GMT
genuine curious what you folks are using SDS for? to my mind, a half decent 18v combi drill is superior in every scenario other than demolition, first fix, and blowing through both walls in a cavity wall to duct exterior power/plumbing. I've got a little bit of a drill problem with current collection being, in order of usage:
12v drill driver (bosch gsr12v-35fc, 0.95kg including regular chuck and 3ah battery) 18v impact driver (makita dtd153, 1.53kg including 5ah battery) 18v combi drill (makita dhp484, 1.85kg including 5ah battery) mains combi drill (prehistoric bosch, now lives in a drill press clamp) mains SDS (titan ttb653, 5.9kg) another mains SDS (older titan, technically still works, should really bin)
in 2022 I think I used the SDS once, to dig out a bunch of fence post holes through a concrete pad, the year before that I used it (or its predecessor) a bit more to lift a whole bunch of tiles, the dodgy plaster from a wall, and to install an exterior plug socket. everything else masonry related, essentially god knows how many rawl plugs into engineering brick, dense breeze block, concrete posts, and down, the 18v combi drill is happy banging 6mm holes in all day. anything timber or furniture related and i'm picking up the teeny 12v as first preference.
what secret usage am I missing, aka, what magic phrase can I use with my other half to justify purchasing a nicer, cordless SDS  |
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Feb 1, 2023 16:38:32 GMT
I don't think there's a secret, I suspect you have much more than most of us, I have a cheap and cheerful Makita cordless drill which I've had for about a decade, I bought two replacement battery's in that time and picked up a S/H identical drill for about £10 a while ago with no battery so now I have two drills which is a godsend for working with wood, it does for any wood drilling or screwing, generally speaking.
For about 30 years (god I'm so old) I used a mains B&D drill with a hammer action for anything masonry but often struggled to drill into anything hard even with really good drill bits. So I stumped up for an SDS about a year ago and that now does everything masonry, wish I'd bought one 20 years ago.
I'd quite like an impact driver as my cordless drill does struggle a bit with some screws, I often end up checking they're fully tight by hand but impact drivers aren't exactly cheap.
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Post by nexus6 on Feb 1, 2023 16:55:08 GMT
Agree with Matt - a handheld hammer drill of reasonable power is more than sufficient to drill holes in bricks.
I too have a Makita, at the time the most powerful handheld (blow a man's head clean off) and it's served me well for reasonable amounts of masonry drilling.
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Post by Dougs on Feb 1, 2023 18:00:30 GMT
I want an SDS just because. I don't need one really. I have a crappy Lidl cordless which does for most things and a corded hammer which is fine for masonry, even if it's a bit heavy and unwieldy.
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Post by henroben on Feb 1, 2023 18:25:50 GMT
I've borrowed an SDS drill in the past when I needed to cut some channels for electrical cabling, and it certainly cut them very quickly. Was quite exciting!
But I've never felt any real desire to actually own one and when I needed to cut a channel again I just drilled a few holes with my normal corded B&D that's also about 30 years old and knocked it all out with a hammer and chisel - I thought it would take ages, but actually it didn't seem to take that much longer over all. The SDS created a lot of mess and the hammer & chisel was very neat so it all seemed to even out in the end.
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Post by minimatt on Feb 1, 2023 18:31:21 GMT
oh there's definitely some jobs only they can do, I just find I use one so rarely that I've never considered going beyond the cheapo ones (that titan one is currently £70 including case, a couple of decent chisels and a bunch of so-so bits), wheras I'll spend a bit of money on a combi drill as it gets used several times a week
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