The Tool Drool Thread

[Uys]

I got this one for free yesterday.

Give me a week and I'll post the fixed up photos.

[Marcochezzi]

Is that poor quality if you cant cut steel. How much and how long did you wait.

@plunger, I made myself some new NAB adapters for one of my reel to reel recorders this weekend, not completely finished yet, but part of the process is machining 2 small bronze collets, which included using the slitting saw for the first time ever, and I must say that slitting blade made a complicated job a walk in the park..

Very happy, I know I was only cutting bronze, but the process was like a hot knife through butter..

Also got to use the new aluminium cutting carbide tips I had ordered at the same time I ordered the slitting saw blades, since the 10 odd my father had given me before he left our borders for the far north some 14 years ago are now done and dusted, and I must say, they worked flawlessly..

Pity about the operator...

[mullerza]

Thought this may be of interest to someone, I don't know the seller so not vouching for the person

Makita DHP458, DTW190, DTD152Z + charger + 3 x 3ah batteries - R9k - he may even be negotiable.
(retail for the tools is over R11k)

https://carbonite.co.za/index.php?th...-combo.347749/

[Prof]

Gents, how about pics of your work areas/ workshops? Can always learn from somebody or at least drool. Those with a full range of Dewalt cordless need not post.....😜

I recently redid my whole woodwork shop.
Refurbished some old equipment that was in storage, made router table and clamp a-frame and changed benches and built large centre workbench.

This all in a 5.6x4.6m space

(Not the best video, not my forte)

[hatjohan]

I recently redid my whole woodwork shop.
Refurbished some old equipment that was in storage, made router table and clamp a-frame and changed benches and built large centre workbench.

This all in a 5.6x4.6m space

(Not the best video, not my forte)

May I please inherit that Dewalt radial arm?

PS. I can almost smell that workshop

[ViperR]

Nice PROF

[Marcochezzi]

I recently redid my whole woodwork shop.
Refurbished some old equipment that was in storage, made router table and clamp a-frame and changed benches and built large centre workbench.

This all in a 5.6x4.6m space

(Not the best video, not my forte)

Oh man that is so nice Prof, had to go to my garage and wipe off the lathe again after I saw that...

That's just proper..!!

[Prof]

May I please inherit that Dewalt radial arm?

PS. I can almost smell that workshop

I'll put your name on it

[Uys]

[jaconell]

Ja, that's it. I am putting you on my "ignore" list.🤢

[ViperR]

Ja Uys ek gaan jou ook maar blok.

[Spiceman]

Ja, that's it. I am putting you on my "ignore" list.

I think I hate Uys.

[Uys]

Ja, that's it. I am putting you on my "ignore" list.🤢

Ja Uys ek gaan jou ook maar blok.

I think I hate Uys.

That's kind of rude - don't you think?

[jaconell]

That's kind of rude - don't you think?

Not if you consider that 5 minutes prior to seeing your pics I was in my little workshop surrounded by Ryobi tools..... 😇

[Spiceman]

That's kind of rude - don't you think? >

Don't worry. I will forgive you for buying all this Milwaukee tools.
I'm so upset, I can't even spel that name.

[jaconell]

Some things in life is not really quality dependant when you use it.

The quality of the brandy in the 6th double at the braai matters naught.......

But some things in life just becomes so much more of a pleasure when quality is a given.

A good pair of boots.
A good fishing reel.
A good watch.

But most of all - tools. I am a self-taught tinkerer and the one wisdom I am teaching my son - build up your tool selection slowly but buy the best there is. Wish somebody told me when I was young.

[Spiceman]

Some things in life is not really quality dependant when you use it.

The quality of the brandy in the 6th double at the braai matters naught.......

But some things in life just becomes so much more of a pleasure when quality is a given.

A good pair of boots.
A good fishing reel.
A good watch.

But most of all - tools. I am a self-taught tinkerer and the one wisdom I am teaching my son - build up your tool selection slowly but buy the best there is. Wish somebody told me when I was young.

So true. "So 'n bek kort jem".

[mullerza]

NICE!!!!!!

Let us know how it performs

[mullerza]

Some things in life is not really quality dependant when you use it.

The quality of the brandy in the 6th double at the braai matters naught.......

But some things in life just becomes so much more of a pleasure when quality is a given.

A good pair of boots.
A good fishing reel.
A good watch.

But most of all - tools. I am a self-taught tinkerer and the one wisdom I am teaching my son - build up your tool selection slowly but buy the best there is. Wish somebody told me when I was young.

a million percent. Thats one lesson I did NOT learn from my dad - he only ever bought Makita/Metabo and I have some his powertools still going strong decades later. Stupidly I chose the cheep and plentiful route when I started buying tools chucking them as they break and only recently did the penny drop for me and I'm going though the financially painful process of upgrading my tools.

The joy of using a proper tool far outlasts the pain of its purchase price

[Francois Theron]

I got this one for free yesterday.

Give me a week and I'll post the fixed up photos.

Hopefully the new Milwaukee tools will speed up the process