ah silverline never fails

[Ashley Burton]

Just to add suppliers also sell it due to high profit margins

 

[Am333rcr]

to be fair i did just pick the cheapest. it was from tool station.

even if they are cheap enough to do the job and chuck them. It still did do the job.

i dont like our disposible culture to make it clear though.

 

[Memmeddu]

I took it back and bought another make (Italian it think) and its still working fine. Who sold that Silverline junk?

Brand?

 

[Nick DV]

Why do people buy this trash?

That's what I think, but a while back I was doing a job miles away from home, needed a wood plane and didn't have one with me. I shot to the local T/S and purchased a Silverline no4 plane for around £12 ish. Was surprised to find that it was very sharp and pretty well set up. Anyway it did the job, and since then I've re-sharpened it, set it up, used & abused it and it's still going strong Maybe it was a one off, but it's can hold it's own against my Stanley/Record planes.

Having said all of that, I usually don't buy Silverline tools

 

[Nick DV]

i dont like our disposible culture to make it clear though.

As long as you put it in the metal recycling bin, you'll still go to heaven

 

[Agroshield]

...I just cut the resin tube for the last holes.

The polyester resins get very hard to pump as the temperature drops. If you don't want forearms like Popeye, warming the tubes a bit before use will help.

 

[Am333rcr]

hi

i knew the stuff would be hard to get out the tubes. it was a cool day.
I had being giving it a warm up and it stiil broke

 

[cheb]

Were you using a suitable gun for the product, they have different leverage ratios depending on the product being squeezed.

Another vote for Cox guns here.

 

[Am333rcr]

i think it was the correct one. any way its all good .

i got the job done and my money back

 

[steveo3002]

In my experience Silverline always fails.

guaranteed tools


guaranteed to disappoint that is

 

[johnakay]

I've got a pressed steel one.had for nearly 40 years.
I wont part with it.

 

[dyno-tron]

The junk silverline stuff is available as lots of different brands (Rolson, Draper etc) at various prices , sometimes quite high. So you go for the more expensive item but it's still the same complete junk.

The problem is - it's quite often difficult to find decent quality gear, generally available, that isn't 3 x the price of the junk item!

 

[dobbslc]

@Memmeddu
Looks like this from screwfix.

https://www.screwfix.com/c/sealants-adhesives/expanding-foam-guns/cat850112

 

[julianf]

My mastic gun is exactly the one I wanted... It's not availible in the UK. I had to watch out for it on eBay and then get it shipped from the states.

I don't even use mastic much generally but I had a job where I was swapping in a new tube every 10 mins or so, and I bought it for that.

Sitting here now I can't even remember the brand, but it's a pnumatic one that dumps the pressure when the trigger is released, so it stops dead. And when the trigger is on, you get a smooth, even bead, without the blobbyness you get as you pump a manual one.

One of those tools that's just right.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Buy cheap.
Buy twice.

Or with my last boss.
Who swore by s.hitline tools.
By 10 times.
The meters he used to buy were rubbish.
As I test.
I took five from the last order and tested them on a 12v40ah battery.
My Fluke indicated.
12.78v.

The new ones measured from 11 6v to 13.5.
With one so un-steady I could not get an average reading.

 

[Domdom]

Hate Silverline tools. Tried a 9" polisher (slow running version of a grinder) which looked to be a Makita clone. My Makita is still OK after over 15 years of use, the Silverline clone lasted about 2 years of secondary use, mainly to save changing heads on the Makita. So not exactly extensive use.

The issue for me is being able to avoid buying these cheap clone tools without having to do extensive research every time. The time was when one could buy something with Draper written on it and it was a good tool. Same thing with many other brands. Nowadays it's hard to tell. Even some seriously expensive brands (Snap on being one) have tools which are made in China.

 

[Maker]

Buy cheap.
Buy twice.

Or with my last boss.
Who swore by s.hitline tools.
By 10 times.
The meters he used to buy were rubbish.
As I test.
I took five from the last order and tested them on a 12v40ah battery.
My Fluke indicated.
12.78v.

The new ones measured from 11 6v to 13.5.
With one so un-steady I could not get an average reading.

Sh!tline tickled me. Cheap metrology gear is even more of a false economy than normal cheap tools as you'll always be second guessing the measurements and/or scrapping parts, before you even get to buying twice.

 

[earthman]

I had to buy some AF spanners earlier this year to rebuild a rotavator, bought a small set of S/line combination spanners to do the job and i cannot fault them, i don't use them professionally so in the right context they were good enough for me, they got some abuse and lived to tell the tale. I now have a few more AF ring and combination spanners (Gordon and a few other makes) given to me and yes you can tell that they are better quality but would they have done the job any better i doubt it, would they last longer probably but the cheap spanners did the job and will be put away with the other.

I agree, sometimes you get tools that are OK and still get the job done. Silverline products do generally look the worst to me though, I'd rather buy Lidl or Aldi tools for example.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Sh!tline tickled me. Cheap metrology gear is even more of a false economy than normal cheap tools as you'll always be second guessing the measurements and/or scrapping parts, before you even get to buying twice.

Worse I could pass a fire alarm system when it was not safe.

 

[My Old Landy]

For one off jobs I buy rubbish and then usually chuck it away. Most of my best tools are second hand from half a century or more ago