Air tools at Lidl

[DanielW]

Those shears look handy? never bought tools from Lidl just Aldi mainly because its on my door step kinda thing so wouldn't know about the parkside brand.

http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?id=384

 

[Wedg1e]

Hmmm, needle descaler... I suspect at this end of the market they're all much of a muchness; certainly some of the Aldi stuff I've got it a dead ringer for the same kit sold in the Mart of Machinery at up to 3 times the price but 1/3rd the warranty!

I have the Aldi shears and as long as you use them within their limitations they work fine. I trimmed some vinyl-coated steel sheet cladding a couple of weeks ago; a job that wasn't worth firing up the plasma for.

 

[zx9]

I bought the Aldi version of that a couple of years ago. On the first one the moving blade snapped as soon as it was used on thin Zintec and was exchanged in store, the replacement has been used a few times without any problems.

 

[Andy_P]

Anyone know if the impact wrench is worthwhile? I've got a Draper 14.4v gun that gets 90% of what I need to get undone but every now and then I'm left wanting a bit more juice. Aldi gun is rated at 310Nm

My battery gun - rated to 176Nm
http://www.rapidonline.com/tools-eq...impact-wrench-with-two-ni-cd-batteries-312539

 

[richie00boy]

I guess you ean the Lidl impact gun? I have that one, it is fine as a tool but with my 50 litre 3hp compressor I can only manage one good burst.

 

[Andy_P]

Yup its the gun rather than the air ratchet I'm looking at.

I've also only got a 50L / 3hp compressor at the moment...

 

[marlinspike]

It would be helpful if Lidl put the minimum cfm needed for each tool. One of the annoying things about Aldi is that when they sell the 24l compressors they have a load of air tools next to them that won't run with it, like a sand blasting kit.

 

[DanielW]

6.3 bar max working pressure it says.

 

[masleeve]

I will be adding to my collection, impact gun and sander.
I did get the shears last time round but they died due to abuse , they are great for flat sheet , just don't use them on anything too thick and if cutting out of a vehicle just watch out for bracing.

 

[cr500dom]

Hopefully there will be some stuff left as I won't be back in the country until Friday night

 

[anjum]

Popped into Lidl this morning to buy the descaler.....Doh!!

 

[monkeymark]

Hmmm, those shears may come in handy.

 

[Wedg1e]

I got my needle scaler; came in useful to get at some areas of the rear of the TVR's chassis this weekend where even the combined manual dexterity of Rolf, Stuart and that bloke who played Len Fairclough couldn't have got a Dremel flexi-drive.
I was in the local Lidl early doors and some of the air tools were only available in twos and threes; I don't know that they only put a few out to stop bulk-buyers so maybe that was all they had; there was a mountain of air compressors, hose reels and the tyre inflators though.

 

[cr500dom]

Managed to get the hose reel, another inflator set and a DA Sander on Saturday morning, but no compressors left at any of the 4 stores I visited