So RDG can't supply the correct spare blades to fit the holder they sell!
That's pretty poor service!
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That's pretty poor service!
Dutch Welder
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Today (well, yesterday actually) I acquired a working hot water 3 phase pressure washer (Nilfisk Neptune 4) which had it's heater missing.
I already had a Neptune 4 with a good heater and single phase pump, but the rest was missing/damaged.
So I merged the 2 together to get a working heated 3 phase pressure washer.
Had some trouble getting the burner to fire, after finding out the anti scaling float was actually undone from it's mounting and not measuring at all I bypassed that and adjusted the ignitor electrodes (they were about 10 mm above the fuel injector,instead of 5 mm below it) and it fired right up.
There was more then enough soot coming out of the burner to christen the next 100 popes (but they use white smoke, this smoke was black as tar) so after consulting the service manual I opened up the air flap, and the burner cleared itself.
Quite funny how you can hear the burner getting better or worse with to much/little air.
Still need to measure the CO content, but the equipment needed for that is at work, and I have a 3 week holiday)
I cleaned the garden/patio walkways a few weeks ago with a consumer Nilfisk (140 ish bar) and today I had a go at it with the 180 bar Neptune, and it shifted a lot more dirt,even without using hot water.
I am in it about 300 quid, and some hours of work. If I can flog on the 230v washer as spares/repair (though it actually works perfectly as a cold water unit) I will be in it even less.
I already had a Neptune 4 with a good heater and single phase pump, but the rest was missing/damaged.
So I merged the 2 together to get a working heated 3 phase pressure washer.
Had some trouble getting the burner to fire, after finding out the anti scaling float was actually undone from it's mounting and not measuring at all I bypassed that and adjusted the ignitor electrodes (they were about 10 mm above the fuel injector,instead of 5 mm below it) and it fired right up.
There was more then enough soot coming out of the burner to christen the next 100 popes (but they use white smoke, this smoke was black as tar) so after consulting the service manual I opened up the air flap, and the burner cleared itself.
Quite funny how you can hear the burner getting better or worse with to much/little air.
Still need to measure the CO content, but the equipment needed for that is at work, and I have a 3 week holiday)
I cleaned the garden/patio walkways a few weeks ago with a consumer Nilfisk (140 ish bar) and today I had a go at it with the 180 bar Neptune, and it shifted a lot more dirt,even without using hot water.
I am in it about 300 quid, and some hours of work. If I can flog on the 230v washer as spares/repair (though it actually works perfectly as a cold water unit) I will be in it even less.
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But,but,but...those are Frenchgot excited and confused then, read that as mi16 engine
French and bulletproof? Nah!
oldbikedavey
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That's poor! Please make sure to leave them negative feedback stating the issue. Most people buying tools from RDG are not in a position to modify tooling to suit and they'll only know what they're getting if you share your experience.
Personally, I'd claim a refund from paypal too. It's only £6.50, but from the images in the listing, it's tantamount to a Temu scam.
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Mrs Robo, bless her knows I like to get branded stuff such as spanners with the Lister logo to display with my stationary engines, found me some BSA marked spanners to go with my newly acquired Bantam 
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So RDG can't supply the correct spare blades to fit the holder they sell!
That's pretty poor service!
Very poor. I'd say go and order from. Arc Euro for better customer service but they've packed in doing the tools coz Ketan wants to retire.
They say that the holder/blade combo is not their own and come as a pair thus you only get that blade with that holder so they just sell these other blades and the picture is terrible but does look like a there's a slight bevel but it's probably the camera angle. You'd think they'd stock the blades for the holders they sell otherwise you'll just have to start collecting holders for each new blade!
"the one in the holder comes loaded in the holder, ready to use and is from a different supplier than the individual blades. The individual blades are not beveled"
The description is useless as well, even on their website it's empty of useful info and the same single picture.
definitely not buying from them again.
She spoils you.Mrs Robo, bless her knows I like to get branded stuff such as spanners with the Lister logo to display with my stationary engines, found me some BSA marked spanners to go with my newly acquired Bantam
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I’m going to show my wife this post. Along with a Ferrari screw driver that I have - who knows what might happen?
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One Makita MP001 air inflator. Seems very good, decent weight to it and decent flow of air out. I shall test it on car tyres soon.
Makita sell these in a stupidly oversized box with no internal packaging, rattling around, the plastic insert does not even fit the tool.
I'll try to find a hard cloth type case for storing it in the car.
Makita sell these in a stupidly oversized box with no internal packaging, rattling around, the plastic insert does not even fit the tool.
I'll try to find a hard cloth type case for storing it in the car.
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julianthegypsy
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IKt was yesterday. I acquired, WORKSPACE!!! I was fed up of not having any worksurfaces, so set to and cleared/put away. Threw away wood off cuts, random bits of metal
and other assorted crap that I had dumped on there. vacuumed the floor and I can walk around a bit now. It's a rare photo of the inside of the workshop. Good job I did it as I had a commission for a medieval box come in last night.
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Nice bit of product placement there Dave!
By the way, are you up at the Royal Oak this year, first weekend of August?
If we ignore they are using the cheap variant with fewer letters, I wonder what "aircraft aluminium" is?
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I'm trying to do the same but I've got no time really
I don't recommend having what I had, just to get some time off!
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I did think they were plastic at firstIf we ignore they are using the cheap variant with fewer letters, I wonder what "aircraft aluminium" is?
