MattF
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Anything with Silverline on it.
Some of their gear isn't actually too bad. You can tell it's made to a price, but it works.
Anything with Silverline on it.
Ah yes, I've had one of those since I started riding motorcycles in the 1980s... invaluable for shearing off or mangling the cross-point heads of the monkey-metal screws they insisted on using back then.We always knew them as an "Impact Driver".
Modern solders are intended to melt at higher temperatures, but the soldering iron makers haven't caught up yet. The hot air SMD rework stations usually include an iron that can go to 400C or even higher, but an old plug-in Antex will do well to hit 280C.Here's one bugbear though. Electronic solder that won't melt and won't wick in or stick. This new lead free stuff, it's crap. The old leaded stuff actually does the job.
And terrible performance.
That's mad compared to the genuine Makita jobby, price wise. It needs a "Project Farm" comparisonbah, i just use this
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The worst ones are when the handles are so un ergonomically designed that when the rivet eventually breaks you manage to hit the tip of your fingers on the other handle, sometimes quite violently.
I have a pair you squeeze. But I cannot squeeze them single handed. When the do close up they tend to trap an important fleshy part
Never had much luck with those tools for loosening things, you hit with a hammer. Can't think of the name in English.
I bought an impact driver from a charity shop probably about 10 years ago, still in the box, unused. Guess what, it’s still in the box unused. That was a waste of 3 quid then, thought it would be handy at the time.I've got an impact driver still looks like brand new and I've had it over 40 years. It has been used to good effect to snap heads off many stuck screws and is an invaluable tool.
I've a Silverline nail gun, and a framing gun. Both pneumatic, both have worked well.Some of their gear isn't actually too bad. You can tell it's made to a price, but it works.
Crowd of cheating *******'* (big flat coarse files).Hope no-one else was stupid enough to buy a set of these.
Look good in the advert but uselss after cutting a few bits of light guage sheet metal.
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To be fair I've got one of their chop saw adjustable height roller stand things that's been ok for a couple of years BUT on the first one a weld snapped first use, I suppose that says it all about the sort of quality you get, it's pot luckI've a Silverline nail gun, and a framing gun. Both pneumatic, both have worked well.
Brains that turn to putty at the most inopportune moments.Yes, that's what I was looking for, but my brain has turned to putty.