Recent content by kevinr

Noticed your Signature recently, and found this picture today. I take it this is who you had in mind!

Google says thats 3 hours 9 minutes "normally" just to give the guys the measure of your feat. I'm inclined to say "glad you made it alive".

Hey Gary no argument. :) You're talking about the deal on the bosch which is pretty good if you've £200 to throw at it. I was talking about the Ryobi £99 deal being clearance and having only 1.5Ah Nicad, I'd pointed out elsewhere in the thread that searching can find the ryobi 1.7Ah sets on a...

Er. I suspect not - I am assuming they are bundling the nicad only charger with these (clearance?) nicad sets. The Li-ion charger in the li-ion sets, etc will charge the older batteries too though. So an eventual upgrade is more flexible. Ofcourse in a few months (xmas?) the nicad sets will...

Which comes back to my other question on the useful power of sub-18V tools. I remembered a few posts about 14v li-ion being satisfactory, whereas sub-18v nicad has always been criticised for trade/diy/hobby use. You raise a good point about nicads fading in storage and not being ready to go...

A very tasty if more expensive alternative. Not 100% sure a single battery (even Li-ion) is an ideal solution. For others looking for bargains a bit of searching can also bring up a Blue Bosch kit with Combo+Drill/Driver for £181, although that is creeping into another league on price its...

Thanks guys, good thoughts. The biggest downside of the screwfix deal - which presumably is clearance, as the li-ion batteries and green drills take over - is that they are the smaller 1.5Ah batteries instead of the 1.7Ah. But as Pete said at £100 the set its still not bad. There are a few...

I keep being tempted by the current Screwfix headline offer on the Ryobi 18V drills. This one. I know the Li-ion packs are available and there are newer lime-green drills but for this price it looks like a good upgrade for my DIY use. The more branded solutions would probably be overkill for...

I'm not going to take this discussion any further than this post but to justify my comment --- I remembered from the time that he hadn't exactly been welcomed with open arms any more than Dino has been at times. As far as I can search member "pewe" only posted in 7 threads after going public...

He did have a website at www.eztooling.co.uk Google was finding it as recently at June 2009 but its been taken down since then. The site was setup in 2007 so he may have had a bit of a run at it. Just found the site was mirrored at EZSmart.eu - which is still half there - the contacts...

As a very occasional poster I thought this might add to this thread: Axminster Offer - not ali? I went looking to see what you guys were comparing and this deal dropped out. Happy Shopping! PS: Today 13/05/09 the choice gets even better Rutlandshave a set of 6 54" steel sash clamps on...

It sounds like the safety and trigger had both been engaged while it was unplugged - in the toolbox or whatever - this then left the mechanism unlatched/activated. Just waiting to fire. So when you plugged it in bang. I'd always assumed these devices used the power to arm the mechanism and...

If you have a phone line and broadband or a pc that could use a mobile broadband connection then you could add something like: Edimax IC-3010 (or 3010Wg) Edimax IC-7000PT or (7000PTn) Ycam White, Black or Knight They are all webcams - some with infrared. Correctly setup they will even email...

All (Many?) of the IKEA beds and bunks rely on Bolts and Barrel Nuts. You can pay wildly different prices for the Nuts. When I needed a few to repair/modify an IKEA bunk bought secondhand they were in boxes of 100 from screwfix at 2p each plus lots of postage or £1.24 EACH in B&Q bagged in...

DHL seem to make a lot of effort on the VAT/Duty front. I'm not sure if they get watched harder by Customs and Excise or if they like the income from the fees part of the job. Years ago I received some software free for the cost of the shipping. DHL still claimed the VAT on the shipping (a...