Anvil lopper spares

[Bill]

So I seem to have thrown out the paperwork, and Aldi have been useless.

I have a telescopic anvil lopper from them that has been marvellous, but the anvil has now sheared off. It's a simple bolt-on part and would be a

10 second job to replace, but Aldi don't show these loppers on their website and the store manager couldn't help. He remembered these loppers and says they were badged as "Gardenline", but Gardenline is a front for loads of manufacturers or importers. Today I've rung 4, but they all deny responsibility, and I can only take so much music on hold.

The label on them just says "TELE" in big letters. They look similar to some advertised under the Draper name.

I suppose no-one can provide any clues about where to look for a new anvil?

[Bob Minchin]

Should be fairly ease to fashion a replacement from some brass or hard aluminium. I'm pretty sure the anvil cutting action is a hardened blade bearing on a sacrificially soft anvil. Our secateurs certainly are.

Bob

[Bill]

Well, yes, but it would be so much easier to find the right part if someone somewhere has a shelf full of them. Several, maybe similar, incarnations of these devices seem to be sold as having replaceable anvils. The point really is that, if any unit bought for a pittance comes with a throw-away cardboard label, and is badged as a certain "maker", it would be nice to be able to track down the actual supplier.

This lopper probably cost me under a tenner and, as I say, has been brilliant. Now I'll have to make a path through the junk in the shed, find some raw material, take all the rubbish off the milling machine and drill and set to in unbearable heat.

Shame Aldi haven't got the lopper/pruners in their trays at the moment.

[Bob Minchin]

Yes it would be nice but the sort of supply chain system that can sell well made loppers at a tenner, possibly can't support a spares back up organisation and stock on the off chance that someone will want one.

I think this is why those sort of products (cheepy from aldi) with motors in quite often supply a spare set of brushes in the box. Easier to do that that stock spares.

Bob

PS make a note to insulate your workshop. It is nearly 30 outside and my shop is a tolerable 20 inside this morning.