Lidl Saws

I can recommend that people SHOLUD NOT buy the "hammer drill" or the "Distance finder", at Aldi as both are faulty items.

/makes a note not to touch aldi and lidl s**te.

SHOULD NOT :-P

What is it about your sort that has to srtrip woodchip paper?

More to the point, why with a saw?

Why what with a saw? Srtrip?

Why/how do you strip paper with a saw?

You use it to score the surface before steaming/soaking.

Why? I assume this is the recent SDS drill, What did you find wrong with yours?

Where shall I start, Mmmm! It uses a SDS chuck for standard and cannot be removed, to use the standard key chuck you have to slot it into the SDS chuck..(not a good way to use a drill), the centrifugal axis goes bananas when you put a large lenght drill bit in the SDS chuck, the hammer chisel mode does not work,the reverse/forward mode has poor locking,its noisy probably due to the centrifugal axis being poor precision within the gears.

Took it back and got a refund.

Oh dear, this does sound bad. When you mention that the hammer chisel does not work, was that just on your unit that the hammer action was fault.

I have tried mine and it certainly seems to work but then I never used an SDS drill before so not sure what normal performance is.

The tool has a guarantee, and was cheap, so I am inclined to work on my diy job and if it proves useless after a couple of weeks I can return it then.

Dunno, once bitten twice shy.

SDS is just a quick release clamp in the chuck jaws, no difference in the drill as to the standard drills.

The only reason I'm after a cheap drill was to take the burden of my Makita. Dunno where you are but Taskers in Liverpool have a JCB 800W jobby for £16.99, reduced from £39.99 and was a toss up between the Aldi and the JCB, I now have the JCB and its a whole lot better than the Aldi(builderbob job).

Something tells me ypou habve not bought an SDS. The JCB I was looking at in Argos, was quite expensive. Get me one will you?

A few seriously aerobic moments with a short bladed saw will save hours of tedium. Use it to saw through the woodchips in a painted, woodchip wallpapered wall and you will have the room stripped in a couple of hours and feel fresh enough to start painting or re-papering after a cuppa.

Any old saw will do but a short bladed on is easier to handle and this thing has fairly good feel to the teeth too.

I'll let you know how it rates next week.

I didn't set out to buy an SDS, it was just I need a cheap drill, I chose the aldi model and found out I bought some crap! so it was money back time.

This model.. JCBD HD860, £29.99 not too bad at £16.99. :-) might not be SDS but its the rolls royce over Aldi's. lol

Why bother? The Makita should outlast half a dozen cheap drills even if used hard.

Like the DHSS said to quasimodo when he went for help finacially...

"Sorry we cant help you out, you have something to fall back on". :-)

Could be, but JCB small power tools are nothing to do with JCB excavators. It's just one of the names used by Alba on stuff they source from the Far East:

" Alba sells its products under such brands as Alba, Answercall, Betacom, Bush, Cable & Wireless (licensed), Dirt Devil (in Europe, licensed), Goodmans, Harvard, Hinari, JCB (licensed), NTL, Roadstar, and Viva. The company outsources its manufacturing to plants in Asia and Europe"

With less set than a second hand Jack saw, about all this bloody thing is fit for is cutting plasterboard and for stripping wall paper. Pity really as the teeth are sharp enough.

For the latter, make a notched stick as an handle for the other end of the blade by shaving a bit of 2 x 2 and cutting at an angle into one end of it for about an inch or so.