These drill bits are worth the money from Aldi.

crap either.

But you wouldn't want to eat anything from Cadburys would you.

As it happens Lidl were selling some very nice fruit juices that were a lot better quality than Tesco or Sinsbury had. And as it hapens they were cheaper. The same is true of their crisps. Not that I eat crisps. I tried them and they were very good.

Some of the stuff there is rubbish and some of it isn't. You can say that about all supermarkets.

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Shops in general. Ikea have some smashing stuff - and a vast amount of crap too.

|On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:04:47 +0100, Dave Fawthrop wrote: | |> This years Lidl Stollen are IMO the *best* I have ever bought in the UK, |> and cheap. | |I can hear your arteries creaking from here. | |Good to see that you enjoy the pikey high sugar high fat rush.

You clearly have no idea of the recipe of a Stollen.

On that subject, which of the various grindstone attachments for re-sharpening twist drills actually work?

I agree, and have you noticed how they are shifting hundreds of them now? I developed a taste for Stollen while living in Germany in the 80s and ten years ago about the only place where one could get them in Britain was in the larger Tescos, and they had about 6 for the whole Christmas period.

There are actually a whole variety of recipes, but most are, indeed high fat and high sugar.

Could well be - I buy tubes of jobber drills in the smaller sizes at autojumbles, etc. But for general DIY this probably isn't practical, and if you buy them singly at a tool merchant they will cost a great deal.

That Lidl set I bought was simply superb value for money and I wish I'd bought several.

None well without a deal of skill, IMHO. I'd say there's a market for a decent one.

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Having tried re-sharpening twist bits with gizmos I've always gone back to doing it by hand on an ordinary grindstone. Seems to work well enough for me.

A porker too.

wooden box. Great value and they work well enough.

I have no problem with Aldi and Lidl stuff. You get more than what you pay for.

It was 25 years ago and Spain was a lot poorer in those days The oil was sold "loose" door to door in the slums of Madrid, a practise which was common at that time and this disease had never happened before. There is plenty of cheap (poor quality but not poisonous) oil on the market in Spain that comes from North Africa, the users probably thought that's what they were getting.

It's quite likely that country folk or more affluent city folk might have been able to identify the oil as crap stuff.

Even today in this country supposedly savvy people buy de-colourised Red Diesel, apparently unaware that the agent used to de-colourise the fuel remains as a contaminant in the fuel and will cause excess wear on injectors, cylinder bores etc.

DG

I've never had one as good as the ones I make. All others taste artificial.

Mary

Green and Blacks is part of Cadbury.

Mary

Mary

Ah! Now you say value for money, that is another subject again :-)

At the end of the day, you have to consider what you will be using the drills for. For instance, many years ago I had a Mini and as you may well know, the brake adjusters were very prone to rusting up. This one had the usual rounded corners and the Mole grips would not budge it either. So I tried an easy out. That snapped in the adjuster, leaving me with no way to get it out... Until I got my hands on a solid tungsten carbide drill. It went through the easy out like it was drilling butter. I have since mislaid this drill, but I would have no hesitation in buying another if I needed to drill some hard metal.

Am I correct in thinking that you have a Rover SD? Wasn't that the model that replaced the Rover 3500? Or was there another model in-between? I used to have a 3500. Best car I ever owned. Those leather seats were just like sitting in your favourite armchair :-)

Dave

Not only for hard metal - I use tungsten drills for PCBs which are glass fibre. But they are so small and brittle they can only really be used in a drill press.

I'd guess yours was actually called 3.5 litre - a P5, like Maggie Thatcher had when PM? The 3500 designation was used for the smaller bodied one - the P6 which started life as a 2000. The SD1 also has 3500 models, and mine is the last made variant of that - a Vanden Plas EFI.

Do you do mail order?

LOL! I would but I'm going to be a trifle disabled in the run-up to this Christmas.

More toe surgery :-(

Mary