Tip for Bosch PMF Multi Tool

Not quite sure how this is any better than using a jigsaw with a blade snapped off so it only just cuts to the required depth? At least the blades for those are cheap enough.

Think how much cooler it would be to have the pro cordless version...

What is wrong with using a Stanley knife? Quick, cheap, and no chance of cutting into anything underneath.

Yerbut, nobut, yerbut - because I hadn't thought of that! Doh!

Thank you Mr P.

It's also useful for cutting across a board to lift it - if it goes under a wall, etc. Mark across a joist - avoiding nails - and no need for a pilot hole. Pivot the jigsaw so the blade starts off near parallel to the board and slowly move to the normal cutting position - most jigsaws have a rounded front on the bed to allow this easily.

I always regard cordless power tools as rather amateur...

What if you are several miles from the nearest power supply and have to drill some holes for some bolts in a viewing platform?

You get the sparks to run you a feed from the genny...

Anyone who agrees to take on a job they obviously cannot do (for whatever reason) isn't much of a professional.

Frank's a real man. Wouldn't be caught dead with a power tool. Does all his joinery with a handsaw and an axe. And bites bricks in half.

I usually use the semi circular blade. Full depth is usually enough iunless the boards are thicker than usual.

I usually remove two boards initially, then you can often spring out without cutting the toungue (or just the tip if the boards are tight).

How did you dispose of the nails? that's often the biggest time waster.

I got my last from Rapid Electronics at a reasonable price.

Dispose as in remove from boards? Claw hammer. Dispose as in get rid of? Left them under the floor :-)

The Medway Handyman coughed up some electrons that declared:

As pennence for thy sins, thou shalt come unto my house and removeth the crap that someone liketh yourself left under my floor!

;->

Oh, and could you hoover up the corpses while you're there?

Decades ago I watched with envy some shopfitters putting up an illuminated sign on a shopfront using one of the (then) new-fangled 24V Bosch SDS machines. They were about £250 then: prolly about the only 'amateur' who'd have had one in those days might have been Mr Hall.

Although I think it's really very unprofessional to leave crap under the floorboards, I have found odd items such as lemonade bottles dating from the early '70s which have proven useful as vernacular theatre props.

I'm not sure what was available in 1994, but I assume that a generator could have been taken along a track a few miles or dropped by helicopter. I'd have used a brace and bit because I'm such a cheapskate. 14 people died partly because somebody didn't have a suitable power drill:

The only time I saw one of those was when BT came to drill a hole through my wall. After watching him for about 10 minutes I got my mains B&D quattro drill out and put the hole in for him. The B&D took about 2 mins while he only got about an inch in ten. Not that the bricks are hard. ;-)

I think the 8J 1500W lidl SDS might take a brick out rather quicker than that now.

I like the old newspapers you find.