Cheap tools that work

[Guest123]

These at number 3 surely.....

 

[eddielarge]

Magnamole what a waste of time.And a coat hanger before super rods



A top 5,what great idea.
1.Box cutters
2.Magnamole
Whats next...........

No 3 the device CEF tried to sell that you drilled through and it collected dust...

 

[rocker]

Hang on, people actually bought that crap? I have known about this product now for precisely seven seconds, and I can tell you it will be useless.

Anyone remember those 'admail plymouth' adverts in the nineties? Gator Grip springs to mind. I wonder if anyone on here had one?

EDIT: They are doing that drilling-through-dust-collector thing in the local poundland now. When i used to smoke I found a pack of ten lambert PVC taped to the wall worked quite well....

EDIT VOLUME TWO: lenny that link ain't working dude.

 

[UNG]

It made my blood boil when i watched the pitch on the den, almost as much as when the guy pitched and got funding for chock boxes

The guy with the choc box didn't want the money he just wanted the marketing expertise to expand into international markets if I remember correctly

 

[pennywise]

Good point I wouldn't have given him any

These at number 3 surely.....

I did have a pair of thought's they broke in two days used to call them terradactyl strippers

I use these now

CK T3942 Automatic Wire Stripper - Hand Tools & Storage, Pliers, Wire Strippers

 

[gaffer]

Had to google gator grip,never heard of it .Still plenty of people still trying to sell off old stock!

4.Those silly little plastic SWA stripping tools.Why invent a tool to replace a tool that is better anyway.

 

[pennywise]

Funny thing was about a year before that SWA stripper came out I tried my dads pipe cutter on some cable just to see if it would work, oh well there's always the next big thing i suppose

 

[gaffer]

Sorry again Eddie we've ended up talking about tools that dont work lol !

 

[rocker]

Gator Grip was a device that eliminated the need for a full socket set by way of getting one massive socket filled with dozens of retractable SEWING PINS. You pushed this thing onto a bolt (even a rounded or corroded bolt) and the pins supposedly gripped the bolt so you could tighten/loosen it.

I see stuff now and again on the shopping channels (me and the missus often watch them to comment bitterly on the jewelery) and some of the stuff nearly sucks me in. Like theres this magic saw thing, with a diamond encrusted string for a blade, and this fella is demonstrating cutting crazy shapes into porcelain tiles by hand. Or these wrenches that have a hinged bit on that you can just slap them onto a bolt on a pipe and it will support your own weight. It takes my whole willpower to resist buying them, but they must fall apart in two seconds otherwise why would they be on bid up TV?

 

[eddielarge]

Sorry again Eddie we've ended up talking about tools that dont work lol !

LOL, also the oozie box i think its called ,, its just extention rings for flush boxs . but someone puts a name to it and in now rich (maybe) a bit like mega rod they just ripped off the plumbers pipes

 

[pennywise]

Ok one cheap tool that has worked time and again is my chalk line £5. I've even pushed the boat out and got two one with blue chalk, the other with white specially for freshly plastered unpainted ceiling so the decorator doesn't have to go over the ceiling a million times to get rid of the lines.

 

[rocker]

'Ang on a minute I use a pipe cutter on SWA it works fine for me. I guess I have a superior pipe cutter (though I doubt it, i think it cost a pound. It must just be me)

 

[pennywise]

'Ang on a minute I use a pipe cutter on SWA it works fine for me. I guess I have a superior pipe cutter (though I doubt it, i think it cost a pound. It must just be me)

I used mine on a tiny bit of 1.5 three core swa the outer sheath kept getting ruffled up and prevented the pipe cutter turning. I suppose I'm just not that

 

[rocker]

Do you use chalk lines to line up D/Ls etc then? Is that the thing where theres a bit of string with chalk on it and you twang it to the surface to create a line?

I use a laser but it is well annoying the battery keeps going on it.

Do you rotate the pipe cutter towards it's 'guiding wheels' or away from? I always go away from them, and use them only to keep the line straight, rather than using them as an anchor point to press against as most plumbers seem to (now that plumbers don't solder anything)

Do you rotate the pipe cutter towards it's 'guiding wheels' or away from? I always go away from them, and use them only to keep the line straight, rather than using them as an anchor point to press against as most plumbers seem to (now that plumbers don't solder anything)

 

[eddielarge]

Do you use chalk lines to line up D/Ls etc then? Is that the thing where theres a bit of string with chalk on it and you twang it to the surface to create a line?

I use a laser but it is well annoying the battery keeps going on it.

Do you rotate the pipe cutter towards it's 'guiding wheels' or away from? I always go away from them, and use them only to keep the line straight, rather than using them as an anchor point to press against as most plumbers seem to (now that plumbers don't solder anything)

Do you rotate the pipe cutter towards it's 'guiding wheels' or away from? I always go away from them, and use them only to keep the line straight, rather than using them as an anchor point to press against as most plumbers seem to (now that plumbers don't solder anything)

I now feel old as i thought every sparks had a chalk line , but the new breed use lasers.

i do use lasers but still revert back to chalk line unless there is an issue with marking a painted ceiling.