Aldi & air tools

You would think so looking at the website

Tom Woods uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Springfields Trentvale had piles.

They also had alot of chisels ;-)

Lee D

Derek uttered summat worrerz funny about:

I've yet to open the boxes and look but it was decidely fatter on my last nail gun so I swapped it for the thinner longer male to go with the female recepticle on the hose.

From the piccy the ones I need are the thrid in from the left on the machine mart image.. not 100% what the ones in the aldi kit are yet.

Lee

the Aldi ones will be Rectus type 25-27 /CEJN 320 ( my mistake saying 26) it seems to be the european standard aside from the smaller bore version which I was told IIRC the french and italians favour Derek

On or around Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:14:51 GMT, "Derek" enlightened us thusly:

I've got PCL on all my stuff, except for the plug into the compressor itself. didn't like the look of the euroshite ones, and there's no doubt a reason why pretty nearly everyone uses PCL. I've never seen anyone in the trade using the euro things.

I've not changed the connector on the comp. merely 'cos I don't happen to have the right one for the job to hand. but since the long hose just stays plugged into it, that doesn't matter.

Its considered very bad practice to have a connector directly on the airtool. I thing HSE guidance, and for once it makes perfect sense, is for the connector to be on a short (couple of foot) pig tail from the tool. This prevents inadvertent disconnection, and protects the connectors from excessive banging around.

Steve

The latest PCL design from Machine Mart won't come apart inadvertently and I've used air tools for 30 years without a pig tail with no bother.

Thinking about it more, if your 'pig tail' suggestion came apart inadvertently then it would whip round (into your teeth posibly). If the PCL is on the tool then this can't happen.

and protects the

Who cares? They're as cheap as chips and seem to last forever anyway....

Julian.

On or around Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:38:58 +0000, Steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

someone better tell pretty nearly every workshop I see, then. 'most all have the connector screwed into the tool, as indeed so do I. The only one that comes adrift by itself is when I have the coily-plastic pipe plugged into the end of the plain rubberoid pipe, and drag it across the yard - this sometimes manages to pull the sleeve on the PCL and disconnect it.

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Derek

Still a moderate sized pile tonight. I got me a chisel and an impact wrench and some cheap wire wheels.

I'm going to try them both out tommorrow . wrench to undo the drain plug on my compressor so i can drain all the water out, and then ive got a patch of concrete to shift - And its damn hard stuff since it had most of the diamond tip bits off my grinder blade thisafternoon!

The air wrench works! I just spent a happy 20 minutes or so rounding off what i throught was the drain plug on my compressor, before turning the compressor over to get a better angle and finding the proper brass drain plug on the bottom! and then i squirted brown s*it out of the compressor all over the carpet in the utility room.

Curse you Davies for not giving me the instructions! :)

Thanks for the heads up. Plenty of stock if anyone on the south coast is interested - Aldi Portsmouth had at least 6 compressors and loads of the other tools before close of business today.

Abused connectors leak, and compressed air is bloody expensive stuff.

Steve

The Aldi in Fareham has also got a reasonable stock (including compressors). Got my air chisel set on Saturday - yet to try it out but if the bits turn out to have the characteristics of cheese I will still have the gun!

Patrick

H'mm I'll reserve judgement on that me thinks.

Lee

Tom Woods uttered summat worrerz funny about:

I reckon I probably never even had an hour's use from it... have you used it much and what sort of volume of stuff came out?... my current compressor has had alot more action with the plasma and spraying the 101.

Lee

Yes I've used it a lot!. It has sprayed 1.5 cars and the 101!

I got about 3 take away containers full of manky water out plus quite a bit which i spilt both on the carpet indoors and the floor outside..

It only really got full of water after i did the 101 this summer just gone. Must have been the heat i was using it in!. I used to carry it about between garages a lot before then and it never sloshed atall.

The female onse on the end of my air lines (I have 2 linked together to get from my house to the drive) have worn out after a week or so of being dragged around outside.

It aint that expensive. I think it only cost me a couple of units of leccy each day to run the compressor whilst I was spraying the 101!

I am happy to report that the chisel is a goodun! The trigger is a bit s*it (mine wouldnt go totally off until id used it a bit), the rubber handle cover comes off (and gets the trigger fouled) and its slightly annoying how it rotates all the time but it still works well.

I have just spent an hour and a half or so chiselled out a 2 foot square hole through 6-9 inch thick concrete, and also had to get through one of those concrete fence posts which had been layed across my hole a foot or so down. The chisel attachment i chose is now looking pretty dull but is still doing the job! Definately worth the £8. Am tempted to go buy another for the 4 chisels and to keep the tool as a spare!