Thread: Worst Tool

I bought a $500 metabo jigsaw one morning before work. Flashest of the flash.
Had a quick release blade mechanism which I'd never used on a jigsaw before I had this one.
Blades kept falling out while cutting and no matter what I did to adjust or rectify the problem, it just persisted right through the day.
By 4 oclock I thought I had it sorted out, so I began to cut a hatchway through a teak and huon floor I lay a week earlier ( job was a very expensive yacht fitout). Blade went skew-iff again and under cut about 30 degrees. Major, HUGE stuff up!
I went into a "tool rage".
$500 piece of ???? couldn't hold blades, couldn't cut through inch thick wood without the drive shaft bending, ran rough and couldn't even FLOAT when I sent it over the stern at around 4.10 that afternoon.
Wouldn't have even made a decent anchor.

Worst tool... an orange coloured thicknesser, Ask Dingo what his has been like!

A set of 8 chinese rifflers from carbitk They just didnt work, all they did was dig in. Back they went

I have the 7" bigger brother of your Ryobi saw Scribbly. I am beginning to think the 5-6mm end play may be a design feature. Anyway, a couple of trips to a sympathetic authorised repairman had that and another problem fixed at no cost to me.
Now let me tell you about the GMC scroll saw I owned briefly..................

Barry Hicks

B&D jigsaw, hands down. No matter where you wanted it to cut or how careful you were, the blade would always go walkabout.

A three inch yes 75mm (or was it 4"?) power saw attachment for the 3/8 skill drill.

It was dangerous as, but built more than one house renovation, in the days when a real men would have chewed it out with his wife's teeth.

I used to have a hacksaw for fine joinery though.

Cheers,

P

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

A three inch yes 75mm (or was it 4"?) power saw attachment for the 3/8 skill drill.

It was dangerous as, but built more than one house renovation, in the days when a real men would have chewed it out with his wife's teeth.

I used to have a hacksaw for fine joinery though.

Cheers,

P

And I thought you were going to own up to a certain chinese scroll-saw - oh that's right it's now the pride and joy of Dai Sensai

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

A three inch yes 75mm (or was it 4"?) power saw attachment for the 3/8 skill drill.

It was dangerous as, but built more than one house renovation, in the days when a real men would have chewed it out with his wife's teeth.

I used to have a hacksaw for fine joinery though.

Cheers,

P

I think I had one of those, came as a kit, yellow drill, take off chuck and attach the jigsaw or circ saw, locked onto the end of the casing.
You wound up holding the drill upside down and asre about while trying to hold the saw at the same time.
When my 1st missus vanished that went too, not really sorry......................about either
Apart from that, I used to have to use it, an old metal B&D drill that was live on occassions, god that bastard used to bite, 50 cycles per second and you could just about count every one of them

A three inch yes 75mm (or was it 4"?) power saw attachment for the 3/8 skill drill.

I found one of them at the tip once. It was in a box with an oscillating sander attachment, jigsaw attachment and a right angle drive (which was the bit I wanted). Still got the set, but never used it.

My worst tool was a holesaw set with a 75mm depth capacity. One of those cheap imitations of the old Stanley one with the various steel ring blades that lock into the base. The first and only time I used it I tried to drill a 40mm hole in the back of a vanity cupboard I had made. The blade didn't go right around the circumference of the circle it was meant to cut, so it jumped like buggery. The lock screw slipped, so the drill shaft span uselessly inside the body and when I got that tightened enough, the whole blade jumped out of the body. I kept it as a reminder to never buy shyte from the bargain bin at Mitre 10.

Originally Posted by TEEJAY

And I thought you were going to own up to a certain chinese scroll-saw - oh that's right it's now the pride and joy of Dai Sensai

Hey I loved that saw!

Never used it of course, but loved it to bits!
Surely it's not in the category of tools to be discussed here, is it Dai?


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An early model cordless drill (maker unremembered) - when it worked, it was gutless and ran out of charge as soon as you looked at it (and no the batteries weren't buggered and in case they were I got another set and was extra careful and it was still a piece of shyte). It also had an early keyless chuck - not only was it keyless, it was also gripless. I think the designer/manufacturer was clueless.

The only way you could use that to make a hole in anything with more substance than 4 lb/ cu ft balsa was to chuck up a nail in it, hold the nail where you wanted the hole and hit the back of the drill with the biggest hammer available!!!!

The best thing about it was its departure - I found the box it came in, put it all neatly back into the box and left the box on the council clean-up pile outside Mum and Dad's place (they lived in a better suburb - I was at uni and the local council didn't take rubbish away, they gave money to the local dropkicks to leave it on the front path). You guessed it, some dill scavenged it - but I bet it was on the pile at his place for the next clean-up!!!

Originally Posted by silentC

My worst tool was a holesaw set with a 75mm depth capacity. One of those cheap imitations of the old Stanley one with the various steel ring blades that lock into the base. The first and only time I used it I tried to drill a 40mm hole in the back of a vanity cupboard I had made. The blade didn't go right around the circumference of the circle it was meant to cut, so it jumped like buggery. The lock screw slipped, so the drill shaft span uselessly inside the body and when I got that tightened enough, the whole blade jumped out of the body. I kept it as a reminder to never buy shyte from the bargain bin at Mitre 10.

Now I've got one of those and never used it - seemed a good idea at the time but when I got it home I thought it looked flimsy and dangerous - still in packet collecting dust somewhere in shed.

I bought a good old black B&D drill some decades ago - it has served me well but recently has become tired. So I bought a new whizzbang orange B&D recently with a keyless chuck - just needed a second drill to help with some steel framing I was doing for a fence - it didn't last a day - the gearbox was rough to start with and by the end of the day don't know if any cogs had any teeth as I could freewheel the thing. Took it back - would like a refund or exchange for a better one - nope have to send it for repair - they obviously found it not worth repair and replaced it with another new same piece of crap - will use only for very easy stuff - it's a rough piece of rubbish really

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Hey I loved that saw!

Never used it of course, but loved it to bits!
Surely it's not in the category of tools to be discussed here, is it Dai?


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Dai has it bolted to his bench and uses it for earthquake simulation

I forgot my Proxxon scroll saw, used to keep me fit as I had to chase it around the workshop, I had forgotten that, make GMC look like pro tools.