Thread: Aldi drill press -not for those obsessed with precision.

Originally Posted by Spyro

I absolutely love Ozito and Aldi tools

My worst nightmare is a world you'd have to pay "good tool" prices for every little thing you want to make light use of or simply try out of curiosity. That would be a terrible waste.

True that an OzitAldiSheppach scrollsaw/welder/lathe/whatever is not gonna last very long under serious use, but during that time it will give you a pretty good idea if scrolling/welding/turning is for you, and then you can consider upgrading.

I’m very impressed by the PowerXChange stuff from Ozito - it’s from a rebadged German company called Einhell which bought Ozito

Originally Posted by theducks

I’m very impressed by the PowerXChange stuff from Ozito - it’s from a rebadged German company called Einhell which bought Ozito

At work we have a depot that looks after some $500k vehicles that need to run 24/7. Because in the past things got messy with the tools (lost/stolen/damaged etc) currently the deal is that mechanics get an allowance and bring their own. Last time I went there there was some high end snap-on/hilti/knipex, there was the usual midrange makita/milwaukee/dewalt, but I was surprised there was also a lot of ozito and ryobi. I asked a couple if they're comfortable using them professionally and they just said "it works for me". So I don't know. Personally I've had good experiences with ozito but generally if I find that I use a tool a lot I upgrade it, so my cheap tools never really see heavy use.

Originally Posted by theducks

...it’s from a rebadged German company called Einhell which bought Ozito

I'd never heard of Einhell until I bought a 115mm grinder of theirs while in Netherlands on my OE in 1980/81. I think they might have actually been made in Europe in those days. It was never a very smooth runner, but held on until it burnt out about two years ago (I still have a pair of spare carbon brushes ). The 125mm Makita that replaced it* is a much nicer machine.

*actual I bought the Makita ~2005, but seldom used it until 2 years ago.

Cheers, Vann.

Originally Posted by Spyro

...plastic doesn't go to landfill

Here's the latest from NZ:

Originally Posted by Stuff

...The popular soft plastics recycling at supermarkets is being suspended until next April because there's nowhere for it to go.
This year plastic sitting in storage containers around the country grew to 400 tonnes after the Melbourne-based processor it was shipped to stopped accepting New Zealand's plastic...

So now it sits unwanted in storage until it goes mouldy https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/10...ng-mouldy?rm=m

Or it goes to Malaysia to be secretly burnt... https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/10...5eWLQERd3ONaFA

Christmas cheers, Vann.

I often think about all the time, effort, resources, energy (and emissions) that go into mining metals, making tooling and plastic mouldings, putting something together, shipping it halfway around the world.......only to have the end user declare after 2 weeks "This is a heap of crap", put it in the bin, and it returns to the earth (via landfill).

There are plenty of cheap tools that you'd buy if you only needed them once for one specific job, but an increasing number of items are so bad that they are not fit for ANY purpose. Completely unusable. What the hell are we doing??

Originally Posted by Mr Brush

I often think about all the time, effort, resources, energy (and emissions) that go into mining metals, making tooling and plastic mouldings, putting something together, shipping it halfway around the world.......only to have the end user declare after 2 weeks "This is a heap of crap", put it in the bin, and it returns to the earth (via landfill).

There are plenty of cheap tools that you'd buy if you only needed them once for one specific job, but an increasing number of items are so bad that they are not fit for ANY purpose. Completely unusable. What the hell are we doing??

Hi,
They look good on your peg board, almost like tools, could impress visitors.

Regards

I wouldn't mind if things were described accurately.....

Instead of "Screwdriver set, Chrome vanadium steel", they should be listed as "Set of screwdriver-shaped objects, Cheese vanadium steel"...........

Originally Posted by A Duke

Hi,
They look good on your peg board, almost like tools, could impress visitors.

Regards

True. Also useful for loaning out to "friends", you know, those friends? The ones who either butcher good tools, or never return anything ?

Originally Posted by Spyro

I was surprised there was also a lot of ozito and ryobi. I asked a couple if they're comfortable using them professionally and they just said "it works for me". So I don't know. Personally I've had good experiences with ozito but generally if I find that I use a tool a lot I upgrade it, so my cheap tools never really see heavy use.

Ozito is one of those that I wouldn't buy when I'm in the tool-shopping market, but by the same token they're my first port-of-call when I'm out on-site and realise "Oh Pooh!" (Or words to that effect) "I forgot to bring my <xxx> and I don't have a couple of hours spare to go home and get it."

Their prices are cheap enough that it's not a big chunk outta my profits and so long as the tool does it's job and lasts the day I'm ahead in the game.

There are some Ozito tools I bought for just that reason that just keep on keeping on. Embarrassingly so in some cases. I have an 1800W(?) Ozito rotary hammer-drill that has long outlasted my Hilti($$),,, and to make things worse, the Ozito was the one that got all the really dirty jobs.

There are others (Ozito belt-sanders for one) that are land-fill the moment you turn them on and I won't touch under any circumstances. (Chew their own front-roller off in the first 30 seconds of use? Really? Two warranty replacements in the same day, both of which suicided the same way... shoulda just driven home for mine. Woulda made the Bunnies man happier... )

I guess the thing with Ozito is that it's a gamble every time you buy something new...

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

There are others (Ozito belt-sanders for one) that are land-fill the moment you turn them on and I won't touch under any circumstances. (Chew their own front-roller off in the first 30 seconds of use? Really? Two warranty replacements in the same day, both of which suicided the same way... shoulda just driven home for mine. Woulda made the Bunnies man happier... )

I guess the thing with Ozito is that it's a gamble every time you buy something new...

My only belt sander is an Ozito
It falls in the "I use this once a month" category, along with my other 2 chinesium legends



They're all like 3 years old or so, I've been waiting for them to die so I can get something decent but they just keep going the damn things.

Originally Posted by Vann

Here's the latest from NZ:



So now it sits unwanted in storage until it goes mouldy https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/10...ng-mouldy?rm=m

Or it goes to Malaysia to be secretly burnt... https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/10...5eWLQERd3ONaFA

Christmas cheers, Vann.

Merry Xmas Vann

Don't get me wrong mate I'm with you all the way, I only buy used cars for the same reason.
But I don't think because you have that snag with China at the moment we should discount recycling altogether. They had the cheap solution of putting everything on a barge and sending it to China, now that is no more, well too bad. Make some recycling facilities locally and give people some jobs while they're at it. Cheapscates.

Don't imagine NZ is alone on this. In Eastern Australia there are vast warehouses of tonnes and tonnes of 'recycling' sitting around creating a fire hazard. There was a documentary on it.

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