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20th December 2018, 09:05 PM #31GOLD MEMBER
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i must have delivered about 35 trailerloads of junk to the Oberon tip when I was clearing out the last of dad's stuff in his shed. There was just soooo much unusable, ungiftable, unanythingable. I now can't fit a car in my garage, and that was only a fraction of what I would ahve called "the good stuff". Like I missed out on the table saw that in hindsight now I am actually trying to get into this more would have been a huge bonus - but that went to a relo builder from O'Connell now Bathurst, so I can't complain. We had a good group of friends pass on their tip vouchers luckily!
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20th December 2018, 09:55 PM #32New Member
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21st December 2018, 01:22 PM #33Senior Member
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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.
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21st December 2018, 06:47 PM #34
Einhell
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.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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22nd December 2018, 09:09 AM #35
Here's the latest from NZ:
Originally Posted by Stuff
Or it goes to Malaysia to be secretly burnt... https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/10...5eWLQERd3ONaFA
Christmas cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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22nd December 2018, 10:31 AM #36
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??
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22nd December 2018, 11:42 AM #37
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22nd December 2018, 12:38 PM #38
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"...........
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22nd December 2018, 02:58 PM #39
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22nd December 2018, 03:21 PM #40
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...
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23rd December 2018, 01:07 AM #41Senior Member
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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.
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23rd December 2018, 01:11 AM #42Senior Member
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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.
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23rd December 2018, 07:29 PM #43GOLD MEMBER
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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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