Good quality cheap tools.

**chook** · 21st December 2014, 02:11 PM

I have written before on this forum in praise of my Ozito random orbital,sander, which I have had for at least ten years and probably closer to fifteen. Done lots of work and cost nothing to buy. I have a small need for an impact driver. I see tHat Bunnings have an Ozito impact driver with 150 mm torque, 2 18 volt 1 hour charge batteries and price tag of $150. It may be an awful waste of money, but I am going to take the chance. I also have two old Ozito corded drills which have seen many years of weekend warrior service and are still drilling on. One suffered years of abuse in my Dad's shed before it was set free by the United Nations and given refugee status with me. Great man my Dad but cruel on tools. Anything that can stand a term of imprisonment with him must be a bit tough.

So for $149 I think the impact driver is worth the risk. Buy the end of 2015 I will know. A pergola and a deck and a kitchen are in the pipeline and so I am either making a good buy or wasting some money.

On a related matter in the last week I have built a big timber storage rack and some shelves from MGP 12 pine. Now I have a good CSMS and a table saw, but there are few pleasures (for me at least) better than to stand in a quiet shady spot and hand saw things. So I cut all the timber with a hand saw. I bought a cheap and nasty plastic handled Stanley, hard point saw at the wood show for maybe $10. I know this issue has been raised on the forum many times (once by me I think) but these cheap hard point saws can be very good value. I find it easy and light to use, it cuts accurately, holds an edged for ever and cuts pine, at least, very quickly. Again, in my experience, it is a good quality cheap tool.

**specialist** · 21st December 2014, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by chook

I have written before

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**Cliff Rogers** · 21st December 2014, 02:20 PM

Umm....

**chook** · 21st December 2014, 02:38 PM

How did that happen?

**pmcgee** · 26th December 2014, 08:40 AM

I was looking for a new cordless drill. I started with a green Ryobi about 15yrs ago before moving from home.

Then a blue Ryobi in our first and current house 10yrs ago.
Then rediscovered the green one and found the same batteries fitted it, but stuck out further.

Then then the battery chargers died 9mo ago.
Then he finds another blue Ryobi and charger and battery for nothing at a garage sale.
Then *that* charger died.

So ... when I saw those Ozito ads, I thought ... Yeah. Forget the resurrections ... wrong time of year for that ...
Look for a new one.

I went to a Mitre 10 to check prices, then on to Bunnings.
Picking up that Ozito it felt pretty good in the hand. Seemed well made and solid. Brushless.
Wasn't initially planning to spend $150 on a drill.
$50-$80 would be more my speed, but I was open to the idea.
Checked out the AEGs and Boschs and Lime-Green(!) Ryobis ... plus the Tradies stuff.

Finally I moved on to Masters up the road.
They had a $29 aus-mate or whatever it was called that predictably felt awful.
And some Hitachi drill and ... (angle-grinder ... or lamp ... or something) packs around the $200ish mark.

I've met some tradies this year that were getting hard work out of some Hitachi drills ... so I was considering that ... but ... they also had out a smallish pile of old-tech Hitachi's.

12V nicad drills with two 1.5Ahr batteries in a case for $59.

(I had quickly figured out from looking at all the "modern" drills ... check the battery capacities)

Thinking about it ... the Hitachis still felt good in the hand (not as swish as the new 18V lithium types)

... and 2 drills and 4 batteries for $120 suited me, cos I've often had say a drill bit in one and a countersink in another ...

So that was me, and I'm pretty happy.

Cheers,
Paul

**pmcgee** · 26th December 2014, 08:49 AM

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Not up to the tradie models ... but probably last me 10yrs with any luck.

**Pearo** · 26th December 2014, 09:24 AM

I have an Ozito SDS drill. Bought it because it was cheaper than hiring. Has copped a right flogging since and is still going. My wife cousin has one and he is a full time chippie, he has yet to kill his.

Also going to put forward my Aldi angle grinder. $29 and still going like a champ. Its main use is for masonry.

I have a lot of top end tradie tools, but now I am off the tools and in the office its hard to justify the prices. I did however lash out recently and bought a bosch SCMS. Wanted the festo but at almost double the price I could not justify it.

**Master Splinter** · 26th December 2014, 05:32 PM

Love me Ozito SDS drill. Cheaper to buy than hiring one for a day, and it even finds a use as a digging accessory when you hit rock...

I recently bought into the Ryobi 18 volt range of cordless tools and I'm pretty happy with them. Especially as they have now released a cordless 16 gauge nail gun, as I'm very happy with my 18 gauge version.

**popawisky** · 28th December 2014, 03:02 PM

I tend towards the more entry level tools for such as drills etc.
The link, if it works, shares someone else's thoughts.
Like him or not his opinion on power tools is food for thought.

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_bQJdj4rbI"]

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