I admit, I have a workshop tool addiction :-)

If you want to waist some proper time, sit back and have a look at this guys workshop.

that was really unfair subscribed


I rase u this old tony machining
https://www.youtube.com/user/featony

chick with guns who does know stuff
https://www.youtube.com/user/KirstenJoyWeiss

tinman said:

i dont have a belt grinder but i have a belt linisher, i wouldnt be without it, it makes light work of steel.
knowing you id say more than half of it is the making of it, there are some good home made ones on the tube, you could do some research and come up with your own game plan.
i often thought of one altho i wouldnt have the time to make one but they are a simple enough design all the same, a nice project if you have time.
what do you want to do with one?.

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Cost me about £350-400 to build if i remember rightly

tomlad said:

that was really unfair subscribed


I rase u this old tony machining
https://www.youtube.com/user/featony

chick with guns who does know stuff
https://www.youtube.com/user/KirstenJoyWeiss

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+1 for ToT - although he's off the boil a bit at the moment. I've now got into April Wilkerson https://www.youtube.com/user/AprilWilkersonDIY - especially with her new workshop build....

davieh3350 said:

Not a lot with it. 2 pairs of shearing dies. Another half of a set that I'm not too sure yet what it does, could be for flaring edges.
Circle cutting/working attachment is there.
A pair of holding down attachments to stop the material from kicking up as you shear it.Going to attempt a pair of thumbnail shrinking dies out of a bit railway line.

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i see a few tooling bits on the bay but they sure arent afraid to open their mouth when it comes to price, looks like unless you really need something the home made version is the way to go if you can work it, still a nice machine to have about the place, best of luck with it.

powerfarmer said:

26k per month ! Wow, how does the payment side work ? Is it from YouTube or?? I ve only recently got into watching those workshop and teardown videos from likes of AvE , abom, doubleboost, and that Australian guy Dave?

Interesting fellas and always something new to see with them.

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if your interested keith fenner, tom lipton , compedge x , this old tony, keith rucker, mr pete and shandon hkw are a good watch too, altho imo fenner abom and lipton are the masters of the machine shop.

im not 100% sure of the in's and out's of the tube but i know when you get up on the numbers they reward you somewhat , they sent Ave a plaque a while back celebrating a certain number of subscribers and in true Ave fashion he took it apart to see what it was made of....

the patreons are the way the posters of videos get a return on the investment, like a fan club, not that i ever done it but it dose take copious amounts of time and money to get into the hang of recording and editing videos for posting and id imagine if you were at it youd like some form of a return on it too.
folk just pay to be patreons because they enjoy the videos and for that they get a few perks along the way, likes of the videos are available to them first before the rest of us in the cheap seats get to see them on the tube.
its also designed to contribute towards the purchase of new tools (in Ave's case) where he gets to take em apart and see what they are made of, how skookum they are and how they chooch as he would say.
boltr's, bored of lame tool reviews.

there are pros and cons to that tho,
some of the usual suspects i do watch on the engineering/machine shop side of things have patreons as well and good luck to them i say, but i see now some of the tooling manufacturers have cottoned on to the dedicated audience with the same mindset that watch the videos and i see they are "gifting" items of tooling to the channel so as to get their name out there.

problem with that, is it comes with the unspoken clause of item appraisal when it may be cack enough stuff (not always the case mind you) but they cant say that after getting it for nowt so a good part of a video can go to marketing the said items when all you really want to see is the normal run of videos they post so the content can get skewed slightly.

Also in the last while the tube have been dropping down the list of the "boring titles", you might have noticed certain video descriptions lately that have been sensationalized , likes of "tightening your nuts" or "i was nearly killed today" when in actually reality they mean doing up nuts and bolts on something or where a plane flew overhead but didn't crash into you and so on.

looks like the tube see an opportunity to become the next TV so to speak and it looks like they don't want any lame videos, or at least titles so they are changing the way things are done.
so much so that if you go back about 12 mths on the stronger channels you will see titles like "this is probably our last video" where the posters of videos just had enough of it all but even now most of them are still posting, i think its a case of like it or lump it tbh, altho it would of gave vimeo a bit of a boost id imagine.

now all that is just my layman's take on things and i could be as far out as a lighthouse on it, as i said i don't post videos anywhere never mind the tube so it was a case of reading between the lines for me and it dosent affect my time on the tube either but id say if i was a prolific poster it would.
bit of a book there im afraid, sorry for that.

Greenbeast said:

Cost me about £350-400 to build if i remember rightly

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that's the job, what speed motor? what diameter drive wheel?

JohnBoy said:

that's the job, what speed motor? what diameter drive wheel?

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Its a 1.5kW 3ph motor i believe, tied to a 3ph inverter (to give speed control).
100mm drive wheel.

things have patreons as well and good luck to them i say, but i see now some of the tooling manufacturers have cottoned on to the dedicated audience with the same mindset that watch the videos and i see they are "gifting" items of tooling to the channel so as to get their name out there.



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holwellcourtfarm said:

Our 240v 9" Erbauer grinder finally gave up after 8 years of abuse yesterday so I went shopping today.

Make sense of this:
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£118.98 for this:
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So I bought this instead for £94.98

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I bought two on a similar deal a couple of years ago (no discs though) they seem to be ok and a good deal at that price

Ok, last week my 3/4 air impact wrench died and I need a replacement.

Mainly use it for changing sprayer and trailer wheels in the workshop so doesnt really need to be portable BUT those cordless impact wrenches that everyone seems to be able to not live without seem very tempting!

Can you talk me out of one please??

Longneck said:

Ok, last week my 3/4 air impact wrench died and I need a replacement.

Mainly use it for changing sprayer and trailer wheels in the workshop so doesnt really need to be portable BUT those cordless impact wrenches that everyone seems to be able to not live without seem very tempting!

Can you talk me out of one please??

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Buy one for me, send it over, and I'll happily try and talk you out of it.

I know it’s not really a workshop tool, but picked this up from b&q yesterday.

Now what I want to know is how can a company manufacture package and distribute a petrol strimmer for £65 (plus vat)
I’ve seen dearer spark plugs!

Phil P said:

I know it’s not really a workshop tool, but picked this up from b&q yesterday.
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Now what I want to know is how can a company manufacture package and distribute a petrol strimmer for £65 (plus vat)
I’ve seen dearer spark plugs!

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i hope you enjoy your £65 worth
i bought a cheap,.........shack you to bits

Bob c said:

i hope you enjoy your £65 worth
i bought a cheap,.........shack you to bits

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Used it yesterday to do the garden and I’ll admit I was very surprised at the build quality! Primed the carb and it starts first pull every time, runs smooth and the plenty of poke from the 25cc motor. Only complaint I’d have is the position of the throttle makes your arm start to ache afte prolonged use.
It even came with a bush cutting blade, I’ll see how long it lasts, but it’s got a 45day b&q exchange policy and 12 months warranty so can’t complain

Phil P said:

Used it yesterday to do the garden and I’ll admit I was very surprised at the build quality! Primed the carb and it starts first pull every time, runs smooth and the plenty of poke from the 25cc motor. Only complaint I’d have is the position of the throttle makes your arm start to ache afte prolonged use.
It even came with a bush cutting blade, I’ll see how long it lasts, but it’s got a 45day b&q exchange policy and 12 months warranty so can’t complain

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i bought a cheap one from a lawn mower sales place
they have retired now
feel like chucking back of the wall in there garden,......they can have it

They're perfectly okay if you are only doing a little work with them - for prolonged use then a better quality unit would be advisable. Thing to watch with these cheapy units is that the carbs have a tendency to gum up & the air filters clog! If the brush blade is anything like ones I've had from B&Q then it's scrap - they don't hold an edge, besides which a cheap 25cc is unlikely to have the grunt for practical use.

TheTallGuy said:

They're perfectly okay if you are only doing a little work with them - for prolonged use then a better quality unit would be advisable. Thing to watch with these cheapy units is that the carbs have a tendency to gum up & the air filters clog! If the brush blade is anything like ones I've had from B&Q then it's scrap - they don't hold an edge, besides which a cheap 25cc is unlikely to have the grunt for practical use.

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We have a stihl for farm/heavy use so this one is just for the garden, but a £65 and a 12 months warranty don’t think I’ll go to far wrong, I can spend more on a night in the pub!