Aldi are selling a 12V 120W rattler gun next Thursday for £16. Is this likely to be any good? Down-side for me is that it's 12V and I don't have a car -- I'd need to get their £25 "power station" as well, although the upside of that is it could be useful with Black Kat, who usually flattens the battery before starting after she's been standing a while... -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD(ill) "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
The fact that its only 120W and costs £16 should tell you quite a lot. I guess its likely to be one of those things that you will use a couple of times, and find its crap, and then never use again! You can get very high quality battery powered nut guns (Snap On do several), but these are very expensive and not really worth it for occasional use. Best idea if you are looking at this sort of thing for use in home workshop or garage, is to get hold of a small 240v compressor, with enough CFM to power small air tools, then you will have a wide choice of inexpensive tools which will be excellent for occasional home use. k
<delurk> My dad bought from Lidl, I think. It does the job and hasn't failed in the year or so he's had it. It's been good enough for the motors, and even for nuts that have been put on when the cars been "in" somewhere, whereby the cars up on a ramp and nuts are tightened by a heavy bloke swinging on a 3 foot bar that you'd never get off by hand at the side of the road.... G <relurk>
Hmm. 120W? A hair dryer pulls 1500W for about half that price. Go for the hair dryer and melt the bits off. <Monty Python> "Always look on the bright side of life. . ." </Monty Python> doc
Looks right enough to me. Although I've seen jump-start chargers for 15 quid at Autojumbles. Still with Aldi, you've got a come-back if its shite. The compressor/impact gun would be a better idea, but thats going to cost a couple of wallets more than 41 quid. Go for it, Ivan. I think I'll have a look at the "power station" myself... I've bought a shed-full of cheap power tools from Netto over the last couple of years. They've all been great. (I'd assume that Aldi/Lidl/Netto get the stuff from similar sources) It started with an offer for an 850W SDS Drill (Kango kind of thing) for 30 quid. The thought was that, if it only lasts for three jobs, its cost less than hiring one three times. Its done /a lot more/ than three jobs and still going strong. Then there's the router, the circular saw, the jig saw, the spray gun etc and THE ANGLE GRINDER (there had to be one somewhere!!) Totally brilliant! I think I'm going to get me a PowerG t-shirt.... Dave
