Still got my first electric drill, a Bosch green, that I bought 43 years ago. It was only last year that I replaced the brushes in it. It now lives in a drill press in the shed and still gets used regularly.
I used to love making go carts as a youngster with my younger brother , we had a decent hill where we lived and would spend hours and hours riding downhill and having to avoid the lorries going to and from the industrial estate at the top of the hill . So much more fun than the modern day kids that spend hours playing with Xbox and PlayStations and not being active. A good example of how these threads go off topic yet still remain within the woodworking theme
Yes, that is true. But sending a google review seems a good way to draw attention to stuff that is not fit for purpose and helps others. I recently had a Nilfisk water blaster pack up. Nilfisk weren't any help at all even though it just required a small non-return valve and their advice was dump it and buy a new one. I wrote a grumpy reply in a review and finally found the bit for $5 in Australia - apparently the only place in the world you can get a Nilfisk non-return valve. Works fine again now. So even things that are apparently OK quality/recognised brand are only fixable if parts are available.The truck is determining what is decent and what is not fit for purpose, often it’s only when you have purchased said item that you discover it’s cxxp and then it’s usually too late as not all suppliers will take the item back if it’s not actually faulty . I found this out last year when I purchased a set of drain rods ( a one off job for my x . Didn’t like the way they connected but didn’t want to spend almost £50 on a decent set . So several rods connected to reach the blockage and surprise surprise they came apart , had enough rods to make up another set and off I went but the same happened again several rods now stuck in a manhole full of sxxte . Unable to return the rods ( obvious reason) ended up buying the quality set I should have got 1st . Sent a toxic review of the 1st set of rods and warned future customers not to buy as not fit for purpose. I did eventually got the stuck rods out of the sewer and successfully unblocked the drain but lesson learned.
My Nilfisk pressure washer packed up 10 days ago. It would not run - no response at all when switched on, as if there were a power cut. I stripped it down and found nothing I could identify as being wrong apart from the whole thing being covered in oil. Presumably a leak but I didn't find a leak. I cleaned it up, put it back together again and it ran! No idea why, but it seems as good as new again. It will be interesting to see how long that continues.
Sorry, this is a bit off topic but the subject of building trollies/go carts had a very happy conclusion for me a few years ago.I used to love making go carts as a youngster with my younger brother , we had a decent hill where we lived and would spend hours and hours riding downhill and having to avoid the lorries going to and from the industrial estate at the top of the hill . So much more fun than the modern day kids that spend hours playing with Xbox and PlayStations and not being active. A good example of how these threads go off topic yet still remain within the woodworking theme
That is certainly true. At the other extreme though it is also surprising how often companies opt for custom-made stuff when commercial, off-the-shelf items could be used. The trend (based purely on my own observations) seems to be to standardise on the hidden things and customise the visible. That is fine if something hidden fails because you can more easily find a replacement. There is also a silver lining when a custom part fails and you have to scrap something: you have a supply of parts to add to your salvaged parts bins, and let's be honest: we all have those.
).I'm pretty sure I have an old B&D one I got from my dad still somewhere- the drill was dead, but so old they were a 'bronze gold' colour instead of the orange/black, so I have no idea of the age (he built his first house with them, and they were oldish then, and that was back in the early 60's...)
