Lidl Dremel

[Ollie78]

Just popped in to Lidl for milk and ended up coming out with a 12v rechargeable"dremel".
£16 99.
Looks OK and has 3 year warranty, bought a few extra disks and brushes as well.

I swear they are listening to me as I was saying twice last week I could do with a dremel.

Ollie

 

[Droogs]

This machine is excellent. I have 2 of them and use one of them in a veritas plunge base and the other is charged ready to swap out along with a couple of corded ones as well for various freehand stuff. The price of them hasn't gone up really over the last 3 years. they are very useful, only drawback they take ages to recharge. Hence why I have 2.

 

[Ollie78]

This machine is excellent. I have 2 of them and use one of them in a veritas plunge base and the other is charged ready to swap out along with a couple of corded ones as well for various freehand stuff. The price of them hasn't gone up really over the last 3 years. they are very useful, only drawback they take ages to recharge. Hence why I have 2.

This is good to know.
I was a little worried as it seems impossibly cheap, on initial inspection it looks well made.

Ollie

 

[fezman]

I'm not a big fan of the Parkside tools, you get what you pay for. However, I've been looking at buying the Bosch pro version of this at £87 (mainly because I am on that battery platform mostly). I also picked one of these Lidl ones up and for £17 it is well worth it. For the amount of times I will probably use it, it is not really worth paying the Bosch price. Gave it a test drive last week and it seems to perform well.

Also picked up the heat gun too - £20 and a 3 year warranty. Again not something I'll use much, but dead handy to have.

 

[Ollie78]

I'm not a big fan of the Parkside tools, you get what you pay for. However, I've been looking at buying the Bosch pro version of this at £87 (mainly because I am on that battery platform mostly). I also picked one of these Lidl ones up and for £17 it is well worth it. For the amount of times I will probably use it, it is not really worth paying the Bosch price. Gave it a test drive last week and it seems to perform well.

Also picked up the heat gun too - £20 and a 3 year warranty. Again not something I'll use much, but dead handy to have.

Similar thinking to me, I am not going to be using it for anything too taxing anyway.

I was annoyed when I saw the heat gun, literally yesterday my old heat gun exploded as they do after a year or 2, so I went to toolstation and picked up a draper one. It's OK but no digital heat controll and it was more money than the Parkside. I have used now it so don't think I can return it.

Ollie

 

[glenfield2]

I'm not a big fan of the Parkside tools, you get what you pay for.

The only Parkside tool I own is a 20v drill. It’s been absolutely brilliant. I’ve used it mercilessly for over three years drilling wood and steel on a daily basis. Hardwood, plywood, softwood, steel up to 10mm thick etc. It’s still going strong, the batteries last as well now as when new. The only tired element is the case which is coming apart. I think it cost me 25 quid.

 

[stuart little]

This looks exactly like the Draper& Sealy versions, of which I have both. Sealey bought as a kit with 2 bats. & Draper with 1, both interchangeable. Dremel accessories fit & a mini chuck is available from the 'bay'.

 

[Pallet Fancier]

The only Parkside tool I own is a 20v drill. It’s been absolutely brilliant. I’ve used it mercilessly for over three years drilling wood and steel on a daily basis. Hardwood, plywood, softwood, steel up to 10mm thick etc. It’s still going strong, the batteries last as well now as when new. The only tired element is the case which is coming apart. I think it cost me 25 quid.

Same. I've got the drill/driver and the hammer drill. The driver is light and handy, but I've really beasted the hammer drill on masonry and inch-thick fibreglass. It's done jobs that have killed "better" drills. I got paranoid about it when I saw another hammer drill in the middle aisle, last year, so now I have two and the old one is still going fine, the new one living in its box just in case (as a £25 insurance against having no drill handy). And the 4ah batteries cost less than that!

So maybe I won't be passing them down to the next generation, like I might with a Makita or DeWalt, but at that price I can buy two, and enough batteries for them, and still be laughing because I have a huge advantage over most of the tool users I see: I don't use my drill to bang in nails! Respect your equipment and even cheap tools will last years.