Quick heads up folks. Lidl's have got a load of tools in on Thursday. The 3 for £5 pliers are brilliant.

I've had a pair of the needle nose ones for about three years which I use at work all the time for jobs you shouldn't use a pair of needle nose pliers for, and I just can't kill them.

Awesome, I do like Lidl's tools.

German Quality :)

I've got these from last time they were selling them, theyve recieved some abuse being used on the buses and soldier on, well worth the money!

Anyone any experience with that drill press thing they are selling? Thinking it might even be worth it for the little vice.

If it's electrical it probably won't last. We get that crap returned all the time.

No it looks like a stand you can attached your hand held drill to so kind of turning it into a pillar drill. For the £14.99 or whatever I was thinking it is worth a try.

http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=28419

Looks like a great idea that...I have sheared many bolts and this would save going to a engineering shop of I had a pillar dill and then some easy outs. I never bought easy outs as I was just afraid I wouldn't be able to drill beforehand straight enough in the center

Practice practice practice centre punch it and get someone else to check its straight from the side on, drill in a few mill at a time and keep checking its straight, I'm an aircraft fitter you want to drill free hand when that part can be anything between £500 and £70,000 you just have to get on with it

Went out and bought my pliers today. Impressed with how solid they feel. Can't complain at £5.

Haha Nigel, german quality?

people buy that stuff cos it is offered in the non-food-areal in the Lidl shops.
They don't need it, they see the price and they buy it.

people who knows quality, like i do, say "who buys cheap, buys twice".

I prefer spending more money for proper tools and not such a cheap stuff from a discounter.

But thats just my opinion.

cheers

Christian

I'd normally agree, I bought mine to use when I don't want to carry a full toolbag into a shop, for the stupid jobs I think I'm not going to need to do. I thought I'd abuse them (bending brackets, twisting screws, cutting through stuff that's too thick for them) until they broke, or someone nicked them.

Three years on, the tips are a bit misaligned, but otherwise - Can't kill them.

I used to always buy middle to higher price stuff on the assumption I was paying for quality. To me it's proven to not always be the case, I now always start with the cheapest version of an item. Then if it goes wrong or breaks I've lost less, if it doesn't I've saved money.

The most recent example I can think of was a £35 corsair mouse, it went wrong 6 weeks after buying. Cost me ten pounds to send it to manufacturer for replacement (which despite trying I did not get my ten pounds back). While I waited for the replacement I bought a £15 sharkoon replacement which is clearly better quality and is still going strong a year later even though my parrot regularly attacks it.

4.5 years after I bought them... Not bad for under 2 quid