Anyone got any experience of this item ? It was their 'deal of the week' a
couple of weeks back, I think. I have a use for such an animal at the
moment, and at £79.99 I figured it was worth a punt, even if you have got to
add a bit of air hose to it. Anyways, I got down to my local Aldi this
afternoon, and battled my way through the zombies that wander aimlessly
about the place with their trollies full of no-name baked beans, and found
four of the compressors on display. They looked perfectly fine - certainly
no worse than those I've seen offered for £120+ at B&Q - and were suitably
heavy, so I dragged one down to the front, and stood in line at a till for
about 10 minutes, whilst more zombies tried to empty and repack their
trollies. I finally got to the halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box,
and announced "£79.99 please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited.
Then he says "Oh - we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I "We
don't..." "Yes, yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take credit
cards ?" "Well, we don't, mate ..."

So I glared at him, tore my card out of the slot, and walked out, leaving
the heavy box in the middle of the floor. Back out in the car park, my
daughter, who was with me, told me that we could have used one of her debit
cards instead, but by then, we would have looked pretty stupid going back in
:-\

Anyway, later tonight, she rang me and said that she and her husband had
popped into a different branch near where they live, and picked me one up,
bless 'em !

So I haven't yet got to see it 'in the flesh' and have a play. I suppose
that for that money, it's not going to be the best quality, but that said, I
bought a garden shredder from B&Q the other day, and went for the cheapest
one that they did - again about eighty quid. It had the same capacity as all
the dearer ones, and the same power rating motor, and it works just fine,
and will be perfectly adequate for the limited service that I need it for.
I'm hoping the same will be true of the compressor, unless anyone knows
different ... ?

Arfa