Chris Bacon wrote:
wrote:

ok. This can be said in one sentence. Normally no replacement
parts
or repair are available for budget tools.

They're cheap. They will do the job. If they blow up before their
guarantee is up, get a refund or replacement. If they don't blow
up,
they may well be OK for a long while. **** This is uk.d-i-y, not
uk.i.come.over.my.expensive.tools!**** This really does need to be
born in mind. Deriding someone who buys an adequate =A330 tool for
a little bit of DIY where a =A3300 one is available is ridiculous.

did someone do that?

No, NT, not really in the FAQ - however the group is, I have noticed
rife with such comment, and I detected a spill-over of
hoity-toityness
in the FAQ which is up for review.

On reflection I think you might possibly be right a little bit. The FAQ
needs to recognise that most diyers actually do buy 'dumbell' quality
tools, and needs to address those just as much as the better q stuff.
The tools I have are a mixture across the quality range, from Very-Best
to what-the-hell-is-that, and I do this for business. They do include
some stuff that has been much scoffed about here, in some cases
rightly, and in some cases quite wrongly. If the faq is going to guide
people on buying tools it does need to be realistic in this respect.

I doubt I'm alone in this, and I'll bet you many who are well into the
subject have a range of kit, covering everything from top notch to
crude. Maybe its changing consumer attitudes these days, and I'm one of
the old school of thinking.

Dont forget as well this faq is for the whole country, not just the
rich areas, but also the places where kids still play in the street
with no shoes, fences are built from scrap or nothing, and shops sell
40 year old power drills for =A33.


No offence, but it's a bit long-
winded and pompous for my taste, too.

Bear in mind that putting it in html format will break it into much
shorter sections, and make it much more digestible.


And all this cock about "Ooh-er, if it goes wrong, you won't be able
to
get spares or service". If you're doing a bit of DIY, it won't matter
much. If you're a tradesman (don't forget this *is* uk.d-i-y) and
your expensive tool breaks, you will be able to get it serviced. If
it's the only one you've got, though, you'll be fsck'd, which is why
the tradesman has two expensive tools, or at least some sort of
backup!

indeed, i just hope it will be said directly and to the point instead
of in 8 paragraphs. If I want to read about tools, I want to read about
tools. Not the state of the building industry, what countries which
tools come from, and not read points 3 times with junk padding.


BTW what on earth are you using for posting these days?

a pigeon.


NT