Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

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F

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F wrote:

Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?
What is a common task where compressed air would help?

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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

In article ,
Timothy Murphy wrote:
F wrote:

Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?
What is a common task where compressed air would help?

spraying paint

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From KT24 in Surrey

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

Timothy Murphy wrote:
F wrote:

Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?
What is a common task where compressed air would help?

Cleaning down the bench or a circular saw, car tyres.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 2:28:02 PM UTC, Timothy Murphy wrote:
F wrote:

Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?
What is a common task where compressed air would help?

--
Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Car tyres, stapler, nail guns.

F wrote:

Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?
What is a common task where compressed air would help?


I use mine mostly for tyres, but also regularly use it for cleaning things
by blowing crap away. Air impact wrench and driver get regular use around
the Land Rover. The nail/staple gun paid for itself when building my
workshop and gets regular use still. The spray gun that came with the
compressor isn't up to much but it did do a good easy job of treating and re
treating the shed and workshop timber cladding.
I was given an air powered drill but I have yet to find any use for that.

Mike

On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:28:00 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?

waves

Oh, right. Sorry.

What is a common task where compressed air would help?

Well, I use mine in the garage a fair bit. Tyre inflation, rattlegun,
rust-proofing wax spraying, undersealing.

Oh, right. Common amongst these "normal" people... Umm...

On 03/03/2015 15:06, Adrian wrote:
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:28:00 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?

waves

Oh, right. Sorry.

What is a common task where compressed air would help?

Well, I use mine in the garage a fair bit. Tyre inflation, rattlegun,
rust-proofing wax spraying, undersealing.

Oh, right. Common amongst these "normal" people... Umm...

The thing that puts me off sprayers is how difficult it may be to clean
the gun.

"Broadback" wrote in message
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On 03/03/2015 15:06, Adrian wrote:
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:28:00 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?

waves

Oh, right. Sorry.

What is a common task where compressed air would help?

Well, I use mine in the garage a fair bit. Tyre inflation, rattlegun,
rust-proofing wax spraying, undersealing.

Oh, right. Common amongst these "normal" people... Umm...

The thing that puts me off sprayers is how difficult it may be to clean
the gun.

Does give a much better result than any alternative
with stuff like painting cars and vans and RVs etc tho.

In article ,
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?
What is a common task where compressed air would help?

Air tools are rather cheaper and more robust than electric, so ideal in a
workshop.

But most of the compressors you see in Lidl etc would struggle to run
them. This Aldi one looks rather better.

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*Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 03/03/2015 14:28, Timothy Murphy wrote:
F wrote:

Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?
What is a common task where compressed air would help?

Nailing, spraying etc as others have said, but the main benefits are
that you can use air tools continuously without them over heating and
the tools are very cheap compared to electric.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 03/03/2015 14:28, Timothy Murphy wrote:
F wrote:

Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?
What is a common task where compressed air would help?


Shot basting, painting, sanding, nailing, blowing up tyres.
You can add drilling, sawing, etc. in wet places where electric tools
fear to tred.

"Timothy Murphy" wrote in message
...
F wrote:

Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

Aldi and Lidl seem to be obsessed with compressors and their tools.
Do any normal people use these?

Corse they do.

What is a common task where compressed air would help?

Painting.

And when you don't want to fart around rechargeables and them dying.

The compressed air route works a lot better than a separate motor
in each device. Main downside is the cost of the compressor and
that's not too bad at all now.

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 11:35:34 UTC, F wrote:
Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating tools
and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

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F

www.vulcantothesky.org - keep the last remaining Vulcan flying

Beware of the parking cameras at ALDI. If you've shopped there before, you'll know they get busy at weekends and they don't have enough tills to cope. I got a £70 fine for parking there too long. Well done ALDI....you lost a regular customer!

I have a compressor exactly the same as that (except mine is red and didn't come from ALDI....and cost twice as much!). The compressor is great but you'll need a trolley to carry it. Its heavy! Also, don't bother with the bundle of tools that has a tyre inflator in...they're junk!

On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:57:53 -0800, paul.walton.uk wrote:

I have a compressor exactly the same as that (except mine is red and
didn't come from ALDI....and cost twice as much!). The compressor is
great but you'll need a trolley to carry it. Its heavy!

I've got one of the Aldidl compressors from a few years back - rebadged
Wolf - and it's not only got wheels, but I can carry it single-handed.
But (looks at link) the current one is beefier - mine's 2.5hp, 25l tank,
this one's 3hp/50l. Twice the price, too...
Hmm. Should I upgrade...?
NO. Stop it. Don't even think it.

In article ,
Adrian wrote:
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:57:53 -0800, paul.walton.uk wrote:

I have a compressor exactly the same as that (except mine is red and
didn't come from ALDI....and cost twice as much!). The compressor is
great but you'll need a trolley to carry it. Its heavy!

I've got one of the Aldidl compressors from a few years back - rebadged
Wolf - and it's not only got wheels, but I can carry it single-handed.
But (looks at link) the current one is beefier - mine's 2.5hp, 25l tank,
this one's 3hp/50l. Twice the price, too...
Hmm. Should I upgrade...?
NO. Stop it. Don't even think it.

I've no garage, so no room for a full size compressor. But got one of the
Lidl suitcase ones last year. Big enough for a blast of air to clean
things - and also worked fine for spraying wax inside the car body
sections. Also pumps up tyres many times faster than a 12v one.

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*Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
wrote:
Beware of the parking cameras at ALDI. If you've shopped there before,
you'll know they get busy at weekends and they don't have enough tills
to cope. I got a £70 fine for parking there too long. Well done
ALDI....you lost a regular customer!

Did you actually shop there or give up?

Lidl have just introduced a similar scheme - and not before time.
Numberplate recognition cameras, and you get 'logged in' by giving the reg
number at the checkout. If it stops people just using the carpark, I'm all
in favour.

However, if I'd overstayed their 'limit' *while shopping in their store*
and they tried to fine me I'd take them to court.

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*America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 16:52:11 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
Beware of the parking cameras at ALDI. If you've shopped there before,
you'll know they get busy at weekends and they don't have enough tills
to cope. I got a £70 fine for parking there too long. Well done
ALDI....you lost a regular customer!

Did you actually shop there or give up?

Lidl have just introduced a similar scheme - and not before time.
Numberplate recognition cameras, and you get 'logged in' by giving the reg
number at the checkout. If it stops people just using the carpark, I'm all
in favour.

However, if I'd overstayed their 'limit' *while shopping in their store*
and they tried to fine me I'd take them to court.

I got a 'Civil Parking Fine' a few years ago when parking in a Lidl store - I
was doing a mixture of Lidl and non-Lidl shopping & got back 5 mins late.

I challenged the notice and didn't hear back from them. I try not to take the
p*ss when parking on shop premises etc. so felt reasonably justified in
not giving in to the fine the one time. Worth trying, anyway, and it is d-i-y!

J^n

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:
Beware of the parking cameras at ALDI. If you've shopped there before,
you'll know they get busy at weekends and they don't have enough tills
to cope. I got a £70 fine for parking there too long. Well done
ALDI....you lost a regular customer!

Did you actually shop there or give up?

Lidl have just introduced a similar scheme - and not before time.
Numberplate recognition cameras, and you get 'logged in' by giving the reg
number at the checkout. If it stops people just using the carpark, I'm all
in favour.

However, if I'd overstayed their 'limit' *while shopping in their store*
and they tried to fine me I'd take them to court.

Unless you got the fine at the checkout would it not be better to let them
take you to court for overstaying your parking?



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Adam

On 03/03/2015 15:57, wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 11:35:34 UTC, F wrote:
Plenty of DIY on offer at Aldi this Thursday including decorating
tools and a 3HP compressor and tools:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thur-5-mar/

-- F

www.vulcantothesky.org - keep the last remaining Vulcan flying

Beware of the parking cameras at ALDI. If you've shopped there
before, you'll know they get busy at weekends and they don't have
enough tills to cope. I got a £70 fine for parking there too long.
Well done ALDI....you lost a regular customer!

Those tickets from private parking companies are unenforceable. Don't
pay them.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 03/03/2015 15:57, wrote:

Beware of the parking cameras at ALDI. If you've shopped there before, you'll know they get busy at weekends and they don't have enough tills to cope. I got a £70 fine for parking there too long. Well done ALDI....you lost a regular customer!

Ring Aldi Head Office and tell them what happened. They'll ask you to
quote various bits and pieces from your till receipt and then cancel the
*parking charge* (it's not a fine).

Worked when Management overstayed and seemed not be in the least unusual...

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F

www.vulcantothesky.org - keep the last remaining Vulcan flying