Yet more frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need...

[loudlashadjuster]

With Makita you know that you'll be able to buy LXT batteries and equipment for life. Even if the system is superseded at some point, the sheer number of devices out there and their intended audience means you'll always be able to find replacements and plenty of new/nos/secondhand tools. Same, I would hope, for the respective DeWalt & Milwaukee ranges.

I'd always harbour a suspicion that Ryobi would bring out a "New! Improved! One++ Range!" at some point and, without the installed professional user base, getting hold of a new battery in 10+ years might be more of a struggle.

[McGee_22]

I am just pondering pulling the trigger on the following 18v LXT Makita items; inflator, impact wrench and orbit polisher - I may only ever use them once or twice but I still feel the need to add them to the six items I already have.

[Lily the Pink]

nigelpugh7 said:

Shakermaker said:

Found locally on Facebook marketplace, two old paraffin railway lanterns that a guy was selling from his late fathers collection.

Both have wicks in them which is good, guess I’ll got and get some paraffin and see what they do.

My wife hates them.

Now those are just ace!

When we were youngsters we used to play down the local fields, building dens and treehouses, that kind of stuff, and those lanterns were always about, I don’t recall where they came from, but they were ace for helping setting fire to all kinds of things.

I seem to recall they had a separate little assembly inside that houses the wick and paraffin right?

I think we even crafted a bbq type of thing and cooked stuff on a metal griddle Over the top of several of those burner units too!

Happy memories.

I remember them being used to protect barriers around road works.

[Riley Blue]

In March I bought a pair of Lucas spot and fog lights for the front of my car.

In June I bought another pair of Lucas spot and fog lights for the front of my car.

My car already has a pair of Lucas spot and fog lights on it.

[nigelpugh7]

Riley Blue said:

In March I bought a pair of Lucas spot and fog lights for the front of my car.

In June I bought another pair of Lucas spot and fog lights for the front of my car.

My car already has a pair of Lucas spot and fog lights on it.

If I showed you the pictures of all the spot lights I have bought and not fitted to my defender you would probably say, I think Nigel has a serious problem.

Oh and my defender already has 6 spotlights fitted, 4 for flood and 2 extra long range ones for distance.



Ok yes, I admit it, I have a problem!

[Riley Blue]

nigelpugh7 said:

Riley Blue said:

In March I bought a pair of Lucas spot and fog lights for the front of my car.

In June I bought another pair of Lucas spot and fog lights for the front of my car.

My car already has a pair of Lucas spot and fog lights on it.

If I showed you the pictures of all the spot lights I have bought and not fitted to my defender you would probably say, I think Nigel has a serious problem.

Oh and my defender already has 6 spotlights fitted, 4 for flood and 2 extra long range ones for distance.



Ok yes, I admit it, I have a problem!

I fear we both have. I have at least six more spot/fog lights in my garage and in the classic events I'm intending to take part in, only four forward facing lights are permitted.

[Shakermaker]

Lily the Pink said:

nigelpugh7 said:

Shakermaker said:

Found locally on Facebook marketplace, two old paraffin railway lanterns that a guy was selling from his late fathers collection.

Both have wicks in them which is good, guess I’ll got and get some paraffin and see what they do.

My wife hates them.

Now those are just ace!

When we were youngsters we used to play down the local fields, building dens and treehouses, that kind of stuff, and those lanterns were always about, I don’t recall where they came from, but they were ace for helping setting fire to all kinds of things.

I seem to recall they had a separate little assembly inside that houses the wick and paraffin right?

I think we even crafted a bbq type of thing and cooked stuff on a metal griddle Over the top of several of those burner units too!

Happy memories.

I remember them being used to protect barriers around road works.

Quite possibly.

The ones I have, one is EEB which someone else said was ‘Eastern Electricity Board’ and the other has ‘K & as’ imprinted - any ideas?


And yes Nigel, they just have a simple paraffin tank and wick assembly inside them, and a pin wheel to adjust the wick. I bought much more paraffin than I needed at Homebase yesterday as they only sell it in 4 litre containers. That ought to give me some burn time. Just need to get out there and give it a go - anyone got any advice I need or is it as simple as it looks?

[nigelpugh7]

Shakermaker said:

Quite possibly.

The ones I have, one is EEB which someone else said was ‘Eastern Electricity Board’ and the other has ‘K & as’ imprinted - any ideas?


And yes Nigel, they just have a simple paraffin tank and wick assembly inside them, and a pin wheel to adjust the wick. I bought much more paraffin than I needed at Homebase yesterday as they only sell it in 4 litre containers. That ought to give me some burn time. Just need to get out there and give it a go - anyone got any advice I need or is it as simple as it looks?

Thanks so much for the confirmation, my memory is not that bad considering it was over 40 years ago then!

It did also have me recalling that for some reason, and I don’t really know why, as kids back then we really used to burn a lot of stuff.

How we never set fire to anything really valuable, or a person I will never know.

During one weekend session at one of our dens, we managed to find a whole bunch of what looked like grey headlamp bowls.

We found much to our pleasure they could be set alight, then held at arms Length on a long stick or pole, and they would melt, with a most satisfying noise as the molten plastic dripped from the burning shell..

Now how on earth has your picture of those electricity board marker lights triggered that deep memory in the forgotten synapses of my brain I wonder?

[Promised Land]

loudlashadjuster said:

With Makita you know that you'll be able to buy LXT batteries and equipment for life. Even if the system is superseded at some point, the sheer number of devices out there and their intended audience means you'll always be able to find replacements and plenty of new/nos/secondhand tools. Same, I would hope, for the respective DeWalt & Milwaukee ranges.

I'd always harbour a suspicion that Ryobi would bring out a "New! Improved! One++ Range!" at some point and, without the installed professional user base, getting hold of a new battery in 10+ years might be more of a struggle.

Don't bank on buying batteries for life, all brands swap battery technology at some point to get you to buy the new gear, 24v Bosch limh batteries were around the £60 mark for originals, they shot up no end in price when the 18v range came out, so you'd buy fake ones for around the original price, but eventually they stop making these as less demand is needed due to kit upgrade, battery life lasts longer, more torque, better naked kit range etc.

They'd be around for a good few years but I doubt 18v Makita batteries will be around for life on the range now.

Ryobi a good 20 years ago, I was told by a tool merchant that their battery life then was woeful, they've improved the tech like all others and will do again.

Whether kit goes to these lipo battery cells (or other types) in the future remains to be seen but it won't stay on the tech now that's a certainty.

My long handled Makita 9v cordless from 1989, I'd guess you'd struggle to find a battery for now, maybe a few fakes but not a Makita one. But the actual drill technology is years away from now so you wouldn't keep it, like the current range will all be superseded.

[Lazermilk]

Lazadude said:

DIY Car fiddling, and general household stuff.

The mighty car mods guys use all Ryobi stuff, they seem to like it.

Edited by Lazermilk on Friday 19th June 13:26

[Zippee]

My first contribution. I already have an mtb helmet. It's perfectly good. This one is limited edition and consequently probably won't even get used; https://saddleback.co.uk/collections/troy-lee-desi...

Edited by Zippee on Friday 19th June 17:07

[Voldemort]

Lazermilk said:

Lazadude said:

DIY Car fiddling, and general household stuff.

The mighty car mods guys use all Ryobi stuff, they seem to like it.

Edited by Lazermilk on Friday 19th June 13:26

Did they pay for it though? Or are they paid to like it?

[Lazermilk]

Voldemort said:

Lazermilk said:

Lazadude said:

DIY Car fiddling, and general household stuff.

The mighty car mods guys use all Ryobi stuff, they seem to like it.

Edited by Lazermilk on Friday 19th June 13:26

Did they pay for it though? Or are they paid to like it?

If I remember rightly they started off using it all on their own but now do get freebies and possibly sponsored, I think they mentioned it before.

[Sway]

It's been confirmed I'm now permanently working from home. Perhaps one day a fortnight in the office (this is an immense leap for a US DoD supplying firm that's used to cubicle farms and has even struggled with our open plan UK offices and guys like me working from home one day a week...).

Fortunately, I've got a room I can convert into a dedicated office - so I thought it would be absolutely essential I had a boredom killer.

So I've bought a marine fish tank to go on my desk.



The tank cost £100. I've already totted up the equipment/rocks/sand needed to even get ready for water coming to three times that.

That's without water, salt, corals, fish.

Awesome.

[Jcwjosh]

Sway said:

It's been confirmed I'm now permanently working from home. Perhaps one day a fortnight in the office (this is an immense leap for a US DoD supplying firm that's used to cubicle farms and has even struggled with our open plan UK offices and guys like me working from home one day a week...).

Fortunately, I've got a room I can convert into a dedicated office - so I thought it would be absolutely essential I had a boredom killer.

So I've bought a marine fish tank to go on my desk.



The tank cost £100. I've already totted up the equipment/rocks/sand needed to even get ready for water coming to three times that.

That's without water, salt, corals, fish.

Awesome.

Awesome how big is the tank ? Would be good to see how you get on in the fish tank thread

[anxious_ant]

Jcwjosh said:

Sway said:

It's been confirmed I'm now permanently working from home. Perhaps one day a fortnight in the office (this is an immense leap for a US DoD supplying firm that's used to cubicle farms and has even struggled with our open plan UK offices and guys like me working from home one day a week...).

Fortunately, I've got a room I can convert into a dedicated office - so I thought it would be absolutely essential I had a boredom killer.

So I've bought a marine fish tank to go on my desk.



The tank cost £100. I've already totted up the equipment/rocks/sand needed to even get ready for water coming to three times that.

That's without water, salt, corals, fish.

Awesome.

Awesome how big is the tank ? Would be good to see how you get on in the fish tank thread

Is there a fish tank thread? Link if possible please.
Got a tank myself however it's only a tropical 145L tank but cost £400, without any accesories or fish (which would probably cost another £100-£200

[Sway]

Jcwjosh said:

Awesome how big is the tank ? Would be good to see how you get on in the fish tank thread

It's a baby - 52l.

However, I've been following the tank specific Facebook group for a while, and with a few fairly cheap upgrades (which I'm doing from day 1) it should be good for soft and hardy LPS corals, plus a clownfish pair and goby/blenny.

I'll go on the tank thread.

Should have mentioned, it only got bought as I popped into the local maidenhead aquatics for some guppies to replace our betta that died of old age yesterday...

[GOG440]

alock said:

Finally got fed up of my Erbauer 18v brushless drill hitting the overload protection. Decided to go all in and get the top of the range 18v Makita DHP481.

It's a beast...



And you can't just buy one tool at a time, so accidentally added one of these to the basket...

Weirdly I just bought an Erbauer kit today, 18v drill and impact driver, 2 2aH batteries, charger and a pretty solid case and a free £50 bluetooth speaker/powerbank that uses the same batteries. Not bad for 150.

Bought it to put a blind up in my daughters room after I got royally pissed off with my old cheapy cordless that just couldnt drill into the brickwork, my house has the hardest bricks I have ever seen and it just wasnt man enough for the job, the erbauer drill did it with ease.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-eid18-li-ecd18-...

[Sway]

anxious_ant said:

Is there a fish tank thread? Link if possible please.
Got a tank myself however it's only a tropical 145L tank but cost £400, without any accesories or fish (which would probably cost another £100-£200

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=&t=1824201&d=14780.64441

Just added an update on my two established tanks, plus a shot of the new one in it's new home...

Looking forward to seeing yours, happy to provide any help if I can. I've done the tropical freshwater rodeo for a fair few years now.

[anxious_ant]

Sway said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Just added an update on my two established tanks, plus a shot of the new one in it's new home...

Looking forward to seeing yours, happy to provide any help if I can. I've done the tropical freshwater rodeo for a fair few years now.

Thanks Sway! Below is the tank I've got from Amazon, nothing too fancy. It's my first proper tank since I was a teenager many moons ago
My daughter is really into marine stuff so it's a father and daughter project.

Plan is to start simple, once the tank arrives and is tested I'll start shopping for plants and substrate. I plan to start simple with the fish too, so the usual tetras, guppies, danios etc. I'll have a look at the aquarium thread to gain some knowledge

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07L4Y2N9Q/ref...