Recent content by aidank

Im looking for a sharpener to sharpen everthing really, drill bits, both masonary and HSS, knives scissors. anyone any recommendations

I have a McNaught K32 (regular pistol grip gun) and have a problem with the follower seal sticking in the grease tube. It takes ~ 2 seconds for the head to fill before you get a full pump. Any ideas or experienced similar ?

What does everyone use when trying to pump nice thick gear oil from a 25L drum into an awkward to access wheel hub. I tried a drill pump but its not working, it will **** up the gear oil ok but v v v v little pressure to push it out, yes the drill pump is working correctly.

The reason for turning upside down is so that the air in the piston chamber goes to the valve first and exits from the piston chamber into the reservoir when you compress the jack piston. Hope that make sense

I have an ordinary hydraulic bottle jack, it’s a 15ton model, lifts 5inch or thereabouts. I hadn’t used it in a while so tried to use it today lifting 4ton. I got all the air out of the jack first by extending fully and then turning upside down and lowering. put jack under load and off I went...

I have recently purchased a manual impact driver and I want to get a long set of bits for it, it only came with the 23mm bits. Manual impact driver is a machine like this...

the concrete yard at the back of my parents house has a low patch. The yard is 50ftx30ft something like 1:100 slope from end to end. there is one low patch however its approx 1ftX1ft at one end, and you guessed it its 5ft from the back door. Its relatively new concrete 3years old, someone...

Good evening everyone, Came across this on youtube It appears he has one of the door/gate pulleys mounted on the track across the door opening and the other pulley is mounted in a track which runs along the wall. Its the only door I have ever seen hung like that, usually there is a curved...

I have a 15x15 sliding door i need to hang which is about 220kg weight. Its a metal framed door clad with corrugated sheeting for a shed. Was wondering how is this usually done in USA In europe we usually use this type of tracking and rollers...

Not a huge amount at all actually, however it rains and is quite windy during Autumn, so I was looking at this leaf blower option. we have stihl and huskyvarna and echo and we have McCullough, which google tells me is now owned by huskyvarna. Im sure they are marketed as something else across...

I also had the idea of using it to clean out the garage, do you use it in blow or suction mode for that task

Im in the market for a leaf blower for DIY use, I have a bit of hedgecutting to do, however I want something with a bit of power too. I guess backback is the way to go when I want a vacuum bag. Any suggestions what is good and bad, a Stihl seems to be twice the price of most others I was...

Demolition Hammer mainly, however its v handy to be able to drill a hole when trying to do a tidy job Forgetting all about tool brands am I correct on my original post A 10kg chiselling hammer will have much more chiselling power than a 10kg rotary hammer in chiselling mode

Im in the market for a new concrete demolition hammer ~10kg weight. Initial thoughts were to purchase a rotary demolition hammer however I was doing my research, it appears the impact energy is much higher from a dedicated hammer machine rather than from a rotary demolition hammer. doubt I...