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I have a few tools I want to buy from America but they either don't post to Australia, or have massive shipping charges. Would anybody be keen to help me by letting me purchase a few things, have them sent to their address and then package the items together and send them on to me? Obviously...

Africa is definately an interesting one. Wages are cheap, but the massive rates of theft and political instability make quite a few enterprises just not viable, and it won't change unless there is a major change over there. My old man has runs a few supermarkets over there and its not uncommon...

I have an el cheapo pair and a knipex pair. The knipex ones are better than the cheap ones by a fair bit, but I just use my 6" cable shears for stripping insulation off cables from 0.5mm2-50mm2. (thats about the smallest cable I work with). Once you get the feel of it you can do it faster whilst...

Would you be willing to ship to Australia?

Thanks for the advice. I took the plunge last night and ordered a set of those Knipex bootlace pin crimpers. Probably 80% of my crimps are bootlace pins so thats the most important set of crimpers I needed. I'm still tossing up whether I should commit and drop a week of my apprentice wages on...

Hey now I'm not offended, no need to get defensive and hide your racist views against Australians:lol_hitti. When I visited canada, I actually had to pretend I was from New Zealand just to get a damn job. When I came out and admitted I was Australian the manager laughed and said I was the first...

Yes we are lazy and stupid. We will pay $300 (around $320US) for a glorifed Stanley made in taiwan socket set, That said my snap on bloke is one of the few retailers that don't charge me for my left testicle ontop of whatever the product sells for in America (probably because its already...

Yeah I do a fair bit of work building electrical panels, not all day every day but a good 30-40% of my work is spent building panels. For some reason I didn't even think of checking if Pheonix contact sell crimpers. All our bootlace pins, insulated lugs, din rail terminals etc come from them so...

Does anyone have any sites, brands or products of crimpers they can recommend? Someone decided that they needed my crimpers more than I did so I am now looking for another set. My last set, and the only crimpers I could find locally were $70-80 each, I need one for bootlace pins, one for...

If the connection does crack or become lose that doesn't mean it will completely fail, current will still flow through it but it may become a point of high resistance and heat up. If it does, the insulation in the immediate vicinity of the connection will be heatshrink, which depending on what...

So you have spliced the cable, into to another cable that just plugs into a GPO? Why can't you just run a cable right from the stove hood to the outlet if you are going to do it that way? I know in the Australian/New Zealand wiring rules atleast (AS NZ 3000), soldering connections for use in...

I'm not real happy about ordering from chadstoolbox, as their customer service is pretty poor but in the end I keep crawling back and have so far placed about $2000 worth of orders with them, mainly because there is no real alternative that I have found that will ship to me in Australia. I have...

I am only 20 and new to my trade but I feel that atleast where I am working at the moment and the way it is run, you don't have overly abuse your body to get the job done, infact management/safety actively discourages dangerous procedures. I know it used to be like that, my dad got out of a...

Coming from someone who is nearing their 2nd year of an electrical apprentice, and also wanting to make sure they turn out to be a solid worker: -You'll pick up fairly quickly which guys are the ones who are full of ****, and which ones know their ****. Try to stick around the latter. There are...

I mainly use knipex pliers, i have sidecutters, linesmans, needlenose pliers, assorted cable shears/duct cutters, multi grips etc and they are all flawless. I also have a pair of channellock pliers, but the joint seems a little sloppy compared to my knipex ones. I had a bit of a bad experience...

I have a confession to make.. I am the son of one of these diy electrical hacks that we all despise. A couple of months ago my old man decided to replace the kitchen lights with new LED ones. I offered to give him a hand, being an apprentice electrician but he insisted that he still knew more...

So I'm putting together a little panelbuilding kit for my work that will hold all the common consumables used so i don't have to chase them down before starting work, and also hold my smaller tools prone to being borrowed without permission and left around the workshop. My problem is I can't...

One of the bonuses of being the first year apprentice that has to clean all the vehicles that come into our workshop covered in **** from the mines is that I have amassed a small collection of CAT branded tools, including a couple of screwdrivers. Is there any way I can tell whether they are...

Hmm, I'd say the best tool I have found in the streets would be a nice swedish sandvik hackaw on the footpath outside my house. I also find alot of stuff at my work (mainly in/on minesite vehicles, or in old substations). Highlights include a 24" Ridgid pipe wrench, a Caterpillar brand set of...

Yeah I just checked and it is only in Africa and maybe their Brazilian/russian markets that they have a lifetime guarantee on their tools, strange. Here I was hoping that I would maybe be able to warrant my south african made gedore should any of it break. That ***** :eek2: