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Another vote for the Felco C7.

As Downwindtracker says, SDS plus bits (aka Hilti, though it's not quite that simple....) are available up to "about" an inch. I've used them up to 30mm in drills with enough impact energy. The SDS drills have an electropneumatic mechanism which provides much greater impact energy than a...

SDS drill. A hammer drill will probably be ok for 4 holes or so, if you are patient. For anyone who has used an SDS, needing to drill more than about ten holes, the SDS pretty much becomes a no-brainer. For half-inch holes, even a cordless SDS will eat the job. Otherwise a dirt-cheap...

Best bang for the buck I've found seems to be the Belomo 10x Triplet Loupe. Made in Belarus. Looks to be available from ebay or Amazon for under 40 bucks in the US. I paid around 25 GBP for mine a few years ago. Mine mostly gets used on site and lives in a bag with the tools I take to make an...

The first one is for use with a Brace. Old school: turned by hand. The second is for drilling holes then rotary-filing them into slots, etc. It looks way past its best. The Brace has been rendered largely obsolete by cordless power tools. The drill-and-file jobbie was never good, IME. It had...

Are you using a handheld drill? Any fairly decent HSS bit "should" do the job. If you have spun the drill without cutting, you'll have work-hardened the surface and made life difficult for yourself. You will need to use a fresh (new or correctly-sharpened) drill bit and try again. Turn it slow...

Bearing-guided t-slot cutter in a router? Something along the lines of: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863J2BHR/?tag=atomicindustr-21 There seems to be some confusion about what constitutes a top-bearing and what constitutes a bottom-bearing, so the link is only to illustrate the "sort" of...

Pipe Dope is not a phrase that seems to be used as much in the UK as in the US, where it seems to be a generic term for any product that is applied to threads in a liquid state. This is unhelpfully vague, as others have pointed out. There are many different products that are applied in the...

It depends a lot on the job in my limited experience. Drilling upwards, it's usually a case of applying cutting paste and adopting a philosophical attitude. Drilling downwards, oil is usually cheaper than the extra cutters you get through when cutting dry. The potential mess can also affect...

Some years ago, there was a group buy on the old British Blades knife forum. IIRC, a UK importer was giving up and a number of 2" x 36" and 4" x 36" kits were available at silly-low prices. I bought 3 or 4 of the 2" x 36" and a 4" x 36". We have 50 Hz mains in the UK, so maximum speed on a...

It’s why I stressed the “metric”. The disk sizes are actually the same everywhere, AFAIK, but expressed in inches or millimetres, depending on location. The locating diameters on the nuts are obviously the same everywhere as well, to suit the disks, but the thread sizes are different: either...

I am pretty sure metric 100mm (4") angle grinders have 10mm x 1.5 threaded shafts (standard ISO Metric Coarse Thread IIRC) and the 100mm discs have a 16mm bore. The nuts are stepped to provide location. A search for "angle grinder nuts" and your location, should help you find them. 115mm (4...

I'm not sure whether there are different versions of the head recess, depending on where in the world the equipment originates: effectively Phillips-and-slot, Pozi-and-slot? Here in the UK, we only seem to see one type, though I can't be sure. I cover these with "Modulo" cross-and-slot bits in...

I have a PHE30RX2. It’s a 1010-Watt drill with quick-change SDS and 1/2" keyless chucks. It is the worst drill I have ever had, bar none, and has sat on a shelf in my shed for at least a decade, unloved. It has a "safety" clutch that seems to have been designed to protect a 70lb Nonagenarian...

The Bahco will do the job, assuming it covers the sizes you need. A lot of guys I know, myself included, use the Bahco gear for site work. It's strong enough to do the job, even if the job involves a degree of abuse, while not being shiny enough to attract magpies. When a socket, or whatever...

Don't fiddle with it?

Longer belts provide a bit more "wrap" on the smaller pulley (infinitely-long belts would give 180 degree contact on both pulleys), which helps with pulley wear, and belt wear tends to be reduced because each point on a longer belt spends proportionately less time in contact with the pulleys...

Drilling Stainless is all about technique. It work-hardens VERY easily. "Moderate pressure" is almost certainly the problem. Each pass of the cutting edge leaves a work-hardened layer beneath it. This is very thin and, when things are working well, the next pass of the cutting edge is...

It helps a LOT to sit down and decide what you intend to do with it. There is a huge difference between a big one and a little one. Here in the UK, most houses are built from brick. Brick varies hugely with location and local geology. Around me, the geology means that most brick is made from...

Is that “it needs to drill a 5cm diameter (2”) hole, deep into rock”, or “it needs to drill a 5cm deep hole into rock”? If the latter, what diameter? If the former, how deep? I don’t have an answer either way, but it might help someone to answer.