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cakesmith handyman posted:I need to buy some decent forstner bits but the sticker shock gets me every time so I resharpen my crappy ones and swear at them instead. Was eyeing a few options and don't use them enough for sharpening to deter me, what brand do you have?
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Sharpening Forstner bits is so easy and replacements are so expensive. The reward:effort is off the scale.
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Bob Mundon posted:Was eyeing a few options and don't use them enough for sharpening to deter me, what brand do you have? I’m in the same boat: baby’s first Forstner set, what’s good for a
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I have these: https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/cmtsetof16forstnerbits.aspx Made in China but so far, so good. My old boss had a huge set of Fisch ones that were 30 years old and they were really sweet, but $$$$ new. They are by far the easiest drill bit to sharpen, and sharpening makes a big difference.
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I got this Freud set a few months ago, and so far so good.
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Jun 12, 2019 03:39
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I've got the PC set before this one, in a wood box. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004TSZEB4/ And yes, spades for punching holes in studs for plumbing/electrical. Nothing precise or neat.
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I got the set from Woodcraft in the wooden case on black Friday a couple years ago; they've worked fine for me
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Jun 12, 2019 04:01
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What's the overall opinion on Ryobi products? Looking at reddit, people say they're a good deal for basic DIY/Homeowner stuff (and that's pretty much the limit of what I'd use them for), and so I'm thinking of jumping into that ecosystem.
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sharkytm posted:I've got the PC set before this one, in a wood box. Just snagged this set, thanks for the recommendations! Edit: JerikTelorian posted:What's the overall opinion on Ryobi products? Looking at reddit, people say they're a good deal for basic DIY/Homeowner stuff (and that's pretty much the limit of what I'd use them for), and so I'm thinking of jumping into that ecosystem. Ryobi stuff is fine. I have their garden tools (including the 40v electric lawnmower and weed-whacker) and a few other basic tools, and their build quality is decent enough if you’re just doing basic stuff around the house. When you get into bigger $$$ tools you’re buying uptime, lightness and/or service capabilities. You get a Hilti drill because it’s supposed to last forever and be lighter for all-day use. If you’re only drilling a hole or two every so often, save your money and get the Ryobi. funeral home DJ fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 13:42
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JerikTelorian posted:What's the overall opinion on Ryobi products? Looking at reddit, people say they're a good deal for basic DIY/Homeowner stuff (and that's pretty much the limit of what I'd use them for), and so I'm thinking of jumping into that ecosystem. Ryobi sounds perfect for your uses, have fun!
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Awesome, thanks for the input.Ripoff posted:Ryobi stuff is fine. I have their garden tools (including the 40v electric lawnmower and weed-whacker) and a few other basic tools, and their build quality is decent enough if you’re just doing basic stuff around the house. How do you like the weed-whacker? What's the uptime like? I need to start trimming at my new place, but there's no good outlet access and lots of hedges and stuff that would make it a pain to run a wire. I'd also love to skip mixing two stage fuel.
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JerikTelorian posted:Awesome, thanks for the input. I have the 40V weed wacker. On a full charge I get about 2 full whackings of my yard, which takes me about 20 minutes. If I'm out of batteries, I'll pop the thing in the charger and by the time I'm done mowing I usually have 3/4 of a full charg (~45 minutes or so) I replaced the head of mine with something similar to this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rino-Tuff-Pivotrim-Universal-Trimmer-Head-17093/206470721 (mine has 4). It's way better than the bump feed. Also get the straight shaft one, not the one with the curve. Apparently they last longer. I also have the chainsaw and for a battery operated chainsaw and me not having forests worth of trees to cut, it does an awesome job. I'm considering getting the blower for post-mowing cleanup just because it's such a pain in the rear end to drag out the extension cords. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 14:56
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AFewBricksShy posted:
Do it. My situation is similar to you and having a chainsaw/trimmer/blower all sharing the same batteries is a thing of beauty. I use my blower the most out of the three.
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JerikTelorian posted:How do you like the weed-whacker? What's the uptime like? I need to start trimming at my new place, but there's no good outlet access and lots of hedges and stuff that would make it a pain to run a wire. I'd also love to skip mixing two stage fuel. My yard is a postage stamp in a suburb of a city (.26 acres) so I can actually cut the front yard and weed-whack on the same charge. As for the power, it exists in this area between a plug-in trimmer and a “prosumer” gas-powered unit, and it’s never complained about any of the tall grasses or weeds I’ve chucked at it. It’s well balanced with the battery installed and is about as heavy as the old consumer-grade 2-stroke gas powered trimmers I’ve used. As AFewBricksShy mentioned, the automatic feed is serviceable but I’d get a beefier head and/or line if I was trying to chew up ivy or whatnot. FWIW, the 40v trimmer is my favorite tool of the Ryobi bunch because it really does quite well for the price. Edit: I got a refurbished “jet fan” blower and it’s amazing for clearing the gutters and moving dry leaves out of a driveway or carport, but it lacks the hit for leaves on grass in my opinion. Blowers still have a ways to come as far as battery powered units. funeral home DJ fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 15:47
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Ripoff posted:
I forgot the other awesome part of the trimmer. If you have a sidewalk that you want to edge, you can get this attachment: https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-Expand-It-8-in-Universal-Straight-Shaft-Edger-Attachment-RYEDG12/207209914 Which does a loving awesome job (although that will chew through batteries, it usually takes me 2 full charges to finish my driveway and my sidewalk). AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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JerikTelorian posted:Awesome, thanks for the input. 18v weed whacker is fine for my property- maybe 20 minutes and I've never run a battery down. I got their 18v pole saw also when I was taking down a massive Bradford pear, and gave my corded homelite to my buddy for helping. The pole saw is a foot longer, but lacking oomph for 6-8" branches, obv compared to corded. I may use it once every several years, however.
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Random Ryobi endorsement, some of their new 18v yard stuff is really impressive. I picked up the new brushless 12" chainsaw with a 4ah battery when it was on sale for $149 online and it's great. The only time it struggles is with ripping lengthwise, the slower chain speed causes it to chatter a lot. But for pruning and sectioning up smaller logs it's great. It even cut up a ~20" diameter tree that fell over in my friend's yard. 
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Jun 13, 2019 00:04
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If you do decide to get Ryobi tools remember they offer brushed and brushless versions of most stuff. The brushless versions cost more but are going to be more comparable to higher end tools like Milwaukee's as far as power, run time and reliability is concerned while still being cheaper than them. For some things like driver's it's debatable whether it matters for basic home owner stuff but for saws, for instance, it makes a huge difference.
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Dog Case posted:Random Ryobi endorsement, some of their new 18v yard stuff is really impressive. I picked up the new brushless 12" chainsaw with a 4ah battery when it was on sale for $149 online and it's great. The only time it struggles is with ripping lengthwise, the slower chain speed causes it to chatter a lot. But for pruning and sectioning up smaller logs it's great. It even cut up a ~20" diameter tree that fell over in my friend's yard. That’s giving me flashbacks to the day I had to cut up a similar sized tree that fell across my driveway with the old 10 inch Ryobi chainsaw. Let me tell you it took a long time since I only had one charger and 2 batteries and this was before they even had the 4ah ones.
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JEEVES420 posted:And the nail gun sparks from the "firing pin" hitting the nail head. Its normal and will happen less the more you use it. Why would it happen less the more you use it? I've only seen my framing nailer spark (which definitely surprised me the first time, too). Haven't seen any of the smaller nailers spark. I have definitely seen that poo poo come out sideways, though. The xmas tree shelf I built, one of the pine cleats must have been like 99% knot, because literally every single nail I fired into it came out sideways (or even horseshoe shaped back at me!) I decided to use more glue and clamp that one... 
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Jun 13, 2019 00:36
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:Why would it happen less the more you use it? The parts wear in. "Self clearanceing" Basically when you have sharp edges they are more likely to come off hot. Things get rounded off and that's not so much a thing anymore, at least on the tool end.
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I'm digging my 18 volt Ryobi trimmer/edger. It even puts the hurt on Japanese knotweed. Takes a couple 3.0ah or 4.0ah batteries to do all our trimming but we have a lot of boulders, retaining walls, herb pots, and other features to trim around. Initially thought the low speed switch was a joke but it helps save battery around bits that are being better kept up with. And my wife likes the auto-feed so she doesn't have to put any thought into a bump.
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Why are there no deals on the M12 Hackzall? I’ve been loving up some trees lately with a full‐size Sawzall. I gained some forearm strength and didn’t lose any fingers while one‐handing the thing, but I would have loved to have the Hackzall.
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Platystemon posted:Why are there no deals on the M12 Hackzall? It was $89 with a battery last weekend (expired): https://slickdeals.net/f/13137895-m...earchBarV2Algo1 Currently the only deal on it I see is with the Hackzall, 3/8" ratchet and one battery for $179: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwauk...UklUsVwXNzdg200
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The first deal was for the brushed model, I think, so I wasn’t missing much.
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Jaded Burnout, I'm so sorry you went through this poo poo with loving fluid fittings. Nothing is ever loving right, and even things that should be standard loving aren't! Holy poo poo, I'm so loving angry about fittings so I WILL POST RIGHT GODDAMNED NOW. I'm starting up a startup and we're doing industrial plasma equipment. Typically this poo poo is expensive as gently caress new, but ebay typically has poo poo that is pennies on the dollar for things that I can refurb or rebuild. I'm talking $100K of vacuum pumps for $2K including rebuild kits, $50K in gas delivery equipment for $500, just need to know what you're doing, and I typically do. EXCEPT. loving. FITTINGS. LET'S loving REVIEW! - I have a turbomolecular pump that has a water cooling hookup, and the manual says the thread is a R 1/4. I confirmed this with the loving apps engineer. That usually means it's a BSPT thread, so I go ahead and order both a R 1/4, G 1/4 and a BSPT 1/4. NONE loving FIT. Better, the female thread on the loving pump is loving tapered, which means it's a Rc 1/4 which should STILL fit with a BSPT 1/4! THE gently caress! - I have another turbomolecular pump which supposedly has a 1/4 BSPP (?! the gently caress, british) thread for the air vent fitting. This should accept a 1/4 BSPP with a seal washer, or a 1/4 BSPT with threadlock. NEITHER FIT. Some loving gremlin metric fitting I had kicking around with a copious amount of vacuum dope sealed it, but what in the gently caress. THE gently caress! - I am running a custom mix of argon/H2 in 300 cubic foot bottles. Cool, that's a CGA-350 fitting, excellent. Cool, I can buy a Swagelok with appropriate regulation, and it says it's all NPT thread according to the datasheet!!!! .... what in the gently caress, why is this not... the gently caress, it's loving BSPT?! - Let's talk about loving flare fittings for a second. Oh hey, here's a part that says it's a 45 degree flare, except it DOESN'T loving MATE with a 45 but kind of does with a 37! Here's a hose that is billed as JIS, but DOESN'T loving FIT JIS, SAE, OR AN! WHAT KIND OF FITTING IS THIS? gently caress IT, HERE'S SOME PIPE DOPE AND A WRENCH, YOU'RE NOW A loving NPT. - 1/8" Swagelok tube fitting? cool, coo... wait, what in the jesus gently caress, it's somehow a metric loving tube?! gently caress this, i'm done. Don't even get me started with vacuum flanges. KF/NW are typically not horrific, but then you get conflat, the standard that isn't, and you get to try to metal seal between a loving MDC and a Lesker/Nor-Cal knife edge (hint: you can't, just go get a kalrez o-ring 9 times in 10), or LF/ISO where muppets decide that the threads should be imperial on a loving metric standard, or just the loving horror that is ASA flanges. The only fitting worth even half a poo poo is VCR. Next time someone asks me about c-seals or VCOs I'm going to commit seppuku with a goddamned pipe wrench. Tim Thomas fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Jun 14, 2019 |
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OH HEY, 5/16 TUBING FITTINGS ARE 8MM AND 8MM FITTINGS ARE 5/16 FROM THE SMC PNEUMATICS FACTORY YET THE 8MM TUBE FROM GRAINGER ONLY FITS THE 5/16 FITTING AND THE 5/16 TUBING ONLY FITS THE 8MM FITTING
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Tim Thomas posted:Jaded Burnout, I'm so sorry you went through this poo poo with loving fluid fittings. Nothing is ever loving right, and even things that should be standard loving aren't! Holy poo poo, I'm so loving angry about fittings so I WILL POST RIGHT GODDAMNED NOW. I think at this point your best bet would be to literally get a royal sampler platter of literally every possible kind of fitting made in all the sizes that you generally see on these. Get a little box of test fittings, go down the list, then once you find the one that fits best, order that specific one and be mad that the datasheet was wrong, again, because of course it was. I do want a magnetic bearing turbomolecular pump for high vacuum fuckaround projects, but my ebay-fu is weak, and frankly I don't wanna gamble on one that says 'pulled working' and in reality was pulled from a dumpster after it puked a rotor vane out the exhaust.
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Tim Thomas posted:gently caress this, i'm done. I've not had to deal with the level of fuckery you have but you have my whole hearted sympathy. In my more limited experience things that don't fit what they're supposed to new are either really badly machined or if used, have been made to almost seal with the wrong fitting and far too much force by the previous idiot. Bob Mundon posted:Was eyeing a few options and don't use them enough for sharpening to deter me, what brand do you have? lovely Aldi ones, even after sharpening they're garbage. Lesson learned except I still haven't bought better ones and I need them on every other project. Any UK suggestions for not bankruptcy-expensive forstner bits?
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cakesmith handyman posted:lovely Aldi ones, even after sharpening they're garbage. Lesson learned except I still haven't bought better ones and I need them on every other project. Any UK suggestions for not bankruptcy-expensive forstner bits? I bought these but they're definitely bargain basement, I've not used them yet. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072XJ5NG3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Tim Thomas posted:Jaded Burnout, I'm so sorry you went through this poo poo with loving fluid fittings. Nothing is ever loving right, and even things that should be standard loving aren't! Holy poo poo, I'm so loving angry about fittings so I WILL POST RIGHT GODDAMNED NOW. I love everything about this post, but please do not commit seppuku, forums poster Tim the tool fittings man Thomas.
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I got talked into fisch wavecutter bits by this video. Pricey, but I appreciate a good hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBFcCTXZkA
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Platystemon posted:The first deal was for the brushed model, I think, so I wasn’t missing much. HD is running a promo for "Buy 12v Fuel Hackzall, get one free additonal tool or battery". You can return the free tool for a specified value on the receipt and keep the Hackzall. Should being the price down to $110-130 depending on the free tool.
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FCKGW posted:HD is running a promo for "Buy 12v Fuel Hackzall, get one free additonal tool or battery". You can return the free tool for a specified value on the receipt and keep the Hackzall. Should being the price down to $110-130 depending on the free tool. So the new deals on it now are, in decreasing order of “value” (to whatever extent that’s reflected in returns): w/ brushed ratchet w/ six‐amp‐hour battery w/ that weird multi‐tool that anyone only ever uses to cut holes for outlets w/ right angle drill
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That picture could be misunderstood (?) by some. Do not buy a saw like this for cutting trees like this.
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Rnr posted:That picture could be misunderstood (?) by some. Do not buy a saw like this for cutting trees like this. Oh yeah, buy a real gas saw if you need to deal with something like that on a regular basis, but it can do it if it's all you've got.
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I'm not a chainsaw expert, but I believe the issue is less to do with the saw's power and more to do with the size of the bar/chain. You don't want to be cutting with the tip of a chainsaw blade, because it greatly increases the chance of the blade deciding it'd rather work on your body than on the tree.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm not a chainsaw expert, but I believe the issue is less to do with the saw's power and more to do with the size of the bar/chain. You don't want to be cutting with the tip of a chainsaw blade, because it greatly increases the chance of the blade deciding it'd rather work on your body . on the tree. You're kinda close on the bar length and tip... You can cut a tree down twice the size of your bar and you can do boring or plunge cuts with the tip but these arent basic actions. If you dont know what those you shouldn't be loving around with them for sure. What's most likely to happen with someone bucking up bigger logs with a small saw is they create a weird bind and are SOL and now have an art sculpture in their yard
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:You're kinda close on the bar length and tip... You can cut a tree down twice the size of your bar and you can do boring or plunge cuts with the tip but these arent basic actions. I saw some west coast logger on instagram that cuts down 40+" sugar pines all the time and he pushes them all over with a few whacks on a wedge and it's amazing to me. Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I don't know why every chainsaw doesn't ship with like 5 big plastic wedges. When I discovered wedges, everything because easy. Oh yea, easy baby. It's amazing when you do it clean and it goes over like that and you see the perfect humbolt because you're feeling like hotshit. You barely touch them and it just goes so easy. Then you try and swing trees against their lean and it sits on you and you have to take the power head off and get cut out and everyone hates you because that's a really bad look. Oh God fire flashbacks D: What's the Instagram I want to see some saw porn
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