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fins posted:Wherever I buy from, it's a giant pain in the rear end to actually get it to the shop. There are 5, maybe 6 working lathes in my entire country. Only CNC machine is a Tormach 1100, although I get free time on it in exchange for maintenance. Gotta wait for someone to go bankrupt or die to get a 2nd hand one. Same for mills. One of the downsides of living in a small caribbean island! Had to give up on that awesome Hurco, Shipping, duties, and taxes on shipping make it an insane proposition even before the whole "how is it going to get inside the building" issue. No big machines means no decent riggers around. Anyway start stockpiling chain and rigid conduit and when the day comes to play amateur millwright you will be ready. Also a concrete saw solves the will it fit in the door problem if time is an issue. I cant do a plug in, two of the raised beds are about 200-250 ft from the closest outlet. I have to put the generator in the truck to run anything corded out there and then getting another Mantis starts looking better.
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Going back to power tool drm chat, I wanted to show the future of power tools, the Robbox xDrill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Cmv4-mgBs https://ks.robboxtools.com successfully kickstarted and indiegogo'd. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xdrill/xdrill-the-drill-reimagined admittedly some nice features. but for that price i could get a regular drill, a laser level, and a roll of tape and cover 90% of it.
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Why'd they put a screen where the hammer's supposed to be?
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It'd be easy to slag this thing, but drat, they are asking for it. Tech guys coming up with an expensive solution for a non-existent or already solved problem. Including an app and always-on connectivity because it's perfectly sensible for your drill to stop working when the servers inevitably shut down.
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Brute Squad posted:Going back to power tool drm chat, I wanted to show the future of power tools, the Robbox xDrill. what unvarnished techbro horse poo poo. 
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Aug 7, 2021 19:28
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Mr. Mambold posted:what unvarnished techbro horse poo poo. Techbros have a lot of money and fantasize about being work-with-your-hands craftspeople all the time. Might as well try to scam 'em out of their considerable disposable income with high-priced gadgets. The only problem is that this means that your stupid "smart tool" startup is competing with Festool.
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Mr. Mambold posted:what unvarnished techbro horse poo poo. Look at the runout on that chuck!
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Aug 7, 2021 22:21
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They'll never be able to simulate an old carpenter grabbing your drill to straighten out your grip.
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Aug 7, 2021 22:34
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wallaka posted:Look at the runout on that chuck! That was the first thing I noticed in the video. It's not even a good tool to begin with, then they pasted all that fairly useless bullshit onto it.
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Aug 7, 2021 22:57
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Motronic posted:That was the first thing I noticed in the video. It's not even a good tool to begin with, then they pasted all that fairly useless bullshit onto it. But it's twentyone volts!!
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Aug 7, 2021 22:59
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Yes, and basically everything a tech idiot who's never actually needed to use a drill before would think makes a really "professional" one.
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Aug 7, 2021 23:05
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I assume they were smart enough to get patents on the various sensors, so they can actually make real money licensing them to TTI or somebody that actually knows how to make power tools. The laser distance measurer looks way to finicky. Anyone that's used one, or anyone that knows basic geometry, knows that the measurement off the wall has to be exactly 90 degrees or you'll get some error. Enough error to easily miss the 1.5" edge of a stud.
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Aug 9, 2021 14:36
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Needs to have some kind of robotic frame that vacu-sucks itself to the wall, crawls around to the right spots, and makes holes in a meticulously preplanned pattern that can only be laid out in their proprietary software/accompanying app.
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Aug 9, 2021 17:20
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If that drill can't make a killer espresso then I'm only buying one.
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Aug 9, 2021 17:27
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Speaking of tools I banged out my first copper tool yesterday. Here is my incredibly ugly scoop knife: It actually works great despite being the shabbiest looking thing ever.
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Aug 9, 2021 17:29
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Acid Reflux posted:Needs to have some kind of robotic frame that vacu-sucks itself to the wall, crawls around to the right spots, and makes holes in a meticulously preplanned pattern that can only be laid out in their proprietary software/accompanying app.  pretty much that but it's open source:
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Izzy Swan (YouTube maker) just teased a vacuum drill press that uses the Grabo. Pretty neat stuff.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Techbros have a lot of money and fantasize about being work-with-your-hands craftspeople all the time. Might as well try to scam 'em out of their considerable disposable income with high-priced gadgets. It's highly-concentrated techbro arrogance. Let's disrupt this $32B power tool market, which is perhaps the least automatable market, with an app! You know, the same kind of app that Milwaukee had in 2016. As if the engineers at Bosch, Stanley Black and Decker, and the other various megacorps with several brands are not all trying desperately to out-do each other and peel off market share. I feel like they have a really good idea of who their customers actually are and how their customers use the tools, and every year they're screaming loudly about their newest Malibu Stacy With New Hat innovations. (compact version of existing tool, small profile battery, large capacity battery, 15% more powerful motor, etc.) Despite becoming extremely cheap and ubiquitous on consumer gadgets, none of the big names have wanted to put a touchscreen on a drill. Certainly not because it's a dumb idea, it's just that they must not have thought of it! Acid Reflux posted:Needs to have some kind of robotic frame that vacu-sucks itself to the wall, crawls around to the right spots, and makes holes in a meticulously preplanned pattern that can only be laid out in their proprietary software/accompanying app. An app-connected suction robot probably has some more lucrative, uhh, non-construction uses. 
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Trabant posted:
canyoneer posted:An app-connected suction robot probably has some more lucrative, uhh, non-construction uses. 
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Massive runout on the chuck. It's so obvious in the video, it's casual arrogance that their target market had no need to do things like "drill neat and clean holes" I'm the feature of "has touchscreen" No I'm the time you spend loving with an app or the tiny screen on the back to load the presets before you can use any of the features [not shown]. This drill is for drilling holes in walls to mount pictures. How many of those features are any use for driving screws or mixing paint or using it outdoors? That's a sub- Harbor Freight grade drill. This thing cost 200+ bucks on Kickstarter and they're planning on retailing them for 300 bucks? At that price you're competing with (say) the DeWalt DCD999 which has an easily selectable clutch, a hammer drill, a vastly superior chuck, and if used with a 60v flexvolt battery, an absolute fuckton of power. God bless you for posting this.
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Aug 9, 2021 18:40
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I also love the call-out on the Ikea FIXA screw and drywall anchor set. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/fixa-260-piece-screw-and-plug-set-00169249/ I say drywall anchor, because I've used those in many apartments and been satisfied with them for that purpose but would never trust those little boogers on concrete or brick like they say.
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Aug 9, 2021 19:00
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tells you all you need to know really. The xDrill teams. 
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Aug 9, 2021 19:02
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The side-by-side comparison image made me lol:  Because this white with cheap looking gold spraypaint accents drill totally compares to a well-loved Bosch SDS hammer drill. One is a tool that a contractor used daily to set anchors in concrete, and the other looks like something you'd find in the discount isle at Walmart that would strain trying to drive a screw into a pine board.
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canyoneer posted:I also love the call-out on the Ikea FIXA screw and drywall anchor set. Concrete and brick are easymode for anchors. They will definitely hold more in either of those than in drywall.
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Motronic posted:Concrete and brick are easymode for anchors. They will definitely hold more in either of those than in drywall. Good to know. I've never had internal concrete or brick to use it on, so all the anchoring in brick and concrete I've done has been external applications where I needed a really stout hold.
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canyoneer posted:Good to know. I've never had internal concrete or brick to use it on, so all the anchoring in brick and concrete I've done has been external applications where I needed a really stout hold. All those anchors have to do in brick/concrete is fill up a hole that was drilled small enough so that the screw expands the anchor enough to create a night tight interference fit. And you typically have full depth of the anchor to do that in those things, as opposed to 1/2 or 3/4" of crumbly drywall being held together with paper on both sides. I'm still a big fan of tapcons for masonry. But if one rips out or the block as a bit of a crumble those anchors usually save the day. If you've overdrilled a bit of epoxy/construction adhesive/whatever similar you've got put in the hole before you put the anchor in works wonders.
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Have a question because I know nothing about this stuff. Bought a estwing hammer on Amazon and regretting it because I think it looks fake compared to the other estwings I saw at Home Depot (they were out of the one I wanted) and images online. It doesn’t have the yellow estwing on the handle. It’s got tons of little bumps along the whole surface of the hammer and the grip feels kinda crappy and looks cut bad, plus it looks different from all the product images I’m finding.     
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Looks about like mine? The nail puller end maybe looks funny-it could be factory seconds or something that someone is passing off on Amazon, the worlds largest seller of counterfeit merchandise.
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It seems like Estwing's QC hasn't been the greatest in recent years, likely just cost-cutting. Last year I picked up one of their hatchets (you know the one) just to throw in the bag for camping and it's... very obviously not as good as an older one made about twenty years ago. Don't get me wrong: it cleaned up well and I'm happy to have it for  or whatever, but just like your hammer, it won't be winning any beauty contests.
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Literally A Person posted:Speaking of tools I banged out my first copper tool yesterday. Here is my incredibly ugly scoop knife: Hell yeah person
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A couple months back I got the Giraffe brand retractable hose reel. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084VLRC9D It's been great, but now my wife has yanked it out past the stop and it won't retract. I'm gonna open it up and see if I can re-seat the spring. But ugh. Just asking for good vibes from fellow tool users. E: It is not user serviceable. The cassette inside is attached to the case in some way that isn't accessible without opening the case. We'll see how the warranty goes. Sous Videodrome fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Sous Videodrome posted:A couple months back I got the Giraffe brand retractable hose reel. Good luck, please update with how the warranty goes (and how long is the warranty?). Presumably not being able to replace the hose is a big weak point to a $190 hose reel - at least for me hoses are always being pieces of poo poo and I'd hate for the hose to fail on something like that. edit: at least I assume you can't replace the hose if you can't open it up to re-seat the hose in the reeling mechanism
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Brute Squad posted:tells you all you need to know really. The xDrill teams. Has anyone found the same drill on alibaba yet? This is giving me freedom phone vibes.
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SpeedFreek posted:So is it the size of the marketing team vs the four people who actually do any technical work or is it that none of them look like the type who have ever done much more than hang a picture or put together Ikea furniture. They they don't seem like the type you would encounter on a job site unless there was a tour going on. the first one imho
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We already have smart drills, I took this pic at a Lowes more than 4 years ago! (they do not sell these products anymore) FCKGW fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Aug 12, 2021 |
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Wish I just had a magical app that would locate my goddamn favourite pair of vice grips!  They've gotta be somewhere incredibly stupid, like underneath a drawer or something.
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Johnny Truant posted:Wish I just had a magical app that would locate my goddamn favourite pair of vice grips! https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vice+grips&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
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Johnny Truant posted:Wish I just had a magical app that would locate my goddamn favourite pair of vice grips! Zip-tie an AirTag to them.
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Knock-off Vise-Grips are a whole new level of hell
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Say what you will about Kreg and their products but their big wide vice grip style wood clamps are loving amazing.
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