luvmytoolz
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What - non Festool - tool / workshop related gizmo/stuff did you buy today?
MacBoy
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Then a couple of weeks ago I stumbled on this on Temu for 6USD and threw it in my basket not expecting much.
If you use a hand plane and currently unscrew your chipbreaker using the lever cap or an undersized screwdriver, I recommend putting one of these of your stocking filler list this year
The search engines suck on those Chinese markets.
Might you have a link for it on Temu?
I’ll get one for our woodworker son. What the heck, one for me also.
MacBoy
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Well, I got lucky.
I found it by using the suggested phrase of “hand plane screwdriver”
This link will work for USA people, and it is $8.45 USD
I found it by using the suggested phrase of “hand plane screwdriver”
This link will work for USA people, and it is $8.45 USD
Stevenski
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No problem
I've added links for Temu and also Banggood - hope they work!
onocoffee
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I just saw this again and it reminded me of an update on my thoughts here.
I wasn't sure about whether or not the DeWalt Service Center was actually owned and operated by Stanley Black & Decker and was able to ask a guy I know who was a DeWalt sales rep for many years. Turns out the York location is owner by SBD. Years ago, they used to have service centers all over the country but now they're down to a few and just ship the repairs to the regional locations. We used to have at least one or two here in Baltimore but now those are all gone - and the company is headquartered here.
I was told that the next nearest service center is in Atlanta, Georgia. So it seems that, depending on where you are in the nation, it may not be a feasible journey.
Good eye. I bought a wood float like shown in your pic at Lowe's for similar super cheap price.
I was originally thinking of making a table saw push block out of it. But have found it so useful for concrete/cement work that it has survived unmolested.
Mini Me
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It is called the Australian tax for good reason. Actually anyone living in New Zealand is worse off than us so we can be grateful for small mercies I guess. Try sending a parcel from Oz to NZ like I used to do when I was involved in manufacturing automatic blast gates and you need a gold plated credit card to pay for it. The Tasman Sea between the two countries is reputed to be the most expensive bit of water in the world to freight anything across.
luvmytoolz
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I can see where sending gates or large items could be incredibly expensive, but that hasn't been my experience for the smaller cartons we ship anyway. We have a large Australian chain we look after and have done several major roll-outs to their NZ sites, and on average it's between $45-$65 per carton depending on where it's going and size/weight of the carton. Sending the same cartons to anywhere in Oz usually run about the $30-$45 range as a comparison.
Paying close to $1k for a small "nothing special" blade is just obscene though regardless of shipping costs and taxes.
Stevenski
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I am a self-confessed shopaholic and I have been on a bit of a binge recently 
Amongst other things and after a lot of trials with cheaper and DIY options, I finally bit the bullet and bought this Bridge City center marking gauge. It wasn't cheap but sheesh it's a delight to work with so far
Amongst other things and after a lot of trials with cheaper and DIY options, I finally bit the bullet and bought this Bridge City center marking gauge. It wasn't cheap but sheesh it's a delight to work with so far
Packard
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I think Hawaii (from the US mainland) has a similar “tax”. I had a college roommate from Hawaii in 1967 and he said that many things were much more expensive in Hawaii. Luckily (for him) his parents were exceedingly wealthy and none of those “taxes” stopped them from shopping.
(He also claimed that we did not know what pineapple or bananas taste like because we did not have tree-ripened fruit. Apparently the tree-ripened fruit had an entirely different taste and were sweeter. He refused to eat either bananas or pineapples that were available in Syracuse, NY).
luvmytoolz
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@Stevenski Aren't we all!
That's a really sweet marking gauge, another tool I didn't know I now need badly! ;-)
That's a really sweet marking gauge, another tool I didn't know I now need badly! ;-)
PaulMarcel
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I use that whenever I'm resawing a board. The scratch awl point makes a perfect referenceI am a self-confessed shopaholic and I have been on a bit of a binge recently
Amongst other things and after a lot of trials with cheaper and DIY options, I finally bit the bullet and bought this Bridge City center marking gauge. It wasn't cheap but sheesh it's a delight to work with so far
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Stevenski
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sorry!
I must admit that it impresses me with what can do. Sedge (and others, obviously) have some good YT reviews worth taking a look at.
It's the CS-3 CenterScribe
onocoffee
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Gosh, I certainly hope this guy didn't tell you that pineapples were a tree-based fruit.
But years ago, when Dole still grew pineapples on O'ahu, I would sometimes grab a pineapple on the way to my girlfriend's place in Waialua. A pineapple plant will produce fruit with the greatest yield for several years. After that, the plant will still produce fruit, but it will be much smaller and not as commercially viable. Dole would replant at that point, but some of the workers left a few plants on the edges of the field - and when you got the fruit from those plants, they were indeed smaller but the flavor and sweetness was unlike any pineapple you'll find at the grocery store. They were incredible and the closest I've found to those pineapples were during travels in Southeast Asia or Latin America where you can find plant-ripened pineapples at the small, rural markets.
Hawaii is dramatically more expensive than the rest of the nation. Back in the late 80s to early 90s, when houses on the East Coast cost about $150K, houses on O'ahu were pushing $300K. Last year, my friends' parents sold their old, dilapidated house in the not tony at all neighborhood near Radford for $1.5M.
Cheese
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These diamond blades/tools finally made their way from the UK to the states. The UK based shipping/service was outstanding the US based service...not so much, more to come on that sad state of affairs. So thank you Louis DeJoy for your public service...NOT...good riddance. 
I've ordered other diamond tooling from ATS in the past and have been very happy with the results. In this case I ordered a yellow turbo blade for dry cutting 10mm thick porcelain bathroom tile, a red cement blade for installing a garage floor drain grate and a V-groove tuck pointing blade to clean up the garage floor control joints.
The 2 saw blades fit a TS 55/MT 55 saw while the tuck point blade fits a Festool RA grinder. That small brass insert is an adapter that has a 20mm ID with a 7/8" OD so that these saw blades fit a track saw as well as a RA grinder.
I've ordered other diamond tooling from ATS in the past and have been very happy with the results. In this case I ordered a yellow turbo blade for dry cutting 10mm thick porcelain bathroom tile, a red cement blade for installing a garage floor drain grate and a V-groove tuck pointing blade to clean up the garage floor control joints.
The 2 saw blades fit a TS 55/MT 55 saw while the tuck point blade fits a Festool RA grinder. That small brass insert is an adapter that has a 20mm ID with a 7/8" OD so that these saw blades fit a track saw as well as a RA grinder.
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WillAdams
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Finally, after a long drought, managed to luck into an Atwood tool today:
Crazyraceguy
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Is that the mythical 10mm? 
In all seriousness, is it for a specific task? or accessory to a specific tool? I've never heard of such a thing.
In all seriousness, is it for a specific task? or accessory to a specific tool? I've never heard of such a thing.
