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What piece of kit has outlasted everything else for you?

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  • 17-04-2014 7:06pm
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    tomdempsey200
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    i just had a look around

    looks like mine is my hilti TE5 drill

    i've been using the damn thing forever and don't think the brushes have even been changed


    it's outlasted everything

    the trafo is also about 40 years old(long before the hilti) ..still going strong


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Old school Hilti gear was the best for sure, is your corded or cordless Tom?


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    tomdempsey200
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Old school Hilti gear was the best for sure, is your corded or cordless Tom?

    corded 110v


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Had a cordless one myself batteries eventually gave up, drill never gave trouble.
    I think my hammer and the little giant are the only kit that is outlasting everything else.


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    2011
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    tomdempsey200 wrote: »
    i just had a look around

    looks like mine is my hilti TE5 drill

    i've been using the damn thing forever and don't think the brushes have even been changed


    it's outlasted everything

    the trafo is also about 40 years old(long before the hilti) ..still going strong

    I still have one too :)


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    Bruthal
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    tomdempsey200 wrote: »
    i just had a look around

    looks like mine is my hilti TE5 drill

    i've been using the damn thing forever and don't think the brushes have even been changed


    it's outlasted everything

    the trafo is also about 40 years old(long before the hilti) ..still going strong

    Ive the battery version of that since 1998. Batteries gone now although it will still drill a hole or 2 but the battery wont maintain voltage for long. Keep meaning to make up a litho battery pack for it.

    Have a wire strippers since 1987 somewhere.


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Bruthal wrote: »
    Keep meaning to make up a litho battery pack for it.

    Lithium ion is it?


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    Bruthal
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Lithium ion is it?

    Lithium Polymer (li-po). I have a few 6 cell 24v 5ah ones I use in a R/C chopper. One of them would power the drill no problem.


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    maxfresh
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    got a tool kit when i started my apprenticeship (15 yrs ago :o) the only thing i have left from that kit is a thin snips some american brand, but to be honest never gets used much


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    liveandnetural
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    this springs to mind

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1VNNbSYdt0


    i have a wolf saw that my dad bought in 1976.........still flying many blades later


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    My dad has a Makita hammer drill dating back to 1981. Still going strong. He also has a Bosch jigsaw from around the same time.


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    markad1
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    Knipex pliers and grips.
    The pliers has a hole from cutting a live wire. .. perfect for stripping, you would think it was designed that way :D


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    brightspark
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    markad1 wrote: »
    Knipex pliers and grips.
    The pliers has a hole from cutting a live wire. .. perfect for stripping, you would think it was designed that way :D



    I did that to a pliers too.


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    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    brightspark wrote: »
    I did that to a pliers too.

    My first ever pliers I did it too as well after the lads decided too teach me a lesson about not trusting someone else that a cables dead. Allways check it yourself was there motto. It was a 1.5 t&e and wrecked the pliers I was only 13/14 and nearly shat myself!

    I still have a gauge ring extractor tool buried in a tool box in the van since my phase 2 13 years ago. Needless too say it doesn't get much use these days.


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