Lidl. Various useful stuff for the boat coming

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Thanks for posting that Vic.

I looked on the Lidl site a couple of days ago and had seen all that gear, but I just glanced at the solar charger. This time I looked properly and for the money it looks well worth a try. With it's own 2000mAh Li-ion battery it will be just the job for a few of my electonic gizmo's. Pity it doesn't output 12 volts though, but worth trying out.
 
Sometimes they don't seem to have everything but the missing things often turn up a few days later. I've always assumed that it's just down to delivery delays.
 
The set of taps and their tapping size drills is useful. I have one and the drills are HSS, the taps are carbon steel, but reasonable quality, better than some I have seen.
 
nigelmercier said:
Is it just my local Lidl, but they rarely have these items on the day.
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Check your local store they dont all have exactly the same things.
Sometimes I have to walk round a couple of times to find things.
Very popular things can sell out quickly if they dont have big stock.

Always worth asking. I have known attractive items to be available but not on display.
 
The little plunge saw could be a handy tool

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Nicholas123 said:
lol.Does seem cheap but not a lot of use as you can't weld stainless.
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It will weld stainless, you just need 316L rods. I use an ordinary arc welder to weld stainless, but no plain arc welder is going to be as easy as a mig. The Lidl welder is only 80 amps maximum, which limits it to the thinner rods, probably 2.5mm maximum, whereas my 140 amp job is happy with 3.25mm rods which make it easier to strike and maintain the arc, and better on thick sections, and it will just handle 4mm rods.
 
Norman_E said:
It will weld stainless, you just need 316L rods. I use an ordinary arc welder to weld stainless, but no plain arc welder is going to be as easy as a mig. The Lidl welder is only 80 amps maximum, which limits it to the thinner rods, probably 2.5mm maximum, whereas my 140 amp job is happy with 3.25mm rods which make it easier to strike and maintain the arc, and better on thick sections, and it will just handle 4mm rods.
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If you can weld stainless just with stainless steel rods then it is certainly news to me.When I did my apprenticeship (with British Aerospace) it was all about Argon arch or tungsten inert gas I think.Admittedly a lot of it was aluminium but I have welded stainless steel myself at a later date & that was with specialized equipment,I forget which.
I thought the problem was oxygenation while the welding process was going on so do you get the same strong bond without insulating against oxygen?
 
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Nicholas123 said:
If you can weld stainless just with stainless steel rods then it is certainly news to me.When I did my apprenticeship (with British Aerospace) it was all about Argon arch or tungsten inert gas I think.Admittedly a lot of it was aluminium but I have welded stainless steel myself at a later date & that was with specialized equipment,I forget which.
I thought the problem was oxygenation while the welding process was going on so do you get the same strong bond without insulating against oxygen?
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It certainly works and is in fact I find it a bit easier to weld stainless than ordinary mild steel. This is the first weld I ever made in stainless. (I'm a bit better at it now) I made a stripper arm bracket to fit to my windlass, seen here offered up to a similar windlass at a boat show. The welds may not be neat, but achieved good penetration in 6mm 316, using a 3.25mm rod. You would bend the 6mm x 50mm steel double before breaking the weld. The uploader failed to upload the image so I have put it on photobucket.

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VicS said:
The little plunge saw could be a handy tool
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Am I alone in thinking that the man in the video would be better off with no gloves on, rather than skinny rigger gloves? I only use gloves (thick leather) for welding and using a chainsaw, for other tools they just get in the way and make it more likely to cause a fumble or get picked up by the blade.
 
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