Parkside purchases from Lidl. How good are they?🤔
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- All tools were bought by myself and therefore I'm in no way biased to how good or bad they are. On this occasion I was quite pleased with all except one of my purchases. In general I find the Park side tools as well as other products in Lidl to be good value. Especially the goats cheese focaccia🙂.
still photo courtesy of 'The Fast Show'
Lidl logo courtesy of a Lidl's advert.
Funnily enough my Work Zone version calipers came in the Parkside box!
Definitely seems to be luck of the draw a lot of times with the smaller things. The power tools, seem to be okay. I've been using them for years.
@@ptonpc I've pretty much came to the same conclusion.I'm still very cautious of certain power tools after my parkside 240v reciprocating saw failed because of the rotating handle. The cordless 20v doesn't have that feature and it's a really good quality tool.
Confidence is a preference for the habitual consumer of what is known as....
So I'm not the only one who sings that when i see the tools in lidl
@@matty7758 I imagine everyone is thinking it 😁
just been recommended to watch this found it interesting but had to point out the Digital caliper comment you made recommending the aldi one, i don't own a park side version as my local lidl is crap for these products they hardly stock anything however i do own a aldi one had it years but need to replace it as i used it once back when i got it and the second time i used it i had the same issue as you are having with parkside but worse it went well out of calibration and is miles off i personally think its luck of the draw some times with aldi tools i have some awesome aldi tools and some terrible ones, the angle finder i may have to go pick up as for laying laminate flooring these would be awesome on corners and do agree for a casual diyer the workbench is a good deal but personally i change out the wood for something a bit more stronger then the mdf.
Totally agree with you. I've had some really good tools from both Aldi and Lidl but I've also had a few bad ones. The Aldi Powercraft stick welder was awful and kept tripping the electrics so i bought the near identical Parkside one and had no issues at all. I was so impressed I bought another as a spare but have never needed it.
The Aldi calipers I've had for at least 10 years and were bought as a gift from a friend who also bought himself a set. His are also still working okay but we both store them in the original box and take the battery out when not in use so perhaps that's why they've lasted? As for accuracy they can be recalibrated which is what I'm going to have to do with the Parkside ones. You shouldn't have to do that when new though hence I'm a little disappointed with them.
Interesting, I have an actual workmate I bought about 20 or so years back and the decks/jaws looked very nice but were veneered MDF. So a few years back when they inevitably delaminated, I replaced them with 1 inch marine ply, borrowed a pillar drill for the holes and........drilled them to 19mm as I didn't know 20mm bits were available....doh. Never mind.
@@iandennis7836 My dad still has his B&D workmate from the early 1980's and his has a very high quality plywood top. I think the MDF might be a later version and everybody copied that one. I tried fitting plywood to my Clarke one and managed to get the right size hole saw. What I didn't do is cut the vice jaws dead straight so they don't grip as well as they should.😒
@@Themoporium ah...well I cheated there by getting the sawmill supplying the marine ply to cut the jaws for me so they're absolutely straight......the holes are in the right ace but just a TINY bit too small for the dogs. Edit: whenever I cut or drill using it, I have a 1" piece of chipboard which I clamp in the jaws covering them so as not to ruin them ......😁
Maybe cut the foam out,of the lid where the on button it is
That's a good idea and I did consider it but it also turns on automatically when you slide it and it's so sensitive it'll do it when picked up. I don't mind taking the battery out as it's really easy to do and has lasted a long time.
The workbench is utter crap, the jaws (?) are made of MDF which lasted for a week. I replaced them with 1" ply as they should have been from the factory. Still not as good as the workmate but then not the same price is it?