Hotton

I am a Carpenter and joiner and have a small lock up come Workshop
i am at present pulling all the junk out and scratching my
head what to get shut of and what to ship i have my own hand tools i will take.
the power tools 240 and 110v i have i think the 110 will stay
and the 240 will ship
Has anyone taken and wished thay had not
Has anyone left them and wished thay had taken??

Iwill be in Sydney before November

nickyjohnt

I think your right about leaving the 110v stuff behind unless you want to use it at home. In Perth all tradies use 240 v and i'm sure the rest of Oz is the same. My mate brought his 110v stuff and we had to move his tool box last week weighed a ton and he lugs it everywhere. IMO a waste of time and totally impracticle on site. But definatley bring everything else. You get all the good makes here but why replace if what you have works for you.
Good Luck

John

Hotton

Thought of decided on leaving the 110 kit painfully i add , but The word
Magpie in my case should be on my back
Its prob going to cost an arm and a leg but do thay have trend
there or is most makita dewalt .

rodandhayley

no trend if you need any special router bits like the one for the hinge jig bring some with you
I get them sent over from watford but takes a while
loads of dewalt makita and most of the others

lamburn

Hi im moving out to perth in august on pr visa, i visited there last yr, 110 volt tools did not work so 240v is ok you just have to change the plugs, hope this is of help, good look with the clearing out.

Funky Monkey

Hi .

Another question is how clean do they need to be? I have heard people say spotless and by this do they mean jet wash them down, it sounds a silly question but I have heard some bad stories about cleaning e,t,c most tools get hard to clean dirt e.t.c hence the question.

(Hi John

homewardbound

i brought a drill, very ingrained with dirt - i did clean it but it didnt look clean... it all passed through ok

lamburn

Hi they say you can use jays fluid so when they go near the boxes they smell it and dont bother normally opening it, but you could just wash them down because my husband has just washed his down he is a joiner, my brother in law used jays fluid they say either ok, its just pot luck as to which box the open if any.