Power Tools
Oct 26th 2004 | 5:41 am
#16
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Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 126
From: Adelaide, now Gold Coast
Re: Power Tools
Originally Posted by cresta57
Your safe regarding cordless tools but the chargers will need testing and tagging every 3 months. With regards to cleaning, I wiped mine with a damp rag dried them and made sure the boxes were power washed clean. Jeyes fluid is popular and I'm sure Aquis think U.K must stink of it I did use some but sparingly.
Chippies here mainly use air tools and most tow a builders trailor with a compressor fitted inside just plugging air lines into the trailor. Whole different ball game here to what I was used to seeing in U.K but I only worked for a small firm there.
Chippies here mainly use air tools and most tow a builders trailor with a compressor fitted inside just plugging air lines into the trailor. Whole different ball game here to what I was used to seeing in U.K but I only worked for a small firm there.
After using a cordless Paslode nail gun (I don't know if anyone has heard of it)
He is now spoilt and would be gutted if he had to use the old hammer again.
Do they sell this product in australia because he would need to buy the nails for it?
He also says that after using mainly cordless tools it would be awkward to use air tools
Thanx for advice.
Julie
Oct 26th 2004 | 7:44 am
#17
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Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 9,932
From: Redneck Wonderland
Re: Power Tools
Originally Posted by sunnyj
Hello, here is another question my partner needs an answer to regarding power tools.
After using a cordless Paslode nail gun (I don't know if anyone has heard of it)
He is now spoilt and would be gutted if he had to use the old hammer again.
Do they sell this product in australia because he would need to buy the nails for it?
He also says that after using mainly cordless tools it would be awkward to use air tools
Thanx for advice.
Julie
After using a cordless Paslode nail gun (I don't know if anyone has heard of it)
He is now spoilt and would be gutted if he had to use the old hammer again.
Do they sell this product in australia because he would need to buy the nails for it?
He also says that after using mainly cordless tools it would be awkward to use air tools
Thanx for advice.
Julie
Oct 26th 2004 | 7:55 am
#18
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Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 412
From: manchester/secret harbour (perth)
Re: Power Tools
Originally Posted by cresta57
I'm in new build now and cannot use any of the tools I brought from the U.K.
I've posted this before but will say it again. You cannot use a transformer or 110v power tools here. You need to have them tested and tagged every three months they will not pass the test. Inspectors regularly travel around the sites and check as to whether your tools are tagged. Fines are on the spot and can vary from $150 bucks an item up to a couple of grand. We were inspected last week and have nearly been caught twice before that.
It's up to you if you bring them but I spent a shed load of cash bringing mine not to mention the cleaning process just to get them through Aquis and they're all in the garage collecting dust now.
I've posted this before but will say it again. You cannot use a transformer or 110v power tools here. You need to have them tested and tagged every three months they will not pass the test. Inspectors regularly travel around the sites and check as to whether your tools are tagged. Fines are on the spot and can vary from $150 bucks an item up to a couple of grand. We were inspected last week and have nearly been caught twice before that.
It's up to you if you bring them but I spent a shed load of cash bringing mine not to mention the cleaning process just to get them through Aquis and they're all in the garage collecting dust now.
Hiya cresta,
Thanks for taking time to answer all the questions on power tools.It looks like my apprentice will be getting his hands on some right bargains early next year.If thats the way it is then that,s it.
You say your on new build.What trade are you in and in which area,s do you work?
Thanks again dave
Oct 26th 2004 | 7:31 pm
#19
Loving it in Bundy
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,775
From: Bundaberg, Australia
Re: Power Tools
Originally Posted by cresta57
You can buy both versions of the plaslode here, cheaper than U.K prices, consumables are easily available too, no worries. They are popular but not as popular as the air guns yet.
Sarah
Oct 27th 2004 | 12:04 am
#20
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From: Redneck Wonderland
Re: Power Tools
Originally Posted by teach
Wow, plaslode guns cheaper in Oz than here. He will be in seventh heaven, lol as I've said no to buying one in the UK. Maybe that's the trade off, sell all 110v and buy a plaslode. Well it's only fair, if I can't take any of my things then he can't take his tools.
Sarah
Sarah
No worries there if you want to prove it to him show him this site, don't forget it pays to haggle, prices are always cheaper for cash here.
http://www.justtools.com.au/category126_1.htm
Plaslode framing guns were listed at approx £500 for a kit in the local builders merchants in the U.K. My father in law works for a hire company and could get them for approx £370 that was a couple of years ago so they could be cheaper there now but £370 compared to $675 is pretty good works out to about £274 quid for a newbie here.
Good luck
