Bunnings - Does it get any better than this

Good point Truckster
its akin to buying CHEAP handkerchiefs...the material is so thin all the discharged rubbish from ones bugle goes through the handkerchief and ends up elsewhere...usually your hands

If people thought about it, others are twice the price, so for that cheap, you wouldnt really be gettin anything of quality..

if they were top quality, they would sell fast, but would sell for more..

;)

Damn I say

Get home from work, switch on the puter, open up the email and the very first one is one bagging my 'stupendous bunnings discovery'

Who is this coota I say to myself and on opening up OZ/EX its none other than 'Truckster'. What more can I say.

Anyway 'trucky' old mate I was just bringing to everyones attention that these items are there to be had if it suits your purpose.

I personally don't put them in my Troopy for óut there' trips under any circumstances.

They are all saved up for a flogging around the house , daughters houses and anywhere else I need to use them.

The bunnings I was talking about is about 1 kilometer from my house, if that, so its no trouble for me to take advantage of these offers.

I also noticed last night a 235mm GMC Circ Saw for $98.00 as well. It was lined up on display with all the other brand 235mm Circ Saws and just two away was a $345 Dewalt.

Guess what. The GMC was a dead set copy/ringer of that Dewalt and next pay day there will be one in my garage.

Have a good one

Ken Robinson

Looks like a "saw" spot!! pardon the pun

With that cheap price you get cheap bearings too. Fine if the gadget is only used occasionally, but not advisable if one is dependent on it to keep on running. That circular saw mentioned above might only have bronze bushings, not proper roller bearings as there should be.

I bought a Chinese made lathe some time ago, it was noisy and vibrated and did not at all have a sound like I expected from a lathe. It was solidly built though, the carriages moved as they should and it was a price I could afford. Anyway, its not an easy matter to return something that weighs 400kg, arrived in a crate and had taken some time to set up.
So I decided to 'fix' it myself, took it apart and replaced every bearing in it, buying quality bearings was not all that expensive so I wonder why they did not fit them in the first place.
The lathe purrs like a kitten now :-0
Klaus

When I worked for an importer that's what we did. We would look at the product, predict as well as we could what percentage would go wrong and build it into the price.
EG Land the Gen Set for $50. Work on say 10% max failure rate. New landed cost is $55.
When they go wrong, as long as you are sitting pretty under your 10% failure rate (which you monitor) you just giv'em a new one (customer happy as a pig in you know what) and you chuck the other one, or auction them off as spare parts.
Great buy if you are like me and very rarely go away for more than a few days. If it goes wrong, just rely on your bat's. It would be more of a luxury than a neccesity.
I don't really need one, but for $98 it's worth chucking in the back of the 4by just for the hell of it!

Checked in a local Sydney store and couldn't find any, what area are you in?

Brett, I'm in the greatest part of Australia... Perth WA LOL