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  1. #1
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    Default Aldi twist drills

    Aldi, or at least the local store here have twist drill sets for 5 bucks. 11 drills in a round container 1.5 to 8mm

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    Hi Morrisman,

    Is there any other information about the drills?

    For that sort of money I would assume they are just a carbon steel drill set.

    Honestly! they sound too cheap.

    Grahame

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    They should be alright for drilling wood. For a decent set 1- 8mm, I'd expect to pay around the $20 + mark.
    Kryn
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    Hi Guys,

    I've just purchased a tub of those here in the UK ! 30% off so very cheap, Aldi must be getting rid of excess stock. They are marked HSS, but that can mean anything coming out of China. I've not used them yet...

    Compared to the last lot of drills I bought from Aldi, which were marked "Made in Germany" and well ground, I've given them some hammer and reground several to four facet, I would like to think that this lot is as good. But I agree that they are very cheap.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Hello,

    I use the Aldi drill sets. Work fine for me. On both wood and metal.

    Bill

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    Quote Originally Posted by steamingbill View Post
    Hello,

    I use the Aldi drill sets. Work fine for me. On both wood and metal.

    Bill
    Yep I use them as well, not a problem with them.
    Shane

    Got the square peg in the round hole, now can't get it out !!

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    I have a set, 1-8mm from memory. HSS and a double size point. I don' use HSS bits anymore, i swapped to HSS/CO, far superior and hold their point better. Cheap as on ebay and I buy 10 at a time for under 6mm sizes.

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    While travelling on the North Island of Tasmania, I have been making a bit of a pig of myself at Aldi, because we don't have them in Tasmania. They have had ROE spanner sets from 6 to 28 in one mm increments plus a 28 and 30 mm, for less than $50, a belt sander for the same price, and tools such as aviation snips in left, right and centre cutting, pincers, Stanley type knives with spare blades plus snap off style hobby knife included all at $4.95, (10" shifter at that price too) and gas filled soldering iron sets for under $30 and samples of all of the above have found their way into the back of the ute.
    Items left behind include 15" bolt cutters for $15ish, a gravity feed spray gun for cheap and a petrol powered pressure cleaner with a claimed 2700 psi output, mounted on a trolley for $299. Only a hoped for visit to Token Tools and the need to leave space stopped the pressure cleaner from joining his mates!
    I did see the drill sets mentioned by Morrisman but could not verify that they were hss, so I left them but noted that they also had brad point drill sets, and masonry bits in similar packaging to the drills which are the subject of this thread.
    Aldi tools may not be the very best, but they seem to be pretty well the best value of any tools purchased from a shop in Australia or at least close to it, and they are pretty good on returns of items which fail to deliver in my experience.

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    None here yet either, but it is being built.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ropetangler View Post
    Aldi tools may not be the very best, but they seem to be pretty well the best value of any tools purchased from a shop in Australia or at least close to it, and they are pretty good on returns of items which fail to deliver in my experience.
    I bought 4 or 5 of their 125mm variable speed angle grinders a couple years back. Haven't managed to kill one as yet and it's not because I treat them gently. At $15 each I really don't care how I abuse them, frankly. OK they vibrate more than my nicer Makita & Metabo grinders, I can live with that and the variable speed feature is useful for running soft pad sanding dicks etc.

    Got severe doubts about the Aldi plasma cutter however. Might be OK if you work well within its limits, the picture looks like a PT31 torch anyway so consumables would be available cheap if so. The 15% duty cycle at max amps means it is useless for long cuts though.

    I usually go home with a pile of Aldi stuff in the truck, too.

    PDW

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    The Aldi spray guns are good value , these have either a 1.5mm or 2mm nozzle. I generally prefer the 2mm nozzle because it can handle the higher viscosity paints . I bought two of the variable speed grinders, I managed to destroy both of them while removing tyres from rims. But these are so cheap, almost a throw away tool ! Who cares.

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