Useless Purchase

[Dairyspark]

So I was looking through my big tool box at work and I came across a useless (sort of) purchase I made.

1KV insulated live working gloves and over gloves..

Bought them simply because I could, have touched a 230v live bus bar to try them out and that's it haha (awaiting the comments of critisism)

So what have you foolishly bought and have never used for its purpose?

 

[Andy™]

ive got some of them and they never get used for live working...

 

[kerching]

I have some, and the calf leather overgloves, and the liners, and the face shield, and the........actually they do get used, a lot"

Anyway useless purchases

Wedding certificate

Magna mole.....well to,be fair, not strictly a purchase as they were givingbthem away. Totally useless piece of shi......

Cable reel saver.....actually used it once , got me out of the faeces, it has sat in garage ever since

Ashley Madison subscription

 

[Lurch]

Cable reel saver.....actually used it once , got me out of the faeces, it has sat in garage ever since

I mentioned these to someone the other day in a general 'simple ideas that people have turned into products' discussion. It's another one of those things that I would have never thought anyone would need, I usually get through cable quick enough that it the drum is soon in the bin so would have never even thought it would be a viable idea. Same with the Spoola, I always made my own with a bit of 20mm galv tube and the bender, nice little task for the apprentice as well, again would never have thought to even market it as a product as it was so simple to make your own (although I do have 2 Spoolas as well now so I've obviously fallen for the hype somewhere).

As for actual tools I have bought and never used as intended, they've all being used as intended, just some more often than not, except for screwdrivers as chisels and side cutters as hammers, that's a standard I think, probably in one of the modules on the NVQ nowadays.

 

[kerching]

NICEIC subscription

Online Regs.....but it IS getting better now we have Beta tested it for them

Anything with Forge Steel on it. Which is very little

B &Q pull,out larder unit...did i ever tell you about B &Qs woefully pitiful customer after sales service and their pissh poor customer relations department, their abililty to manaufacture a main load bearing part and main stress member out of cheese and cheap tinfoil. Their inability to honour any warranty if you installed the Kitchen yourself. Even though it is a manufacturing and design fault!

No?

I am sure i must have mentioned it in passing

 

[sprocketflup]

Local newspaper advertising. Never get calls from it, yet still do it.

Mrs Flup helpfully closed my work laptop without first removing the pen on the keyboard a couple weeks ago and cracked the screen. Joy. Ordered a new screen which arrived well packaged and in good time, thought "Ill just power the laptop up before I replace this screen" Not sure why. When i did so though all the smoke escaped and the lappy is well and truly goosed.

Luckily for me the company have been good enough to take the screen back, not so with the spare battery I purchased at the same time. So if anyone wants or needs a new battery for an Acer Aspire, shout up and its yours

 

[kerching]

Local newspaper advertising. Never get calls from it, yet still do it.

Mrs Flup helpfully closed my work laptop without first removeing the pen on the keyboard a couple weeks ago and cracked the screen. Joy. Ordered a new screen which arrived well packaged and in good time, thought "Ill just power the laptop up before I replace this screen" Not sure why. When i did so though all the smoke escaped and the lappy is well and truly goosed.

Luckily for me the company have been good enough to take the screen back, not so with the spare battery I purchased at the same time. So if anyone wants or needs a new battery for an Acer Aspire, shout up and its yours

I find in these situations 'cracking the wife' does not help either...no,sense of humour theses women

 

[Andy™]

I mentioned these to someone the other day in a general 'simple ideas that people have turned into products' discussion. It's another one of those things that I would have never thought anyone would need, I usually get through cable quick enough that it the drum is soon in the bin so would have never even thought it would be a viable idea. Same with the Spoola, I always made my own with a bit of 20mm galv tube and the bender, nice little task for the apprentice as well, again would never have thought to even market it as a product as it was so simple to make your own (although I do have 2 Spoolas as well now so I've obviously fallen for the hype somewhere).

As for actual tools I have bought and never used as intended, they've all being used as intended, just some more often than not, except for screwdrivers as chisels and side cutters as hammers, that's a standard I think, probably in one of the modules on the NVQ nowadays.

i made a few reel savers - i dont use much cable, some of the rolls can be in the van for a few month. very handy when the side falls off

 

[kerching]

I,made some heavy duty cablle reelers...pics on here somewhere

Could not find my Eclipse coping saw....bought one from Toolstation.....utter festering faeces. It was as straight as a politician

Cheapo,spirit level...known make....but factory second as it should have had linear scale marked on it.,ok,if you want to,draw a slightly wobbly off plumb line

Cheap,set of 1m SDS drill,bits....Better used as earth rods if you want a s**** Ra

Hitachi SDS battery drill...battery life of a Mayfly

DiLog voltage tester....takes about two weeks for display to stabilise

 

[sprocketflup]

Ooh now you mention spirit levels.... Ive bought two Stabila levels as i though they were a good make....not so, both of them are 'out' . Bit annoyed about that

 

[kerching]

Led lighting - Santa, Sleigh and two reindeer in 3D

Only used 4 weeks of the year and i think 5 years old, so thats 25 weeks of use, one reindeer blown up and now santas sleigh - half of the Leds have packed up on that

However you did buy some string lights last year that should,still,work...if you can untangle them again!

He still.has some Xmas stuff left if you are interested...and FREE delivery ( i think)

He has run out of disabled Reindeer...uneven number of legs

Assymetric Reindeer.....uneven number of antlers

And last years mistake that all got returned.......nativity scenes without baby jesus BUt with an animal,that resembled a Giraffe!...now, i am by NO means religous...last time I went to Church Daughter got married.BUT i do NOT remember a Giraffe....we think it may have been a stylised donkey or camel

 

[Marvo]

..........one reindeer blown up and now santas sleigh............

Rogue ISIS cell maybe??I'm waiting for someone to mention torque screwdrivers

 

[Marvo]

ISIS ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant I'm out of the loop but I think they're referring to it as the 'IS' nowadays.

 

[kerching]

Are they notbcalling it dasher or donner kebab or blitzkrieg or summat else now?

More fecking name changes thann Emmas Charriddy Holiday funding scam

 

[Evans Electric]

I mentioned these to someone the other day in a general 'simple ideas that people have turned into products' discussion. It's another one of those things that I would have never thought anyone would need, I usually get through cable quick enough that it the drum is soon in the bin so would have never even thought it would be a viable idea. Same with the Spoola, I always made my own with a bit of 20mm galv tube and the bender, nice little task for the apprentice as well, again would never have thought to even market it as a product as it was so simple to make your own (although I do have 2 Spoolas as well now so I've obviously fallen for the hype somewhere).

As for actual tools I have bought and never used as intended, they've all being used as intended, just some more often than not, except for screwdrivers as chisels and side cutters as hammers, that's a standard I think, probably in one of the modules on the NVQ nowadays.

Lurch mentions making a Spooler ,  I made one years ago and aften thought I ought to  market a professional version somehow  .

And then about two or three years ago ...it was too late,,,there was one in Denmans .

Oh well ..."one day Rodders we'll be .......... "

 

[kerching]

Lurch mentions making a Spooler ,  I made one years ago and aften thought I ought to  market a professional version somehow  .

And then about two or three years ago ...it was too late,,,there was one in Denmans .

Oh well ..."one day Rodders we'll be .......... "

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That blue floorboard lifter on the RHS of van...is it any good?...mine bent like a banana first time i used it!

Needs to go on useless post

It is somewhere in back of garage...well,that is where i threw it

 

[Andy™]

Lurch mentions making a Spooler ,  I made one years ago and aften thought I ought to  market a professional version somehow  .

And then about two or three years ago ...it was too late,,,there was one in Denmans .

Oh well ..."one day Rodders we'll be .......... "

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you could have vacuumed the carpet first!

 

[Lurch]

Something I just found down the back of the settee that is most useless, LAP non-contact voltage detector. Now I know most are useless to some degree, but this one is more like a kids disco wand, pretty much just flashes at anything or nothing at random.

Bought some 0.75mm² 3 core heat resisting flex the other day, more like pyro, no exaggeration, couldn't fold the panel up on the boiler once I wired it in as the flex was too stiff.

 

[kerching]

Something I just found down the back of the settee that is most useless, LAP non-contact voltage detector. Now I know most are useless to some degree, but this one is more like a kids disco wand, pretty much just flashes at anything or nothing at random.Bought some 0.75mm² 3 core heat resisting flex the other day, more like pyro, no exaggeration, couldn't fold the panel up on the boiler once I wired it in as the flex was too stiff.

Was it from Doncaster Cables?

Apparently they have had issues with some flexes recently as it "is not manufactured in this country".....not sure which ones it applies to though....May have been Butyl come to,think of it

 

[Evans Electric]

blue floorboard lifter on the RHThat S of van...is it any good?...mine bent like a banana first time i used it!

Needs to go on useless post

It is somewhere in back of garage...well,that is where i threw it

A load of carp ,  as useless as a pork pie at a jewish wedding TBH  .   That pic was of the mighty Thunderbird 2 ....long recycled as 200 metal consumer units .     The so- called floorboard lifter was, like yours , consigned to the darkest corner of the Evans Electric Hi- Tec Storage Facility.  See below.