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mike
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      02-13-2009, 06:58 PM
Just a quick heads-up for anyone who's always wanted to turn their
wall into dust but has been put off by the price of wall chasers:
local Aldi had them reduced to £19.99 (from £40, I think).

Don't know whether this is national or just certain branches clearing
stock.

And I haven't used one, so I can't say whether they're any good or not
- but I've had a 9" grinder and small table saw from Aldi and they've
both taken some hammer and are still going.
 
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      02-13-2009, 07:28 PM
mike wrote:
> Just a quick heads-up for anyone who's always wanted to turn their
> wall into dust but has been put off by the price of wall chasers:
> local Aldi had them reduced to £19.99 (from £40, I think).
>
> Don't know whether this is national or just certain branches clearing
> stock.


Cheers for that, I'll take a look.


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      02-13-2009, 07:44 PM
On 13 Feb, 18:58, mike <miken...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> wall into dust but has been put off by the price of wall chasers:
> local Aldi had them reduced to £19.99 (from £40, I think).


Or from 29.99, a couple of days back when I finally sprung for one!

(Wonder if they've dropped the core drill sets yet?)
 
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      02-13-2009, 08:09 PM
Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 13 Feb, 18:58, mike <miken...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> wall into dust but has been put off by the price of wall chasers:
>> local Aldi had them reduced to £19.99 (from £40, I think).

>
> Or from 29.99, a couple of days back when I finally sprung for one!
>
> (Wonder if they've dropped the core drill sets yet?)


I bought a set of the carbide tipped holes saws a while ago for about £6.
Tried them on Thursday on some tiles & they were really good.


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      02-14-2009, 02:04 AM
mike coughed up some electrons that declared:

> Just a quick heads-up for anyone who's always wanted to turn their
> wall into dust but has been put off by the price of wall chasers:
> local Aldi had them reduced to £19.99 (from £40, I think).
>
> Don't know whether this is national or just certain branches clearing
> stock.
>
> And I haven't used one, so I can't say whether they're any good or not
> - but I've had a 9" grinder and small table saw from Aldi and they've
> both taken some hammer and are still going.


My ALDI wall chaser seems to be very good now I've used it. Only thing wrong
is the laser is on the wrong end (duh!)[1]. But I guide the edge of the
machine to a line on the wall and that seems to work (draw line offset by
blade-machineedge distance and bob's a monkey's uncle or something).

[1] Laser wants you to push the machine up - but it jumps if you do this.
Need to pull machine down to cut nicely - ergo laser was designed on by
someone who never used the machine

Cheers

Tim
 
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      02-15-2009, 03:26 PM
Tim S wrote:

> My ALDI wall chaser seems to be very good now I've used it. Only thing wrong
> is the laser is on the wrong end (duh!)[1]. But I guide the edge of the
> machine to a line on the wall and that seems to work (draw line offset by
> blade-machineedge distance and bob's a monkey's uncle or something).
>
> [1] Laser wants you to push the machine up - but it jumps if you do this.
> Need to pull machine down to cut nicely - ergo laser was designed on by
> someone who never used the machine


Yes I bought one of these about 3 years ago and found the same problem:
I thought it was just me...

David
 
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mike
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      02-15-2009, 06:17 PM
On Feb 15, 3:26*pm, Lobster <davidlobsterpot...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Tim S wrote:
> > My ALDI wall chaser seems to be very good now I've used it. Only thing wrong
> > is the laser is on the wrong end (duh!)[1]. But I guide the edge of the
> > machine to a line on the wall and that seems to work (draw line offset by
> > blade-machineedge distance and bob's a monkey's uncle or something).


> Yes I bought one of these about 3 years ago and found the same problem:
> I thought it was just me...
>
> David


Tim, David,

What are you using for dust extraction and how effective is it at
limiting the dust?

 
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      02-15-2009, 08:37 PM
mike coughed up some electrons that declared:

> On Feb 15, 3:26*pm, Lobster <davidlobsterpot...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Tim S wrote:
>> > My ALDI wall chaser seems to be very good now I've used it. Only thing
>> > wrong is the laser is on the wrong end (duh!)[1]. But I guide the edge
>> > of the machine to a line on the wall and that seems to work (draw line
>> > offset by blade-machineedge distance and bob's a monkey's uncle or
>> > something).

>
>> Yes I bought one of these about 3 years ago and found the same problem:
>> I thought it was just me...
>>
>> David

>
> Tim, David,
>
> What are you using for dust extraction and how effective is it at
> limiting the dust?


I plug a VAX in. Kills the filters and bag eventually but the dust capture
is actually quite effective. An industrial hoover or something cyclonice
(eg Dyson) might be better.

Cheers

Tim
 
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