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  • Simple, useful products and things that you didn't know existed…
  • househusband
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    Useful, simple things that you didn’t know existed until you found them. I’m always telling pupils at school that they could make themselves very wealthy and successful if you can design products that people didn’t know they could actually need. No doubt we all come from different backgrounds, trades and professions so I’m sure some will find some products everyday for them!

    My two are the blacksmiths drill; didn’t know they existed until I needed to drill a hold larger than the chuck of my corded drill:

    And this:

    Kevsterjw
    Free Member

    You didn’t know pencils existed? 😀

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Utterly brilliant little bit of kit;

    stuey
    Free Member

    Kevsterjw – it makes your lead feel longer.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Kevsterjw – it makes your lead feel longer.

    2B really brings the pencilling alive.

    jag61
    Full Member

    So that is what is meant when you ‘go over to the dark side’? 🙄

    bearnecessities
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    pondo
    Full Member

    Spider catcher – get in! 🙂

    bigblackshed
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    HG Mould Spray +LOTS.

    Cougar
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    I don’t need mould spray, the bathroom is plenty mouldy already.

    toys19
    Free Member

    CFH what is that thing?

    thejesmonddingo
    Full Member

    Cooker hob heat diffuser?

    Cougar
    Full Member

    I thought it was one of those jobbies that enables Southerners to open jam jars?

    Either that or some sort of Tesco Value trivet.

    jag61
    Full Member

    its a wheel sizing thing ,measures coolness

    FeeFoo
    Free Member

    I thought it was one of those jobbies that enables Southerners to open jam jars?

    Nah, it’s to give Northerners somewhere to cool their steaming pots of bitterness and envy 😉

    Cougar
    Full Member

    What trivet for bitterness pots?

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    What trivet for bitterness pots?

    well, you’ll want to keep it simmering on a low heat, so this type;

    tiggs121
    Free Member

    I quite like these. Useful but not essential.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Those extra scissory scissors are brilliant. And the bananarender!

    takisawa2
    Full Member

    I love ours…

    I’d love one of these though…

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    Occilating multi tool

    Borrowed my dads after thinking i really didnt have a use for one….. After using it for the two cuts he told me it would be best for ( cutting out an old windowsill from the reveals – i immediately saw a whole heap of uses for it and have only had it a couple of days but find my self reaching for it for intricate cutting – i have been laying a laminate floor and fitting new windowcills in those 2 days though

    Kryton57
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    zippykona
    Full Member

    HG Mould Spray +LOTS.

    POSTED 1 DAY AGO # REPORT-POST

    Bought some today and it’s worked a treat in our troublesome corner.
    Nothing has ever worked before. So that’s another +1

    joolsburger
    Free Member

    I also bought some today worked a treat. I didn’t think was possible without resealing yet again.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    ooh this sounds good – where did you find it?
    (can see it online, but would be handy to pop out and get some)

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    I got mine from B&Q.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    That’ll do, ta!

    househusband
    Full Member

    Think I’ll give some of it a go too!

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    CaptainFlashheart – Member
    Utterly brilliant little bit of kit;

    Only if you have to slum it with laminate worktops.

    nosedive
    Free Member

    those drillbits that drill a pilot hole for a screw but also leave a perfect conical countersink hole as well

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Omitn, a Le Creuset from the top oven of the Aga would burn my wooden work surfaces, hence those trivets.

    grantway
    Free Member

    slowoldgit
    Free Member

    These things, and the shaped bits to go with them

    http://www.axminster.co.uk/millar-standard-dowels

    gwaelod
    Free Member

    A bike one – best bike tool I have ever bought – was only a fiver 20 years ago

    Pook
    Full Member

    Hg mould spray is incredible. Thank you stw

    andyl
    Free Member

    I want a mouldy bathroom to try some of that HG stuff out now!

    SD-253
    Free Member

    Mould spray is Milton fluid. Unbranded will do push toilet paper into the space and spray and leave for a while.

    SD-253
    Free Member

    Different types of heat defusers. Some are for keeping milk from boiling over. I use them to raise my kettles on the wood burner so do not get to hot and waste hot water. But if wood burner is very hot will use a very low trivet again for the same reason plus for cooking a stew while in the pub. Basically a slow cooker.

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