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:
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And this:
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You didn't know pencils existed? 😀
Utterly brilliant little bit of kit;
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Kevsterjw - it makes your lead [i]feel[/i] longer.
Kevsterjw - it makes your lead feel longer.
2B really brings the pencilling alive.
So that is what is meant when you 'go over to the dark side'? 🙄
Spider catcher - get in! 🙂
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HG Mould Spray +LOTS.
I don't need mould spray, the bathroom is plenty mouldy already.
CFH what is that thing?
Cooker hob heat diffuser?
I thought it was one of those jobbies that enables Southerners to open jam jars?
Either that or some sort of Tesco Value trivet.
its a wheel sizing thing ,measures coolness
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 😉
What trivet for bitterness pots?
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well, you'll want to keep it simmering on a low heat, so this type;
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I quite like these. Useful but not essential.
Those extra scissory scissors are brilliant. And the bananarender!
I love ours...
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I'd love one of these though...
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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
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Bought some today and it's worked a treat in our troublesome corner.
Nothing has ever worked before. So that's another +1
I also bought some today worked a treat. I didn't think was possible without resealing yet again.
ooh this sounds good - where did you find it?
(can see it online, but would be handy to pop out and get some)
I got mine from B&Q.
That'll do, ta!
Think I'll give some of it a go too!
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Utterly brilliant little bit of kit;
Only if you have to slum it with [i]laminate[/i] worktops.
those drillbits that drill a pilot hole for a screw but also leave a perfect conical countersink hole as well
Omitn, a Le Creuset from the top oven of the Aga would burn my wooden work surfaces, hence those trivets.
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A bike one - best bike tool I have ever bought - was only a fiver 20 years ago
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Hg mould spray is incredible. Thank you stw
I want a mouldy bathroom to try some of that HG stuff out now!
Mould spray is Milton fluid. Unbranded will do push toilet paper into the space and spray and leave for a while.
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.
The hypercraker. Great for traveling light.
While I was re-stocking my shed, I remembered this thread.
Want to add:
Pocket hole joints in general, but particularly this jig:
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Expensive ish, but I managed to make 36 birch ply boxes in 2 days.
all in one dishwasher tabs... although they probably don't count as "didn't know existed"
The hypercraker. Great for traveling light.
When did you last have a cassette lockring come loose on a ride? For me it was about 1993.
For bakers - flexible plastic bowl scrapers. They're so obvious but I'd never seen one until a year or so back. Great for cleaning bowls after making bread, for limiting waste when you're making cakes and for initial mixes of sticky doughs by hand.
Plus they cost about 50p.
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