Depenjds when, Bill. When I bought mine they were a very reasonable (even then) £25 each more or less, but of course Proxxon stuff is massively overpriced purely because of the name, but the table saaw in that lot is exactly the same as the Abest my wife just bought me. God knows what the scroll saw cost, yet my son has a Hobbies saw that cost him very little in a charity shop and a new Ferm which was about 30 quid. I would still use it if I could get the batch reasonably, but I put in a decent bid and it was immediately raised by 2 quid, so I'm bowing out. Of all the bits there I would like the disc sander, as mine just vanished in a move. I have my son's big SIP machine, but I risk injury every time I pick it off the floor and it's in the way. But I can get a new tilt table disc sander of a small kind for 60 quid, so may do that. Can't find any second hand ones on ebay. But thanks for the link anyway.
Martin

you are so right, if I was younger I'd kick myself 😊 Doug. i should have been quicker.

Ah great Martin good luck with them, it must have cost a fortune to put that lot together.

Bill

Good luck Martin 🤞
Cheers, Doug 😎
PS Any progress on the Shadow?

Bill, some of the tools I've had and lost are in that selection. I may see about bidding as that is quite near where I live!

Martin

Shucks!🤔
I noticed it had vanished from the site and I thought you'd bought it!
Bad luck Bill
Next time - STRIKE while the iron is hot!!
(Whatever that means!😁)
Cheers, Doug 😎

Hi Martin,

I thought about it for far to long, when I finally made up my mind it was gone, and my neighbour dumped a load of furniture today in a skip so at least I've got a good stock of nice timber now, ah well. I'll just have to wait for it to come back into stock - darn it.
I did see a load of second hand power tools for sale on ebay with 3 days or so left but it's in the UK for collection, but I'll post the link so hopefully someone can get lucky

One left? Grab it, Bill. You won't regret it.

Martin

Yeah, been pondering and pondering and I keep going back to it (I know that's me sunk when I do that), I think I'm convinced especially since there's only one left 😊 Ah well one more toy for the toybox 😊

Bill

Haha, I wondered that, but couldn't find proof, so i went for the Abest and what a fine little tool it is. I am VERY pleased with it. You won't find better for twice the price.

Martin

Hi Martin,

I had a closer look at the one for £22-22 (who wouldn't 😊 ) and unfortunately it's only for the flexible shaft-dang.
The Abest looks great - mmmm will I won't I

Bill

Hi Doug,

You're a wealth of information my friend, many thanks for the Ema-models link, I've spent the last 3 days searching for a mini drill stand and Ema have the very beastie for 30 euro or so, plus a few other things I've been searching for 😊. Time to give the old card a thrashing.

Best regards
Bill

Well, I'm staggered...My dear lady ordered me a new Abest mini table saw at 6-57 last night and today it was delivered at 12-30! Unbelievable. All in perfect condition. I set it up and cut some bulwark planks with it which were a wee bit too wide thanks to fence creep on the old saw and the new one cut off a strip as thin as paper with a perfectly clean cut edge. It's quite a large case, but there's a power unit in there too. The set comes with a spare drive belt and even a pair of spare carbon brushes for the motor! A fence, an adjustable mitre fence, a vacuum cleaner nozzle and 2 different sized Allen keys. Because of the reduction via the belt there's bags of power. I am delighted. Very highly recommended for 53 quid, superb.

Martin

I have quite a few Dremel tools Not as good quality as they used to be. But, they serve the purpose. Proxxon in South Africa is held by an agency Prices are twice Dremels
Ian

Doug, that page on amazon is odd as the same tools (according to the photos) have prices all over the place! One of those Novelife saws is £22-22 and the others are 132! No real difference except the expensive one has three blades and shows a power unit, but there's a power unit with the cheap one too as far as I can see. I really don't want to buy Chinky stuff, but what choice do we have? That or Byrne's hand made and therefore way overpriced thing. Well, the memsahib has ordered me an Abest and we'll see what that's like. It seems it's RIP Mini/Maxicraft.

Ian, Proxxon is really no different from all the others, except for the over the top pricing. I have a Proxxon transformer and minidrill as it came in a very good deal 30 years ago. They're both still going, but the speed control on the drill packed in after a few weeks, so I just wired t straight through, so it's been flat out ever since! But it's just a "buggy" motor running in a ball race and so are all my other minitools that cost a fraction in Lidl or Aldi. OK, my wife bought me a Dremel recently and that's a mains powered tool. First Dremel I ever had and that was on a deal. Very quiet and powerful.

Martin

Martin

I had a Dremel Scroll Saw for thirty years and then Dremel stopped making the blades! Nothing else would fit. Had to buy another saw bought a full size scroll saw (Ryobi) and also bought the new Dremel Saw. Not a patch on the original Dremel!I also use a Belt/Circular Sander (Chinese) which is quite small. As for Proxxon here in SA we can get at a price and limited backup.

Hi Martin,
There's a selection here on Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NovelLife-Handmade-Woodworking-Cutting-Circular/dp/B0755VQF2C?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_4

including the Abest I note.
Must be a reason why it's less than half the price of all the others!🙄
Happy hunting👍
Stay safe in your 'flatlands' isolation😉
Cheers, Doug 😎

Doug, I looked at Squires, but they have the disc sander and NOT the tble saw. They even call it Minicraft. They also do the horribly expensive Bohler as Minitools. Way too much for me. If I could justify 300 for a Bohler I'd go the extra 100 and have a Byrne's!
We'll have to see what the Abest is like as that's now on order.

I'll check Micromark, Artlewis, but getting stuff from America could be awkward.

Martin

Try micromark.com in the USA. They carry Micro Lux tools which may be the same as yours.

I still use the Minicraft saw table Martin. Some of the Dremel/Proxxon etc saw blades fit.
(You may remember from your days south of Munich, the Germans say 'What doesn't fit will be made to fit'!😉
I also have the Minicraft 'Buffalo' mini drill and teeny weeny jig saw. Spare saw blades a problem with that but some members have suggested sensible solutions I will try.
All nearly 40 years old, bought as a special offer package for AA members (that's Automobile Association U suspicious lot😉) in the early 80s. Came with a variable speed PSU as well.
All still going strong, just the occasional strip down, clean and re-grease over the decades.😉
Wish the docs could do that with me!🤔
Have a look here for Minicraft odds and ends!
http://www.squirestools.com/files/12-07.pdf
https://www.ema-models.co.uk/index.php/power-tools/rotary-tools/minicraft-rotary-tool.html?p=2
Cheers, Doug😎