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Plasterer

mickeypops wrote: »

A tube of decent glue!

I hope your not his best man! :rotfl:

graham17_2

Lol, I hope not either!

I'll just ask for a nice workmate if I can figure out what to get, plus the laser! :P

Graham.

LandyAndy

No idea about modern workmates. Mine is ancient (25 years?) and I think there was only one model then.

Just looked on the B&D site. The 825 looks like the one to go for.

andrew-b

I've been considering a new "workmate" myself as my current one that came with the house is a bit rusty and a bit lethal when folding it up (both my dad and i have caught fingers in it!)...extremely useful though. Useful having two so you can cut things like doors without needing someone standing the other end. I dont have the plastic bits that push into the holes so i use just a couple of steel g-clamps with it and never really had a problem. Have a look at homebase as they do a basic £15 one in their value range that looks fairly decent that i've been considering. TBH i think the B&D workmates are overpriced and from the review i read (including the 825) they aren't as well made as they used to be...but then what is?

P.s. howabout some ear defenders to deal with the incessant nagging?

artha

LandyAndy wrote: »

No idea about modern workmates. Mine is ancient (25 years?) and I think there was only one model then.

Just looked on the B&D site. The 825 looks like the one to go for.

My Workmate is also ancient and was, in fact, a wedding present so is now 32 years old but still going strong despite many years of use and abuse.

It's one of the original basic designs and I keep thinking I should get one of the newer ones with bells and whistles but until mine falls apart (which I don't think it's going to do) I keep putting this off. I could probably only justify another one to have the two as a pair of trestles.

WestonDave

Work mate - that's what you are getting married for isn't it? "Oi love - hold this a mo!"

WestonDave

Actually on second thoughts get the workmate - they don't get stroppy when you take ages measuring up and getting it all lined up straight!

graham17_2

Haha, the ear defenders might be useful if I suggested to her that we were getting married so she could hold things instead of the workmate :P

Sounds like everyone on here has got the old, properly well made things (as things used to be!)

Cheers,

Graham.

Plasterer

Get the laser!!!!!!!!!1 If the marriage goes pear shaped you can adapt it and do a dr evil on the misses!:p

LandyAndy

andrew-b wrote: »

I dont have the plastic bits that push into the holes

They are very useful. Don't B&D do them as spares?