Parkside tools

[martin007]

Hello.


Do any of you use or have used "Parkside" power tools?

[Burgerman]

Not me.

[martin007]

Would I like to know its quality and duration?

[Burgerman]

They seem OK. According to others. Kind of cheaper than bosch versions...

By duration do you mean battery or service life? Is this 12v or 18V heavy duty stuff? All depends on what you do with them really. Theres many makes of thses things. Parkside has a reputation of cheap or rather value rather than an expensive brand. Sold by supermarkets like lidl for e.g. Does that make them worse? Dont really know.

[martin007]

By duration I mean useful life.
I take care of the tools.

[Burgerman]

Then they will likely outlive you.

Before disability I used to use powertools at work. Hard. Treated them extremely badly. They were there for a reason. But I mean really work. When in a hurry a cordless drill gets used as a hammer to level worktops or knock plastic plugs into the wall, a lever, walked on, thrown off a ladder to the ground, rained on all day long on a drive or in a muddy trench, covered in plaster dust, cement, tile cement, grout, used with oversized drill or cutting disks, tortured and overheated and thrown in a van with everything from brick rubble to sand and cement or 50lb wet paper or soil, etc for weeks at a time.

They can survive a year in real heavy serious work use like this, they do well. GOOD tools do survive a while but look like they went through several wars after a month. After a year generally they look terrible, but still work. Chucks can fail, rust, seize, things get noisy, and now and again something breaks. After say 5 or 6 months they dont owe you anything. May last a year or maybe two. It pays to buy the best. You replace when they dont do the job any longer. Time doesent allow you to treat them like jewelry.

Now, I have a full set of polished, carefully used, unmarked pristine bosch 12V (hobby grade?) blue cordless tools. I have mini grinders, dremmel style tool, hammer drill, drill, percussion driver as wrench/screwdriver, a multitool, etc. Many 3Ah batteries. 3 bosch chargers. Hundreds of high speed steel precision bosch drill bits, Dormer taps, hole saws, masonary bits, and grinders disks, and die grider bits etc. All as new. They live in fancy bosch cases, treated like jewelry. Why? I love good tools! I am carful not to scratch or mark them. They get used occasionally and gently. They will easily outlive me... Crazy I know.
But I do know what they can really take! And these are all way more than I will ever need.

[Burgerman]

I dont need all those fancy tools. I LIKE them.

Same way I bought a beautiful bit of wood. A brand new propellor for a paraglider. I dont need that. But I like it! Its now in my living room.

[Burgerman]

Said propellor...

Do I neeed one? Nope! But I like it.