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Hi, Tom here,
Have been in Backstage and Theatre Lighting, Sound and Production all my life. Have always been self-employed mostly and have 'retired myself' and now I am like 'houseband' ...a houseband too !!
I think of myself as a good 'siraniko' if it's busted, give it to me, If I can fix it good, if not, then it is really busted ... !! Then I can strip it for parts and keep it in my junk box.
Have accumulated a whole buncha handtools both mechanical and electrical. Power tools mainly a drill (corded Makita), a bunch a no-name rechargeable screwdrivers, a lot of Dremel Mototools both corded and rechargeable.
Like Icarus, I have a little collection of odds and ends that I don't think even he has !! 🙂
One day, i will open a tool museum with tools from all corner junkshops of the world and all these tools will have a history all it's own.
Good to be in this group, thanks to tsikot for send me an invite.
Cheers 🙂 🙂
P.S. Icarus, am interested in seeing your 'collection,' show me yours and I'll show you mine. Hope you're keeping them all from rusting !!! I'm in the Shaw Blvd, Mandaluyong area.
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greetings, fellow DIYers...
i'm into computers...
my doctor recommended a "change of scenery" so i decided to pursue a childhood dream of creating things from wood and metal... and dab a bit in herb + veggie gardening as well...
it's really fantastic, having a Pinoy DIY forum... i hope i can provide some significant contributions as well...
congrats to the admin staff for this website!
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hello and feliz navidad.
like all of you guys, i am also a diyer type. i am not contented of having a thing done and not knowing about it.
i am having a house constructed right now with no contractor, just a trusted foreman. it will come out cheaper of course. 🙂
im a CPA by profession and work in a financial institution.
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Im new in here, nice to find such site na very usefull and informative. Mahilig ako kumalikot ng kung ano-ano. DIY tatak na nating mga pinoy. Mabuhay!
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Better late than never.
Musta po sa lahat? Ako po si 22y short for Totoy, I'm an Industrial Machinery Technician based in Perth, Western Australia. Machinery concerns are Woodworking, Aluminum and Marble/Stone Machinery. Though specializing in Wood CNC and traditional machines I could probably help out in troubleshooting and setup of the said equipment range.
Latest DIY project: Homemade Vertical Panel Saw. Will post picture in the future.
Mabuhay!!!
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Hi to all!
Accidentally found this site while searching for seeds 😀
Anyway, I'm also a DIY person. I've been repairing flourescent lights & flat irons, threading pipes, making extension cords since my childhood days 🙂
Have some knowledge in paints, electrical, plumbing and general hardware stuffs.
Last handyman stuff I did was redoing a 3-way switch installation a friend of mine tried to do by himself (it's tiring going up and down the stairs 😀 )
From time to time I like gardening (hence the search), and currently looking to strawberry seeds.
That's all for now. Don't be a stranger and drop me a line 😉
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I think I saw some strawberry seeds at Robinsons Handyman. ARe you located in Baguio? Can strawberry grow in the lowlands?
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Which branch of Handyman? I've been to Gallaria, but didn't see any strawberry seeds. I'm not sure if strawberry will survive in the lowlands, but I'm willing to try 🙂
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Hello everyone,
I'm a weekend woodworker, a graphic artist, a printing press owner.
I have some home projects that I wish to post here someday.
Regards to all!
btw, does anyone know where I could buy good second hand power tools?
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Australian branded second hand power tools are sometimes awailable at HMR on Pioneer. But inspect all tools carefully before buying.
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Friend of mine sent me a link to this site a few months ago, just found time to register and browse through it now unfortunately.
I'm a 30 year-old weekend and sometimes odd-hours DIYer. I inherited it from my dad who was a civil engineer and frustrated carpenter, and i suppose from my maternal grandfather who used to be the principal of a trade school in La Union. They never really passed on any of their skills to me, only old Stanley and B&D tools and a strange desire to take apart everything I see 🙂
I love puttering around the house during weekends, "repairing," "improving," and "optimizing" stuff that's already working fine. I also enjoy working on my 67 beetle (a lot of it DIY!). 🙂
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Ask my wife and she'll say I'm not much of a handyman - the projects she has for me just keep piling up. 🙂
So what am I doing here, well I am a DIY guy. Actually I was an electronics DIY till it became my profession. Nowadays all my DIY activities revolve around boat building. I'll get into most anything though mostly its carpentry. Last year, I started building a foundry but only got to the point of melting my wife's stainless steel pot, which I used as a crucible, till I had to go back to building our boat. Well that boat's done but there are now 2 canoes in the works and a small motor dingy that has to get done soon(?).
I going to be bragging a bit here but it does go somewhere ....
Since I got back into this DIY stuff around 1998, I'd say my workshop is now kind of extreme, there aren't that many tools I can think of that aren't in there already ... well actually not really, I'm sure we can think of others ... but I do have quite a few: a monster 12" table saw, a 4' wood lathe, a 12" thickness planer, a 6" jointer, a 10" compound sliding miter saw, a 7-1/4" miter saw, a benchtop sanding station, 5 routers 3 on tables, a 7-1/4" circular saw, a 10" circular saw, a pendulum jigsaw, a belt sander, 2 cordless drills, 1 regular drill, 1 SDS drill, 2 bench grinders, 2 sander/polisher, a 14" cutoff saw, a welding machine, an gas cutting setup (LPG only), a 4" angle grinder, a big angle grinder, etc., etc. etc.
Now I am not a lotto winner or anything like that. While maybe half of my shop came from saving here and there, the other half is made possible by our little business of buying surplus tools, fixing them, and then selling them again. For example, can you imagine buying a 12" thickness planer P6k - P9k? Or how about a cordless drill for P600 ... actually I probably have 3 or 4 that I'm going to keep. Why that many? One for drilling, one for counter sinking, and two for driving screws :). Or how about a cheap good quality circular saw in the area of P1k? Drop me an e-mail if you do. Anyone nowadays can have a nice workshop.
BTW, even if you have no intention of buying anything, you can always visit and help me build whatever boat or project I'm working on.
Later.
Brother,
What is the brand of your table saw and do you intend to sell it to anyone interested and how much? Further do you also sell one those vast collection of your routers you have and do you have one with variable speed of what brand. tnx waiting for your reply.
A little bit serious diy'r
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Hi Richard,
Sorry we got out of the business ... no time. We've still a few pieces but I'm really hesitant to sell them only because I would not be able to give any kind of guarantee, and I don't have the time to rummage through them much less check them.
These are all GMC or Ryobi tools for Australia. Some were excess inventory but most were returned items, some with minor defects, though some really not working or even repairable.
Since people always ask and I'd really like to help, I'll just tell everyone were I got them: HMR Auctions located along A. Bonifacio. This is an auction house so you'd need to bid for them. You also need to take the risk of getting unrepairable stuff. You can test the motors for continuity but that's about it, unless the auctioneer declares the item working in which case you get a short guarantee from HRM.
Frankly, if you don't want to have to repair the tools, it would be better to get a non-industrial brand. For example, my first router was a fixed based John Benzen that I bought for P3500 when a Makita of the same specs cost P12k. The cost is still higher of course compared to those sold by HMR but then you don't have to worry either. My John Benzen is still working although I've been mostly using the other routers these past two years. No reason really. Actually, the real cost is in the bits you buy.
Hope this helps.
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hi to everybody... i'm pax, 37 yrs. young!
just found this forum while in google for CHB...
hope everyone is doing gud...!
God bless...
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Magandang araw po. baguhan po ako dito sa site na ito, isa pong OFW na nais lamang humingi ng tulong at magbahagi din ng kaunting kaalaman.
Nagpapagawa po ako ng aking munting bahay-kubo, pero ito po ay hindi purong tradisyonal na materyales, magkakahalo po sya, merong Nipa, sawalai, konkreto at mga bagong materyales na gamit sa konstraksyon ngayun. Sana po matulungan nyo ako sa aking munting proyekto.
Muli po, magandang araw sa inyo.
