Recent Aldi purchases

First off: Sorry for the crosspost.

On Thursday morning (after elbowing my way through the bargain hunters) I purchased a Pure car stereo from Aldi, for the boss's 1989 Telstar. It cost

80 Bucks. It's a bloody rip-snorter. It plays CDs, CD-RWs, MP3 disks, USB sticks, MMC cards and has external 3.5mm inputs. And RCA outputs. I purchased an adapter from WES for 8 Bucks and the thing just plugged in and worked perfectly. I picked one up for a mate, who has an old Audi and he didn't even need an adapter lead. Brilliant value and highly recommended.

I also picked up a set of concrete hole saws. I haven't tried them, so I can't make any suggestions, but they look OK.

Lastly, I picked up a Bluetooth adapter, on impulse. I haven't had much joy with my Bluetooth adapters for my 'phones. They've either broken or are such a pain to use that I don't bother. This thing is different. For 50 Bucks, it works better than any other Bluetooth I've used. Build quality appears to be excellent and it is easy to use. Best of all, at the rare earth magnets which secure it to the sun visor. Highly recommended.

[Disclaimer] I do not work for Aldi, nor do I profit from them. Some of their stuff is crap, but I got lucky with these recent purchases.
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Trevor Wilson
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Trevor Wilson
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Get back to us in 12 months for an update on that good value.

I bought an USB Bluetooth adapter from China off Ebay for less then $5 including postage and it works very well. Pleasantly surprised actually.

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Clocky

Yesterday I bought a pedometer at Aldi for $10. I haven't properly tried it out yet but it's got an awful lot of functions for the price and it's got a 2 year warranty.

While I was there I saw that they're trying to get rid of the USB

2.0 DVD Makers (video + stereo audio encoders) they had on special months ago, for 30 something bucks each. I already got one when they were $59 and it works way better than similar devices from WES and DSE I tried which cost >3x the price.

My digital calipers I got from Aldi for $20 are still going well, though the button cell went flat after hardly any use.

No doubt some of the stuff they flog is rubbish, but so far I've been lucky.

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Bob Parker

One of the blokes brought a $10 jug there for our smoko use, 3 months later it was dead, so I took my 4yo Kenwood one in and brought a new one from Woolworths, 18months later both are still going.

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kreed

Aldi's universal 8 in1 remotes are good value. I,ve bought a few and sent to friends in state, where they don't have Aldi stores. There chainsaws are good value and a direct copy of the Homelight brand, can't kill the thing, they just keep going, $169 when I bought mine a few years ago, Now selling for $129. bassett

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Diesel Damo

**Can't grizzle about that. What brand of chain do they use? My Homelite came standard with an Oregon chain.
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If you cut yourself with it, you'll get a chain sore.

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Bob Parker

they must sell alot of them aswell was at the aldi dc few weeks ago and there was a b-double unloading a entire load of the chainsaws

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Diesel Damo

Rushes down stairs for a look, Dunno, looks like a "No Frills" brand, but it's due for changing, My other saw [Stihl] run a tungsten cutter every

3rd tooth, That way it balances out, and the normal teeth are simply used for clearing, Never needs sharpening, Years ago I heard of a twin cylinder Homelight, being tested by Forestry NSW, dunno what happen to it, but the balance was that good there was zero vibration, it ran a 36 inch bar.

bassett

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bassett

WANT! Where'd you get a chain like that?

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Diesel Damo

Diesel Damo wrote in news:48a34186-c9b9-4efc- snipped-for-privacy@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com:

Out of the sky! I have never heard of a chain that never needs sharpening.

Believe nothing you hear, read and half what you see :) Stil have nothing like that on their web site.

Ron

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Ron

Ha - very sharp!

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Den

Here is a place in Hong Kong, with similar prices, and the price also includes shipping. A very big range of gear:

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Beware, they do sell a lot of rubbish also. Read the reviews before committing.

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Ohpps, sorry bodgy URL was forwarded to me, try:

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Don McKenzie

Can't seem to find a chainsaw on their website. How long is the bar on it? If it's 18 inch I'd be very very interested.

15inch bar, but it's OK for firewood. For the weekly specials sign up for a weekly [friday] e-mail
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bassett

****WANT! Where'd you get a chain like that?

Check with your local Saw Doctor, the retail outlets don't sell them, due to the fact that if they did they would never sell another chain. A normal chian works out at a Dollar a cutter, these babies are something like 4 or 5 dollars a cutter. Depending on size, so there not cheap.

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bassett

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