Buy the handle

There are some Parkside sanders on ebay

Well done Pete, you snapped up the last one just in the nick of time 👍😀.
Rob.

Hi Pete.
Glad you got one.
I got one last week and had a lot of fun trying it out at the weekend,.....boys and their toys.
Absolute bargain.
Regards Bill 👍👍👍

Thanks Rob. I only saw this thread last night so went from work to Lidls this morning to see how my luck was running. Better do the Lotto tonight. There was one left just waiting for me. No spare discs though.
Peter.😀👍

"I went to Lidl for a Japanese draw saw"
but what didl I see? No saws saw I 😭
So off to the carpet shop I went.
Where I joyfully saw that they had some saws 😀
so my money I spent! 🤑
I saw my way home to try my new tool,
it worked so well and so easy that I saw
that to buy this tool I was no fool!
Oh where oh where was this saw all my life?
It could have spared me so much time, trouble and strife!
😁😎
G'night All, 😴💤💤💤

I've had one of those for years and it seems just as sharp today as the day I bought it. 'Course I've only cut wood with it, no nails, staples, screws, or barbed wire.😊

The first time I saw one was in 'Nam in the middle '60's. An old Vietnamese carpenter was building window casings with it and the old gent was a master. He invited me to try it on a piece of scrap and I was a believer!

It wasn't only the ease of starting the cut on the back pull, it was the fineness of the cuts, the fact that one can cut the merest sliver and the very impressive speed of cut.

Nerys

A minster carry a range of sanders as well that I believe are very good and cheaper than permagrit

I too often use a hacksaw blade out of the frame and cut on the pull stroke, with a make shift handle attached, works a treat.

Glad you got one in the end Nerys 👍
I've sometimes done the same trick with a hacksaw to get more control over fine cuts.
Just fit the blade back to front in the frame 😁
It woiks!
Cheers, Doug 😎

I went to Lidl for a Japanese draw saw, but I must have been too late, no tools on show in the famous centre aisle. So, I went on line and bought the Irwin version of that saw, it came from Axminster tools , a little dearer than the Lidl model. I started using it this afternoon and I'm very impressed with it, the easiest hand sawing I've ever done. Why on earth didn't I buy one before.

Nerys

That's it Doug - unlike the tenon saw it has no stiffener on the blade - but because its working on the pull stroke there is no need for one. very clever these orientals.............well worth the money - guaranteed you will not use a tenon saw again............. It also functions quite well as a ripsaw although I prefer using my black teflon coated Sandvik one............

Thanks for the tip off Rob -have bought one! Didn't see spare sanding discs -must go back and have another look. Tony A...

"Oh yes and a Japanese type woodsaw which works like a dream - cuts on the back stroke - so very accurate."
Could that be what they call a 'Pull saw' Red?
Bet that confuses the 'tooth sharpener'😮
They are still around-
https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/diy/powerfix-profi-japanese-pull-saw/p40270
Coming soon. Only £ 7.99! ROLL UP ROLL UP!
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You're very welcome Bill.
We all look out for each other here 🤓.
Rob.

You and me Ian - still have quite a few items here bought from Lidl - including a blood pressure monitor used for years without a problem and about 3 dozen single handed quick grip clamps - the small 3" ones were about 2 for a quid - bigger ones at 6" were very expensive at a quid each - come in very handy for full size work. Oh yes and a Japanese type woodsaw which works like a dream - cuts on the back stroke - so very accurate. And to top it all a RC yacht with its own proper full size transmitter on 27.195mhz (changeable) which sails very well - cost a whopping 10 quid - complete with 12 AA alkaline batteries...........(less than a 7.2v Buggy Pack cost at the time)

Rob.
Many thanks for your help.
Just goes to show what great teamwork we have on this site.
Long may it continue.
Regards Bill 👍👍👏👏

Typically, it was the "black shoes" below in the engineering department that got "them" the brown shoes on the bridge where they thought they wanted to go.

Thank you!

(sorry for the thread hijack....)

Hi Doug.
Many thanks for checking that out.
I will be checking them out at the weekend and testing the new toy in the workshop.
Regards Bill 👍👍

I did actually hesitate for a moment wondering about the Coast Guard BS.
On the other hand I thought; we often see the expression 'Brown Shoe Navy',
but not for the CG!
Keep your incredibly realistic looking models coming 👍
Cheers, Doug 😎

I have in fact!
Not having to do with the Navy though, I was in the Black Shoe side of the U.S. Coast Guard.

""Eponymous" Good one Doug! Had to look it up. "
We learn something new every day Black Shoe 😉
And good so 👍
So you too have become eponymous - by naming yourself after the Black Shoe Navy I assume 😁
Cheers, Doug 😎

Hi Bill,
Parkside is one of the NOVO brands and I just found their UK spares and accessories Online shop😊
https://www.shopnovo.co.uk/brands/Parkside.html?sort=newest&page=3
There you can get packs of 5 discs of the 3 grits they do; 240, 150 and 80.
Alternatively; look for any other tool manufacturer who does 125 mm diameter discs with fuzzy backs 😉 e.g. Bosch, Black & Decker etc, etc.
Happy sanding, mind your fingers when doing your nails 😮😭
Cheers, Doug 😎

Bill.
The discs are quite hardwearing so you should be OK for a while with the ones they include.
I just remembered that there's a 'captive' nut inside that can easily fall out (not so captive!) when you remove the adjustable platform to change discs.
A blob from a hot glue gun easily fixes that 😁
Rob.

Hi Rob.
No to the discs I am afraid.
I had the penultimate one and asked re the spare discs but they were all gone.
I will look around.
Bargain though 👍👍

Pity I live in SA

got mine last year and a friend asked if I could get him one so today i got him one 29'99

"Eponymous" Good one Doug! Had to look it up.

Glad to hear you bagged one Bill 😀👍.
Were they selling the spare discs too?
Rob.

Hi Rob
Very many thanks for the heads up.
Been and got one this morning.
Looks to be a good tool.
Regards Bill👍👍

That is a nice lidl tool for the money!

Bob.

Thats a Shaky answer, should have been a Green Door.
Or you could have had the Frankley version from 1957.
Colourful world we live in, cheers Colin.

Rob,
"Possible inspirations

This song was written by Marvin Moore describing a place in Dallas, Texas, where he and Charlie Boland, a sports announcer, climbed a stairway to a green door where a piano played in the background and a man with a huge cigar kept people out unless they had a card of membership in one of the performing arts or unions. In a copy of the original lyrics he actually began using Dallas in the lyric. A copy of said original lyrics, along with an original letter in 1966 from Marvin Moore to Charlie Boland's daughter explains this to her after she sang the song to Marvin Moore one night over the phone at the age of 9.

After the Great Chicago Fire, a tavern opened in Chicago, the Green Door Tavern. During prohibition, this was a popular place to get secret libations. As the door of the tavern is green, the color became a symbol of a speakeasy. During the Prohibition Era many restaurants would paint their doors green to indicate the presence of a speakeasy.[6]

One suggestion of the song's origins is that it was inspired by an afterhours club in Dallas, Texas, to which lyricist Moore had been refused entry because he did not know the correct password.[1]

At the time of the song's initial popularity in the 1950s, many believed it was inspired by a green-doored restaurant and bar called "The Shack" in Columbia, Missouri, where singer Jim Lowe had attended the University of Missouri. However long-time Shack owner Joe Franke doubts this theory.[7]

An oft-repeated urban legend has developed saying the song refers to London's first lesbian club, Gateways (1930–1985), which was in Bramerton Street in Chelsea. It had a green door and was featured in the film The Killing of Sister George.[8][9] But aside from that there is no substantive connection between the 1950s American song and the British club.[10]

In "The Green Door", a short story by O. Henry from his 1906 book The Four Million,[11] a man named Rudolf Steiner is handed a mysterious card reading, "The Green Door." On entering the door he meets a starving young woman. He quickly rushes out and returns laden with food, and they become friends over supper; finally Steiner promises to visit her again the next day and there is romance in the offing. Eventually it turns out that the card was an advertisement for an entirely different "Green Door", a theatre play. O. Henry uses the eponymous green door as a symbol for everyday adventures which he encourages us to seek out.

It is also possible that the song is a reference to an H. G. Wells short story, "The Door in the Wall."[12][13] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Door

Cheers, Doug 😎
'Sleepless in Munich' 🤔😴

But What's Behind the Green Door?
Sorry..........insomnia.😌

Makes me glad I ain't got a red door Colin, it's blue 😉
G'night, sleep tight, 😴💤
and don't let the bed bugs bite!
😎

Showing your age Doug, makes me want to paint it black.
Cheers and good night, Colin.

Colin,
"You might not get what you wa~nt,
but with a little luck you'll get what you need!"
Credit to: Jick Magger and the Stolling Rones 😁😂
😎

Being on the A Team helps us all get what we need.
Cheers Colin.

Well done Doug....
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together...👍😁.

I didn't forget Rob 👍
I missed out last time you posted a heads-up for this, cos it was already sold out here a few weeks earlier 😭
So I signed up for Lidl.de newsletter back then and ordered one this time within 30 mins of the notice appearing.
Delivered the next day 😀
😎

Great addition to the work shop I've had mine for a couple of years and use it every day

Hi Doug.
I bought mine a couple of years ago and use it all the time. Don't forget to buy the extra packs of discs that they usually sell at the same time Bill👍

Lidl seem to sell things like these tools, motoring accessories and DIY stuff on a 12 month cycle so if you miss it now it'll come back around a year later. Rob.

Thanks for that Rob.
Possibly a trip to Lidl tomorrow then.
Sounds like an essential journey me thinks
Bill👍

Aha! It's finally reached you guys😉
Must be the post Brexit holdups🙄
Bought mine from Lidl.de Online shop a coupla weeks ago.
Handy little gadget👍
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