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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: TYMTIT on January 20, 2011, 03:53:04 pm
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It's amazing what you find when you are not looking for it. Spent part of this week looking for 2 small O rings to fix my TY175 carby and not being successful. Yamaha Ripoff PTY LTD wanted about $17.00 for 2 O rings. Tomorrow I was going to bite the bullet and buy them and lo and behold Aldi had box sets of "oil & acid resistant" O rings for $13.00 per 420 pieces box. And guess what, they bloody fit the the bits on the carby and when started did not leak!
So they are now on special at Aldi in both Metric and Inch till next Wednesday, a Bargain!!
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I saw that. Didn't get to my store till the last day of it (got the catologe the day before >:() and they were all gone!
They do have some handy stuff from time-to-time but ya gotta be quick.....
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Just don't buy food there. We still have a jar of "Bramwells" peanut butter on the shelf two years
later, cos the ex reckons "Aldi is great".
I think most of their food is grown on land bought cheaply near Churnobyl.
Hmmm .... so, TYMTIT (that sounds a bit rude) has 420.
And All Things 66M has none.
And I'm bent double with the procrastination bug.
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rowville aldi has 30 boxes of o rings ,1 hour ago
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I got two boxes , both imperial and metric the last time they had them on sale and have been using them on everything. Aldi spanners, gizmos and electric tools are top quality and as cheap as chips. Their ratchet ring spanners are so similar to Snap-On it ain't funny.
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actually ive got there rachet ring spanners 2 ,they have been great
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Aldi tools good!
*(be kind to pie warmers week)???????????????????? I do own a pie warmer and never been nasty to it much...
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rowville aldi has 30 boxes of o rings ,1 hour ago
Would it be asking too much for you to drag yourself off the couch and get me a box of metric ones? Hmm? :-\
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sure buddy / mates have to stick together ,:D
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Yes that's right. That's the Good young'n Boys motto..... ;)
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got a ducati desmosedici rr for $5.00 a couple of weeks ago from aldi (1:12 scale).tymtit you could start a new thread on yamaha ripoff pty ltd.i keep the gold wrapping the parts come in.
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all good ross $50 plus postage :P :P :P :P :P :P
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Just what I was after. grabbed a kit today and already fixed the karcher that's been leaking for 5 yrs, my chem garden sprayer and the hose reel to boot.
Sieg Heil Aldi
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It's amazing what you find when you are not looking for it. Spent part of this week looking for 2 small O rings to fix my TY175 carby and not being successful. Yamaha Ripoff PTY LTD wanted about $17.00 for 2 O rings. Tomorrow I was going to bite the bullet and buy them and lo and behold Aldi had box sets of "oil & acid resistant" O rings for $13.00 per 420 pieces box. And guess what, they bloody fit the the bits on the carby and when started did not leak!
So they are now on special at Aldi in both Metric and Inch till next Wednesday, a Bargain!!
You can get any size O ring you want from a bearing shop.. you don't have to buy genuine.
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They most likely would have been Nitrile-Buna which is not very fuel resistant. For fuel and higher chemical resistance you would want Viton. Viton o-rings are usually dull in colour and not a shiny black colour like NBR. Viton o-rings are more expensive than NBR too. Most o-ring 'bulk packs' or 'kits' sold at hardware or cheap as chips type stores are only NBR unless specifically marked Viton. So all im saying is to be aware that if your using NBR o-rings where fuel is involved, that they may not last very long. Viton casn also handle more heat and are more abrasion resistant and can generally handle more than NBR but of coarse you still have different durometer ratings aswell. for general sealing around 75 is the norm.
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With over 200 stores now operating on the Australian eastern seaboard, there's bound to be an ALDI store near you. To find your nearest store and its operating times, simply enter your details below.
Does this include NZud and Tassie ;D
http://aldi.com.au/au/html/service/store_locations.htm
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http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_16770.htm
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With over 200 stores now operating on the Australian eastern seaboard, there's bound to be an ALDI store near you. To find your nearest store and its operating times, simply enter your details below.
Is that a paid advertisment Alison? Graeme will want his cut…
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These Aldi spanner sets are pretty good value as well. They're quality forged, not el cheapo cast shit.
Ditto the allen keys,tap and die set and files.....they're not the best quality you'll ever find but they're still pretty damn good. I bought all of these items when they've been on sale in the past and I've had zero breakages or failures.
http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_16765.htm (http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_16765.htm)
http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_16764.htm (http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_16764.htm)
http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_16769.htm (http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_16769.htm)
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Seems Aldi might make a few extra bucks from this. Their service is crap though.
I tried the local bearing shops in Nth Brissy and was unable to get the sizes I wanted.
LWC82PE, who stocks the "Viton" O rings?
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O-rings are available in many different types of material, its just that the normal everyday type ones are NBR and is usually all that is sold by a lot of places, however, if you go to any bearing or seal type places, you just have to ask for the material and hardness you want. There are also thousands of online o-ring suppliers online. http://www.transeals.com.au/ is a good site i like to use to look up sizes. Remember that there are many, many different standards of o-rings in metric and imperial with many different cross sections. There is not just 'imperial' and 'metric'. O-ring sizes are quoted in IDxcross section but someplaces will specifiy an OD aswell. A lot of those cheap bulk kits will list OD x CS too but the normal standard is IDxCS. There would be plenty of places in Australia you could get Viton o-rings from but when ever i have had to source any i have got them from overseas suppliers. http://www.metric-seals.com/ is a good one as they dont have minimum quantities and deal with small orders. A few local places i can think of that have o-rings are
http://www.bsc.com.au/
http://www.conbear.com/
http://www.nak.com.au
http://australia.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=2459628
http://www.nrseals.com/
http://www.sealimports.com.au/
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Aldi at Homebush SYD have heaps of both kits.
Just went in for the first time, interesting, crap service as said.
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Just grabbed an Aldi tap & die set - $25. M3 thru to M12. Looks a bit rough but should be ok for getting you out of trouble.
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Thanks LWC82PE for the advice and I'll give those suppliers a try.
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So.....after all of that, you're not using the Aldi seals? Don't worry, they're fuel proof, I've used them in carbies and they're fine.
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I've bought a lot of stuff there over the years, mostly recently some air beds that performed well on our annual camping holiday. I'd bet the o-rings are fine.
Got some good (road) motorbike boots too.
Tools? I've had mixed fortunes on that front. Some drill bits I got were completely unusable, and a set of wood chisels were almost as bad. I did get some scrapers that are really good though.
Tex
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Nice 8). Even has a thickness gauge on inside edge ;).
Handy and worth while. Thanks. :) 8)
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No shortage of items at the Werribee (Vic) Aldi....thanks for the heads up! ;)
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Hey Micks i got the Duke too plus a KTM LC8,cant wait till they start pumping out vmx models :)
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I saw that. Didn't get to my store till the last day of it (got the catologe the day before >:() and they were all gone!
They do have some handy stuff from time-to-time but ya gotta be quick.....
Hey 66M, I bought 4 kits yesterday from the Sebastopol Aldi store. They had plenty left. Good value for most jobs I reckon.
Stan.