whats the most pointless thing you ever brought

[Profpointy]

a pair of fancy blade clamps for my scroll saw that some **** on YouTube was bigging up and like a muppet I believed the hype. The tiny metal clamps cost a tenner but the P&P was £5 for deliveries under £45 so like a muppet, I spent a further £35 on a Japanese pull saw that i didn't really need. The tiny metal clamps were really fiddly to fit and then i over tightened one and it split, rendering it nigh on useless. The original clamps I've had since 1995 are far far better than the fancy new ones that broke instantly

The Japanese pull saw, on the other hand, is an awesome bit of kit... so every cloud and all that

Agree on the Jap saw. I bought one to try out, after hearing good things about them from my Uncle, and now have about four of different types. I find them better than British type saws, and my British ones are pukka Sheffield made things and not cheap.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Actually I do - I have a Sony MDS-JE480, MDS-S40 and a MZ-R700 MD Walkman, which has found a new lease of life, since I bought a little modeling amp that runs on batteries, that I plug it into.

Shame the software for the Walkman isn't supported anymore and doesn't work for Windows 10 or above

Nice. Mine isn't NetMD model so its just 1-1 transfer. Its in a terrible condition mind as I used to treat it awfully but it kept working

 

[Gwylan]

A plastic device which cuts cucumbers into spirals.

I've got one of those. Poundland, excellent for making courgette spaghetti and so on

 

[Gwylan]

We were given a fondue set five years ago and it is has never been taken out of the box.

Amazing toy, almost as much fun as the raclette machine

 

[Threevok]

Nice. Mine isn't NetMD model so its just 1-1 transfer. Its in a terrible condition mind as I used to treat it awfully but it kept working

Mine is mint condition, except I lost that little cable controller that came with it. Not that I used it that often anyway. I was forver pressing the wrong button for the volume and skipping to the next track or album

 

[Gwylan]

a pair of fancy blade clamps for my scroll saw that some **** on YouTube was bigging up and like a muppet I believed the hype. The tiny metal clamps cost a tenner but the P&P was £5 for deliveries under £45 so like a muppet, I spent a further £35 on a Japanese pull saw that i didn't really need. The tiny metal clamps were really fiddly to fit and then i over tightened one and it split, rendering it nigh on useless. The original clamps I've had since 1995 are far far better than the fancy new ones that broke instantly

The Japanese pull saw, on the other hand, is an awesome bit of kit... so every cloud and all that

Love my Japanese saw! Useless on a bike though.

 

[C R]

Seasalt is dehydrated  water seawater.

FTFY

 

[MontyVeda]

Agree on the Jap saw. I bought one to try out, after hearing good things about them from my Uncle, and now have about four of different types. I find them better than British type saws, and my British ones are pukka Sheffield made things and not cheap.

I still love my 'big' saw (stanley fat max fine cut) for general cutting as my arm is stuck in an 18-20" stroke... but for anything finer it's the pull saw every time. I'm still getting used to its 10" length though

 

[Accy cyclist]

Not me, but the former Mrs Accy bought something supposed to squash flies, many years ago. It comprised of a disc (about 3 inches in diameter) attached to a long piece of the same plastic that you loaded into a sprung gun/launcher. The idea was that you pressed it down the barrel, then pulled the trigger firing the spring powered disc at the unsuspecting fly. It was so weedy in power it took a good second to reach the fly. Which it never did as the fly always flew off before the disc thingy had even left the barrel.

 

[cyberknight]

tyre glider