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Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - markspark - 20-05-2015
Hi all, I have just diversified myself as I fancied a change after sparkying for 25+ years, I am now an apprentice kitchen fitter
I'm looking for tips and advise and in return I can give tips and advice on electrics.
I have completed 2 kitchens so far, one was a small basic customer supplied and the second was a howdens supplied by me, I'm just finishing the howdens one.
Oh another reason I chose kitchen fitting, I love tools, kitchen fitters have the best tools, going to pick up a festool mitre saw this morning.
Decent router next
RE: Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - andy5405 - 20-05-2015
Is this Stretch posting using an alias?
RE: Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - PREM - 20-05-2015
Welcome Mark
Wow the first tool you get is the most expensive mitre saw there is
Our fearless leader Stretch is a spark or was, or was the drummer in the Sparks, i forget
Any festool chat is welcome here
RE: Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - Colour Republic - 20-05-2015
Most fitters spend years saving up for the Kapex. Maybe you should stay as a sparks, the money appears better!!!
Welcome to the forum by the way
RE: Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - markspark - 20-05-2015
(20-05-2015, 07:18 AM)andy5405 Wrote: Is this Stretch posting using an alias?ok is stretch a tool tart, good lad
(20-05-2015, 08:04 AM)PREM Wrote: Welcome Markive learnt over the years buy the best buy once, i cant blame the tools then
Wow the first tool you get is the most expensive mitre saw there is
Our fearless leader Stretch is a spark or was, or was the drummer in the Sparks, i forget
Any festool chat is welcome here
thanks for the welcome
(20-05-2015, 08:21 AM)Colour Republic Wrote: Most fitters spend years saving up for the Kapex. Maybe you should stay as a sparks, the money appears better!!!thanks for the welcome, still sparkying just fancy something else and of course i get the sparky work aswell.
Welcome to the forum by the way
another big one for me is that i deal direct with the customer for the electrics and not through the builder which never seems to work to well
ok after doing a bit of reading through the forum, you have a festool section
ive ordered the dust extractor and the 120, couldnt afford the stand at the moment
got my supplier from the forum N&B power tool supplies, told simon at the suppliers i got his company from the forum, hope this was ok
RE: Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - chippy1970 - 20-05-2015
Welcome
n & b are very good got my kapex set from them a while back.
RE: Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - andy5405 - 20-05-2015
(20-05-2015, 11:41 AM)markspark Wrote:(20-05-2015, 07:18 AM)andy5405 Wrote: Is this Stretch posting using an alias?ok is stretch a tool tart, good lad
He's the antithesis of a tool tart and has an almost pathological dislike of all things Festool but he is a bit of a drum tart! He is however a sparks who became a kitchen fitter and is also "leader" of the motley crew that makes up KFF.
RE: Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - Stretch - 20-05-2015
(20-05-2015, 01:37 PM)andy5405 Wrote: He's the antithesis of a tool tart and has an almost pathological dislike of all things Festool but he is a bit of a drum tart! He is however a sparks who became a kitchen fitter and is also "leader" of the motley crew that makes up KFF.
I think that just about sums me up!!
Yes Mark, I was like you and started my qualified life as a sparky in 1987. By 1999 I was completely pissed off with it and by chance I had the opportunity to fit the odd kitchen for a few family and friends and decided it would be a better career.
I didn't spunk all my dosh on expensive kit initially and just bought stuff that would get me by until I could afford to buy better.
Fortunately, I now own one of the best railsaws on the market, nay, the world, the Mafell KSP55 which pisses all over its Festool equivalent. If you buy the Festool one you'll live to regret it but having said that the rest of the stuff they do is pretty good even if it is a bit overpriced for what it is.
Just remember lads that if I hadn't made that decision in 1999 to become a kitchen fitter then this forum may never have existed and, without KFF, the only use I can possibly imagine for the internet is to download porn. So be thankful for that and think wisely before you mock me for not owning any Festool kit!
RE: Hi I'm a new fitter old sparky - markspark - 22-05-2015
Good that saw, does what it says on the tin