as a tradesman i recommend you stay the hell away from anything made by ozito

Looks like a toy to me,looking at the gauge you would get the pressure ,but it would take a week to pump your kite up,very low volume.

Best thing I found (and I got a bravo pump which is a piece of junk) is a Colman 6v pump which I rewired to bigger gauge cable ,beefed up the switch up and binned the 6v battery and wired up a lead with a 12v 12 ah battery.this thing will blow up a 17m contra(we know how big those leading edges are) in about a minute.it is a low pressure high volume pump ,you need to pump up the last 20 pumps or so by hand to get enough pressure. Changing it from 6v to 12 v effectively doubled to speed of the fan ,this thing screams and the battery lasts months cos it runs under 1min ,will pump up a 12 in aout 30 secs.

Jay.

total waste of time unless youve got a spare hour to spend on inflation,grabbed a similar one from a shop a few years ago to try and it was hopeless,cant beat a bit of manual labour.

lotofwind said...

stamp said...

as a tradesman i recommend you stay the hell away from anything made by ozito

I would have agreed with that stamp,but
one of the guys I work with bought the ozito heavy duty hammer drill,

Its been going strong for a year now , worked the thing really hard drilling 25mm holes through concrete slabs , useing the hammer to chase walls ect,

Its had a really hard life and its going strong.
Was only $80 and is standing up to our $1200 Makita.

Maybe we have just been lucky, time will tell.
Not usually a fan of cheap tools,you get what you pay for.
But have been impressed with the grunt and durability of this one.

It will f@ck up tomorrow now that I have given it a good rave.

I will have to back up the ozito hammer drill they go hard, i have 2 work mates that use them flat out for 2 years and no sign of dieing anytime soon .

Fair call, just saw it in bunnings today and thought it might be worth a try....guess not.

All my power tools are the very cheapest I can buy (SCA, Ozito, GMC, etc) and they are all fit for purpose. Not the lightest or most powerful, but they get the job done and some are 7 or 8 years old and still going strong.

If I was a tradie it would be a different story tho.

pumping up your kite is a good upper body warm up before your sesh.

I have one of those. It was good for bike tyres and small toys only until the charger fell into that big box of electric chargers we all end up with and you don't know which goes with what. It's a low volume pump. You need a two stage pump for kites.

When my Makita hammer drill broke down they wanted 60 bucks up front to quote the repair and couldn't look at it for 4 weeks. So grabbed an Ozito for $69 from the hardware which comes with 2 year replacement guarantee. Does say "not for trade use" on the box , so when I got it replaced after 18 months when the dude asked me if it was trade use I just said "no" Despite coming straight from work as a plumber , work boots, filthy dirty the whole look. He's hardly gonna call me a liar.!!
Use it nearly every day, it rocks!!

bennie said...

pumping up your kite is a good upper body warm up before your sesh.

if you put your legs into it a bit it's a good whole body warm-up.

The chuck ends up giving out after about three years Motor still goes hard though

Gfresh said...

lotofwind said...

stamp said...

as a tradesman i recommend you stay the hell away from anything made by ozito

I would have agreed with that stamp,but
one of the guys I work with bought the ozito heavy duty hammer drill,

Its been going strong for a year now , worked the thing really hard drilling 25mm holes through concrete slabs , useing the hammer to chase walls ect,

Its had a really hard life and its going strong.
Was only $80 and is standing up to our $1200 Makita.

Maybe we have just been lucky, time will tell.
Not usually a fan of cheap tools,you get what you pay for.
But have been impressed with the grunt and durability of this one.

It will f@ck up tomorrow now that I have given it a good rave.

I will have to back up the ozito hammer drill they go hard, i have 2 work mates that use them flat out for 2 years and no sign of dieing anytime soon .

Or how about a cheapo air compressor to fit behind the seat? Plug it in at home to charge it ,watch the faces of envy as the kite inflates in 5 seconds!

... I was sick of my pumps sh!tting itself so got one of those 12V Bravo kitepumps and is just about one of the best things I ever got. Highly recommended. Use one and you'll see for yourself how cool it is!