Universal Plugs

I always had problems with the plugs everywhere I go. I do travel a lot around the world and simply traveling around Asia can bring you a lot of confusion. Let me show you and example;

It is just raging how many plug heads you need to carry with yourself everytime you travel to other country. Even here, In Malaysia, everytime I buy a product from China or some other imported goods, I see the face of disappointment once I unwrap my package... Why cant they just make a universal plug ?! this thought sparked an idea in my brain, to actually go and look for a universal plug which every product could be connected to it. I was very surprised that there is such product at cheap price when I checked in Kumpulan Hardware, in Kajang business district.
Here, take a look at the product :

That is indeed a complicated looking device. Well, not really! it made my life much more easier while I'm traveling around. However, after I used it for a while I found out that there is a SECRET CHAMBER inside of it!
Here a picture from my discovery:

Yes! it does actually split into half so you can use it as a China plug. I found out by pressing the two "Release" Button on the side of the plug and it just came off. I have to admit in terms of quality and reliability this product is really exceptional! The reason is, I had terrifying experience with the 2 pin plugs. Yup, you guessed it right! the SPARK! every time I see my life flash in front of my eyes when I see the spark ( yeah, I know that's quite exaggerating, but admit it, its scary). By the time I started to use this plug there are no more sparks from the plug and I can continue living a happier life while I'm on travel.

In addition to all these awesome features, there is an additional function that differentiate this product from the other products, THE MIGHTY USB PORT! yes now I can charge my laptop, my phone and my iPod at the same time, which is nice!. However, recently I was thinking about how good if I could have these USB ports all around my house too. Although I haven't implemented this plan but I have already spotted this good looking electric plug with TWO USB ports installed on it. Its like my dream comes true!
Here have a look at it:

Since I already have the universal plug and this wall plug I guess I need to forget about the different plug adaptors and just carry either one of these wherever I go. So, If you think you have the same problem with me, just head down to Kumpulan Hardware and ask our friendly staff to show you one of these awesome plugs! See Y'all !

Power Tools

I've realized that, buy simple things like brush or screwdriver way more than they buy power tools, maybe its because of the higher price, or maybe the usage. Whatever the reason is, I think every house deserves a good power tool to serve the family. Somehow investing in a good power tool could save so much in future, both in hiring professionals and buying hardware tools. Here in Kumpulan Hardware we have many many power tools, the main problem we have faced with the customer is that they don't know what power tool is appropriate for what type of work. So, I have decided to introduce some of the power tools we have here in Kumpulan Hardware and their technical specification. 

-Bosch GHG 630 DCE Heat Gun
Alright, I think Bosch heat gun is a major game changer in power tools market. with up to 2000 W of power and only 0.9 Kg is one of the best in its category. If I want to list down the functions of heat gun, I have to dedicate a whole post to it. Different types of heat gun operating at different temperatures and with different airflow can be used to strip paint, shrink heat shrink tubing, shrink film, and shrink wrap packaging, dry out damp wood, bend and weld plastic, soften adhesives, and thaw frozen pipes.YES! that's only a part of their function, so make sure to choose the right heat gun for your project, our recommendation is definitely Bosch heat gun! Always!

-Bosch GWS 750 Angle Grinder 
This monster can give an output of over 750 W and 11000 RPM non load speed, with maximum 100 mm disk diameter for only 1.8 Kg. Angle grinder could be used in cutting, grinding and polishing objects which is pretty much a DIY workshop by its own! The Bosch Angle Grinder has an ergonomic design which fits perfectly inside your hand and has an auxiliary handle which will increase the accuracy of the machine. I personally like the angle grinder because I always use it to polish my car with it and the result is much better than what the car wash service do for me.

-Bosch GKS 235 Hand-Held Circular Saw
This is the bad guy of the Bosch products! 2100 W of power input and 5000 RPM non load speed could cut through 85 mm when its held at (90°) and 65 mm with it is held at (45°). With a saw blade bore of 25 mm and blade diameter of 235 mm could lightly suggest you that there is nothing stronger than this guy! it can cut literally through anything and its one of the popular power tools among professionals. 

- Bosch GMR 1 Palm Router
Maybe the palm router is more famous among the carpenters and wood workers, they are light weight, and could be used by using only 1 hand. The palm router is used for light cutting and design and is not suitable for heavy cuts. The reason is, you never kill a tiny mosquito with an elephant gun! sometimes,some projects require a very accurate cut and you just cant simply use bigger electric saw or other types of cutter. Bosch Palm Router is 550 W powered which can go up to 33000 RPM non load speed and its only 1.5 Kg in weight. This machine is truly a powerful artist in its own category.

- Bosch GLL 3X Line Laser 

The laser liner is a replacement of traditional liners which were usually were a long string of thread or drawn on the surface manually. this product has greatly increased the efficiency of alignment specially for the projects which requires high levels of leveling accuracy. This device uses laser technology to give an accurate straight line level for various types of projects (not necessarily aligned with the horizon). this device has great mobility and uses AA batteries to function. since laser consume very little power and also the device consume very little power due to its efficiency, it long last in the long projects (but always have an extra pair of batteries, just in case).

-Bosch GST 65 Jigsaw

A jigsaw power tool is a jigsaw made up of an electric motor and a reciprocating saw blade. A jigsaw with a bevel function on the sole plate allows cutting angles of typically up to 45 degrees relative to the normal vertical stroke for cutting miter joints.Jigsaws are perfect to cut out shapes from wood, steel or aluminum but they have different penetration functions. a jigsaw with a standard size of blade could cut 65mm inside the wood, while it penetrate 12mm in aluminum and 3 mm inside steel.

So, this was a part of what I could say about some of the most famous power tools, and of course, I will post more about the power tools if I can, but for the time being I guess this would be satisfying. We do offer all these tools here in Kumpulan Hardware, so remember if you need a power tool you can head down to Kumpulan Hardware and ask our friendly staff regarding the power tools and their functions.

Painting Opportunity

Kumpulan Hardware just announced its stock clearance for the Colourland Powerflex exterior paints. I think this is an awesome opportunity to paint our house chalky walls after long time. Being in Malaysia gives us the advantage of changing the exterior wall call every once in a while.

We have already posted an article about different issues with the wall and how you can overcome them previously, just in case you missed reading it, you can refer to it here  .

Colourland paint been around since 1999 and started in Johor Bahru , they are one of the biggest suppliers of paint in Malaysia with more than 2500 dealers all around the nation. their high quality and relatively lower cost per project made them one of the top choices for contractors and casual consumers.

with this being said, we have a pile of awesome-filled beautiful paint here in Kumpulan which is ready to head down to your houses and give a new color to your lives. since it is heavily discounted,  its being sold very fast, although we didn't really advertise them. Colourland paints have wide spectrum of color, mostly bright colors, and can make the environment look more spacious and lively.

So, if you would like to add some color to your house exterior, head down to Kumpulan Hardware in Jalan Bukit and ask our friendly staff to recommend you the appropriate color and size for your maximum pleasure!

Happy painting!

Light Up Your Night!

It happened a lot to me personally, I was in the middle of doing something really important (hammering a nail or fixing something), where the power went off. Those who live in Selangor are really familiar with this phenomenon where the power goes off without prior notice and leave you in an agonizing pain.
Most of us are not prepared for power outage because we always think that this time is the last time, but well, we all know this will happen many many more times and the only remedy to this is to get ready for it!

Some of us may have torch lights or candle, but we all know how inefficient are those illumination devices. Candles, particularly are the most excruciating light source, because not only they don really light up the area, but they also create heat and attract all type of insects and weird being to the light source! in addition, since they are not so bright you'll have to light up more candles which equals to more insects and more heat , lets remember we are in Malaysia and life will not move on without at least a FAN!

Some of us have already adopted new technologies and we use rechargeable torch lights, no doubt they are really good devices specially in time of need (of course not for hammering a nail unless you want to hammer your thumb to the wall as well ) and they light up the area for relatively longer time than candles.  The main flaw with these torches are either their battery life is very short or they have design flaws.


As we were thinking how to tackles the power outage issue in our houses we remember we have a light weight and awesome-loaded device here in Kumpulan Hardware which we can introduce to you guys! our RL Emergency lights is not like any other ordinary torch light. Well, the first thing you may notice is, you can charge it, so yeah! its rechargeable (yay for that! ) and the second thing is , there are no light bulb used inside of it and all the light source comes from the 8 LED's located in front of the torch.

Here , is what we think differentiated this product from other similar products and it is another extra layer of LED on the side of the device. What we found awesome about this device is that you can actually set it on the side light source and hang it on the wall. One of the benefits of using LED is , once you fully charge the device , it can run for very long time so you don't have to invest in bulky expensive batteries ( and also battery disposal are extremely harmful for our mother nature).

Imagine you can have a long-life product which could be used in various situation where the possibilities of  burning yourself or your house down is near zero ( we do not know if you still can manage to burn your house down in other ways).

So, if you feel like being ahead of others in power outage game, head to Kumpulan Hardware and ask us about the RL Emergency Lamp. We are waiting !

Defeat the Mosquitoes!

Alright! I guess we will be posting a lot today since I've seen a lot of awesome products in our store which deserve to be mentioned here!
All of us know that we are going through the El Nino and this coupled up with the constant hot weather of Malaysia to create the hottest point in the history of mankind (I'm just exaggerating of course :D). Being hot itself is a huge problem, specially for those people who need to continuously go outside of their "Air-conditioned Green Zone" and get some jobs done. We feel what you feel and we have a global solution for it - no I'm not promoting any product right now- : try to reduce the usage of your vehicle and your carbon foot print and hopefully everything should be fine.

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So, this Mr. El Nino doesnt only affect the human brain, I mean it drives us mad sometimes, due to the hot weather, but we are not the only mad ones in this world! well, in most part of Malaysia, mosquitoes also go mad by hot weather and since we are the one to blame, they brutally bite us!
I personally hate mosquito bites because its just simply annoying , who likes mosquito bites anyway ?

Every evening when I reach home, I stock up my mosquito replant spray, put on helmet and turn into a warrior to protect my family, but they usually outnumber us and they often have more deadly weapon in compare to us!

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We have come to this realization that mosquito sprays are not as useful as it was before, maybe due to mosquito evolution (or their genius war tactic against us, I honestly dont know!). So few days ago I put our company motto into test to find a solution for my problem. as the motto goes : "All you need" I was looking for "All I need" inside the store when I saw this mosquito repellent device which did not require any liquid or medicine or bullet (or whatever other mosquito repellents require to function). You simply need to plug it into the wall and let the magic happens!

Its a very efficient device which uses very little electricity to function and it is indeed very effective to repel those mosquitoes !
So, up your game in war against the mosquitoes and defeat them once and for all!
VICTORY IS OURS!!

We've Stocked Up!!

Alright guys! We just spent few days on our screw section. It may sound funny why am I writing about the "screws" in Kumpulan Hardware, but honestly, I think screws are one the most important products we have in our stores. I mean, imagine your life without having screws in your products... everything would be glued to each other or in best case scenario, they would nail it to each other.

I personally dislike products which has been assembled by using glue, it just looks like something to irresponsibly made. Anyway, previously we had a limited stock of size 4,6,8 and 10 screws (self-drilling and self- tapping).
Well, we came to this realization that we did not pay enough attention to these respectful tough beings. So, we decided to re-arrange our whole screw section and re-plan the whole shelf. The end result was kind of beautiful (at least to us :D ) and we feel that we finally achieved "screw perfection"! Right now, we have wide variety of screws; from size 4 to size 12 we have anything which can fit in your imagination.
Remember, in most of home projects and DIY's you definitely need a screw, and not just any kind of screw! you need the RIGHT size of screw with RIGHT function based on your project. So, head down to Kumpulan Hardware and ask us about our screw collection. We sure will be happy to help you building awesome things!

A great promotion by Kumpulan Hardware!

Ok! since we started to go online, We have decided to announce our promotions online as well ! Here, in Kumpulan Hardware, we have wide variety of products -literally anything you can think of!- and we were thinking, why not we make a promotion for our awesome looking Grade B doors. Its an 8 panel door with no varnish and paint so you have the liberty to customize your door whatever way you wish to! However, we thought a door is totally useless without a lock and handle. So, we have included a very good quality (and of course,good looking) lock-set from Rinocon company. Here, a sample of Rinocon lock-set if you wish to see how your future lock-set is going to look like: 
 

Looks cool right ? So, we have decided to give this lock away for every Grade B door purchase FOR FREE! no, we are not gone mad, we just value our customer needs and believe in making solutions for them anyhow we can. So, I guess by now you have been irritated by my long story about this door, well, sorry about that! here is a picture of our grade B door:

So, this is our hero in this promotion, the great grade B door! we have set the price on RM250 per piece with no varnish and paint, the only thing limits you is your creativity! By the way! we have a very special Mystery Gift with every purchase of our promotioned doors. It will not be revealed until you make it here and ask us to show it to you. So, hurry up ! we have limited stock and we are already selling it fast! make your way to Kumpulan Hardware in Jalan Bukit, Kajang! See ya!