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Hey there once again. My daytime job finds me at my buddy's 'cabinet shop' where no actual woodworking is done. We're a cabinet supplier with a little warehouse space to hold contractors' and clients' orders. We can order cabinets either built or flat pack unassembled. Over the last couple years working there I've asked a few contractors how much different the pricing would be if they got their cabinets unassembled instead of assembled...and most of them said they'd save about 50%. 100% of our contractors order them built btw. Building them is crazy easy but everybody opts to pay thousands more to have us put their cabinets together. A wall cabinet takes about 10 min to assemble and an average base about 15 min. We just delivered 20k worth of kitchen and bathroom cabinets to my other buddy's contract built house; it was about 32 cabinets altogether. If we were to have put together these same cabinets it would've taken us about a full day. So you see where I'm getting to here? Why don't I advertise myself to contractors as the guy who's been building their cabinets for the last two years and see if they're willing to order unassembled, save a ton of money and pay me maybe half of what extra they would've spent? Sounds like a win win huh? So my question is...what issues aren't I seeing yet with my idea? My contractor buddy who's helping me work on developing this says he doesn't think contractors will want to get into the minutia of adding a different step to the process they've already settled into...building houses the way they do. The way he put it is that contractors want to know one 'cabinet guy' who gets it all done from design to supply to installation. Almost all the contractors we deliver to also use our company's two installers, and my idea would make things a little bumpier for them. I'm sure lots of contractors in my city of 330k population have their own installers but my contractor buddy says that good installers are few and far in between. Of course, all I see is a big chunk of change to be made, for both me and the contractors, and I think they'll be interested in hearing about my idea. Any thoughts? Thanks as always.

The product design is confusing in some regards. The saw seems to lack features that the non commercial has. The cut line indicator is not a led like the non commercial model. It is just plastic colored in Ego green. The blade tensioning requires a tool while the non commercial does not require a tool. There is no onboard tool storage. The joint where the telescoping part is seems to have a good amount of movement up and down even in the shortest position. Not something I would expect or want in a tool classified as “commercial”. I would have liked to have seen much less play in the joints. One thing that surprised me is in addition the telescoping feature, it comes with an extension (similar to the multihead). You pull off the front end and add the extension. This gives you even more length because you can use the extension and the telescoping feature at the same time. I read you can use up to two extensions. Maybe you can buy more extensions separately. I probably wouldn’t myself. The telescoping part extended all the way out plus the extension is a good 6 ft extra in length. At that point the tool would be maybe 12 to 14 feet. It is already unwieldy at 14 feet and to add another 3 feet just makes it that much more. I guess it is a nice option if needed. When I used the saw for the first time yesterday, I noticed it got up to full chain speed really fast and cut really nice. The power is what I would expect in a commercial tool at least from my first impressions. The length in the shortest configuration is a bit more than the original Ego multihead pole saw. The motor is located near the chain and I didn’t feel like it added that much weight to the end if any. I noticed near the battery and trigger is a fan. Not sure why it has s fan heart babies at the moving component are on the opposite end of the tool. Maybe it is used to cool down the electronics. One thing it also lacks that the other commercial tools got is a 3 speed selector, Bluetooth (I will have to check on this but no evidence on Bluetooth), and an on tool battery display. I probably wouldn’t use the speed selector if it had it but the battery display would be nice especially since the saw can be so unwieldy when in longer configurations. The front handle is not the same design as the other commercial tools. It seems a bit possibly right handed favored. Also the trigger handle is a different design too. I don’t mind the trigger handle. I need to figure out a comfortable position on the front handle when I use it more. I would have preferred the other style of handle the other commercial tools came with.

I got in recently the Ego commercial telescoping pole saw.

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Welcome to the forum and the Crew.

Agree or AI. If it was true, that would be a hell of a line.

How many cars do you have? You have some of the best cars around, amazing. While all the cars you have shown have been awesome, this one is my favorite, i would love to own something like this. I can't believe how clean it is. I don't care what anyone says, this is back in the day when a car was a car and had design and class. Yes, I like the cars nowadays with the comfort and tech, but they look the same. Maybe it's just me remembering my childhood, not like we had a car like this but I remember these cars. I love the phone in this thing also.

Very cool find but not sure who makes them.

Are these from their April fools? The batteries look suspiciously big.

This topic shows my new-to-me gorgeous 1975 Continental Mark IV.

Chucks on these drills are junk struggled with the first one for a year bought the second one same thing drills fall right out .bought a regular jacobs chuck and installed it now seem to have what I should have had from the factory

Here is a photo Model number is : AR32

The model number is EAC18120 for 120V AC to 18V DC and EAC18230 for 230V AC to 18V DC. Made in Germany / Czech Rep. It works with Greenlee tools and Makita's brushed cordless tools (not with the brushless tools though)

Hello everyone, this is my first time joining this community and I hope to have more discussions and exchanges!

Hi all, nice to e-meet. Looks like I got the newest member badge as i write We're an engineering workshop from Pukekohe in New Zealand. Its a small town in the North Island just on the outskirts of Auckland. We work on some really cool projects for the local community and we sell Engineering and Automotive supplies from the shop front as well as our website. I'd like to participate and add value to the community and just wonder how I do that as a new member?

I found these heavy duty masonry bits in an old Milwaukee hammer drill case. The logo stamp is "OP" (see pic). Anybody know what brand that is? More importantly, what brand drill will they fit in? The shank diameter is 0.680" and is smooth, round, no flats.

Plus they have a 40V (80V) pressure washer now and a robotic mower

These three bikes are cordless 40V

I have a Bosch GST 135 BCE Professional jigsaw. The SDS Clamping Lever is jammed and won't release the jigsaw blade. I have opened up the casing, but on inspection can't determine the cause of the jam. Has anyone experienced this and if so how did you repair the issue. Thanks Alex

It really depends on what you are looking for, what you will be using it for (Home or work), and the price of each.

I want to buy a tool kit with ratchet and I’m stuck between this two models: Makita E-06616 and Yato YT-12681https://toya24.pl/pol_pl_ZESTAW-NARZEDZIOWY-1-2-94CZ-L-10006271_1.jpg https://image.ceneostatic.pl/data/products/108359508/i-makita-120-czesciowy-zestaw-narzedzi-e06616.jpg

ZT480EX shows 100% charge, runs fine but mower blade shut down after 5 seconds. Mower is over 1 year old but brand new, only .2 hours mostly my learning to drive it. Disconnected seat switch, mower blades would not engage so I assume that's okay. Checked battery voltage at charge port... 51 volts with key and lights on. Even though it's new, it has probably been sitting for a year although he did keep it charged. Would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.

I'm working with a local artist to develop an idea I've had over the last year. Have you ever seen what's known as a photo collage? It's where hundreds of small pictures are put together, side by side in rows and columns so that they make a larger picture when viewed as a whole. Those photos are always made by software. We'll I'm trying to do basically the same thing except with small wood blocks. The idea is that I'm to make a lot of different small wood squares, I'll say instead of blocks, and the artist puts them together to make a larger picture. The smaller the block the higher resolution the final image will be, just like the pixels on your tv. So, with all this in mind, my goal is to find wood with unique color patterns. After thinking on it for a long time I'm sure just regularly grained wood would be suitable for this new process, and so I've just been sitting on this idea for a minute, until I went to the lumber yard for the first time after having this idea and found cedar! As it turns out cedar can have very unusual color patterns when it's milled down as compared to other wood species. So now my idea is a little more developed, thank heavens. So now I've got a couple questions. I see now how finding wood species with a sharp contrast in color between the sap and hardwoods would work well in my process. Is there any other species out there that has such sharp contrast between the sap and heart wood like cedar? Walnut, maybe, is the only other that comes to mind. Second question...how many ways are there to change the color of cedar. Staining, applying aging solutions are the only two ways I know of, and have very little experience with either, so I don't know what products are out there. So the idea is I want to be able to produce as many variations of color using cedar as possible. What ways are there to color cedar that I haven't thought of yet? Many thanks!

The possibilities with this.