khariV

I just saw his covered in toolguyd. It looks awesome and is definitely on my list now.

This is a tool for the zombie apocalypse. There is no way you can use a head chopper to plant small seedlings and remove weeds. It's for chopping brains, end of story.

The cynical part of me says that this is better because it's a festool. I still bought one, so it's not a criticism and I can't back it up with facts, but there it is. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

move to murica?

Bah - why did I have to see this. I guess I'm going green after all.

Haha sure. If it has all of the parts, I'll take it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

$5? Seriously? I'd be down for that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This. I'd just end up going around my house putting holes in everything because I could.

I've been eyeballing grinders today to trim roofing nails that are sticking through the decking when I'm up there putting in the baffles underneath the insulation. I'm pretty sure though this would be beyond overkill and that I should just stick with a Fuel one and leave this one to someone that actually will use the power.

I'm pretty sure that I saw a couple of one key sawzalls on the yellow tag rack yesterday. I'll have to swing by again but I want to say that they were down to like 179. If I hadn't just bought a Fuel last BF, I'd have picked one up, but I certainly don't need two.

I like the new website but there's no longer a link to the tool of the day. Luckily, the old URL still points to it. I clicked and what did I find? Foot chain mail!!!!! https://www.kctoolco.com/ox-head-ox-445-0000-foot-and-shin-guard/ i have no idea why, but I want one!

I'd be more concerned with struggling to get through a stud. My 2704 chews through stacked 2x4s without slowing down. In theory, if it's a year old, any enamel should have burned off by now, but I suppose it is possible that some sawdust or crud got inside of the motor. Maybe try doing a quick torture test to see how it stands up and make a decision from there.

What's the worst that could happen? As long as you're wearing eye protection, you're really just looking at a router bit embedded in a fleshy part. You get a scar and a good story - psh. Unless of course it's an important fleshy part, in which case you're screwed.

Well, crap. I missed out on this one. Oh well.

Ran across this today in my wanderings of the interwebs. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ryobi-ONE-Palm-Router-P600G/206887046 Another cordless router! $49 is dirt cheap for a bare tool cordless trim router. Interesting. Now that Ridgid has an 18v router and Ryobi has one, can a red one be far behind?

I think that there's an adapter you can use with the Dewalt OMT to let it use any brand blade, though I'd have to dig mine out to see if such a thing actually exists or if I'm just making $hit up. Cutting a notch into a blade isn't my thing. I'd just be too concerned that I would weaken the structure or somehow deform the attachment plate on something that's vibrating really, really fast.

I keep getting logged out whenever I go into a forum from the main page. Has as something changed? Please change it back. This is via the web interface that it's happening. Tapatalk seems to work ok as far as staying logged in. New posts still don't show until you get into the specific forum, but that's not new.

Oooohh.... I just found that there's a new Stihl sheriff in town. The BR700! https://www.stihlusa.com/products/blowers-and-shredder-vacs/professional-blowers/br700/ 912 cfm of pure awesomeness!

For those that need a Metabo battery to go with it, there's a hammer drill kit up for 139 as well. http://www.cpooutlets.com/metabo-602103520-sb18-lt-5-2-18v-cordless-lithium-ion-1-2-in--hammer-drill-kit/mtbn602103520,default,pd.html?start=23&cgid=clearance

Negative ghost rider.

Didn't someone somewhere say that this saw had a fair amount of twist / drift over the full length of the cut? I'd love to get my hands on one to see if it does indeed cut fully square across the full slide range before I plunk down the $$$.

Active noise cancellation is really only useful against low frequency, continuous / repetitive noise. I've used these on airplanes and they do a pretty good job of filtering out the engine drone. The way they work is by matching the incoming sound with an inverse sound wave. The result is a loud-ish whoosing noise that's basically white noise. It doesn't eliminate the sound, but it masks it so that it's less annoying. That having been said, you can still get a headache from high pressure / volume white noise over extended periods of time. The best hearing protection you can buy (unless you're part of the 1% that is) as far as filtering all frequencies is 34 dB rated (which reduces noise levels by 34 decibels, of course). This is pretty significant and sufficient for shooting or loud machine noises. The difference that we're talking about here however is in the pressure of the source noise. 100 dB reduced to 66 dB results in sound getting to your ears roughly the same as a vacuum cleaner - tolerable but not really ideal. On the other hand, 75 dB reduced to 40 dB results in a sound level roughly equivalent to a quiet room. The decibel scale is logarithmic and 40 dB is only 1/8 as loud as 75 dB.

I never use power tools or OPE without hearing protection. However, a 100 db tool is several orders of magnitude louder than a 75 db tool. In fact, a 32 db rated pair of hearing protectors, the best you can buy, will only lower the 100 down to 70, thereby making it just about as loud as the other WITHOUT hp. I'm thinking you'd have to double up so as not to kill your hearing and wearing ear plugs AND ear muffs is a bit over the top, imo.

I've known of whirlwind for a while. It looks like really great tech but he's been trying to license it for years now and no one is biting. My guess is that the big players operate on such thin margins that they'd rather spend the $$$ on their own R&D than have an ongoing licensing cost (capex vs oppex for those on the business end of finance). Its to a real shame because it looks like A great idea. I just wish someone would buy it up and package it as an add on so you don't have to spend 3 grand on a sawstop to be safe.

My experience has been that CPO has always been a rock solid company to deal with after the purchase. They've bent over backwards to make things right whenever I've had a problem with a purchase. Paying for shipping on heavy a$$ tools that are technically out of the free exchange period by several weeks and no questions asked exchanges to make things right. You can also occasionally find amazing promo combos when manufacturer and CPO sales align. That having been said, I'm not sure that their pre-sales organization is quite up to the same standards as their service arm. I've run afoul of out of stock and cancelled orders once or twice. While they refunded my money, I've occasionally had a hard time pinning them down on items when the tools are back ordered.