DewaltLandlord

I can help you there. It goes under the saw and serves as the bracket that holds the guides under the saw. This is a picture from under the saw.

Has anyone had luck just returning it to the store it was bought, like Home Depot?

I Don't know which cells they are using, I have one 1 3AH battery, it came with my orbital sander. Have to say I generally prefer the 2AH batteries. I find them significantly lighter, and when I need additional battery life, Ie for a saw za or a circular saw, I go with the 5AH batteries.

Those are great suggestions. especially using one with the foam. thank you. I will take a look on Ebay. I looked on Amazon and didn't see the one for the framing gun, but didn't even think about Ebay. as far as a bag goes, I don't use the guns every day, I kinda want the hard side cases to protect the nailers from getting wet/dirty and from getting knocked around. The siding nailer I have in a Milwaukee Packout, but the framing nailer is too big to fit in even the the big Packout box.

I just bought the 21 deg air framing gun. It came from HD with no case. Does anyone know if Dewalt makes or ever made cases for this gun? And if so, does anyone know where you could buy one? (I have the same question for a coiled siding nailer). Thanks

Great feedback, I assume you are recommending it? I am of the mindset it would be nice to have one for just that, trimming siding, small plunge cuts thru a board or two. Small repairs, maybe a patch, or some trim. Plunge cuts that are too small for a regular circular saw, but where you cant start a cut on a jig saw, and a multi tool might not be enough. Do you think it fits this space? I have been leaning towards getting one.

ITs in stock right now at the Home Depot stores in DFW.

No a 4 AH 60V battery would be able to do more work than a 4AH 40V battery because Power is a function of the square of the voltage. P=(V^2)/R, and Work is the integral of power delivered over time. So equal AH batteries, hence all else being equal, higher voltages will last longer/do more work than lower voltages.

All things being equal a 60v tool would have a longer run time than a 40v tool.

Yeah, I was talking about what way I would go today, ie I Would only buy either felxvolt or 20v tools. Its tough luck to have bought into the 40V and then Dewalt comes back with the Flexvolt.

I have been wondering the same thing, why wouldn't you just go with the 60V versions of the blowers/weed whackers, lawn mowers etc?

SBD is building a new plant in the DFW area, I suspect once they get the Craftsman line launched, and the new plant opens, that we might see some more resources go to Dewalt. I am with you, SBD seems to have noticeably slowed down their innovation of new tools for Dewalt over the last year or so. It even seems like they are running a LOT fewer specials on Home Depot and Lowes. Outside of the basic intro 2/5/7/9 piece tool combos along with the "atomic" intro. Kinda disappointed to be honest.

The voltage would be measured at the tool, I doubt the resistance between two chain saws would be all that much. the internal resistance to the battery wouldnt have much impact because you are delivering double the voltage hence square of the power. There would be very little to no voltage drop within the battery, because there just isn't going to be much resistance between cells, regardless of rather they are in series or not. The mount of work you care about would be at the output of the tool, not within the battery. (BTW, it would take more resistance to wire up something in parallel vs something in series all things being equal.)

Not to be pedantic, but all things being equal voltage does correlate to power. P = IV = I^2*R = V^2/R Where: P=Power I= Current V= Voltage R= Resistance Assuming the resistance stays about the same between the 40V and 60V units, P(60)=(60^2)/R P(40)=(40^2)/R P(60)/P(40)= [(60^2)/R]/[(40^2)/R]=3,600/1,600= or 2.25x's as much power in a 60V vs a 40V, assuming all else is equal. (someone correct me if the rust on my old engineering degree has screwed something up. But I think this is correct) Now if we want to identify work done, it would be: W= P*t W=Work P= Power t=time Personally I like the backwards compatibility of the flexvolt and plan on sticking with either 20v or 60V tools.

BTW< I strongly disagree that they are useless aluminum corners. Those corners protect the case, AND they are fantastic to help you pick up and slide the boxes when loading and unloading