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Post by arvid on May 9, 2017 21:53:18 GMT -5
I wish a few more manufacturers would add nice big folding rafter hooks to their saws. Bosch have been doing it for some time now: my 10 year old 36v circular & recipro have them, as do their new cordless/corded 18v/240v recipro "twins". It used to be - & possibly still is - a feature of American construction oriented power tools. It adds yet another layer of safety & utility to the tool. Clambering around the top plate of a new build is awkward & unsafe enough as a task, without the added complication of power cords added to the equation. This is the key to these new brushless battery tools' convenience. The angle adjustable short guiderail is yet another. To be able to "hook up" or hang your tool between cuts or when clambering through trusses turns what would be a very useful tool into a great, even essential one! No tool appreciates being inadvertently dropped 2400mm (8') off a top plate onto the slab below! Saws in particular are unlikely to survive that sort of treatment, & the only other alternative - tying the saw up by the power cord - isn't that great a solution, and impossible with the cordless alternative. With the shift to cordless tools in the workplace, the need for rafter hooks for saws is approaching the "essential". With a saw as expensive as the Mafell will probably be, and as "delicate" or "fragile" as any saw fitted with a short, retractable alloy guiderail is likely to be, then a well-designed hook becomes all but indispensible! I couldn't agree more.
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Post by skinee on May 24, 2017 11:43:50 GMT -5
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Post by henrun on May 24, 2017 13:51:35 GMT -5
Ooops, Skinee beat me to it... (Posted same links as previous post - deleted) The KSS 50 looks like just the ticket for me. I am doing a large deck build and the KSS40 is doing a great job but it does work at full capacity quite often and that extra cm DOC would have been brilliant. The 5,5Ah batteries are packing a lot of power for sure! Today I was ripping 34mm treated wood on the Bosch 3000mm FSN rail - that depth on cut with the KSS 40 on the FSN rail is pretty much full capacity. I would not say the saw was sailing through the cut - but it did surprisingly well with the rip blade. With a steady pace it didn't struggle much. The rips in 22mm wood was as fast as you can push the saw. I was going to see how many meters of rip I could get out of a charge but managed to rip through all 21 meters of 34mm on one charge on the 5,5Ah battery, then rip some 22mm cladding and then kept on cutting down wood to length until it was time to pack up and go home. I have three 5,5Ah batteries on site but I haven't been able to go through one faster than I can charge one yet. It will be very interesting to see the new saws in action.
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Post by kraftt on May 24, 2017 14:02:04 GMT -5
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Post by kraftt on May 24, 2017 14:14:06 GMT -5
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Post by kraftt on May 24, 2017 21:43:50 GMT -5
Lets have a round of applause folks for the 'Harbor Freight' of corporate event soft jazz bands - The Ellingtones: I highly recommend their breathtaking cover of Walking on Sunshine, guaranteed not to offend anyone except those who actually like music.
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Post by calidecks on May 25, 2017 0:27:48 GMT -5
Damn that 50 sure is Purdy! Damn right I'm getting one.
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Post by wrightwoodwork on May 25, 2017 7:20:29 GMT -5
Just seen prices doesn't look too silly for mafell the kss50 is 1025 euros on promotion or 745 for the naked version. The mt55 bi is at €846
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Post by kraftt on May 25, 2017 8:09:51 GMT -5
Did Bosch get also get a cordless GKT55 for their battery system?
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Post by heiko on May 25, 2017 8:32:31 GMT -5
I think Bosch don't get it but Metabo!
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Post by skinee on May 26, 2017 4:13:02 GMT -5
Just seen prices doesn't look too silly for mafell the kss50 is 1025 euros on promotion or 745 for the naked version. The mt55 bi is at €846 where is that Aaron,can you say which dealer?
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Post by shokunin on May 26, 2017 4:55:18 GMT -5
Just seen prices doesn't look too silly for mafell the kss50 is 1025 euros on promotion or 745 for the naked version. The mt55 bi is at €846 Are those prices with or without tax?
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Post by wrightwoodwork on May 26, 2017 7:25:37 GMT -5
Tax to be added from what I can make out. Also spoke to the UK distributor and they are coming into the UK around the end of June
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Post by wrightwoodwork on May 26, 2017 7:28:56 GMT -5
Just seen prices doesn't look too silly for mafell the kss50 is 1025 euros on promotion or 745 for the naked version. The mt55 bi is at €846 where is that Aaron,can you say which dealer? That's in Germany on the mafell app as a promotion
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Post by bicycleclip on May 26, 2017 9:02:25 GMT -5
NB: If you're VAT registered in the UK, you can buy from Dictum in Germany and they do not apply the VAT at source, as they operate under the harmonised VAT scheme (at least its called something like that).
It makes no difference to you if you are the standard VAT scheme, but if you are on flat rate scheme it can give you a 20% 'reduction' which is a benefit as long as the 20% is more than Dictum's shipping charges.
I've only investigated this with Dictum, but I'm sure it applies to other EU vendors as well. The alternative if you are on the flat rate scheme is to spend more that £2K and claim it back as a capital asset. Spending more than £2K isn't too difficult with Mafell goods..
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