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AndyT wrote:I bet you'll remember her with gratitude every time you use it.
AJB Temple wrote:Well, fond memories and she was clearly a sensible woman.
I've had that saw (and the trolley for it) for a few years. It's done thousands of cuts, I am on my third blade, and it has never missed a beat. Spot on accurate from day one, and stayed that way even when I knocked the trolley and saw over with a digger.
Extraction is nigh on useless as you will discover (the air path is convoluted, which doesn't help, but in my experience of both this saw and a smaller Festool, the only thing that is better about the Festool is that the tilt mechanism is much easier to use. You've made a good purchase there.
AJB Temple wrote:PS. Tools are never for "yourself". This is a bad mistake to make. Tools are essential equipment, bought only out of necessity and always used for the good of the family and to avoid wasting family cash on tradesmen, cads and charlatans.
AJB Temple wrote:PS. Tools are never for "yourself". This is a bad mistake to make. Tools are essential equipment, bought only out of necessity and always used for the good of the family and to avoid wasting family cash on tradesmen, cads and charlatans.
AJB Temple wrote:Steve has a good point about the trenching facility. I'd forgotten that. There is not enough adjustment in the blade depth limiter to allow really shallow trench cuts ...
AJB Temple wrote:The annoying thing Steve, I find, using the trencher, is that if you want to do shallow cuts, and switch between that and full cuts, you need to remove the depth stop screw. And it has a spring fitted (for obvious reasons) so it is a faff to take in and out. What I need to do is work out a quick release depth stop that has micro adjustment.
HappyHacker wrote:I have one and it's a great saw but I also have a slider that is about 3-4 mm out on the slide with the blade not parallel with the slide. It has not been abused and there have been a few reports of similar problems from new on the Bosch Owners Group forum in the states. Unfortunately I did not realise until it was out of warrantee as I had used it for cutting large sections but not using the slider for any work that required any level of accuracy.
AJB Temple wrote:Steve has a good point about the trenching facility. I'd forgotten that. There is not enough adjustment in the blade depth limiter to allow really shallow trench cuts, and to use the centre of the blade (to avoid curvature at the end of the cut) you need to find a way of holding the workpiece well out from the fence. So it requires fiddling about with to trench cut tenons for example. I keep meaning to make a modification to mine.
AJB Temple wrote:PS, the standard Bosch blade is very good. I only bought extras for flexibility when I send one away for sharpening.
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