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  1. #1
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    Default Metabo - Grows on trees over here!

    A while back - I haven't been a member for very long - I posted a reply to a Metabo battery drill thread with a pic of my babies. Babies in this case, refers to my approx. 10 metabo battery drills. Of course there were comments such as 'just how many hands do you have?', and 'you bastard!'. The answer to these comments is simple:
    • I have 2 hands
    • I am a bastard
    I've had a look in the Aussi ebay and Metabo is as rare as hen's teeth. Here in Germany, the same search will yield more hits that you can poke a stick at - and if you're looking for a battery drill, the prices are such that you can buy around...well 10 of 'em.

    The following example:
    I picked up this BEAT 112/2 R+L on ebay.de (de = deutschland = Germany) for 22 Euro. The postage was another 3.90. Not only was it in a lovely hard carry box, but it came with an ICS 10 Quick Charger. These babies will can charge 12 V in 10 minutes as well as increase the life of a battery from 1,500 charges to 3,000.

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    So anyway, the guy says the battery is crap and you can see in the pic that the thing's covered in building site paint and plaster. Nobody's really interested so I whack in a bid over my DSL 6000 broadband connection seconds before the closing bell and.... voila! Congratulations Damien - you are an ebay god!
    A few days later, the package arrives and I take her down to the workshop in the basement to introduce her into the herd. She's a little nervous so I gently remove her from the box and stroke the trigger just the way she likes it...
    The response is hard and fast - too fast.
    Damn thing won't change back into first gear. Great! I love a challange...

    Step 1.
    Pull her down into her components. This includes taking the 2-speed gear box down. Lots of parts but different sized cog axels so you can't really go wrong putting it back together...

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    Step 2.
    Clean up the plastic. TIP: Do not use the same brillo pad your wife used for the pots and pans. Use an old one, or replace the one you've just used with a new one. One should generally avoid using the kitchen sink if the wife is anywhere around...

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    Step 3.
    Clean all the old grease off all the internal parts.

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    Step 4.
    Add new grease and put it all back together. Test functions. Fondle drill a lot.

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    And there you have it. Now I don't have to change drill bits. I just take the drill with the right size and off I go. Now that I've actually written this all out, I think I might have to seek some professional help...


    Damien
    Is it wrong to be in love with a sawbench?

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    G'day Damienhazo,

    You are a lucky bloke living in the mother contry of Metabo - one of the best brands for my 2cents. Used to have a Metabo sander but it passed away about a year ago.

    Having a drill bit per drill is why people might call you a lucky bugger, I'd have to wonder if there's something more going on between you and your drills.

    And a Qld boy too, good onya mate.
    I make things, I just take a long time.

    www.brandhouse.net.au

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waldo
    Used to have a Metabo sander but it passed away about a year ago.
    If you haven't buried her, let me know the model number and I'll send you the schematics. I might be able to bring down the part when I'm in Oz in July...

    Damien
    Is it wrong to be in love with a sawbench?

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    G'day Damien,

    Thanks for the offer, but sadly it's gone to tool heaven.

    I took it to a Metabo supplier who wanted to sting me for $250 to fix it, plus $20 for the quote which they neglected to tell me about. So I told the shove the $20 which they insisted I still pay for even though the value of the repair was greater than the replacement cost.

    So after a big blue in the shop, I walked out minus sander and them taking a $20 loss on the quote which I refused to pay for.
    I make things, I just take a long time.

    www.brandhouse.net.au

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    I notice that no one has recently called you a bastard Damien... so I will

    BASTARD!!!

    Metebo... if I could have afforded to by all my new tools in the Matebo brand I wouldnt have hessitated... bloody brilliant machinery

    sigh... says he who bought his one and only peice of Metebo gear some 15 or so years ago... sigh... but a bloody bobby dazzler of a circular saw it is by gar!! friggin amazing! cuts through anything I throw at her no probs no worries easy as... just aim hit the trigger pushing the little infuriating safety button in while your at it and ssssssssssizzle done

    A side note on this machine I had thought often over that time of replacing the blade... specially after cutting some seriously hard Jarrah one time... but couldnt bring myself to do it (dont tell them about loosing the ruddy spanner Shane!!) so it was in 1990 (or thereabouts) that I bought the machine in Carnarvon that had been sitting on the shelf at Mitre 10 for some 10 years unwanted unloved and ignored (thank you Mr Cahill of Mitre 10 for the discount cause no one wanted the unknown circular saw so it sat and collected dust for several years while you lost the box and instructions until I saw it and offered to relieve you of it for an increadibly low price which cause you couldnt sell it you accepted country people can be sooooo ignorant sometimes :eek: says he who was born bred and still lives in the country ) Anyway I finally moved and with the move met a new neighbor who gods be blessed had the same saw!! thankfully he hadnt lost his spanner so she had a blade change her first in 2003... Im bloody dinkum here I had been using her for all those years making Jarrah tables and furniture with very little loss of cutting edge or anything else the same Matebo branded blade it came with!!... The bloke at the Matebo stand at the wood show that year near had a heart attack when I showed him the blade and told him the story (blade still had some cutting edge) oh and Ive since changed the bloody blade at least 3 times!! cheep crap compared to that brand blade nowadays

    Mind you I doubt you would get the same build quality as you did back then bloody solid circular saw this fella more attention to detail I reckon... nowadays seems even the best are going to shyte... not saying that Matebo has gone to shyte just their equipment seems to have taken on the same plastic look as the others nowadays

    Metebo great stuff mate

    Ohhh and Damian? Your still a bastard And I for one dont believe that gumph about having only 2 hands!! I reckon you have at least 10 hands (dont mention the 2 heads 5 ears or 9 nasal passages Shane... please dont do that!!! ) oh and your a bastard and thats got nothin to do with you bein a dislocated banana bender either!!
    Believe me there IS life beyond marriage!!! Relax breathe and smile learn to laugh again from the heart so it reaches the eyes!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Wild Dingo
    Mind you I doubt you would get the same build quality as you did back then bloody solid circular saw this fella more attention to detail I reckon... nowadays seems even the best are going to shyte... not saying that Matebo has gone to shyte just their equipment seems to have taken on the same plastic look as the others nowadays
    As I understand it, metabo were bought out by Atlas Copco, who were bought out by(or changed name to) Milwaukee. I've had 3 18v battery drills over the past 5 years or so, all the same as far as I can tell, one branded Metabo, one Atlas Copco and one Milwaukee. The Atlas Copco and Milwaukee carried a 2 year warranty, whereas the Metabo only came with a 1 year cover. The dealer tells me that the Metabo version is seen as the "downmarket" brand and is sold cheaper these days than the Milwaukee version. Something to do with the quality of the materials used.

    Mind you, the Metabo only died when it was dropped 7m off a ladder onto concrete! Cheap crap.
    Cheers,
    Craig

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    Mate, I dunno where you're getting your information, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

    Atlas Copco used to own AEG. They sold it, and Milwaukee to Hong Kong-based TTI. TTI was interested in Metabo but nothing came of it - and it remains a family business today.

    Metabo took over Elektra Beckum a few years back and stopped building its Magnum Machines. Elektra Beckum changed its colour to blue and took over the role of stationary machine producer. The Elektra Beckum name has recently ceased to exist in favour of Metabo, but the stationary machines are still blue.

    Metable also owns French industrial machine builder, 'Lurem'.

    I don't know about Oz, but Metabo has a 3 year guarantee over here. A replacement housing for a battery drill costs about 10 EURO...

    Damien
    Is it wrong to be in love with a sawbench?

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    Quote Originally Posted by damienhazo
    Mate, I dunno where you're getting your information, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

    Atlas Copco used to own AEG.
    Mate, you're dead right. I meant AEG, not Metabo. D'oh, I'll blame it on posting at 5 in the AM. The AEG drill was the one that dropped and broke.
    Cheers,
    Craig

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    Damien
    Shane is right. About your parentage.
    But hey you were a banana bender after all.
    But there has to be a trade off living so far north, good tools= lousy weather. as if Brisvegas isn't bad enough, you had to go further north.
    Cheers
    Jim

    "I see dumb peope!"

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    G'day,

    Oi!

    No disparaging comments like that thanks. Nothing wrong with Queenslanders, best place in Australia to call home. It sure beats NSW or VIC.
    I make things, I just take a long time.

    www.brandhouse.net.au

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