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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    A brushless drill is also on the books so I can use these without BURNING OUT another brushed corded drill
    what I want to know is how do you burn lout a corded drill? What were you drilling?
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    I have purchased your first option on ebay Derek...will give you my opinion on arrival....Regards...AL
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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    what I want to know is how do you burn lout a corded drill? What were you drilling?
    The garden! The Power Planter is an auger like thing that drills into the ground... makes holes and turns over soil, quite deeply too!

    Trouble is is terribly addictive. One cannot stop at just one hole The corded drill became exceeding hot and the magic blue smoke escaped

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    I remember at work we were using an old Hitachi corded drill for heavier work than we should have. It became a 4 person job: 2 holding the work steady, 1 on the drill and 1 holding an air gun in the cooling vents of the drill

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    must have been a hellish important job to warrant such drastic methodology
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

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    It was for a screen similar to this


    The plan was to make it up from slats with small blocks between them, all with holes pre-bored through, and to clamp it all together with threaded rod and some nuts and plug the ends. Unfortunately, the holes were bored to be a rather tight fit and with a stack of 100ish bits there was no way the rod was going through. The glue was drying and we basically needed a solution NOW, so that's how the drill got involved.

    The design was changed for subsequent pieces

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    The garden! The Power Planter is an auger like thing that drills into the ground... makes holes and turns over soil, quite deeply too!

    Trouble is is terribly addictive. One cannot stop at just one hole The corded drill became exceeding hot and the magic blue smoke escaped
    perhaps this is a job for an Ozito SDS drill
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    perhaps this is a job for an Ozito SDS drill
    I think you're a mind reader. I think I gained some "fame" for offering a solution of abusing Bunnings el-cheapo tools for warranty returns

    Naughty me!

    I reasoned for the brushless is its not going to blow up so easily, plus I've the batteries. I can piggyback it to the Makita Trim Router purchase and SWMBO will be displeased only once

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    Actually I was thinking about the Big Drill Replacement thread 'Big' Drill replacement
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    I was going to suggest the DeWalt combination router, which is a combination fixed base/plunge machine. It has the advantage of having slightly more grunt at 900W and can be used for large router bits than the laminate trimmers. However, it appears that the price has escalated and it is now around $415! That is quite a big difference to the $360 I paid one year ago and included a free 7 1/4" circular saw.

    DeWalt Combination router.jpg

    I have been very pleased with the machine. It can still be held one handed for light duty jobs in fixed base mode for timming type work. My only criticism is the fiddly little on/off switch.

    But!! Seeing the router mentioned by Derek in post #9, and having regard to his comments, it would surely be worth a go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    I was going to suggest the DeWalt combination router, which is a combination fixed base/plunge machine. It has the advantage of having slightly more grunt at 900W and can be used for large router bits than the laminate trimmers. However, it appears that the price has escalated and it is now around $415! That is quite a big difference to the $360 I paid one year ago and included a free 7 1/4" circular saw.

    I have been very pleased with the machine. It can still be held one handed for light duty jobs in fixed base mode for timming type work. My only criticism is the fiddly little on/off switch.

    But!! Seeing the router mentioned by Derek in post #9, and having regard to his comments, it would surely be worth a go.

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    Thanks Paul. That's two votes for the DeWalt. It also seems to be the choice for many of the smaller CNC machines.

    I suspect the price influences the popularity

    I know a guy who knows a guy... so I'm just checking on what sort of discount is available on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Junkie View Post
    It was the Renegade Laminate Trimmer 500 Watt for $58 from Trade Tools. Renegade is a Trade Tools 'home' brand.
    Happy to say that it worked perfectly and is now permanently set up as my rounding trimmer.

    I have recently started acquiring a few Renegade tools for those one off type jobs and have been pleasantly surprised at the quality (given their pricing).

    I'm aware that you're not in Qld, but they do deliver.
    I have one that looks exactly like that but I bought it from Gasweld with the "Toolex" branding on, and it's red. Must have come out of the same cookie cutter.
    Mine didn't work that well, the depth adjustment was not firm enough and I had to be careful because it tended to creep and go deeper as I worked. Then the acrylic developed a hairline crack, I went back to Gasweld to see if they had any spares but no luck.

    In the end I just bought the corded Makita from Bunnings and it's been great.

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    Well guys, as I stated earlier in post 12 I purchased the little trim router that Derek highlighted in post 9. I ordered the one with the additional plunge and angle bases and the whole shebang only cost me $125 shipped. It was an impulse buy as I don’t need yet another router, but for that price I was really interested to see how much quality it could fit in. As I only arrived home from from work yesterday today was the first opportunity I had to give it a good going over.

    Well.... I’m impressed. Having a fair bit of experience with identifying cheap manufacturing processes and nonexistent QA, coupled with expected low fitting tolerences etc I can honestly say that this is a fairly well made machine and that everything actually works; with just ONE defect. In the spirit of honesty this defect would have had me marching it right back to the store if I hadn’t purchased it online; but I have deliberately chosen to simply fix it because I have the tooling to do so. The defect is that one of the tubular posts on the plunge base was incorrectly fixed in position and projects through the base casting by about 1mm, this means that when the plastic baseplate is fitted the unit has a slightly convex base and of course can rock. I just need to slice off that little protrudence.

    Sometime over the next week I intend to produce a full product review with photos, and will specifically concentrate on the areas which highlight this as a cheap machine. I’ll start a new thread and post a link to it here.
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    Thanks Chief

    I will look forward to your review.

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    I'll be using mine again tomorrow. I hope to have a few pics to post.

    Regards from Perth

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