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15th June 2021, 09:58 PM #16SENIOR MEMBER
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I have most brands in my trailer, makita, bosch, hitachi, milwakuee, festool etc. I rate the tools based on how little time I get to spend using them, usually because I cant get them out of the hands of the guys working for me. Winner on the battery powered planes is the Makita.
On a separate note, I do see a strange bias toward festool. I had a guy recently tell me that the only way to get really tight mitre's is with a festool saw. I made box on site using my well looked after makita battery saw and it left his mitre for dead. The tool is only as good as they way you treat it. Makita and Bosch make tools as good as Fesstool, but if you treat it like rubbish then the results will be the same.
EDIT. Just thought I would add one brand I dont have in my trailer is DeWalt. This was due to problems I had with DeWalt many years ago. One of the carpenters working for me has DeWalt gear. The battery powered circ saw he has is by far the best battery saw on the market without a doubt. Its so good I have been thinking about adding one to my collection.
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15th June 2021, 11:36 PM #17
x 10 for the cordless trimmer. I don't have a cordless jig saw but been researching them and the XLT Makita gets better reviews than the brushless one because it has variable speed trigger switch but the brushless one only has preset speeds with an overly long soft start. I'm interested on your review of the model you have.
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16th June 2021, 07:24 AM #18SENIOR MEMBER
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16th June 2021, 10:30 AM #19GOLD MEMBER
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I have the brushed unit, DJV180 ( probably a newer version available now?) one of my carpenters just did a bit of stubbie work last week and tried one of the new brushless models with the soft start and he said it was very annoying as you have no control over the start up speed, he said he is going to buy the same one as mine as it was a lot better
Speaking to the sales guy at Sydney Tools and he said the only reason they brought in the brushless model was to match Milwaukee but he also said get the brushed unit as there is no technical gain for a jigsaw with brushless
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3rd July 2021, 01:19 PM #20Member
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For reasons I can't articulate I ended up getting the Bosch GHO 26-92D Planer. Very impressed with it; much quieter than I expected, the duct bag works well.
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3rd July 2021, 04:22 PM #21
It should do the job well. (Presume your above model number was a typo and you really meant GHO 26-82D.)
But I was surprised when you said the duct bag works well. I cannot even remember if a dust bage came with mine, possibly chucked out years ago, but I would have thought that a planer creates so much shavings that the bag would be an absolute PIA after about 30 seconds.
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26th July 2021, 08:02 PM #22Novice
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I personally trust Makita and Bosch brands. They are always reliable and I never had any issues with non of them.
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20th August 2021, 01:40 PM #23Senior Member
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I purchased the Makita planer 8 year old and its working like new.
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