Thread: Masters Hardware

I've visited my local masters on my way home from work and had a look at the triton stuff and got very disappointed. Cordless stuff looked like very old models.... Looked almost like NiCd era type of tools... bulky heavy but not functional.. The mitre saw looked like a toy.. .there was 210 mm one for which I have no idea why would someone buy it as it is really too small for any serious job and too big for any touchy stuff..
The bigger brother mitre saw (the 245 mm one) looked very cheap and nasty... table was shrunk to bare minimum... not leaving much for actual material support... Angle gauge barely readable... plasticky... just looked very cheap...
Quite surprising for triton brand... and also I couldn't find most of those triton tools on official triton web page.. so something is a bit fishy there...
I have a feeling that they are "Triton" tools which is basically cheap triton wannabe and as such they carry low cost and low quality...
Would love to be proven otherwise... but that stuff I've seen at Masters doesn't even look close to the real triton tools... and I do have few of them here..

Was in masters today. Store has had a major reshuffle since my last visit. Wandering thru the tool section happened to notice a triton 12" sliding drop saw. New look, motor is positioned on the top as opposed to previous located on side and angled. Less plastic, with a reasonably robust appearance, and a far cry from the rubbishy 909 stuff I've seen at masters. Sitting next to it was a bosch model, from a glance the triton looked as good. The price tag was missing and I didn't have time to inspect further. Prie77, just wondering if this is the same model you saw?

Hi capt'ngrumpy

The one I saw looked more like someone took Bosch drop saw and stripped it off and replaced main structural parts with really coarse equivalents... Fence was way too thin and when pressed it actually flexed a bit... maybe it was first batch... It was really cheap though.. but also unfortunately it looked cheap too...
Even the Aldi one that was on sale few weeks ago looked better than this one...