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Fred:
A quick search online indicates that one of the "big boxes" (RONA - now owned by Lowe's) is selling the Bosch REAXX for $C2K. The cartridges are also available ($C130).
This would confirm my understanding of the situation, namely the legal dispute between SawStop and Bosch in the US.
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Thank you Jacques!
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It shows up as "temporarily out of stock" for me on Rona's Canadian website.Originally Posted by Jacques Gagnon
https://www.rona.ca/en/brand/bosch-reaxx
Maybe Canada is to small of a market for it to be feasible for Bosch.
All so unavailable at Amazon.ca and Elite Tools.
https://www.amazon.ca/Bosch-GTS1041A.../dp/B013UBT4ES
https://www.elitetools.ca/en/product...osch-gts1041a/#
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There is one in the Saskatoon store at the moment and at one point before Christmas they were on sale for 20% off ($1600Can). That might be why they are low/out of stock. They are usually $2000Can where the SawStop is roughly $1600Can in the Lee Valley Catalogue. Since I have the industrial SawStop I've never bothered to look at either contractor saw beyond a cursory glance so won't comment on the merits or demerits of one over the other.
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That could very well be the case. I've never even looked at them or the Sawstop version so know nothing about either.
I never noticed the Rona link was for a specific store.
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I've owned the SawStop Jobsite saw for a little over a year, and can tell you that it doesn't suffer from the maladies that Keith listed. It's not a cabinet saw, but it's a very good saw in its class (safety features aside).
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I’m surprised the cost of the Bosch is another 25% more than the Sawstop, at least in Canada.
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If you get twice as many fires out of a brake and you dont ruin a blade then they figure you will be money ahead. Usd it was $200 more when it was sold here. $1299 for ss and $1499 for reax.
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I can assure you, the Erika saws are absolutely as good as a cabinet saw as well as being easily portable. 220v can be a bit of a challenge on jobsites but there are lots of 110v - 220v converters out there that will work.
https://www.elektrowerkzeug-shop.de/mafell
US Shipping available.
Last edited by Peter Kelly; 12-26-2017 at 6:11 PM.
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The 70 is 120v. I haven't seriously entertained buying one, I hardly use the jobsite saw that I've got.
$3500
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Martin. Did you seriously pay 3500 for a job site saw that you "hardly" use? That really has me scratching my head. I mean I can see the euro romance but that is beyond gross unless your working in 12 million dollar homes for Brittany spears and that sort of ilk. In a competitive market... ummmmmm
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No, I have a Bosch that I hardly use. Tough to justify the Mafell, when I'd hardly use it.
I just work in the $1-2 million dollar homes.. If I ever walk into a $12m, I'll snatch up the Mafell.
Last edited by Martin Wasner; 12-26-2017 at 7:19 PM.
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This logic is flawed because your not taking into account the constant misfires and then leaving me stranded on a job site without a working table saw.
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The 4100 and the Reaxx share almost no parts except the stupid fence. That nice stand you were talking about is a piece of junk and way to lightly made for the Reaxx which must be substantially heavier then the 4100. The Ridgid and Dewalt stands I have are much better. This is one area that surprised me because I have read so much about this vaunted gravity rise stand and how amazing it is. It's a rickety frame with some wheels slapped on it and it has to be permanently bolted to he saw doubling the size and adding a bunch of weight effectively making it less portable in my opinion.
Some one implied earlier that to use a table saw you should throw away the built in scale and do a bunch of hand measuring transferring and then setting up fences to try and match. I'm not sure why you would even own a table saw if you were going to do it that way. I have a really nice cabinet saw and I have owned multiple job site saws that have functioned ok to really good. This idea that a job site saw can't be portable and mostly accurate is absurd. Most of the sub 500 dollar ones do an ok job of it. I was damn sure expecting at least that quality with the added safety feature ,even though I don't really care about it, but to be honest with you I was really expecting substantially more saw then those because I figured no one would have the hubris to make a piece of junk and charge triple for it. Jokes on me.
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This is probably what is going to happen and it will be bitter but as much as I don't want to support that knucklehead in anyway it really has more to do with how disappointed I am in how incredibly terrible the Reaxx is in every way.
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