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65 YO here, and have been working on and around machinery since at least my age reached two digits. A few thoughts...

Someone said far above that most injuries involve carelessness or violating...

I know this is an incredibly old thread, but hey, it's my thread, and I wanted to post how things are working out. My accident was 12/31/08 so it's now a little over 15 months later. What I'm...

I'm looking at a project that will be done away from my shop. It's going to involve doing some simple cross-cutting with a 5-1/2" cordless circular saw. I'll be cross-cutting (trimming to length)...

Works fine on your machine, maybe. Does not work on mine. Returns a "file was not closed properly" message every time it starts.



I doubt you'll find anyone more religious about running...

Similar to the reports above, I had a machine that ran ME for several years. Not only was it a constant problem, when I eventually gave up and migrated it to XP, it didn't really install XP cleanly....

I have been running Vista Home Premium for over a year on a very high-spec machine. It's OK. It does not play well with all software, however, and if I had it to do again I would order the 32-bit...

Our town water is 90 psi but we never had anything blow, break or fail prematurely. However, there was no sense tempting fate. We did get some pretty severe hammering every time a valve closed,...

We were also getting ~90 psi off the town line. My regulator is set to 55 psi. It was a bit of a shock...90 psi made even the low-flow shower heads feel nice...55 psi, we can tell the difference!
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I'll elaborate more later, but one thing to be cautious about is "raised ranch" homes, if you want to have a shop in the house. Not sure whether this type of house is common elsewhere, so if you're...

I see you haven't gotten any replies. It's not that we're not friendly, it's just that this is a really hard question to answer.

The short answer is that it shouldn't be too hard. But the...

Glad I wasn't misunderstood (or didn't manage to type something with a tone I didn't intend, which is more likely).

To me, this is an incredibly interesting topic. Medium-term, putting this into...

Not all of us are living in homes heated with the latest/greatest...so...



Taken at face value, that's just wrong. What I think is meant is that special provisions for make-up air may not be...

Here's the resolution. As posted, Amazon issued me a credit to cover cost of a replacement cover/shroud. I ordered it from Toolsforless.com which shipped the part prontissimo. I installed it last...

The tools. I really don't need any distractions... :(

Thanks, Chris, and good to hear the positive comments on it. Frankly, I didn't rate the chances of the next one arriving intact very high. Makita is packaging this thing for handling by freight...

Well, here's the resolution. Amazon would have been willing to process a return and ship another compressor, but they couldn't/wouldn't ship me the part. As a third option, they're goingto issue a...

I have a 4100. I believe that the improved dust collection is the result of a redesigned shroud for the blade, but I could be mistaken.

Yep, great minds... ;)

Chris, that's probably exactly what I'll do. The thing that's on my mind is that it seems kind of unlikely that the replacement will arrive in any better shape than the first, but it costs me...

I arrived at that solution w/o input from Bosch. Works great.

Question: is the info you received from Bosch published somewhere, or was it in some kind of one-off / personal communication you...

I will call Makita and Amazon as well. I'd be surprised if they'll just mail me the part for free, but I am surprised all the time, so maybe? :D It looks like a ~$18 part so with shipping ~$25 or...

I read and thought about this before I recently ordered a respirator. All the stuff above is right. In the end, I took a guess and ordered a 3M 7500 series in large, even though I had a feeling that...

I ordered a MAC700 compressor from Amazon. Predictably, I guess, the compressor arrived with the plastic shroud for the pump and motor very badly damaged. I took a stab at a duct tape repair, but...

Ironically, the SD20x sets come in a MUCH better package than the SD50x! I bought a Blade Runner case to hold the SD508, and find it more secure and more convenient.

Contrary voice here...had a SD208 and found that I got a lot of scoring. I sold it and upgraded to an SD508, and have been very pleased. Perhaps there was something wrong my the SD208 set I got,...