Did that bamboo flooring hold up pretty good? Do you know when the previous owners put it in? A bit concerned about scratch from dog paws though. We sometimes take in quite rambunctuous guide dog puppies.
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I don't know their electric tools but the hand tools so far held up pretty good. I've heard they come with lifetime warranty, not sure, since nothing ever broke.
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Well, I am totally happy with that Skil. It has sawed hundreds of sqft of decking to size, cut through lots of Hardibacker (that ought to be torture for a saw) using carbide blades, and so on.
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Hi Keith,
No, it's because you're not noticing the "3 payments of" in tiny print at sonicrafter.com! (I.e., it is the same price -- $120-$180 total depending which kit you're after).
Yeah, these days many brands names are largely meaningless. The same marketing guys who figure that if a movie did well a sequel is surely worth making (even if said sequel has completely different writers and producers) also seem to figure that a well-known brand name once holds value forever. Just like Lenovo, Commodore computers were around long after the original company went kaput.
Actually I only "hinted" at getting the 10" saw, but my wife "upgraded" me to the 12" version. :-) I was a little shocked at the price of 12" blades -- after having to replace one I now treat them a little better, to try to get them to last longer!
---Joel
How good the warranty is is largely determined by your local store's management... if you take in, e.g., a broken socket wrench, some will tell you to head on over to the wall and get a new one, whereas others will give you a re-build kit and let you worry about the actual repair. :-( (And while I have nothing against re-building tools -- it's certainly a good idea -- I think it should be Sears doing it, not *me*.)
Is that just home maintenance, Joerg? Or have you been expanding the house/building sheds or garages/etc.?
---Joel
Clean them really well, remove all gunk before storage. I made that mistake once, blade pretty gummed up from sap, had another 8-10ft to go, thought "c'mon, you can finish that run" and pushed the saw quite hard. When I was through a thick blue cloud wafted through the valley and the blade was thoroughly shot. All the carbide tips burned. I could scrape the black crystallized stuff off but it would never cut well again.
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It's a new house. It was built in '07 and the builder lived in it for six months before we bought it. You can see where it's faded in the closets. It's a light color to begin with and has faded considerably. Scratched all to hell too.
This stuff sucks, but the bamboo I installed VT was really nice. If it had one fault, it was that it was too perfect. It looked like a bowling alley and showed spots. It was much harder than this stuff but still dented. I'm planning on finishing the bonus room over the garage. I may put in bamboo there too (it's cheap), but it won't be this crap.
If you consider bamboo, look around. There seems to be a pretty wide variety of species and finish qualities. Also, I highly recommend against the horizontally laminated stuff. The vertical seems to be harder and looks much better, IMO. OTOH, no flooring will stand up to wild dogs. The good news is that bamboo is pretty impervious to water and it doesn't swell or warp.
Right. Their hand tools, particularly mechanic's tools, aren't awful. There are better but shade-tree mechanics have little use for them.
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They're really heavy and there are "better" saws out there now. For $12, not so much. ;-)
[snip my own verbiage] I should have just asked if the blade has a 10 mm hole. Anyway, found a website that has blades for sale and lots of good info:
Why not just buy the blades from HF? $5.99 for a 3 blade set. Item # 65979-0VGA If they don't fit, you're out only a few bucks.
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But a re-build kit is still better than having to chuck it.
We bought an early 70's era house and some areas needed replacement. The northern part of the deck alone required $1000 worth of lumber, three trips because of the weight, lots of intricate cuts. Then bathroom remodels and all sorts of other stuff where the saw really had to really prove itself.
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Thanks, Keith, that gives me good input. Looks like no bamboo then because we are planning to get more serious with the guide dog program, meaning more dogs in the house and they are all from different raisers. Some behaved, others not so behaved. Labrador puppies (and all the way up to 13 months) nearly all do their hourly tantrum runs around the couch or something. It's their thing.
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It sure is heavy but I like that. Just like the camera crews that complained when the new Sony series came out and it didn't weigh enough.
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ISTM that tile is your only alternative. Any sort of wood or vinyl (yuck) will get destroyed by growing dogs. Since you'll have perpetual puppies, you're going to have to bullet proof your house.
You're right. It's in the gray on gray graphics. My eyes skipped right over that. It *is* a scuzzy site.
GE (small appliances)? Black and Decker (small appliances)? Quasar? How about Packard Bell. Now there is a great one! ;-)
That's exactly my take on it. I have decent 10" blades so didn't see any real advantage of a 12" saw and a lot of negative$.
I did that with a router bit. I was rebuilding my MIL's deck after she died. We had the place sold so traveled back to IL to do the punch list the inspector found. I didn't have all my tools so had to make do with what I had. "One last board"... I thought I burned the router up too, but it was just the brushes.
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Yeah, looks like it. Tile isn't great either. I laid about 100sqft of it but dogs slide on it. Older ones can hurt their hips when the hind legs squat sideways. So we'll look for a sturdy carpet, some industrial grade that can withstand frequent cleaning. The new carpet tiles in the office and lab look too industrial though, sez SWMBO.
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Put together by some company called Xclosure... which says it'll be happy to create infomercials for you as well, and is headed by one Steve Glick. Profile of their work:
Steve Glick seems to think he's the next Evelyn Wood too:
Yep, all good examples!
---Joel
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There are tiles, generally used in wet areas, that aren't slick at all. The 12"x12" tiles in our bathroom and kitchen/breakfast areas are pretty rough. You could also use slate. Either solution is a
*lot* less slippery than wood. It would be a lot easier to clean up than carpet, too.
Does the hole measure 10mm?
Damn close, as far as my eye can tell, using the wrong kind (outside instead of inside) of caliper for that measurement.
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