Great review on Bt3000

[Dedpedal]

https://bestpowersaws.com/ryobi-bt30...LaViNCOW9ZmOzw

my own twins below.

[LCHIEN]

Wow, that's an oldie review... probably from a couple of years before year 2000. That's when I got mine.

I agree with the review. It probably sold a few BT3000s.

Jim Frye probably remembers better than me, I think the BT3000 originally came out in 1997 at $600.

[leehljp]

Makita made one almost identical to the BT3000 in the late '80s or very early '90s, but evidently it was only for sale and use in Japan. I had read the early ads for the Ryobi BT3000 and then went onto a church build site (in Japan) around '90 or early '91 and saw the Makita being used. I later picked up a Makita tool sales catalog (in Japanese of course) and they had it listed in it too.

I am fuzzy on the dates because it was a good while ago, but the church build was while I was living in Tokyo, and I moved to Osaka in the fall of '91.

In the "tool district" of Osaka, I would visit that place often and they had a full layout wide table BT3000 in the shop until around 2003 or 04 and listed for the equivalent of $2,000.00. Around 2003 or 04, I found a Bt3000 in a junk yard without an SMT and still have the 13A motor.( I asked the owner what he was going to do it with it and he said it was junk and I could have it.)

[Dedpedal]

Makita made one almost identical to the BT3000 in the late '80s or very early '90s, but evidently it was only for sale and use in Japan. I had read the early ads for the Ryobi BT3000 and then went onto a church build site (in Japan) around '90 or early '91 and saw the Makita being used. I later picked up a Makita tool sales catalog (in Japanese of course) and they had it listed in it too.

I am fuzzy on the dates because it was a good while ago, but the church build was while I was living in Tokyo, and I moved to Osaka in the fall of '91.

In the "tool district" of Osaka, I would visit that place often and they had a full layout wide table BT3000 in the shop until around 2003 or 04 and listed for the equivalent of $2,000.00. Around 2003 or 04, I found a Bt3000 in a junk yard without an SMT and still have the 13A motor.( I asked the owner what he was going to do it with it and he said it was junk and I could have it.)

I had one given to me that was in sad but fixable shape so it sits under the bench till such time it’s needed.