Tool system

[Crash2510]

check this out its like a cordless shopsmith

http://www.power8workshop.com/index.php

[JoeyGee]

That's the first 18v table saw I have ever seen . Was he running a piece through backward, or did I miss something? Of course, there also was the cutoff between the blade and the fence on that impressive bevel cut...

IDK, maybe it is a handy set of devices. It wouldn't be the first time marketing has gotten in the way of a good product.

[eezlock]

tool system ?

I'm skeptical of these type of tools and claims. Does several things and none of them with a high degree of accuracy. I would like to see this stuff do some hard drilling in steel or crosscutting/ripping, something other than some cheap pine boards. I think that I'll wait on this homeowner's toy before I spend my money for it!

[Uncle Cracker]

Awful lot of plastic in that there tool...

[Daryl]

Some place out there some woman is bragging to her friends about the complete wood shop she bought for her husband that doesn't require the entire garage to use. He probably already has the electric crescent wrench.

[crokett]

I dunno... I can see it being useful for the occasional light or portability. When I had my apartment I might have bought one due to severe lack of space.

[cabinetman]

It could have uses for an out-of-power situation, or use in the field away from real shop tools. I give it a "cool factor" of 7.789.
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[cwsmith]

In my opinion, it's definitely a bit of innovative design. But the demo was only impressive as far as form and basic function. Mostly what I saw was a lot of wicked hacking away at a piece of wood. Nasty looking cuts and holes to say the least and nothing that came close to precision.

Can you imagine the design team that put all this stuff to go "click", "clack", and "slide" into it's own little compartments and latch areas to form even rudimentary functioning tools. Nice piece of design work I think! Sort of brings "Transformers" into a handiman's reality. And, the price isn't prohibitive, if the stuff can be found to provide some level of quality cutting, above what was demonstrated. (I do like the portability and compactness, would be neat for an apartment dweller or a guy on the go, I think.)

But portability and compactness aside, (like a ShopSmith) one might ask if individual tools wouldn't serve to be more functional and certainly more efficient in working through the process of working on a project. I'd hate to tear down my table saw, just to drill a couple of holes and then tear that down, inorder to reassemble my table saw again.

(Where was the router? )


CWS

[just started]

I am surprised that anyone putting out a new tool today would use anything other than a Li-ion battery, especially with an everything-on-one-battery setup like this. I think the overall idea is a neat one for someone in a small apartment that only does repairs, but not for any precise work.