No need for me for what.
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Bosch PMF 180E
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That's all a Fein is. Plus a sander too.
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You ought to look on their web site. That's normally your source of information when you don't know what you are talking about. You can cut and paste from this one just as easily as you do from the others.
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I always know what I am talking about, That is clear. And the Fein is an expensive waste of time. I have looked at these for a few years and still can't see why people pay silly money for one. Useful occasionally. A wonder do-it-all tool? ermmmm...no. Suckers like you pay lots of money for hyped up gadgets.
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No need for you in general
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No. Have you tried the Bosch?
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£70.
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No need for me in Essex either. How is your tattoo?
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Doctor Drivel wrote: And the Fein
I'd actually agree with parts of this. I'm OK with paying £70 for something I will only use occassionally, but I wouldn't pay the silly money Fein want. That includes the silly money blades.
A wonder do-it-all tool? No, but I can see odd situations where it will solve a problem & be a godsend. It has a big enough range of blades to do what I want & they are reasonably priced.
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No - I have neither. But unless you've actually got experience of both makes how can you make a comparison? Unless you believe all power tools are the same - which on past posts you don't seem to.
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That figures!!! Yet he knows all about them. Gosh!!!
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Unlike you I'm honest about what I do and don't possess, catalogue boi.
How was rehab? Make sure you attend aftercare.
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When I say "The Bosch works well enough for me", I didn't mean it as a comparison. I simply mean it does what I expected it too and will work on the jobs I expected it to work on. I reckon Green Bosch to be a reasonable DIY brand (this machine is made in Hungary, not China) and will last a reasonable time given that it will only have occassional use.
The Fein may well work better, I don't know as you say. Given the price difference for machine & blades I can justify having the Bosch on the van for those embuggerance jobs.
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Please eff off you are a complete idiot.
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Hm, the Fein price for machine + an assortment of attachments and blades is £140, the Bosch £99 IIRC, there doesn't seem much in it. Besides, I had to pay £180 for ink for our printer yesterday, I don't see the £140 for the Fein to be a huge investment. Besides aren't we rather renowned here for a general tone of "if a tool is going to be used for a job, it's worth having a good one"?
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Basic Fein is £110 at Axminster, case extra, Bosch is £70 in Argos inc case (albeit plastic).
Fein segmented blade £15:85, plunge blade £16:78. Bosch blades are £13:99 & £6:99 respectively.
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 11:59:01 +0100, "The Medway Handyman" mused:
The Fein is more expensive, the Bosch is cheaper. We all get that, it's the same with any tool, some are more expensive than others. I can justify the initial purchase cost of the Fein, it;s paid for itself many times over. Can't really see how you can argue anythign different to that, each has their own market.
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You're still quibbling about pennies.
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What's needed is a comparison - not a dribble one by guesswork, but by someone skilled trying them both.
When you get a new type of power tool it's often great - I well remember my first jigsaw. But only when replacing it with a much better one realised how it wasn't *that* good.
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Yes, I had the same experience with SDS and angle grinders. I really couldn't believe with an angle grinder (a fairly basic bit of kit) that there could be differences in use woth paying £50 or £100 more for than a cheap model. However comparing a good quality angle grinder to a NuTool or B&D there's no comparison.
Same with the SDS, a good quality one is a pleasure to use, cheap makes are simply more hassle than they are worth.
As to the attachments being different prices, again I tend to buy good quality steels, bits etc despite being expensive they work better and last longer than cheap ones. It can be worth paying twice as much for the attachment as another because one gets moe than twice as much use out of it. As you say a direct A/B comparison is what it really needed.