Hello,
For too long I have managed with one of those "handsaws in a frame" mitre saws and I was thinking of buying a sliding mitre saw. I've tried to use google to look back at posts in this group and they don't seem very complimentary about cheap brands. I realise you get what you pay for to some extent but is all this criticism justified or is there some brand snobbery?
B&Q's own-brand Macallister saws are only about one hundred pounds with further discounts in the sales at the moment and seem much cheaper than anywhere else. But I read on old post saying that GMC make Macallister for B&Q and that GMC went bust last year. If that's so, how come there's so much of their stuff still about?
Does this mean there is no after sales service and no spare parts to be had?
I will pop into a shop to see one in real life but some old posts suggested they were neither rigid nor accurate. Have things improved since these old posts were made?
Is it that these GMC/Macallister ones are particularly badly made or are these criticisms common to all cheap mitre saws?
OTOH surely anything is better than what I'm using at the moment!
TIA