Found yet another use for my Bosch PMF180 yesterday - cutting and trimming plastic corrugated roofing. The semi circular blade that comes with the tool works very well, just make a shallow cut through the plastic, and it cuts without sticking, along or across the corrugations, and very controllable. Even cut a U shape to go around a soil stack. Great tool, wouldn't be without it now! David.
Definitely. I've been using it extensively in the last week doing a part rewire. It is good for floorboard lifting and plasterboard cutting. At one point I needed to widen a hole to take a 2 gang socket box into a stud, and it cut the piece of wood out on one piece, quickly, accurately and with little effort.
I've had to buy some new blades, due to using it to cut flooring nails. Rapid Electronics has them at a good price, and I ordered 1620 on Friday and they arrived 1030 next morning on standard delivery (free for over £30). I nearly paid extra for next day delivery but 1st class recorded delivery probably beat the time it would have taken.
Good tip, thanks. That stuff is a bugger to cut.
Nor me. A real problem solver.
You don't say! I got my machine from Miles Tools and Machinery for £60 - which was a lot cheaper than I could find anywhere else - with a 20mm metal plunge-cut blade at £8.54 and HM riff at £18. They're £4 and £12 at Rapid!
I tried mine on solvent-weld plastic waste pipe and it tends to melt it as it cuts.
First outing for mine was to repair a 15mm copper pipe chased into a wall that a kitchen fitter had put a screw into. The wall was tiled and fitter removed a few inches of tiles either side of the disaster zone, excavated a sort of vertical trench around the pipe and I went in with the Bosch with the 20mm plunge cut metal blade and cut a few centimeteres out of the pipe around the damage. Slip-jointed a new bit of copper back in - job done! (For me anyway: left the fitter to refill the hole and re-do the tiles!)
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