multipurpose tools: Bosch and Aldi

Thanks, these were the kind of tasks I was thinking of, along with the floorboard cutting. I'll see if I can buy one next time round or if the Bosch ones go on sale at Christmas.

I don't know how long the Aldi page will remain for but it is:

Something like this?

I've just found this page; according to the photo, the green Bosch has an input of 180W but an output of only 74W:

Fred.

of those for a floorboard yet)

Indeed - mechanical output powers are rarely stated, and are typically quite a bit down on the electrical input (much of which will be lost as heat, and vibration etc).

One last question, looking at the blades available for the Bosch, such as from Axminster's web site, what is the difference between a Japanese plunge cut blade and the "non-Japanese" plunge cut blade? Is it made from a harder type or metal or is the angle of the blade different or something else all together?

TIA Fred

Probably down to the tooth profile. Japanese wood saws typically have a different tooth profile to what we think of as a normal wood saw (aside from cutting on the pull rather than the push stroke). The HSS/bimetal ones are designed for plastics and non ferrous metals as well as wood, and are different again.

Japanese profile teeth: