Re: What was this tool?

[DGDevin]

I was watching one of the home improvement shows where they were

> installing a wood floor. > > When they were ripping out the old floor, they briefly showed a small > powered saw that allowed them to cut the old flooring right up to the > wall. > > It looked like a powered hand "grinder" with a recipocating blade. > > What was it and who makes it? > > Thanks > > TMT

Sounds like a Fein Multimaster, although similar designs are available from other companies.

[Robatoy]

I know of 4 different ones already. The Fein is virtually impossible to beat. Bosch seems to come close, the rest ... who knows. We don't need a DeWalt.

[Lew Hodgett]

more.

If you need a tool like that, Fein has no equal, much less any real competition.

Lew

[upscale]

Not sure if it's the one you are talking about, but I bought a Clarke Crocodile Saw like the one below.

't used it yet after having it on hand for over a year and some might call it a waste of money, but it has some certain features and capabilities that I haven't seen elsewhere. So, I've got it for those few unique tasks that just can't be completed as well by other tools. (That I know of anyway)

[upscale]

The Fein like the Multimax is an oscillating tool. Or perhaps you're thinking he mistook the device for a saw?

[dadiOH]

Maybe you are talking about a jamb saw. They have rotating blades though, not reciprocating.

[Larry Jaques]

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:22:54 -0500, the infamous [e-mail] scrawled the following:

"What can this $200 set do that a $60 ($40 on sale now) HF multi-function power tool can't?" I wondered aloud.

The toomanytwinkiestroll was likely referring to a toe-kick saw. That's an inline version of your Croc.

-- The Smart Person learns from his mistakes. The Wise Person learns from the mistakes of others. And then there are all the rest of us...

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[upscale]

Can't really answer that since I haven't used it yet, but I was buying some other stuff from the same online tool store at the time and the description was something along the lines of a "do everything" tool. That was enough to snag me.

Think it went something like: It's meant to be operated one-handed and will cut through metals, plywood, ceramic tile, conduit and tubing.