Hey guys! How’ve you been?

I’ve been working on building out a backyard shop without running electrical. Pure solar/battery for the plug in tools and cordless tools wherever possible. I’m still adding to it as I have time, but I’m up to 800w of solar and a hair over 5kwh of battery capacity using a lithium iron phosphate battery bank.

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Im running the first generation Ego blower, although I’m supposed to get a newer model « free » with my recent ego snowblower purchase. As good as any (non backpack) gas one.

They’ve come a long way

Used to have a dinky plug in one with suction and mulch and it was worthless- faster to just use a small rake and shovel to pick up piles. But the…[Read more]

Doobie wrote:

montreal_woodworks wrote:
The Festool was a waste even at the cheap price I paid. I’m considering selling it.

Is it a corded TS 55 or75 you snagged?

Ts55. Paid about the price of the Systainer. Estate sale.

Doobie wrote:

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:

Doobie wrote:

OldCountryWoodworks wrote:
I have the Makita cordless tracksaw and love it. I use it on the Festool track.

My Festool is now parked.

I just bought one a few months ago and I’m sorta dyin’ to use soon. I already have a bunch of Festool tracks for my TS75, so I’m good to go. I got the Makit…

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VirTERM wrote:

montreal_woodworks wrote:
Does anyone here know if the OFA base and pin system will work with the festool LR32 holey rails? Festool rails are much less expensive in NA, but having a shelf pin jin that works on it would be nice and the LR32 router base doesn’t seem to easily fit Bosch routers (I have Colts and 1617s in punge b…

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OldCountryWoodworks wrote:I know it is an old thread but thought it was worth asking, also curious if he used a properrip blade, 24 teeth or less. Me thinks not since he was complaining about his fancy blade.

I don’t really remember much about the details, but I was using push blocks and an outfeed. No gloves – never gloves. Blade was new-ish, a…[Read more]

TopNotch wrote:Are the parallel guides worth it? How large of a width can you set them?

The Seneca ones use incra track, so it can be as wide as your track, and you can easily swap in a longer track as needed. I have several lengths for convenience. Worth it for sure

I also have the Festool ones and I really hate them. Pain in the butt

I use a bunch. Seneca parallel guides, parf dogs and rail dogs. An MFT3. The insta rail square and the grs16PE. Probably a few more I can’t tbink of right now.

Doobie wrote:

montreal_woodworks wrote:
As for the plunge base, I ordered from them in November. I still don’t have it but they call me weekly to tell me bosch promises a shipment the following week and would I prefer to keep waiting or cancel. So, it’s still vapour

Where’d you order it from?

Same place. Federated. They are pretty good and are b…[Read more]

Doobie wrote:

Doobie wrote:
I may be interested in some of those add-on accessories though for some of my Bosch stuff to work on my existing Festool and Makita rails. Anybody know if the accesories work on competitor rails?

montreal_woodworks wrote:
I have all of the Bosch rail accessories. Jigsaw, router, little 12v circular saw. All. Every one…

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Doobie wrote:

Boschmanbrian wrote:

Doobie wrote:
Look what I just found for sale….

https://www.atlas-machinery.com/bosch/gkt13-225l/

Accesories….

https://www.atlas-machinery.com/searchresults/search-results/?search_query=bosch+fsn

Including the router plate here….

https://www.atlas-machinery.com/bosch/fsnofa/

Funny thing is, there is still…

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Doobie wrote:

Doobie wrote:
There’s somebody on another forum saying that there’s some retailer here in Canada who has reduced the price on the REAXX down to $1,200 CAD from what we still see them sell up here which is anywhere typically from $1700 to $2000 CAD. I’m trying to find out who that is.

The guy replied back it was RONA where they are s…

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montreal_woodworks wrote:

wbembrid wrote:

montreal_woodworks wrote:
st $180 all in. Or I can get it from Japan for about $65 and it will only take an extra couple

Where do you buy your Tenryu blades from @montreal_woodworks ? As a fellow Canadian I am very interested in that price differential.

If you want to avoid using online translators,…

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wbembrid wrote:

montreal_woodworks wrote:
st $180 all in. Or I can get it from Japan for about $65 and it will only take an extra couple

Where do you buy your Tenryu blades from @montreal_woodworks ? As a fellow Canadian I am very interested in that price differential.

If you want to avoid using online translators, Amazon has lots of country…[Read more]

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:

montreal_woodworks wrote:
Expect some malls to be demolished soon

That’s not happening here,, only building new malls.

Lots of tax credits in building new. They are still going to tear down the old ones because it’s advantageous to build new instead of update old.

Not everywhere, but in a lot of places. Places where the…[Read more]

Miamicuse wrote:I thought at the time buying Kmart was mainly to acquire Kmart’s real estate assets. Some of the Kmarts own it’s own land.

It was, and they did. They sold it all to the hedge fund a couple of years ago. They can bankrupt, lose everything, and still own the land free and clear. And since Sears and KMart often owned not only the…[Read more]

RonW wrote:

theamcguy wrote:

kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:
Here is a good article about how sears was an innovator in its day. They were literally the Amazon of the early 1900’s. Everything came from the Sears Catalog including homes.

So true in the mid 90s they were at a cross road and instead of choosing to invest in their core business they c…

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DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:

Warren6810 wrote:
I don not understand the strategy Sears is using. It is obviously inevitable, that they will eventually close all the doors. Not sure why the slow death.

Maybe they need to keep some open the deplete the warehouses inventory.

I’ve read articles saying that Eddie has a conflict of interest being first in l…[Read more]

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:

madman_us wrote:
the kit showed up on the website

https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/boschtools-ocs/palm-routers-gkf125cepk-119901-p/

It doesn’t look like it comes with the Core batteries.

Would you believe it is corded?

Doobie wrote:

montreal_woodworks wrote:

Doobie wrote:

madman_us wrote:
the kit showed up on the website

https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/boschtools-ocs/palm-routers-gkf125cepk-119901-p/

That’s a good start. But I can’t find that the PR111 Plunge Base is available to be bought seperately outside the kit.

I ordered one from Federated too…

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