Archived from the Tools In Action forum (Milwaukee). This thread is read-only.
So I was on eBay this morning and on the deals page was a Milwaukee M18 Barrel Grip jig saw! I was like….holy crap, that’s pretty cool, went to Milwaukee online, not there. Ends up is a European thing! WTH?!?!?!? I can understand Bosch getting Europe first, they are Svelt but c’mon! Milwaukee May be Chinese but they are still an American company! Anyways, cannot for the life of me figure out how to attach a link via my iPad but suffice to say of you Google the above model number it’ll pop up!
In Europe they have a 14.4 volt Milwaukee.
It looks great
Great find!! That does look good!
Yeah I figured, and forgive me not being PG Nicholas, those Chino wearing metro sexuals SHOULD NOT have that freakin’ tool before us!! What the heck!?!?!?! That’s thing looks sweet and it’s an M18!
That does look sweet. I wonder why they have it there first.
That’s ok Chris that is what we have moderators for.
Nicholas I’m not trying to come down on you, but in reading the forum rules I saw nothing about keeping things PG. The only rules I read were no religious, political, or spam posts. Out of decency there is some purposely letter swapping i.e. a$$, not because it’s in the rules. If swear words or allusions to sexuality or body parts offends you, I would suggest maybe Disney or Nick jr forums. There is enough censorship elsewhere. You are probably to young to know who George Carlin is, but I think he said it best:
That thing is awkwardly long, looks like the new m18 multitool morphed into a jigsaw and got stuck halfway.
Whats the deal with UK getting milwaukee stuff first? Im not against them getting stuff first, my issue is with an american company releasing something somewhere else first. Dewalts been doing this for a while, now milwaukee, whats up with that?
I wish I could comment on that Javier but beats the heck outta me! I figure it makes sense with Bosch, Festool and Metabo but I cannot figure out why Milwaukee is doing this too. The saw looks a little awkward as far as how far the battery sticks out but when you figure the weight on the front of the tool it should balance out. Anyways, I would love to try it out but apparently I have to move to Europe.
The germans have done this, the japanese have done this , even the koreans are doing this with their brands releasing their stuff in their home turf first. Its great and all if you live there and sucks for us having to wait half a year at times but atleast our brands were doing the same thing until now. I guess we do have to make the move
RedSionnach wrote:
Nicholas I’m not trying to come down on you, but in reading the forum rules I saw nothing about keeping things PG. The only rules I read were no religious, political, or spam posts. Out of decency there is some purposely letter swapping i.e. a$$, not because it’s in the rules. If swear words or allusions to sexuality or body parts offends you, I would suggest maybe Disney or Nick jr forums. There is enough censorship elsewhere. You are probably to young to know who George Carlin is, but I think he said it best:
I was kidding guys.
What the? I was looking at the ebay listings for the jigsaw and those brits call what we call “bare tools” as “naked”. I guess they think the battery and charger are clothing for the cordless tools
Is a compact battery shorts and xc regular pants?
NicholasShetley wrote:
Is a compact battery shorts and xc regular pants?
maybe the compact batteries are capris and the xc are chinos
Hahaha!
Well Nicholas I am glad to hear that. As far as the Jigsaw goes… $488 freakin’ bucks!!! For the bare, or if you will Javier (cover your ears Nicholas) Naked- tool!!!! Oh my Gosh! Seriously, my – yes I am the Festool Snob, thank you Travis – Carvex cost over a $120 bucks less! In looking at the seller, he is from the UK and ships to the gold Ole USA for a paltry $6 (must make up for the price). Would be pretty bad a$& to show up on a site or in my case to the farm with a M18 body grip jig but….
I’m a teenager in high school guys. I think I can handle a word like that. $488 for that jigsaw? I have seen the m18 fuel drill and impact combo kit for over 1000 on there.
$488 USD? or we taking Francs, Rubios,….Pesos maybe?
On eBay it usually says what it is in the foreign currency and it says US dollars below that.
The only thing I can think of is that Milwaukee thinks that a barrel grip jig saw won’t sell well in the USA, or it might not meet some sort of safety rule that is required here. It loos like its been out for awhile too. Who knows tool companies lately don’t make much sense on how, when, or what they release lately. Like Milwaukee’s M18 multitool not being brushless why bother I know I will probably wait for the brushless version now the M12 is good enough even though its not a tooless blade change!
Maby becose barrel grip jigsaw are alot more popular in Europe
I hope they do something with there jig saw this year, there circ and sawzall are leading the way, i hope to see a fuel jigsaw(barrel grip ofcousre) and hackzall.
Hey Conductor. $488 UNITED STATES DOLLARS!!!!! I almost fell out of my chair.
Those crazy Brits one has a buy it now price of $1743
That is a damn fine looking jig saw right there!
Not $488 fine but still fine
Looks like they’ve corrected the funky power switch issue that plagued the electric version. The power button appears to be on the center of the handle rather than on the lower right side of the head.
I wasn’t aware there was a problem with the switch on them. Would really like to give it a whirl though
ChrisK wrote:
I wasn’t aware there was a problem with the switch on them. Would really like to give it a whirl though
It was the location of the switch that was the issue. It was on the lower left side of the saw requiring you to sacrifice control of the saw to turn it off. Look at an electric version and you’ll see what I mean.
I gotcha thanks