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Anyone noticed any tools abroad they’d like to see here in the states?
If I only drank wine…
Of course the picture didn’t work grrrr :angry: Anyway Bosch makes a lithium ion cork screw. They also sell one under the Skill name.
I don’t care who you are, the Makita cordless electric bicycle is just awesome
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Awesome
This is cool…
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I don’t wear a hard hat anymore, but if I did…
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A cordless helmet fan available in Japan. It can’t be that much hotter over there.
Not sure I really need one, but I want one..
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For your next job in an attic or crawl space. Or perhaps your next Tsunami crisis?
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I really do want the cordless Bosch stapler. Laugh all you like, but I want the Makita bicycle too!
I’d also like to add that I can’t say for sure none of these are available here, but I certainly haven’t seen any of them.
Conductor562 wrote:
Anyone noticed any tools abroad they’d like to see here in the states?
Yes, there is a bunch of tools I would love to have, a lot of them I just can’t understande why they are not here.
Conductor562 wrote:
If I only drank wine…
I have always found the electronics that we don’t get in this country fascinating.
Conductor562 wrote:
Of course the picture didn’t work grrrr :angry: Anyway Bosch makes a lithium ion cork screw. They also sell one under the Skill name.
I wish we could have a little more space to post pictures, I find this a bit annoying myself at times.
Conductor562 wrote:
I don’t care who you are, the Makita cordless electric bicycle is just awesome
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That would be so cool to have if we could equip it as a kind of rolling toolbox, with a couple saddle bags and a decent top box, I could see myself cruising around some jobsites doing punch list type work. Then again, I could see that being an auxiliary vehicle to a larger work truck set up.
I wish more mini trucks where accepted in our country, I would love to have one for aound town and larger jobsites, espeically the 4 wheel drive models, with AC off course, something lacking in most utility ATV that I would really apreciate working here in Florida with all our heat and humidity.
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There are a lot of compact tractors we don’t get here either.
Conductor562 wrote:
I don’t wear a hard hat anymore, but if I did…
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A cordless helmet fan available in Japan. It can’t be that much hotter over there.
You know you can order tools from Canada….
Conductor562 wrote:
This is cool…
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We can get a better stapler here
I would much rather have an 18v tool than a 3.6v tool
Conductor562 wrote:
Not sure I really need one, but I want one..
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That would be nice, a detail sander like Festools DX 93 E would be nice to have cordless as well, especially if it was 18/20v, even though it does cross over towards multi-tool territory.
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Conductor562 wrote:
For your next job in an attic or crawl space. Or perhaps your next Tsunami crisis?
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I think I would prefer a radio with an area light rather than a flash light in 36v please, and while I’m dreaming, have it charge all the batteries.
Conductor562 wrote:
I really do want the cordless Bosch stapler. Laugh all you like, but I want the Makita bicycle too!
There is always the grey market option, all you have to do is find someone willing to ship.
I wish we could have Protool tools here. A whole line of premium tools we are denied.
I really want to try a portable circular saw with a riving knife, if for nothing else, for the novelty factor. I have to wonder why they are mandatory some places and not commonly available here on anything other than a plunge saw.
Flip and combo saws are some others that have been discussed here on the forum before that look very interesting. .
There are a few radial arm saws I would like to get a look at, even though I don’t think I would buy one with the excellent ones we have produced domestically from Northfield and the Original Saw company.
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Those mini trucks started popping up everywhere around here 3 or 4 years ago. Don’t know where they went, but I haven’t seen one for a year or more.
Conductor562 wrote:
Those mini trucks started popping up everywhere around here 3 or 4 years ago. Don’t know where they went, but I haven’t seen one for a year or more.
They can be a pain to get road legal in some places. Here in Florida they have to be restricted to 35 mph and run as a slow speed vehicle. Insurance is the same as a real truck. Some places are even harder to get them registered/insured, so I’m guessing they may have disappeared into the farms and or woods.
Around here they were mostly out in the sticks anyway.
Conductor562 wrote:
Around here they were mostly out in the sticks anyway.
It would appear that you can not license them for the road in West Virginia.
Those little pick up type vans are all over the roads in the U.K they do a van version and they run for miles on a sniff of petrol and there are even 4 wheel drive versions.
They are very small but are very stable, and just as safe as those little plastic two seater merc cars that over here pay zero road tax due to very low carbon content of exhaust gases,
Wayne Burgess wrote:
Those little pick up type vans are all over the roads in the U.K they do a van version and they run for miles on a sniff of petrol and there are even 4 wheel drive versions.
They are very small but are very stable, and just as safe as those little plastic two seater merc cars that over here pay zero road tax due to very low carbon content of exhaust gases,
I can understand why the mini trucks are not real popular in my area as we have very few local roads (under 35mph speed limit) on which they can operate. I don’t get why they are not more popular in some of the denser population areas. In my area golf carts can be driven on the road and they make a lot more sense for most people to drive around. There are a few LSEVs that are in town, mainly Gem cars My county has taken the option to ban ATV use on dirt roads but in most other counties in the state their use is permissible on dirt roads utility ATVs (side by sides) rule the roost in those areas, the Polaris Ranger and Kubotas RTV in particular . They are surprisingly competent off road, but do not offer the creature comforts of those mini trucks, like heat and air conditioning and have little to no protection from the rain.
What are these little two seater mercs that you speak of, Google fails me in finding out what they are, bringing up Mercedes and Lincoln Mercury vehicles instead. What are they?
They are tiney Mercedes cars.
Also those mini vans can easily do 70 mph on out 4 lane motorways so I don’t get all the fuss and limits they have on them in the U.S?
Wayne Burgess wrote:
They are tiney Mercedes cars.
Could you name a model of tiny Mercedes? We don’t really have many small Mercedes here in the states other than the likes of the SL roadsters and the like, which are performance cars and not known for economy.
Also those mini vans can easily do 70 mph on out 4 lane motorways so I don’t get all the fuss and limits they have on them in the U.S?
We have the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration standards that vehicles have to pass to be certified for use on our roads. Slow speed vehicles face far less stringent standards. If your REALLY want to know.
We had a lot of those battery powered Cushman’s that were basically a golf cart truck. People around here just drive them on the sidewalks.
Conductor562 wrote:
We had a lot of those battery powered Cushman’s that were basically a golf cart truck. People around here just drive them on the sidewalks.
Those old school Cushman trikes from the 60s were interesting contraptions. I wasn’t aware they are making EVs
We had a couple of plants that used them and sold them off as the shut units down and stuff. People bought them and for awhile there were at least 10 or so running around town. We had a few of the larger gas powered mini trucks but I always liked the Cushman.
Man, this thing is cool too. No more than I use a plate joiner I could easily get by with a cordless model.
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I personally have very little use for this, but it’s different…
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Perhaps a cordless…garden saw?
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We had a couple of plants that used them and sold them off as the shut units down and stuff. People bought them and for awhile there were at least 10 or so running around town. We had a few of the larger gas powered mini trucks but I always liked the Cushman.
Which mini trucks?
This is a Cushman trike that I'm familiar with, they used to be used a lot on commercial lots
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Cushman is still in business and looks like they have some pretty serious buggies.
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One of the newest crazes that caught my attention as something that looks almost as fun as power tool races is Drift Trikeing
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Conductor562 wrote:
Man, this thing is cool too. No more than I use a plate joiner I could easily get by with a cordless model.
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Dewalt offered one, I don’t think it sold very well, and I believe they discontinued it, I personally don’t think of that as a tool I would really go that far out of my way for a cordless version. If I’m using a biscuits, I’m either in my own shop or the project I’m working on is far enough along to have power installed everywhere.
Conductor562 wrote:
I personally have very little use for this, but it’s different…
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Ryobi of course is leading the way on cordless tool battery powered fans in the US
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Conductor562 wrote:
Perhaps a cordless…garden saw?
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Again, Ryobi is leading the way in the US
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I think I would prefer a chainsaw.
The Festool Compact Module System is one of those things I drool over.
It can be used as a lot of things, Like as a router table, and they claim it has a jointer mode.
I know I would have the sanding module as well with the amount of times I’m dragging my Rigid bench sander about.
I would like to see a few more tool brands thrown into the mix here in the states. Draper has a couple I might want to try.
Einhell is another. They have a firewood saw the likes of which hasn’t been seen in the US in decades.
Skil isn’t the only one with a flooring saw, I think I might prefer the Einhell version.
Motomill is another company we don’t hear about to much Stateside, Brazil does have some industry and I’ve often wondered how their tools stack up. I have heard good things about their grinders and compressor
Vonder makes a laminate flooring cutter I think some might find interesting
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The Chinese being such prolific manufacturers, I have to wonder why we they haven’t brought in some of their domestic brands to us here in the United States.
Some of their tools I’m sure would appeal to some people here. Like Shuangmu line. I would probably try one of their saws if it was priced reasonably.
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They do on occasion come up with some interesting ideas, like mini circular saws . If they can build tools for Milwaukee and the like I just don’t understand why we don’t have any Chinese brands available.
Some of the Asain hand tool manufacturers are going to be a force to be reckoned with in the not to distant future, if they ever figure out how to market there tools successfully here in the States.
Check out this set by Toptul , and know that they could probably bring that set in here for less than a hundred dollars.
In Brazil you can go to Walmart and buy a Ferrari……………………… Tablesaw.
as a matter of fact there is a whole line of Ferrari power tools, They look like they be might almost be as good as Black & Decker. I get the same feeling from seeing these tools that I get from seeing what Snap-on offers in Walmart.