@SoonerFan Good choice on the corded I reckon, I too debated whether to get the cordless, but it just seemed pointless as I always use tools like this with a dust extractor anyway. So far as blade goes, on a non-commercial basis the carbide stock blade will be more than adequate for many years use. I did buy a PCD blade off Ali Express for around 1/20th or so of the cost of the genuine, and I've been using it the last 6 or so months with no discernible difference. I'd say buy a PCD blade cheap for sure as a spare, but unless you plan to do an astronomical amount of MDF or Plywood it's not really necessary. I seriously can't express enough about what an exciting and amazing tool the Zeta is, I'm finding I'm using it for far more than I ever thought. It's such a fantastic complement to the Domino's.
As I'm in OZ we get screwed badly on the connectors, so aside from the Professional Accessory Kit I got with the Zeta, I've bought a large amount of 3rd party Tenso, Clamex and Divario connectors really cheaply off a number of sellers off Ali Express, Ebay, and Temu.
The Divario are obviously very application specific and likely to be the ones used least for most people. I'd say the Tenso's would be the ones I use the most by far, with the Clamex's used to supplement the Tenso's, or for really fiddly scenarios that they excel at.
I'm linking to a thread I started some time back discussing and showing the 3rd party connectors and blade that might be of interest. I do want to point out the 10mm Tenso connectors I used to assemble the plinth blocks that would have been really impractical to do any other way I reckon:
I've been working on a pretty large oak mantel and I'm on the home stretch now. Having the Zeta to install the Tenso connectors really makes a difficult fixing job easy!
Apart from using the Domino or biscuit joiner to actually glue the top would have been the only realistic way to affix the top, other than a horribly complex sliding dovetail arrangement I guess. I don't really know if it matters at all, but it seemed to make sense to alternate the connectors.
This way I can do test fits, and pull it apart easily, as I need to build up a layer of mortar on the cement sheet to move the...