MAKITOOL !!!

[Ned]

Porsche has done design work for other firms for years, even before there were Porsche-branded cars.  Hasn't sullied their reputation, and has doubtless helped them financially so that the could continue building cars the way they wanted to.

Ned

 

[Ned]

Speaking of Porsche design, check out this Metabo hammer drill:
http://www.metabo-p7911.com
[lots of video, doesn't seem to work with Firefox, but does with IE6.]
http://www.xpressconstruction.com/default.aspx?Pic=L&ItemID=METP7911&CategoryID=391
[non-multimedia page]

You guessed it, Not Available In North America.

Ned

 

[VictorL]

I?m still wondering why we don?t have these tools.  ???
Probably we are behind because we use 110V power and Imperial system. 
Once we move forward to 220V power grid and Metric we?ll have more European tools here 

 

[Mike_Chrest]

You want to have a 220V power system? I have enough excitement when I accidentally cut a 110V line.
No thanks.

 

[VictorL]

220 V? Why not? In my childhood I was electrocuted few times by 220V 50Hz.    :-[ As you can see I?m still alive. 220V Power grid has more advantages: thinner wires and more devices per circuit breaker. More voltage means less electrical current for the same power. Most electric stoves and cloth driers sold in US are 200+ V anyway. Another big advantage: more good and excellent tools from Europe

 

[Michael Kellough]

220 V? Why not? In my childhood I was electrocuted few times by 220V 50Hz.    :-[ As you can see I?m still alive. 220V Power grid has more advantages: thinner wires and more devices per circuit breaker. More voltage means less electrical current for the same power. Most electric stoves and cloth driers sold in US are 200+ V anyway. Another big advantage: more good and excellent tools from Europe

I spoke with a tree trimmer recently who claimed to have had close encounters with electricity on numerous occasions. According to him..."220 volts throws you off but 110 holds onto you".

 

[brandon.nickel]

I work for the power company in Illinois and I can second the last post.  My 70+ year old Electrical Engineer co-worker says that he'd rather hit 240V any day.  He mentioned the same phenomenon where 240V will knock you away from the voltage, but 120V gets you stuck.  Personally I try not to hit either, but I have crossed paths with 240V once and it wasn't fun.

 

[oilburnerfixer]

Hmmm.....  so we could work comfortably holding on to 175V then, won't throw you off or hold on to you.

On second thoughts, hand tools could be the answer.

 

[joiner1970]

You do realize that we have to use 110v tools anyway here in the UK on building sites by health and safety rules.

I have heard it said on some forum that we don't have to and we can use 240v with a breaker but I have been a carpenter for over 20 years and I have not seen that on any building site and most don't even have a 240v supply so you can only plug in 110v tools.

 

[John Stevens]

I spoke with a tree trimmer recently who claimed to have had close encounters with electricity on numerous occasions. According to him..."220 volts throws you off but 110 holds onto you".

Having watched my brother get locked onto a 220V line, I know for a fact that 220V doesn't always throw you off.  My step-dad had to knock him loose with the nearest suitable object, a 2x4.

Regards,

John

 

[Dave Rudy]

John,

I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot --er-- pole.

 

[Dave Ronyak]

1.  I have been shocked with 115V, 230V and 440V - the latter while using both hands to insert a canvas upper of a tennis shoe onto the heated aluminum foot-shaped fixture while standing on a basement level concrete floor.  The joint "threw" me across the room where I slammed into the wall and sank to the floor.  Once when hunting with my father and some of his friends, one of them grabbed a barbed wire fence to lift the upper wire so the rest of us could pass between the upper and lower wires.  It turned out that wire fence was connected directly to 115V AC, and that man had a very difficult time getting himself free.  It was a very frightening scene, and the rest of us felt rather helpless to aid him get loose.

2.  Here's a link to the Festool's [listed as assigned to Festool GmbH] USA patent No. 7,029,384 for the quick on/off multiple threaded attachment of the sanding pad holders for the RO 125 and RO 150 sanders.http://www.google.com/patents?id=5Gd3AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=inassignee:festool&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=1&as_miny_ap=2007&as_maxm_ap=1&as_maxy_ap=2007&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=2007#PPP1,M1.  Interestingly, other US patents [and published pending patent applications] do not today show up under the Festool name at the official US Government site [www.uspto.gov].  Festo Tooltechnic GmbH & Co. is listed as owner of USA Design patent No. D440,401 which I suspect is a Systainer design (MS updates to my company PC have once again knocked out the AlternaTIFF viewer needed to view patent documents at the United States Patent & Trademark Office).

3.  Even Ford got it right occasionally.  The original Cobra and GT40 both won LeMans.  Even so, please send me the Porsche but bill me for the Mustang.

Dave R.