B&Q Trade Day
 

Picked up a flyer in my local B&Q superdepotwarehouse last week advertising
a 'Trade Day' today.

Displays & demos were promised, "meet the UKs leading suppliers & see the
latest equipment & materials".

Makita, Bosch, DeWalt, Irwin, Dulux, Karcher etc. Sounded good.

Got out of bed early to go & have a look before my first job. What a waste
of good sleeping time.

Only three stands; Dulux, Evode & Evolution Power Tools.

I did see some things of interest, Evodes 'Fast Foam' a two pack expanding
foam for small jobs that sets in 60 seconds - and it does
http://www.evode.co.uk/corpweb/p2.nsf at £4:99 its a dear way to buy
expanding foam, but useful for what I do & I charge it on anyway. Managed
to blag a free pack :-)

The other thing was a demo of the Evolution 'Rage' circular saw. Cut 6mm
mild steel with almost no sparks & then a worktop with no breakout - same
blade. With a blade change concrete slabs with almost no dust. It cuts
rather that abrades.

No use to me, but interesting & very impressive. Dunno how long a blade
lasts, replacements were £20. Some kind of super dooper tungsten carbide
apparently. Concrete slab cutting was most impressive.

Other than that a waste of time.


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Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

B&Q Trade Day
 

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:13:57 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
mused:

Picked up a flyer in my local B&Q superdepotwarehouse last week advertising
a 'Trade Day' today.

Displays & demos were promised, "meet the UKs leading suppliers & see the
latest equipment & materials".

Makita, Bosch, DeWalt, Irwin, Dulux, Karcher etc. Sounded good.

Got out of bed early to go & have a look before my first job. What a waste
of good sleeping time.

Only three stands; Dulux, Evode & Evolution Power Tools.

I did see some things of interest, Evodes 'Fast Foam' a two pack expanding
foam for small jobs that sets in 60 seconds - and it does
http://www.evode.co.uk/corpweb/p2.nsf at £4:99 its a dear way to buy
expanding foam, but useful for what I do & I charge it on anyway. Managed
to blag a free pack :-)

The other thing was a demo of the Evolution 'Rage' circular saw. Cut 6mm
mild steel with almost no sparks & then a worktop with no breakout - same
blade. With a blade change concrete slabs with almost no dust. It cuts
rather that abrades.

No use to me, but interesting & very impressive. Dunno how long a blade
lasts, replacements were £20. Some kind of super dooper tungsten carbide
apparently. Concrete slab cutting was most impressive.

Other than that a waste of time.

Yep, I'd have summised that from the flyer tbh and stayed in bed
anyway.
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Regards,
Stuart.