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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. -- Dave The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk 01634 717930 07850 597257 |
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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. -- Regards, Stuart. |
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