bosch GOP 10.8v

[Cyberprog]

I bought a GOP10.8V, and aside from being a handy tools to cut plasterboard boxes out, and the odd sanding job, it's had very little use.
I'm still after a half decent tool for cutting the ali rails on suspended ceilings for trunking drops - anyone have any suggestions?

 

[topquark]

That just prompted me to take mine to bits and have a look at it. In the head there's an offset cam driven by the motor, the connection between the motor section and offset cam is via an hex "nylon" bush driven from the hex head on the motor end. Nothing too expensive to fix it. I say nylon, not sure what the material is as it's embedded in the head.

 

[topquark]

The "patient" in surgery:

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Head easily removed, just four T20 torx head screws for the head (and four for the body, but they didn't need to be removed).

 

[alumni]

I bought a GOP10.8V, and aside from being a handy tools to cut plasterboard boxes out, and the odd sanding job, it's had very little use.
I'm still after a half decent tool for cutting the ali rails on suspended ceilings for trunking drops - anyone have any suggestions?

I use the GOP for the ceiling rail chopping. Works a treat.

A cracking bit of kit.

 

[Cyberprog]

I use the GOP for the ceiling rail chopping. Works a treat.

A cracking bit of kit.

What attachment do you use for this? I tried using the saw blade and just didn't get anywhere with it! Had to resort to the old hacksaw...

 

[Mark_Burgess]

I take it you had a "day at races" then?

Yep, with exception of a larger sized Bosch L-Boxx, I only bought what I went there for.

Oh, Elliotts tools in Fratton are having a sale on all this week.

I bought a GOP10.8V, and aside from being a handy tools to cut plasterboard boxes out, and the odd sanding job, it's had very little use.
I'm still after a half decent tool for cutting the ali rails on suspended ceilings for trunking drops - anyone have any suggestions?

U use a pair of Gilbows, if it is round conduit, then a faint pencil mark on the edging either side of the conduit, then snip the edging with the Gilbows angled into the cut out section. As long as you always keep the top blade resting on the section you do not want removed so the bottom blade cuts up the edging on the part to be removed, you should always leave the edging looking good.

 

[Cyberprog]

U use a pair of Gilbows, if it is round conduit, then a faint pencil mark on the edging either side of the conduit, then snip the edging with the Gilbows angled into the cut out section. As long as you always keep the top blade resting on the section you do not want removed so the bottom blade cuts up the edging on the part to be removed, you should always leave the edging looking good.

Cheers, so basically big-assed version of a tin-snip then I only need to do it occasionally, and it's normally for flat trunking as it's for data installs. Still, there's a part of me that says that if the job can be done with a power tool, then that is the right and the proper way to do it. My experiments with a angle grinder were not hugely safe, and required patching the wall

 

[JamesBrownLive]

The fein is £600 had a play with one last week and its an amazing piece of kit. Would love one but it's £600 (or £500 without blades)

Will probably get the 110 version for now

£600 :rolleyes4: That's insane. Don't quite see how they can justify that.

The only way 'er indoors' would let me buy that is if it doubled as a vibrator :rofl:

 

[alumni]

What attachment do you use for this? I tried using the saw blade and just didn't get anywhere with it! Had to resort to the old hacksaw...

The metal cutter. It also went through the wooden battens easily enough.

 

[Cyberprog]

The metal cutter. It also went through the wooden battens easily enough.

Hrm, thought that was what I had been using, I'll have to try again.

 

[topquark]

One of these blades? : Bosch 2608661636 ACZ 85 EB Bi-metal Segment Sawblade | Miles Tool & Machinery Centre

 

[Cyberprog]

Yep, that was one of the ones in the kit IIRC.

 

[Mark_Burgess]

I got talking to one of my local tool suppliers at the Elexshow today, when chatting he said they now stock Imperial Multicutter blades that are harder wearing and a lot cheaper about £20 + VAT for £ BI Metal cutters.

He then told me to check out youtube for them, going by this youtube clip they cant be bad!

I will get some tomorrow or next week to give them a try.

 

[Cyberprog]

Wow, I want a few of those. Who stocks them in the UK Mark?

 

[Mark_Burgess]

Nearest to me is Elliotts tools.

 

[Cyberprog]

Cheers Mark

 

[Kiers1970]

used it today to zip through Kingspan, what a breeze, BUT a tiny piece of the foil somehow got lodged in between my teeth!!! felt like i was sucking on a PP9!!