Jim – It’s a legit comment! It’s funny, move into a really big, long schedule build, and everyone wants the big table saw and the big stable miter saw…do a quick remodel and the thought of mobilizing all that heavy stuff sucks! Thanks for reading our stuff!

Renato,

Head deflection is a hard thing to quantify and measure consistently and therefore we didn’t attempt to. It’s definitely a function of stiffness of the arm system but also user control. When then Bosch glide first came out lots of guys were unhappy with head deflection, but it can easily be dealt with simply by how the saw is used, in fact that’s the saw I have in my wood shop and I love it. So I guess what you should do, head over to a box store and try each one, you’ll get a sense of how they compare based on how you use the saw.

Anyone ever travel the US using the different saws? if so did outside temp made a differance

Bengt – Thanks for your thought and construction criticism. I’ll give a few responses but as we’ve said many times, we have limited time and limited resources. This is all done with volunteers nights and weekends so we crank out the best we can.

1, 2, 3, 4 – I don’t disagree with your comment. I’d love to spend more time on this topic, it’s just a time management situation. We feel pretty strongly that what you get out of the box can be quite telling about the overall experience of the tool. I think when we do one of these with a smaller tool sample we could do some “after” measurements.
5 – Good catch…we may have that data i’ll have to look and update if we do. Thanks
6 – Dust collection – This is a topic we kick around a lot. The fact is a comparison of the the dust lost without a vac is very indicative of the performance with a vac. It’s a geometry issue with the blade/shroud in almost every case.
7 – We’ll agree to disagree. We do this to help guys try and understand that not all batteries are created equal. When you normalize the data you can see which tools use the battery more efficiently. Many tools companies are confusing consumers with voltage claims (MAX), mixed watt-hours on packs (when they use multiple voltages, etc). Some tools don’t come with a kit, so some companies send an extra large battery (hoping to tweak the results I’m sure). So this levels the field. We provide the raw data so guys can see without the correction as well.
8 – Some of these “issues” you point out can’t be evaluated in a short test cycle like we do. We go based on what’s in front of us at the time of the test. These are NOT long term tests, and we simply can’t do that.
9 – I”m sure we’ll look at other Bosch performance with that pack as they release it.

Thanks!

Shawn – The shut off situation is a bit rare in the sense that we were constantly cutting, and the team felt it wasn’t as representative as a normal work process for any of us. We felt that under normal conditions the saw would have a lot more resting periods and therefore not go into shut down mode. Several of us run this saw and don’t see that happen during a normal day.