There was a pretty large disparity in cutting speed from the fastest to the slowest cutters. Three saws managed to break the 6-second mark cutting through our 8-inch pine logs. Echo topped the list at 5.38 seconds, followed by EGO in second at 5.76 seconds and DeWalt FlexVolt rounding out the top three with an average cut speed of 5.93.

I — as you say, it’s speculative. But I think, if you look at the shareholder base on Haldex today and WABCO being bought by ZF and ZF sitting on 20% of shares in Haldex and Knorr-Bremse sitting on 10%, that mean we have our 2 main competitors sitting on 30%. None of them really active in steering the company today. For instance, we haven’t seen any Nomination Committee from — none of them today. I think, because the regulatory bodies in Brazil and North America have still good competence on this industry since the bid war we were in, so it’s unlikely that they will pick up the situation voluntarily and address it to ZF. But that’s my personal view on it as it is today.

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The one feature that really impressed us the most about the SawStop JSS-MCA jobsite table saw in particular was its blade height adjustment. SawStop uses a geared mechanism that lets you raise the blade the entire height with just one rotation. That saves a ton of time and makes for a very simple action for setting your blade height. Even the blade angle adjust is simple, with a squeeze mechanism behind the height adjustment wheel that easily tilts the blade left or right—and a balanced trunnion means that the mechanism isn’t fighting against you the whole time. Then, a fine adjust knob lets you dial it in for a more precise angle. About the only negative is that, if you touch the bevel adjust knob, you may not actually have the saw perfectly square to the table when you put it back as there’s no clear zero point.

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The only challenge is that if you were to pair his shifting to your controllers, you’d be SOL on shifting – since you can’t control more than one set of derailleurs from one set of shifters. It’s purposefully 1:1 only.  Of course, none of this has really changed very much from the first generation of eTAP, it’s just that now they’ve added the BLE app pairing for setup/config purposes.

Skilsaw was near the bottom in terms of stand portability with a lack of wheels, but still bears mentioning. The stand had a solid, wide base and attaches to the saw with a pair of clips. Its simplicity along with the saw’s light weight make it really attractive if you’re going to be transporting it in the bed of a truck rather than a trailer.

There’s basically three documents/presentations that I found interesting out of all of them. The first two are the super technical FAQ ones. One for road, and one for mountain. If you’re looking for a nuanced answer that I might not have covered in this post (especially for gearing/selections), it’s probably in these.

Milwaukee’s M18 Fuel brushless motor is one of the new large frame designs that spins the 8-1/4″ blade at 6300 RPM. A standard 10″ table saw has a 5000 RPM no-load speed. Accounting for the difference in blade diameter, Milwaukee’s tip speed is 159 MPH – 10 MPH faster than a corded 10″ model.