I Really Like This saw
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- čas přidán 15. 01. 2023
- Time to say goodbye to my trusty old Hitachi miter saw that made so many accurate cuts on so many projects over the years.
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Next month: Mattias makes a video about picking up a used Hitachi chop saw from the curb and stripping it for parts.
🤣🤣🤣 turns it into an 85" bandsaw???
😅🤣😂
Lol love it
I work from home, and so does my wife. We share an office, and I listen to audio over headphones. When you said the sander sanded right through your air hose, I busted out laughing and scared the hell out of her. Thanks bud, I needed that.
I am surprised that the vids mentioned didn't do well. They were awesome. I always enjoy your home improvement videos. I also like your tools and jigs. And of course your furniture projects. To paraphrase Yogi, "I learn a lot by watching."
Thanks :)
Good to see you post again, missed your videos. On the other hand, it's good to take a break once in a while.
Bye bye Hitachi! Hello Dewalt!
Even HItachi said bye bye to Hitachi, they sold out. Sadly.
Does it cut square? I have a saw that a sponsor gave me a few years ago and it is about the most inaccurate saw I have ever owned. I miss my old Delta 10”. It wasn't compound and didn't slide, but it was always dead on. The new saw has too much flex.
What a milestone, Hitachi was kind of your shop brand mark through the years ;)
Going to miss seeing the green macheen
Lift with your knees, Johnny. LOL
I wouldnt consider myself a "hardcore" fan, but as a woodworker still fresh in the trade I really appreciate the quality of the videos you put out am always looking for the advanced techniques you show or tips you give throughout these videos. Your experience is invaluable and even the simplest themes like laying a floor, or making a frame are always full of super valuable skills for me to learn. So please dont shy away from putting this kind of content out. I know it may not bring the most views, but it is stuff long time followers of your channel are looking for. 🤷♂️ anyways thanks for your efforts and good job on your videos as always!
I'm surprised the ceiling video didn't do better - thought it was an unique video if not an idea. Also enjoyed the 3D frame.
Hey John, how's it going? I'm one of the diehard fans I guess you can say, and also a Locals subb and I can't wait to see both the floor video and the saw replacement - although I'm a little sad to see the Hitachi go... I love that old girl! Anyway, hope you are doing fine, man. Cheers!
I've had the DW790 for about six years now. I used it to build several cabins for church well beyond the reach of electricity and it was awesome. Now it's stationary and I don't even own batteries for it any longer. I managed to provoke a bad kickback on it that broke the fence a few years ago. I had to order another and it wasn't cheap, but it saved the saw. It really is as good a saw as it gets, but the depth is extreme due to the slide mechanism and for that reason I'd rather have a folder like the Hitachi. Never quite got around to replacing it. I did recently give it's prime position to a DeWalt Radial Arm Saw (ironically also called a 790) and I use that now more than the miter saw. My wife gets more money if I die through accidental death or dismemberment, so the radial arm saw has that going for it.
John, you can get the crimp style hose clamps that wouldn't interfere with the hose reel. They're fairly inexpensive and imo a better connection anyhow.
Last year I got to use a friend's Dewalt for a couple of projects and I was sold on the idea of a sliding compound miter saw and wanted one . But I bought a Bosch because I did not have the room behind the saw for the guide bars. The Bosch has a kind of folding arm instead that works really well. But it does not have a laser cut guide or the shadow that the Dewalt has. I miss it, but it is really not that important.
Nice saw!
Diehard here, and waiting patiently for the flooring video! ANY video in general is always welcomed!
Glad you are back. I was afraid a hungry bear may have gotten you or Trudeau did not like something you said. Have faith and stay the course.
I quite enjoyed the last two videos, but I can see how they were kind of specialized projects. The floor on the other hand… well, everyone has floors in their home. I would have thought there would be lots of potential there.
Well done...
I agree with you about DeWalt John & personally own a few of their machines. I would definitely watch that flooring video if you decide post it. 👍👍
i been subscribed ......for 7 years i think .... i got really interested in the home renovation channel ....
its seems that on youtube if isnt fake restoration or clickbait enough or some kind of bullshit it doesnt geet views
it seems the majority of people like to watch those crap videos
i like quality and personally
a month ago i made kitchen cabinets doors and thank god those videos still there it help me alot
I have a real old Dewalt 10” chop saw, no slide, no battery option. It has always cut clean and the word “tight” fits in the way it locks into place. Being 10” chop, it doesn’t have a lot of range. But it is light weight. So that’s a thing
On the topic of videos performing well, perhaps a series on thoughtful home renovations for woodworkers has some useful appeal. I’d be really into it, and woodworkers like stuff that’s a bit more than DIY/flipping. You’ve done a fair amount in that space, but I think there’s still a lot of room to expand and to tighten the focus while broadening the creative appeal.
Also that Hitachi was always an eyesore. Glad to see an update.
I'm surprised the poster frame video didn't do well. I liked it a lot. Probably because I hadn't seen the 3-D effect on anything but cutting boards. The final result is great. Yeah, air hose issues, I've melted through them with old school halogen work lights, had them cut with door sweeps when customer slams door shut (I leave my compressor in my truck on jobs, when possible), had a guy run a staple through one 3 minutes after I told him to be careful to not staple the hose. I have a small collection of random length hoses now.
About 6 months ago I was having a fire when it was windy. A gust of wind launched an ember out the chimney and landed on my air hose which stays outside all year round at the outdoor workbench and burnt a pea sized hole in it.
Not having any hosetail to hosetail fittings on hand, I remembered I once ordered some heatshrink with hot glue on the inside - and the seller sent out a big one by mistake, about half an inch possibly 13mm shrunk ID so it's at least 60mm wide when flat. Took one of the end fittings off, slid a chunk of the heatshrink near the hole, slapped a load of silicone on the inside. Focussed on heating the ends at first and then the middle so the silicone wouldn't just all squeeze out and left the silicone to fully cure.
Was meant to be temporary but it's not leaked even with constant movement and enduring -10.5C temps for many weeks. The shrunk thickness is about 4mm so hard to damage as well. I'd definitely do it again in the future to repair a slightly damaged hose. I don't expect it to last more than a couple of years outdoors but it's easy to redo and indoors it's possible it would last decades. You could probably get away with just using duct tape to support the silicone but I didn't have any duct tape at the time. lol
I would be very interested in having you tear down the Makita to find out what has worn over the years and to discover if it could be brought back to "new" condition again. I am probably in the minority here but seeing how some of the "restore old equipment" channels are doing it might hit a cord.
Thinking it might be interesting to use it to build a table saw.
Hope your back hold out. I been waiting for you to post something here. I was curious if you shut down for the season. Be well.
What would a John Heisz treehouse look like? Probably better to ask that question in the spring, but, anyway, yeah, what would you make for your 12yr old self knowing what you know now?
Interesting. I have the DeWalt sliding miter saw (non battery) and I don't like it but I think the model you have is probably much improved. Seems like the modern battery powered brushless tools work well.
I would like to see the flooring video, people need to learn.
You ever think about throwing the narrower appeal videos up on this channel? That would be cool if there’s enough time in the day to pull it off.
It's a solid two days work at least to edit and record / edit a voiceover for a build video, so I'm not keen on doing that for the $20 it would make on this channel.
Release the video as a Dewalt Miter Saw video with flooring as the project with the saw.
I would be curious to see if rehabbing the Hitachi is feasible and not cost prohibitive. I had an older dual bevel, non-slide Dewalt 12" MS that wasn't running true, bad blade runout and no braking when letting off the trigger. I got new OEM arbor bearings, new blade washers ( somehow deformed over the years) and new brushes, as these actually get worn more from braking than while running, because they run backwards current through the motor to slow it down, apparently. The saw has run like a champ once again and dead nuts accurate. Probably good for another 20 years. The miter index on the front will need replacement soon from wear on the detents, but fine for the moment.
It has been a wonderful saw and the only complaint are the DeWalt blades. 32T Okay for rough carpentry but their 80T trim blade is okay at best.
I cut the rigid dust pipe on the back of the saw short and replaced it with a flexible vacuum hose to save a few inches off the back of the wall. The dust collection is still miserable, and the 'safety' clamp is a joke but otherwise great tool, Ill never be able to go back to a non-shadow-line saw after having it on the yellow ones for years.
Amen to that, brother. Lasers are a guess. Shadows are a fact.
I see the DeWalt cheque finally cashed!
I find DeWalt very hit or miss with tools, some are great, others not so much
Release the video on your home Reno channel.
I really like shadow lines! Hate laser lines.
Does that saw run quieter than your Hitachi due to the brushless motor or is it still loud? That's one of my biggest complaints with miter saws.
Both are about the same, but a bit quieter than the cheaper direct drive ones. Universal motors are loud to begin with, then add the reduction gears and drive belt and blade and it gets even louder. And then take the whole thing and put it into a cabinet that will focus and amplify how much sound it's putting out, and hook it up to a vacuum / dust collector that's running along with it.
But it is a workshop, after all, and not a library.
For years i buy also the Hitachi to, she is not the yellow from the egg. But what bye i now, realy not the DeWald. I need the 30cm/12" saw, the blue Bosch? I am not sure....🤷🙄
John, let me tell you something... I never thought my most viewed videos would get that amount of views. At the same time, those that I thought would make a lot of success... Pfff... Not so much. 😕
So, who the heck knows. Edit and publish it... I can guarantee I'm going to watch. So...
Anyway, tools... Don't even mention them... We're addicted. There's no other explanation. 😬
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
DeWalt is discontinuing this saw and going to a 60v version. From I’ve seen it looks like they’ve made some improvements over the 120v version.
This one is a big heavy beast, so maybe they're trying to bring the price and weight down to make it more manageable. The DW790 is just a DW780, which is their top of the line, with a 120V batter module attached and an adapter to make it work on a 120V socket. I'm sad they're discontinuing it as people who need the power in the field are going to feel the lack.
@@Immolate62 I have the DWS790 and I absolutely love that saw. I wanted the cordless but didn’t want an out dated battery platform 10-15 years later.
Just wish Dewalt made a front glide saw.
Matthias Wandel doesn't like sliding compound miter saws, so your opinion must be wrong. 😉
I'd like to see a comparison between the new Metabo (Hitachi) miter saw and the DeWalt because I don't care about a comparison between a new tool and a 20+ year old tool because that's basically meaningless. That's like comparing a Ford Pinto to a Toyota Prius
How about a video installing a new pex air line?
For the flooring video, try putting Mr Beast in the thumbnail…. 🤫
It isn't too late to inlay his face in the wood floor.
Forrest saw blades are the very best by far. Stop using dewalt blades 2 years agp 3:27
Not sure why, but your main channel no longer shows up in my list of subscribed channels. I unsubscribed and re-subscribed, no love. Wonder if this is from the hijacking...
John go back to ranting...that always made your prior videos interesting.
What would you have me rant about?
Yellow tools, not for me !
It's funny how Hitachi actually pioneered the rail forward design decades ago and this model of DeWalt still uses the rearward railed large footprint antiquated design. I have the same Hitachi saw except mine is the model with the digital readout and aside for the shadow cast cut line (the laser on the Hitachi is easily adjustable) and ability to run cordless, I am of the opinion that if they were both compared new out of the box, the Hitachi is a FAR better machine. I've owned more slide compound miter saws than I can even recall, including the Bosch axial glide & the delta cruiser, and the only saw that beats the Hitachi model with the digital readout is the festool kapex and not by much. I've owned a Makita model (the one which ride on both traditional rearward rails and rails under the giant circular base) which did come close as well IMO.
Both saws take up the same amount of space from the front of the fence to the back of the saw.
Ok... Apparently my saw is more substantially different than I had always thought then .