Circular saws - new or secondhand?

[angelboy]

I'm in the market for a corded circular saw as my old dewalt 18v saw batteries are getting old and there's not much power in it anymore.

I know used tools are a bit of a hit and miss (my used dewalt impact driver only lasted a year!) and I'm always wondering why people sell them unless they're on their last legs - but I keep seeing a few nice festools or hilti saws that are close to the £150-200 mark and wonder if they're any better than buying a new £150-£200 lower quality saw that end up being £50-60 when they sell second hand.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Have new cells put in your batteries?

 

[AJB Temple]

I bought a used Hilti off this forum. Fantastic saw. Bombproof really.

 

[MikeJhn]

It you can find a Festool for £150.00 buy it, other than that, find a model shop and get the cells in the pack replaced, Weston UK in Teynham Kent are importers of Sanyo cells and do this regularly.

Mike

 

[angelboy]

Whats the cost of replacing the cells?

I have 5 batteries, all pretty weak now. I thought I'd be having to replace all my dewalt tools for newer ones - which would be annoying and expensive.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I don't know off hand but it's cheaper than buying new branded batteries. You could take a chance on a couple of pattern batteries and see how they perform before buying more.

 

[Distinterior]

I had a couple of 18v NiCad Atlas Copco (AEG/Milwaukee) batteries re-celled a few years ago by this company..... http://www.combatalexander.co.uk/main/m ... eries-home

They did a good job and the batteries still take a charge today.
The cost of having the original batteries re-celled was about 1/3rd of the price of buying new batteries at the time.

I cant say for certain that they still operate the same system now, but back then they had a lot of the common power tool batteries in stock. You would just send them your old batteries and they would send you re-celled replacements. The 2 that I had done were not a common battery so I had to go back and collect them about 10 days later.

Tim.

 

[angelboy]

I found this online - http://www.recellyourbattery.com/prices

I might give them a go, maybe send off one battery a month........

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

I found this online - http://www.recellyourbattery.com/prices

I might give them a go, maybe send off one battery a month........

They are verrrrry expensive :shock:

Obi Wan