Any body got one yet?
I’m looking at the 14.4v so I can use/mix my battery supply. Say like 2 batteries at 50 ea and 115 for the driver and it’s hard for me to refuse to get it.
Was putting in a Gdoor and the 18v Bosch HD would bog on the lags, I wish you could use the hammer function in a lower setting so it would work like an impact.
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i ordered a 14.4 from my local bosch supplier a week before Christmas and I am still waiting for it to come in..........
carpenter in transition
Did you get any kind of deal, since it's taking that long maybe they could knock off like 100$.
I got a feeling that I might just need to order up.
amozon should ship pretty quick, I hope I hope.
I'll wait till tonight to see if I get any other feed back.
yeah, right.
local supplier, they'll knock something, but not that much
carpenter in transition
Bosch 23614 14.4-Volt Impactor Fastening Driver <!---->(Rate this item) <!---->Buy new: $239.99
Minus $25 for the Amazon promo and free shipping. That's the best I've found so far.
Eenie,weenie...chili-beanie
Edited 1/17/2005 3:13 pm ET by rez
Being the cheap arse that I be I wonder if ammyzo would honer this. The fact is this is the price on the unit with free shipping. The 25 is off anything over 200, not the impact.??
Model: 26314Now Only $225.00was
$292.00You Save $67.00 ??? hmmm wish hmmmmm.I got the 12 volter to match my emergency purchase of my 12 volt Bosch driver that I got when my 24V failed.
I ordered it from Tool Crib (Amazon) on 12/30 before their special ran out on 12/31/.
It arrived a few days ago.
Not much use for it yet, I have really just fooled around with it so far. Immediate reactions are: The case isn't their finest effort. The driver seems compact enough, feels good, and the balance is decent. I race cars on the side and this will find use in some dark places as well as doing lugs in the paddock at the track, so I really like the built in light that resides at the top of the battery mount. Pretty slick,.
I'll check back after I have put some miles on it, but I suspect that like all my other Bosch purcheses, (except one) it will be a winner.Jake Gulick
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CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
(except one)
Which one?
52747.8 in reply to 52747.7 Which one?"I got the 12 volter to match my emergency purchase of my 12 volt Bosch driver that I got when my 24V failed."That'd be my 24V Bosch driver that failed under heavy torque use. Suddenly...smoke. Once the smoke gets out, they're done..they run on smoke you know! ;)Jake Gulick
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CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
How long and heavy a use did it take to kill a 24v? What's up with yur warentee? was it out. Were you using it in High gear?
yes, the warranty was out, and I was driving a lag screw, and it was slow going. I was in "torque" mode, AKA slow speed. It didn't stall, it just "clicked" and then I smelled that familiar smell...toasted electronics.So I bought a 12V version that day to get me through the down time. Guess what? It did the same thing...about two weeks later....not with a lag though! Driving a screw into wood. But I had registered with the Bosch Provantage program, so I made the call, and the next day the new one arrived....I made the UPS guy wait while I put the toasted on in the supplied return box and label, and that was it. All has been fine since. But I DID buy the right tool for lags...used it the other day...drove 'em like a knife through butter...I think I am not as tough on tools and mech. things as some...I am actually pretty good with my race car...I rarely bring it back with damaged internals. I might have been asking too much with the lag screw, but the second incident was well within the normal use pattern for the tool.Jake Gulick
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CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
So the lesson learned is that you can't use an impact driver for installing lag bolts? Isn't that the whole freakin idea behind having an impact driver?
I think the unit he's talking about was a 24v drill not the impactor, I havn't seen bigger then 14.4v impact for the Bosch.
Mike ...perhaps I was confusing...the lesson to me was that using the 24V drill driver in a long dwan out lag screw driving situation is probably asking too much. It was years old at the time, with plenty of miles.I got the right tool...the Bosch 12V impact unt, and so far, lags go in like an arrow into a jellyfish.......and about the smoke...thats an old electronics joke. (I was just trying to toss a chuckle in there) Your drill is still working, but smoking motors are being over taxed, and the lifespan can be shortened by such use. Stalling them is a bad idea from what my engineer friends tell me.Jake Gulick
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CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
What did Bosch say when you contacted them about the 24v?
This is all so very disturbing.
The 'toasted electronics' smell now just beginning to odorize my Bosch 14.4 drill which I have never abused.
Does smoke always mean the tool is done? I've gotten my Milwaukee 1/2" corded drill smoking a few times mixing up mud, but it seems to work fine. Does that just prove Milwaukee still makes the best drills? Or does it mean I'm carrying a time bomb?
Only Bosch purchase I haven't been happy with is their first attempt at a 10" SCMS. Everything else of theirs I love. You?
Are you refering to the 4410 10" dual bevel slide mitre saw. Amazon is having a special with that saw and stand for $700. I was thinking of getting it. What didnt you like? Do you think they have fixed these problems
Its a $120 less than its 12" brother, hard to cough up that much more coin for a lousy inch extra capacity.
Reinvent, the first scms I bought was the 3915 (single bevel) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000223EO/102-0407650-1968169?v=glance
It has always been too heavy, not enough power, could never get the fence adjusted right, and the extension fence never lined up with the other fence. Tried to get to customer service though the store where I bought it but no luck. Now the trigger is bad, which I understand happens over time, but it was a good excuse to put it out to pasture.
For the last year I've been using my 10" Hitachi with laser and loving it.
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=52072.1
Mini review from a couple weeks ago ^
A minor problem has cropped up, the case doesn't fit under NYC subway seats.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevski
FIT UNDRER SUBWAY SEAT...
This is the first case I've seen in a long time that had room for bits and such.
Lots of room. I assume they use the same case for X # of tools and as I have the 9.6, I got the room.
Here in LA riding a subway is usually not an issue. By and large, we don't have any. We get in our trucks and join the mobile parking lots. We use the time to cell phone, read the paper, watch a DVD, etc.
(Happy thought: It's the Big One, 8.x on the Richter and you are in the LA subway.)The ToolBear
"Never met a man who couldn't teach me something." Anon.
I keep an extra steel tape, mat knife, pencil, and a Hitachi QD driver and masonry bit index I got at Lowes for $10 in the case.
It's like 15 degrees today and we're expecting 12-24" of snow... how long that ground shake?
lol
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
Well, it doesn't shake all the time. Just now and again. Snow, however, you can count on every winter. Meanwhile, today was shirtsleeve weather.
The last serious shake was Northridge - when they discovered that their building codes did not work. Of course, the whole area is crossed with faults. A chap from JPL notes that if we get another of our 31" of rain in two weeks plus a good quake, expect something rather serious in slides. A slide took out the main road to Big Bear in the mountains today. To get up or down, they now have to drive around the mountains to the other side. The rains took out the Ortega highway over Saddelback and the half hour commute is now three hours, one way. No wonder we do it all in our cars. Be great if you could put them on autopilot and get something constructive done - which you can on the train or subway.
We sheer the entire house and are using lots and lots of metal connectors. Enough so that investing in a gun that does nothing but drive Teco nails would make sense.
Then let's talk problem soils. Our next project requires that we toss the first 5' of soil and perhaps put in 18" of gravel over geotextile, then reinstall the soil in lifts, compacting all the way. Then we can pour post-tensioned slabs.
The ToolBear
"Never met a man who couldn't teach me something." Anon.
Check out the 2005 tool guide tauton puts out. I briefed it at the local HD, they liked the Hitachi better and I think the makita was second. Bosch third (I think)