in our last video we reviewed the Ridgid Strut Slayer and we left that posing the question
what would it be like to put that up against a hacksaw which is the starting method for anybody
cutting channel no we've been a little bit fairer than that we've brought in the milwaukee bandsaw
that we have seen on the channel before as we call it the milwaukee we're not saying
it's difficult to cut straight but we will see how that goes and in the interest of fairness
we did a bit of a coin toss to see who's going to get which tool and rick with heads uh celebrating
the queen's jubilee coming up here uh one with heads on that one so gary gets the the milwaukee
and rick gets the rigid we've got the timer out behind us our challenge today is to cut
four lengths at exactly half a meter so uh challenge us rick are you uh are you ready
there yeah i've been warming up all day and gary i see you've been uh you can put that down you've
got you've got a better tool finally i'm taking on someone that doesn't know that i've got not
a very good record of these challenges and you haven't given me the old-timer's tool okay so
i'm over here i'm in with a chance here are you comfortable with the milwaukee yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah okay you've been warming up i'll see you getting in there a few presses loosen those
up all right so i'll get the the time the time clocks ready so challenge us get to your stations
hope you lose rick are you ready three two one go and we'll see so rick's straight in
with the strut slayer measuring from the uh from the end of the tool so he's gonna have to add on
uh add on point five centimeters rick i just need to uh you need to uh yeah a little bit adjust
them just down there just the old sockets there there we go you all right good to go
and we're straight in oh like butter so you uh yeah you're ready to slot that through
i've probably overdone it with those sockets on the height there you might just need to drop them
down as you reset that gary oh you've got a head start you're marking up all of yours first yes
absolutely yeah get the uh get the head away before the pleasure so i see you're marking up
with a sharpie there you are going to try and get a straight cut well it's got to be a finished end
that was part of the uh pre-ramble rules you told me the ends need to be as if you're doing them on
site and you wouldn't let me use an angle grinder that's good and i see you've got the uh the
sockets in there as well to uh to get the right hand another useful right so he gone in there
that's that's pretty good gary that's almost straight that'll
let you get set up for your next one rick how are you getting on
to last so i see you're uh you're two in already i'm back in with a strut slayer
now the interesting thing i could actually do this remotely by connecting my app up to that
and see now rick's getting over the cuts without even visiting him on site
just bringing that through for his last one and again here gary in the background
bringing in his second cut a lot louder that um that the middle wonky
yeah so you've finished two there gary and rick is that uh you done
okay so i've stopped that at one minute 57 and gary's still uh carrying away there
yeah so rick's uh armed himself with some uh earmuffs there
he's going to be whinging he's going to be whinging so i'll put these on
yeah sure he's allowed that how many on there gary
yeah yeah move that bit of ice in there all right another one
wow there we go so that's four lengths cut there that rick's already in with the minstrels and
gary's ready to start uh start complaining so let's cut to the post match report to see what
our competitors thought so rick we've got another victory your first victory on the e-fix challenge
and one of these challenges and this is your first time using the tool how did you find it oh
very intuitive slide it in press the trigger and away you go so and looking at those ends on there
there are yeah very nice clean nice and smooth i think you've you must have just slipped up on
one i think you've got your length wrong on one but it's uh that's a huge operator error we'll
say on that one i think it's easily fixed though yeah it certainly is and the floor around us here
impeccably clean yeah not much noise a fantastic tool so we'll have to now cut to uh gary or that
was known as the loser in this battle so gary you have lost another one i did yes and i thought
having the milwaukee and i'd like to say my ends are absolutely spot on okay so i think uh maybe
because we've over shot there on one maybe we're going to win it on a technicality well let's just
uh check here gary just step aside please just uh okay let's just have a look at them on the bench
so i would say the uh yeah they're all the same length but i'd argue whether
the older milwaukee in terms of the straightness of the cuts there gary
there seems to be a significant difference between them on that one and cutting to the um let's have
a look i've had the old magnetic hoover route which seems to pick up everything on the bench
and yeah just for anyone watching our ferals video these do not work on copper as well so
that's that's why we use the vacuum on that but picking up the dust is almost art form there but
from just four cuts actually there's quite a quite a significant amount of dust which we
know will cause problems on some sites outside of that hot work so i think uh obviously rick wins uh
in this one gary better look next time try the hacksaw again next time or the chops or see the
full comparison if you haven't seen the review of either of these products i will put a link in the
description below let us know what you think let us know how your cutting channel what you think of
that Ridgid Strut Slayr and comment on gary's work until the next time on efixx we'll see you soon