Freshly delivered to my doorstep this morning is my brand new cordless 40 volts Makita circular
saw. This is the bare unit so it doesn't have the battery or the charger as I've already got those.
Usual pile of gumph, the instructions to do with the AWS which is the bluetooth sander which pops
into here and you can fit the other receiver to your vacuum so when you pull the trigger on the
machine it turns the vacuum on turn it off turns off automatically a great thing for on-site but
for me not something I use every day so I don't really need that typical standard circular saw
but this one has the advantage that it also has a track saw plate you can buy the track separately
from the Makita and as all track saws they just fit straight in and like you know how they work.
Side guide. that fits in down there it also has a lights in here so you can see what you're doing
when you're sawing your wood and various options for angles, the release handle on the back drops
the plate down so that gives you that way knocks front and back obviously it goes the other angle
very very portable manageable and versatile taking a 40 volt battery it adds quite a bit of weight
surprisingly but still very usable um pull the trigger the light was really comes on so you
when you've got it in place you can check on your markings and uh let's just give it a quick work
very fast start up but not an instant drag and a good braking system on it
also seems to come with a specialized cordless sword blade which is actually much thinner than
your standard blade I would expect that to reduce to drag when cutting and extend extended battery
life I'll have to get it in the garage to cut some wood and find out how it really works to
demonstrate the cutting ability of the saw I'm going to use a piece of kitchen worktop
some 18mm OSB and a piece of 22mm decking board I've already attached the extracted
duct that comes in the box ready for my Makita vacuum to collect the dust
and I've already adjusted the guide to the thickness of my cut that I want to go with what
I forgot to mention earlier is there's a little light up there which registers the torque it has
an automatic setting in here where it adjusts the torque setting to the thickness of the wood
if it's a nice clean thin piece it'll turn the speed up so you get a quicker cut it was a thicker
more denser piece it'll wind the torque up but slow the machine down again giving a better cut.
As we can see the edges are really nice and clean
with no big chips or burrs across the edge which you do tend to get with a lot of sauce
similarly and on the edge of the natural wood there
and with the kitchen works off see it hasn't taken the plastic edging off at all
referring back to a feature I mentioned earlier with the track saw running through there
I have my 240 volt tracks all pad or a different manufacturer I might say
but it is a good fit
you have the adjustment knobs here and a locking bar just there for the track, I just remove the
guide... drop it on the floor one thing you have to do this obviously because this is not
a dedicated track saw you have to lift the guide up for the blade so that it will just sit in there
and again you just use the at the
release on the back to just lift the blade up to your desired height
Obviously you can't use it as a plunge unless you leave it loose
but you just have to bear in mind there's obviously no spring mechanism in which to
bring it back into the safety guide and also with that in mind as well if you look underneath
you just have to be incredibly careful of the blade
but that said come back to this side again you have the lock adjusting knobs on each side
so you can tighten it up so you get a nice and straight and just lock it into the bar
lovely nice smooth action
an incredibly versatile saw which I can't wait to use in anger on my next big project
if you have any questions or you'd like to see me try cutting other materials with it
please leave a comment in the box below and until next time thanks for watching