My local Topps has just got one of these in Vitrex Brutus Pro 1100W Electric Tile Saw (230V) - Machine Mart I thought Dewalt had a patent on the sliding bed???

Originally Posted by Bri

My local Topps has just got one of these in Vitrex Brutus Pro 1100W Electric Tile Saw (230V) - Machine Mart I thought Dewalt had a patent on the sliding bed???

Tell Montolit that !

My sigma slides too .

Quite a few do.

Not a very worthwhile patent then!

Loads of wetsaws have sliding beds.. from dewalts to felkers..

Dewalt seem to make quite a big deal out of the fact that their bed is unique in the write up for the d24000.

Their rail system might be..? but deffo not on the sliding bed..

I'd never noticed all the other cutters with a similar design until I started looking for a new one. Had a look at the Brutus and it looks well made but the sliding bed didn't slide very well, so yeah, maybe its the rails that have the patent.

I was having a nosey at one of these last week when the young lad in told me it could run off 240 and 110v. I tried to put him straight but he was having none of it, bless!

Originally Posted by peteablard

I was having a nosey at one of these last week when the young lad in told me it could run off 240 and 110v. I tried to put him straight but he was having none of it, bless!

You gotta luv these guys..

Thats dangerous advise...sack him.

I should have grabbed my transformer out of the van and asked him to show me

Just had a trade leaflet through the door from Topps, these are down to £400 now. Don't know if they are any good and don't want one but it seems quite a decent price to me?

My Topps have still got the same one in stock from when this thread started! £400 is about 1/3 off, they must be struggling to shift them.

Originally Posted by peteablard

I was having a nosey at one of these last week when the young lad in told me it could run off 240 and 110v. I tried to put him straight but he was having none of it, bless!

Yeah you plug a 110 into 240 and it works at twice the speed! But not for long...

Originally Posted by peteablard

I was having a nosey at one of these last week when the young lad in told me it could run off 240 and 110v. I tried to put him straight but he was having none of it, bless!

Time for some staff training..