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More to the point, what blade do you bolt to a multitool that produces a round opening?
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Battery, no contest
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Adapters to OIS are available:
QUICK RELEASE SMARTLOCK MULTI-TOOL ADAPTOR (STARLOCK ADAPTOR) | WELFIX Fixings Solutions Fast
The multi tool adapter is designed to fit your starlock® machine and make it compatible with most universal, OIS and OIS-12 blades.www.welfix.co.uk
The adaptor is made in two halves and fuse welded together. It can be split, a screw added and made to work with a non-QR machine. Similarly, there are other designs on the 3D printing sites, and 3D printing in metal is offered by the Chinese.
I thought about adaptors, but then thought you're losing the entire point of Starlock, i.e. full / much higher transfer of torque to the blade, by putting a piece in between...
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Seconded - I need this blade!!
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I try to buy battery stuff that uses batteries I've already got or get a badapter
My stuff is mostly Bosch 18V but do have the odd bit of Ryobi and use a battery adaptor to power the Ryobi stuff with the Bosch batteries
Just ordered a Bosch to Dewalt adaptor as I've bought a Dewalt recip saw
Would have been nice to have a Bosch saw but they were ££££, Dewalt was available at Toolstation for reasonable money today and I can borrow 3 Dewalt batteries until the badapter arrives
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Tumor inside the foot.
Once it's removed and the tissue has granulated the hole is filled with an adhesive filler and the horse is back to normal within a month.
Holesaw.
They are starlock so you don't even have to bolt them on.
The starlock is handy for this job as I actually use 3 the same size.
Because they oscillate rather than rotate you can reprofile them.
So before cutting I remove 1/3 of the teeth from one blade and 2/3 of the teeth from another to follow the cone shape of the foot.
They don't wander so you don't need the pilot drill which is obviously handy for that job
I use fein ones but cheap versions are available
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I’d go battery over corded. They might be bigger in 18v form but the 12v aren’t any bigger than a corded and using it confined areas a cord, regardless of long it is, just gets in the way.
Multitools are one of those tools you forget about but so thankful that you one have when needed. Having to faff about with a cord makes it more forgettable.
Multitools are one of those tools you forget about but so thankful that you one have when needed. Having to faff about with a cord makes it more forgettable.
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I did need a hole in some plasterboard in a tight area where the drill didn't fit and I did manage to hold a regular holesaw in with a makeshift bolt/washer arrangement.
I don't think it would have coped with a much harder material but it wouldn't take much to make up an adaptor to take regular holesaws.
You might even be able to weld the quick chuck onto an old bit of starlock blade.. I might look at that later..
I don't think it would have coped with a much harder material but it wouldn't take much to make up an adaptor to take regular holesaws.
You might even be able to weld the quick chuck onto an old bit of starlock blade.. I might look at that later..
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One of those Starlock to OIS adapters could be just the ticket for that. It'd give you a sturdier setup than the pressed plate from a blade's Starlock portion.
If you try it, let us know how you get on with that.
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You mean with the massage attachment?
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lol, sounds like you have already made the decision as they are the same thing
definitely cordless and battery as you sometimes need to work in odd places where there is no electric and most jobs with this type of tool are quick anyway
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The picture attached does not look like a conventional holesaw, more a circular flat blade.
An issue with using a standard (e.g. Starrett) holesaw is that the teeth are unidirectional, so on the back oscillation, they would drag and blunt on anything decently hard.
These are available, but the kerf would be quite wide, so slow cutting:
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I have.
Still do regularly.
I don't expect many people know what the original purpose was though!
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I keep one in the box just as a backup in case I need to use a standard blade.
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Continuing the non-standard uses, I wonder if it would be possible to attach a ratchet mechanism to a multitool, so it drives in one direction and slips in the other. Then it could be used to install fasteners. There does not seem to be a standard degrees of oscillation, so that complicates things.
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Normal holesaw just has a starlock attachment.
(You can get other types as well)
Horse hoof is about the same as hardwood like oak or something. Probably not as tough as a wood like iroko (sp?)
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My only experience with them is as a customer of the tool in its original form
It was wielded by a skillful Orthopaedics Nurse after a failed attempt at flying
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The degrees of rotation does vary,
Sometimes it's in the model numbers,
Ie, a bosch GOP55-36 has a 550w motor and a 36⁰ cut angle.
If the cut angle covers more than the gap between 1.5 teeth it should work.
So a ratchet attachment should theoretically work if you have enough teeth in the ratchet for the cut angle to exceed at least one of them.
I'm not sure you'll find a variable speed one that runs slow enough to give the ratchet mechanism time to click back into place?
Maybe a one-way bearing would do the job?
Or maybe an inline 'gearless' ratchet driver already exists?
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One of those Starlock to OIS adapters could be just the ticket for that. It'd give you a sturdier setup than the pressed plate from a blade's Starlock portion.
If you try it, let us know how you get on with that.
I've got Adaptors to fit starlock onto ois but not the other way around. The ones I have are quite chunky so might be ideal.
I've not actually looked at the tool side to see how many mounting points the starlock needs. I know the blade side has lots of holes but I think that might just be so you can mount them in multiple positions.
Won't make any difference where you mount a holesaw so it might only actually need something simple?
