Hi,
About a week ago I bought a DeWalt DCS356 multi tool as I had a flooring project to work on at home, I've never owned a multi tool before.
On the whole, I'm quite impressed with it.
I am a little surprised at the time it takes to cut through 18mm hardwood ply even with a Saxton hard wood titanium blade, it certainly isn't a 'knife through butter' kinda thing but just using the weight of the tool it does get there. I was also convinced it would be slicing through old screws with ease but now realise from some research that there is a certain technique to cutting them and I'm using Saxton heavy metal blades.
The reason for the post though is to do with the trigger lock. If I hold the trigger fully in, you get that really high pitched whine, the minute I engage the trigger lock you can hear a noticeable drop in the tone of that whine - it's like the revs have dropped a bit if that makes sense.
Does anyone have any similar experience with this model?
Personally and with hindsight having used it a lot everyday, I don't see the point of a trigger on this type of tool, I always engage the trigger lock to then allow me to hold the tool and concentrate on what I'm doing but that might just be down to how I'm using it on this project.
At one point I was about to buy a Milwaukee 18v Fuel which I don't think has a trigger at all which may have suited me better on this job altho I have to say the quick blade release on the DeWalt is superb.
Interested to know if anyone has experienced something similar.
Many thanks for your time.
About a week ago I bought a DeWalt DCS356 multi tool as I had a flooring project to work on at home, I've never owned a multi tool before.
On the whole, I'm quite impressed with it.
I am a little surprised at the time it takes to cut through 18mm hardwood ply even with a Saxton hard wood titanium blade, it certainly isn't a 'knife through butter' kinda thing but just using the weight of the tool it does get there. I was also convinced it would be slicing through old screws with ease but now realise from some research that there is a certain technique to cutting them and I'm using Saxton heavy metal blades.
The reason for the post though is to do with the trigger lock. If I hold the trigger fully in, you get that really high pitched whine, the minute I engage the trigger lock you can hear a noticeable drop in the tone of that whine - it's like the revs have dropped a bit if that makes sense.
Does anyone have any similar experience with this model?
Personally and with hindsight having used it a lot everyday, I don't see the point of a trigger on this type of tool, I always engage the trigger lock to then allow me to hold the tool and concentrate on what I'm doing but that might just be down to how I'm using it on this project.
At one point I was about to buy a Milwaukee 18v Fuel which I don't think has a trigger at all which may have suited me better on this job altho I have to say the quick blade release on the DeWalt is superb.
Interested to know if anyone has experienced something similar.
Many thanks for your time.
