Safe Drilling from DEWALT - Cordless, low vibration and dust free:

Health and Safety is paramount in the workplace and with the added emphasis on dust control, DEWALT has designed a low vibration cordless drilling system with integrated dust extraction to combat this. The DC234KL 36v rotary hammer can now produce low vibration and dust free drilling in conjunction with the new D25302DH integrated dust extraction adaptor.

Long term exposure to certain dusts (especially in silica aggregates) can cause silicosis or asthma. These risks can now be seriously reduced by using the DEWALT system. The D25302DH has an independent motor and draws its power from the 36v battery in the drill. Having an independent motor ensures that full suction power is obtained and that there is no reduction in drilling performance. It works with a sprung loaded extendable nose-piece attached to the handle and a hose that is attached to the nose piece from the dust collector. This means that the extraction works directly on the work piece and all dust is cleared immediately. The vacuum starts as soon as the trigger is pressed and remains on for several seconds after the trigger is released to ensure all hoses are clear after drilling. The dust collector has a HEPA filter, is bagless and is easily emptied simply by removing the cartridge and emptying the contents into a bin.

The DC234KL itself has very low vibration figures. The internal gearbox has its own unique suspended gear case that helps reduce vibration to only 8m/s² (EN60745). It is supplied with 2 x 36v Lithium-Ion batteries and a charger allowing maximum run-time and power. To further enhance the confidence DEWALT have in this new technology these Lithium-Ion batteries now come with a 2 year warranty. The DC234KL is currently available. The D25302DH dust extraction attachment is available from April 2010.

New Muscleman With Tremendous Punch

The mighty new Hilti TE 1500-AVR breaker delivers outstanding hammering power with exceptional reliability. The TE 1500 is suitable for a number of applications, including exposing reinforcement in foundations and breaking out openings for stairs, risers and shafts. The product is specially designed for heavy demolition work at or near floor level with maximum mobility. The TE 1500 is also ideal for creating large channels in floors e.g. for waste water pipes, as well as breaking up asphalt in surface renewal work.

Its brushless high-performance SR motor takes even the biggest jobs in its stride. The electronically controlled SR motor has no rotor windings, no commutator and no carbon brushes. Its advantages are obvious: no need to replace brushes, longer service intervals and much longer lifetime, thanks to brushless SR motor and triple-chamber lubrication system. It also provides constantly high performance even if the supply voltage drops, e.g. when a long extension cord is used.

There are a number of advantages offered by the TE 1500. The powerful electro pneumatic hammering mechanism, SR motor and polygon chisels provide high breaking performance.  The product provides a well-positioned centre of gravity and an optimum grip design for good balance and comfortable handling, which allows extended periods of use.

The TE 1500 can be used in conjunction with the new TE DRS-B system that removes up to 95% of hazardous fine dust, which ensures virtually dustless chiselling is possible. The new induction-hardened Hilti polygon chisels featuring rounded connection ends provide an even longer lifetime. These self-sharpening chisels achieve top performance and greatly reduce sticking.

Leica Geosystems announces the completion of its dot and line laser range

In 2007, Leica Geosystems introduced the cross line laser Leica Lino L2 which changed the market because of its unparalleled  brightness.  With  its  excellent  optics and the well proven Leica quality,  the Leica Lino L2 has set a new standard for levelling and vertical alignment. Due to its tremendous success, Leica Geosystems is introducing three additional products to the Lino range - the Leica Lino P3, the Leica Lino P5 and the Leica Lino L2P5 .

The Leica Lino P3 is a 3 dot laser for easy and perfect plumbing. It is excellent for plumbing up and down and transfers all the  points  you  need, quickly and accurately. It features the Power RangeTechnology™,  a  magnetic  multifunctional adaptor and is self levelling. The  adaptor  offers  many  possibilities. You can set up the adapter over edges and profiles, attach it to circular columns or fix it to steel or iron with the integrated magnet.

The Leica Lino P5 is the classic layout tool. It projects five laser beams, which are exactly at rightangles to one another. This greatly simplifies setting out tasks and makes your interior fitting-out  more precise and efficient. In addition to the plumb beams, it projects three points at exactly the same height. Aligning windows,  partition  walls and other building elements becomes quick and easy.

The Leica Lino L2P5 is a Dot-line laser, all in one layout and alignment tool! This combines all the advantages of the Lino dot and linelasers.  It  features the same bright red cross as the Lino L2, and additional dot lasers to plumb up and down, for 180° alignment and 90° layout. It has four points and two lines which are exactly at right angles to one another. The Leica Linos project  lines or points to millimetre accuracy, automatically compensating for minor alignments by levelling themselves over a  range  of  ±4°.  With these new ranges, customers now have a choice to suit their alignment or levelling task.

MILWAUKEE UNVEILS NEW CHOP SAW

Milwaukee, a global manufacturer of heavy-duty electric power tools, has unveiled a new Chop Saw (CH355E) to its extensive range of corded tools.

The Chop Saw has a power input of 2300w and is available in 110 and 240v, no load speed of 3800rpm, and a wheel diameter of 344mm. It also features an electronic soft start for ease of use, spindle lock for quick and easy cutting disc change and safety and spark protection guard for best user protection. It also has a maximum 125mm pipe cutter.

Measuring 609mm in height, and weighing 17.5kg, the Chop Saw is lightweight and has a sturdy, durable steel base, making it user friendly and extremely stable. The latest addition to the Milwaukee range retails at £169.00 (excluding VAT). 

Rigorously tested according to Milwaukee’s stringent programme, the Chop Saw is guaranteed to be ‘Nothing-But-Heavy-Duty’ qualified and is now offered with extended warranty conditions to three years, at no extra cost, making the it a powerful new addition to the Milwaukee range.

A New Way To Secure Your Site Equiment

Opportunist theft on construction sites has always been a perennial problem, with small items such as power tools, portable generators, radios and hand tools often the target of light-fingered thieves. However, an uncomplicated, quick and efficient method of securing this type of equipment has been developed by a Dutch company – EasyLocker.

The EasyLocker is the very latest in retractable locking engineering, a simple yet very effective system, ideally suited to help prevent the theft of your valuable equipment, from the opportunist thief.

It takes just five seconds to secure most types of tools and equipment. The operator simply fits the EasyLocker to a solid object, such as a metal site box or welfare cabin, and then turns the key to pull out a 5m wire cable. The wire is then looped through the equipment and the security pin is returned into the EasyLocker. The cable is then tightened by a push of a button and the equipment is safely secured. When the site worker is ready to move on, a mere turn of key opens the locking mechanism and the 5m cable automatically rewinds back into the EasyLocker.

The EasyLocker will secure portable construction machinery, wheelbarrows, and even bicycles, lifting equipment or trolleys. It can be fitted to the inside or the outside of vans, helping to keep safe unsupervised equipment.

The EasyLocker is manufactured in the EC and comes with a 12-month warranty. The Hertfordshire based company, Lifting Kit, is the sole distributor of the EasyLocker in the UK and they are currently seeking dealers or stockists throughout the Country.

Latest Technologies Complement SYRINX®

Higher Concept Software are pleased to announce new technologies that integrate with the highly popular Syrinx® Hire Management System as used by over 550 companies throughout the UK and Ireland. In conjunction with the integrated CRM module, these features will benefit HCS customers with improved efficiency and saving time and money in addition to offering excellent customer service.

Electronic Storage and Delivery – State of the art scanner technology means that Delivery and Collection Notes, Purchase Orders and Invoices, Breakdown Notes and even manual dockets can be scanned in and retrieved later on demand. Sales Invoices can be delivered electronically to improve efficiency and costs.

SMS Delivery – enables you to automatically send text SMS messages directly to your customers so you can keep them informed of up to date progress of their order/expected delivery times, etc.
Telephone Integration – the latest telephone technology allows you to see who’s calling. Impress your customers as all notes, account details and rental history automatically displayed. With effective reporting logs and real-time statuses of all telephones, there are no excuses for missed opportunities. Telephone numbers can be dialled from Syrinx® with a single mouse click.

Web Based Customer Access – Syrinx® WS can be linked from your own web site to provide a ‘customer login’ site to let your customers download copy invoices, view equipment on hire, and check which equipment is due for servicing etc.
Syrinx® PDA – Integration with PDA technology enables workshop, servicing jobs, delivery and collections to be handled remotely.

Detailed demonstrations of Syrinx® and all of these new technologies will be available at the Executive Hire Show in February.

New Clamshell Buckets for Bobcat Excavators

A new range of hydraulic clamshell buckets is now available for Bobcat E55W, E60 and E80 excavators.  In addition, the range of dipperstick-mounted hydraulic clamp attachments for the company’s excavator range is now complete with new attachments for the E80 excavator model.    

Available in five widths from 40 to 80 cm, the clamshell buckets are supplied as standard with hydraulic opening and closing as well as a hydraulic rotator, offering infinite revolutions clockwise or counter-clockwise.  All the models are available with a pin-on mount or a Lehnhoff mount system.  

Mounted free-hanging on the dipperstick of the excavator, the clamshell buckets have two sets of two-way auxiliary hydraulics to utilise the two hydraulic circuits.  One circuit controls the hydraulic opening and closing of the bucket, whilst the second hydraulic circuit controls the infinite rotation left or right. The clamshell buckets have a compact and robust design, owing to the new HPX maintenance-free drive system for bucket shell control, which eliminates the cylinder and ensures a constant closing force for easy digging. 

The clamshell buckets have a cardanic upper suspension linking the coupler and the hydraulic rotator which allows free movement in two directions, ensuring that the clamshell bucket hangs straight, independent of the position of the excavator. The compact gear-type design of the hydraulic rotator allows precise control of the approach and stop movements of the clamshell bucket.  Standard pressure relief valves protect against overloading. 

Full closing force is delivered from the beginning of the digging process, when the shells are in the opened position, to ensure powerful penetration in heavy soils, as well as when the shells are closed, to optimally compact the material.  Exchangeable shells permit a wide variety of applications and offer long service thanks to very durable hard-steel cutting edges (500HB) with standard bolt-on and replaceable teeth. 

The hydraulic clamp attachments for the E80 excavator are easy to mount and use. They are available in two versions, a short clamp recommended for use with pin-on buckets, and a long clamp recommended for use with Klac or Lehnhoff systems.  The opening and closing of the clamp is controlled via the standard auxiliary hydraulics of the excavator.

The hydraulic clamps are designed for any application involving picking and placing of objects with the Bobcat E80 excavator. Used in combination with a trenching bucket, the hydraulic clamp functions like a human thumb, allowing the operator to grasp, lift and place broken concrete and asphalt, tree stumps, stone blocks and other objects, fast and accurately.

Blakley Electric's Energy Saving Control for Fluorescent Lighting

Flori67/4P allows intelligent control of temporary fluorescent lighting, thereby allowing a reduction of electricity consumed and therefore a reduction of emissions.

Flori67/4P allows normal 110V fluorescent utility lighting to be switched off at the end of the working period, whilst maintaining the electrical supply to battery packs within emergency fluorescent light fittings, thus preventing a switch over to battery power and discharge of the battery pack. Additionally, it allows security/safety lighting to be permanently illuminated in selected locations, even when the utility lighting is switched off. Again a battery pack power supply is maintained.

Similar functionality can be created by installing two or more lighting circuits; one for utility lighting and one for emergency lighting. Compared to Flori67/4P this requires a greater use of materials and extra installation time

A major benefit of the system is that the main lighting ‘string’ that includes the sockets into which the adaptors fit, allows any of the three luminaire types to be plugged into any of the sockets whilst maintaining the required function of the luminaire. This allows the user to decide which type of light fitting should be used in a particular location. Furthermore, as the project evolves it is a simple matter to relocate light fittings as required.

In a normal non Flori67/4P installation, where emergency lighting is installed with utility lighting and the utility lighting is switched off, the emergency fittings remain illuminated using battery power. When workers return to site and the lights are switched on, there is no emergency lighting, which could be a fatal hazard and may not be noticed. Additionally, the batteries used in emergency fittings cannot stand to be fully discharged and recharged on a regular basis. It will result in the batteries not being able to hold a charge in as little as two weeks from installation. Again a possible fatal situation or at best an unacceptable waste of equipment and time to replace defunct fittings.

The adaptor (plug) and socket arrangement are unique to Flori67/4P. This prevents other lighting or power tools being plugged in. The socket and adaptor are moulded in high performance materials offering high impact resistance, encapsulated electrical terminations and protection to IP67. The ring of the adaptor when engaged with the socket provides an IP67 connection as does the lid of the socket for when it is not in use.

For more information contact Blakley Electronics - http://www.blakley.co.uk