Makita Press Day A Great
The vast Makita UK Headquarters in Milton Keynes is a good venue – centrally placed with good transport links - so easy to get to – but also with enough dedicated areas for visitors and customers to examine and try out some of the wide range of Makita tools. And Makita provides good lunches too! This year over 57 new Makita tools
in all categories were launched – that is over one a week. It is clear that Makita’s R and D departments are not sitting back on their laurels. The wide range of tools launched covers sectors as diverse as construction through to agriculture so Makita has a significant number of technical challenges to overcome in the pursuit of greener, more efficient, technically advanced and well-priced tools. Some of these were briefly outlined
at the start of the day, for example the development behind the new AVT
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users of petrol powered machines, both two and four stroke, is that Makita has engineered a number of solutions for saving fuel that make the cost of ownership and use of these machines much more economical. We can also expect to see many more of Makita’s four-stroke petrol
year with the launch of Makita’s 18v 5Ah battery that can be fitted on many Makita cordless tools. With two batteries and smart electronics to prevent overload and deep discharge, the 18v batteries can be linked to run machines as diverse as a lawnmower or a chainsaw with a full 36v on tap! In the
accessories department there is a range of new Gold Impact driver bits, a unique threaded rod driver that has taken the market by storm, a range of four
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engines in various roles too, as they are intrinsically less polluting, easier to start, less noisy and have greater torque than two-strokes. The Makita genius is to make them small enough to be fitted on smaller machines at the same time as coming up with solutions to the more
sizes of Makpac stackable cases and a simple Magboost attachment that hold screws in place on a driver bit. Simple
of hammers now has a vibration measurement of less than 5m/s, making it possible for an individual worker to use one of these hammers for a full eight-hour day.
On the
(Anti Vibration Technology) demolition hammers, explained in detail by Ray Wilby. In many ways this technology is revolutionary because the AVT range
petrol powered machines Martin Dunn went into a great deal of technical detail. Fascinating stuff, but the upshot for
complicated four stroke engine architecture – all those moving valves you know…. Cordless has received a boost this
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