buying tools from overseas

[Maverick81]

does anybody know

....any websites or retailers based in the EU from which to buy power tools?

Next question would be....can you buy power tools from the continent and use them here.......would it be just a case of putting one of our plugs on it?

 

[Burnerman]

Most of the usual European countries - Spain, France, Germany, Italy - share the same voltage and frequency as ours.....230v, 50Hz.
Therefore you can use their power tools over here with the correct plug.
John

 

[Dave54]

Couple of things. If you need to return it under warranty can you return it locally? Certainly with photographic gear the manufacturers can get funny about "grey imports"
Also if you cut the plug off and they were feeling awkward, I wonder if it would invalidate the warranty.

 

[Burnerman]

I bet they all come from bloody China anyway
John

 

[Deleted member 174758]

If you need to return it under warranty can you return it locally?

deWalt can get a bit shirty, as can Milwaukee.

 

[big-all]

I bet they all come from bloody China anyway
John

my dewalt uk stuff comes from somewhere like slovenia
and the american stuff is mexico

if you apply the same training the same material quality same work ethics and the same quality control it matters not where you make things

 

[Deleted member 174758]

if you apply the same training the same material quality same work ethics and the same quality control it matters not where you make things

In theory, yes, but try saying that to a DW rep when you've been denied a warranty claimon a tool manufactured in Mexico (18g nailer). It took two months to get them to admit that when there had been a shortfall in production in Germany they'd imported a batch

Out of interest the nailers were originally made in Germany, Mexico and China (I have a German and a Mexican). My mitre saw is Italian. My one and only cordless is from China (and wasn't a grey import). I think it's the routers that come from Slovenia (Perles, who are owned bu the Turkish tool manufacturer Iskra)

 

[big-all]

they can often get confused themselves
i think the default is mexico = has been a customer usa import so not covered
even iff the right hand dont know what the left hand is doing