But the reasons for the devaluation are found abundantly, and if you took away every time a star, would not be left. As bad as the PBD 40 is not, however, and in total I have with it an acceptable solution. Therefore only once the good points.
The PBD 40 is stable and is also solid enough that you can handle small to medium sized workpieces without table bracket. (This does not mean that it is free from play: while drilling with a 40mm Forstner bit she trembles, but as I said, I work with an accuracy of 0,5-1,0mm.
The hand wheel is bigger than it looks in the picture (23cm), and allows enough pressure on the workpiece even with harder materials. Mechanically, the system as a whole is solid and perfectly.
The design is good and conceptually convenient with height adjustment, rapid depth stop and quick release block, which you can quickly push aside even to use the rip fence.
The display with the depth measurement system with rapid zeroing is very good.
This brings us to the nitty gritty, none of which are really devastating, but for a device for 300, - unacceptable:
1. The manual is scrap. It provides incorrect descriptions (rotation direction reversed), used terms that are nowhere explained (direction "Unlock") and is extremely cumbersome to read the bit that you absolutely need.
2. The marking laser is inaccurate to each 1mm in both axes. The "but does not matter" because it anyway on the workpiece (and before the eyes) is blurred: fine red line is different. He's just good times to align the workpiece about.
3. The display has a double function that allows switching with a button (speed or depth). Who can adjust the speed with sufficient accuracy with the eyes and ears, wished to make the screen permanently on depth. Yes because of: after each turn it is back up to speed ...
4. The locking lever for the equipment level has a freewheel, so you can rotate it as desired to where you (free or fixed) would like to have him. One would expect that the same goes for the depth gauge lever. But if not, two freewheel lever Bosch were too expensive.
With 2,500 / min, the maximum speed is not very high; Milling can forget. (Bosch also wants to sell routers ...)
The machine needs 2sec to full speed, and about 1sec to stop. She has full torque even at low speed. She is noisy and rough, which is typical of Bosch drills, but not pleasant.
Where the surface is plastic, it is roughened and filthy within seconds with sawdust. The metal surfaces are better, and when it all comes out of China, then I see no reason to complain: the processing is clean.
The PBD 40 trigger me from a 40-year-old Wolfcraft drill with Metabo machine whose control electronics the PBD 40 system still could not fool a trick or two, but the height adjustment on the stand was broken. I am satisfied so far with the new solution and look forward to rapid and accurate deep drilling (the old Messring just slipped ...). The money paid is steep for the performance offered, but with the compact systems, the PBD 40 is virtually alone. A monopoly halt ...
