Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Installed on 24 inch OC studs. Some of the images are presented on Bladerunner page. ***** Extremely light. Love the carry handle and little effort needed to handle weight. Lots of people complain about plastic parts and this one has plenty. No problem for me. This is 21st century and plastics are de riguer and quite sturdy. ****** Bladerunner seems smaller in person, but quite adequate nonetheless. ***** I read a review about using better quality blades than came with it and I agree. Stuck the wood blade in for first try and it did not cut as expected. Put a better quality blade in it from my jigsaw collection and it cut like a hot knife through butter. Yep, use better blades. Only tried wood so far, but believe it will do fine with other materials as per specs. ****** About blade insertion: Seems if the blade is stuck in and you think it is secure, it may not be. When placed in reciever, there seems to be about a 1/16 more it can be pushed in(like its going against a spring force) and that is where it is totally secure. I put one blade in(without pushing the extra 1/16-before I knew I had to), pulled up on it to see if secure(it seemed to be), and when I started cutting, it came out. I tested the procedure over and over and when I didn't push that little extra, I could pull out the blade every time by hand. So, now I'm careful to make sure, with the added grunt pull. ******* I have to wear ear protection when using. It makes too much noise for me not to. ****** When cutting, it does not shake and vibrate at all. Very satisfied with how secure it is in the wall mount. If you are not using the right blade, wrong speed, too much feed, etc., I suppose the machine will let you know with some shaking. ******* The instructions said to mount the bottom wall mount bracket at 3 and 1/2 feet from floor and I found this to be way too high for my 6 foot height(I did not install it there and redo to optimum height for me-I tested some heights before hand and found 35 inches was good for me). ***** The power cord outlet from machine is at the same height as the bottom wall mount bracket. It shoots out smack dab in middle of it and rubs against it. Doubt if the little vibration the machine has would cause wear through. However, some designer did not catch this little mistake. The cord immediately takes a bend right out of the strain relief because of this. To rectify, I would have to cut the left and right stanctions about an inch, so as to lower machine beyond the point described above. Maybe I could add about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch of material into the stanction reciever holes in wall mount bracket(to rise above bracket), but this would leave only a little of stanction in hole. I could beef it up by adding pipe brackets on stanction or drill holes in stanctions and sink some screws. With my mounting I can do that. ******* The instructions say the upper rollers are adjusted at factory so as not to bend blade when put in position. Well mine bend the blade slightly. Instructions say adjustment can be made to center, but I tried and tried and could not get the movement needed. It is slight and don't think roller wear or cut is effected enough to worry about, but I will try to find a way around it. ****** All in all good tool and I think it will perform as advertised.