The spring is a little on the stiff side, but the design seems solid and well thought out. A quick squeeze of the tool change lever is all you need to either swap out an accessory, or rotate the angle it’s set at. The tool-free accessory change design on the Porter Cable is about as efficient a design as you can get. Tool-Free is awesome, but the spring is a little stiffDear Porter Cable product manager, thank you, thank you, thank you for not cheaping-out on the accessory change mechanism (see rant below). Plus, it only goes to six! The first tool company to make a HomeFixated edition tool go to “11” gets my eternal admiration! I don’t care of it’s the same amount of power, it’s the psychology of an “11” power setting at stake here. The speed/power adjustment dial was a bit clunky with rigid clicks and what seemed like unnecessary turning resistance. It’s spec’d at 10,000 – 20,000 OPM, that’s “oscillations per minute”, not “other people’s money” for any Wall Street types that happened to stumble onto this article. The PC250MTK had a solid amount of power in the various tasks we put it through. It breezed through this cut of white oak hardwood flooring smoothly and precisely. It has a nice heft to it though, which helps you stay on track during precise cuts. It definitely felt a bit bulkier in my hand than say the Fein Multi-Master or the Dremel Multi-Max. The PC250MTK made a nice smooth cut in white oakThe body of the tool feels a little rotund closer to the head of the tool (yes, I said “rotund” in a tool review), and a bit more ergonomic towards the back where it went on a diet. Accessory depth gauge durability left something to be desired We’d like to see laser etching or just a more permanent printing technique used on these. There’s not much point to having a depth gauge on the accessories if the printing rubs right off on the first use. Unfortunately, depth markings on certain cutting accessories rubbed off on the first cut through wood. The kit comes with a generous helping of sandpaper, a sanding pad, flush cut blade, two scrapers, wood & metal blades, and a grout removal blade. Porter Cable includes a nice batch of accessories to get you started in the Oscillating Multi-Tool (OMT) world, if you’re not already accessorized. In addition to the tool-free feature we’ll get into below, the Porter Cable PC250MTK Multi-Tool has some good stuff going for it. The included case does the job, but we’re not feeling much love for the divider design. It seems to me this problem could have been avoided with either a deeper bottom tray (although that might have made the accessories harder to ID), or a top lid that doesn’t have tall divider fins. The result is either bending or damaging the top fins (making alignment even harder the next time around), or having to carefully make sure you’re closing the lid just right. Slots in the case top make closing finickyWhile that may sound like a nifty way to keep your accessories on-hand and well organized, the design also means that if you have any accessories not standing straight up in just the right spot, they can then interfere with the fins on the top lid of the case. Porter Cable made the odd choice of having tall, thin plastic dividers on both the top and bottom of the case. Unfortunately, that’s where my love for the case ended. Plus, it’s black, which always scores extra points with me. Not so with this review of the PC250MTK Oscillating Multi-Tool Porter Cable sent us a couple months ago.Īt first glance the case for the PC250MTK looks solid, the kind of case you could toss into the back of your truck and not worry too much about. Inevitably, one complaint with almost every new Oscillating Multi-Tool is the lack of a tool-free quick-change for accessories. We’ve talked about the Fein Multi-Master, the Bosch MX25 Multi-X, and the Dremel Multi-Max, just to name a few. We’ve been on the Oscillating Multi-Tool bandwagon for a while now.
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