Do you have a favorite power tools brand? if so, why is it?
>Young anon here who wanna PrepHole for fun
>fall in love with DeWalt because it's color
Do you have a favorite power tools brand?
Do you have a favorite power tools brand? if so, why is it?
>Young anon here who wanna PrepHole for fun
>fall in love with DeWalt because it's color
Why though? Yellow is the worst color.
Yellow and black are nice when together
57million drunken fools in my hometown agree
Ryobi, because I am on welfare and its easy to steal from Home Depot
Why don'you steal milwaukee, dewalt, or makita?
Im a Ryobi user and you think im not a fricking moron?
kek
I genuinely don't understand the Ryobi hate. I can buy 3 ryobi products for the price of 1 meme Dewalt or Milcucky. I have had 1 ryobi fail and I emailed them and they mailed me a replacement. And it was my fault it broke. Squeezing the frick out of a cold glue gun
This. If you’re going to thief, thief the good stuff
Ridgid because your tools should match your drum kit or guitar.
Orange weekend warrior master race. It's dewalt / makita tier at a slightly lower price point and has the best warranty in the game.
Downside is their tool selection is meh. That’s why I also sprang for the Ryobi. Ridgid has all the basic contractor stuff and they’re starting to sell more mechanic tools, but they don’t have shit for OPE.
I honestly just shill Ryobi now since they released so much new HP stuff. Pretty much every main tool has 2-3 tiers, the budget Black & Decker tier, the weekender tier you expect from Ryobi, and the HP for close to DeWalt performance for a few bucks less. Plus Ryobi has a bunch of lights, fans, vacuums, radios, etc where the Milwaukee and DeWalt versions are way overpriced since they know the consumer won’t switch battery platforms over a $60 markup on a fan.
Still gotta see how good Ridgid’s warranty actually is. I’m waiting for my oldest battieries to brick themselves to see what the deal is like to get a replacement.
Two great quality Ryobi tools are their miter saw and their pin nailer. I liked the Ryobi miter saw better than the DeWalt, and I got a friend that's been doing custom carpentry for 40 years and he swears by their pin nailer.
>wilfaukyee
Thats Skookum as Frig with a 5star rating on https://avedictionary.com/ fellow patron, i see you are keeping your dick in a vise ya c**t!
It stands alone
>>fall in love with DeWalt because it's color
I like black and yellow because of an old joke between me and my wife, but hate Dewalt because that's what we were given for a few years on an overseas jobsite and they were all beat to shit. I'm absolutely certain any other brand would be just as shitty if I dealt with it under the same conditions, but you don't get to choose what rubs you the wrong way.
Check out the lineup of power tools they offer, see if it aligns with the sort of things you like doing. There's a couple oddball tools each manufacturer does that others don't, but it doesn't matter if you don't see a need for a cordless one. You're buying a battery system, and the tool is really secondary.
Back when I bought into a battery system, they were all made in Asia, so it didn't matter. Went with Milwauke and am very happy with their tools--but nowadays, Dewalt has some cordless tools being built in America, and I'd rather support US interests. Would have been a gamechanger, but I'm locked in to what I'm locked in. Milwaukee has a marginally better cordless drill, Dewalt has a marginally better cordless angle grinder, Makita is teal colored. It's all the same to the end user, you and me, if we're not getting paid enough to use them where we actually notice the differences. For PrepHole you really can't go wrong with the major brands. I wouldn't even discredit Ryobi users, their stuff is very near the same quality for a steep discount.
If you like black and yellow, and don't need specialty tools they don't make, you could do a lot fricking worse than choosing Dewalt, and nobody can reasonably tell you why their team colors are *just* better without nitpicking stupid shit. Buy your Dewalts, and have fun, bro.
I use Einhell. Not a top line brand, but batteries are good and my local supplier has them in stock. Also they are German, which is a plus since I am a hardline nationalist.
Anome have any experience with Einhell? Be nice to hear some experiencea or downsides.
Brudi Einhell ist der gleiche China Schrot wie Ryobi, Lidel und der Rest, der Name Einhell steht nur für die Import Firma das ist das gleiche wie BGS Technik die Prodozieren nichts selbst das zeug kommt alles aus Asien !!! Wen du wirklich Made in Germany willst dan hol dir Bosch Blau, Fein oder Metabo aber selbs da werden nur die Top Modelle in Deutschland Prodoziert !!!
Scheisse. Aber ich kann jetzt nicht mehr zurück. Ich besitze bereits die meisten Werkzeuge auf dieser Akkuplattform. Ich denke, ich werde sie ersetzen, wenn sie kaputt gehen. Wahrscheinlich Makita dann, Bosch traue ich nicht. Ich habe gesehen dass viele ihrer Sachen gleich kaputt gehen
>Bosch traue ich nicht
I had the same feelings as you, but I still gave the BLUE 12V compact drills a try. they are great! we also have two at the company I'm with and they get tortured weekly. they stand up to the task. If you want german built, then try Festool but with festool you pay a big price for performance just like blue Bosch.
Einhell Redline is probably fine, heard good things about them. They might be rebranded Ryobi's.
For me, it's Bosch Professional
Makita, because where I live is either DeWalt, Makita, Bosch and infinite chinkshit and second brands like Skill, Einhell, etc. And since I work with wood mostly, it's Makita for me. The rest of the tools are corded so I don't give a shit about choosing between the 3.
HVAC service tech and I’ve gone with Milwaukee and wish I hadn’t.
Don’t get me wrong theyre clearly the best tools but I lose tools much more often than I break tools and I would save so much money if I was replacing ryobi instead of Milwaukee and now I’m wrapped into an infinite sunk cost loop.
Solution.stop losing tools
But anon, that would mean I'd have to put tools back where I got them from at the end of the day!
If you go the luddite route like this anon
you won’t lose as many tools because they will always be at the end of the cord! Sure, you won’t be able to use them without unrolling a hundred feet of extension cord or having a generator nearby, but being a luddite sure beats losing tools.
Guy I work with (in HVAC service) has a sweet little 12v Makita he uses. Doesn't weigh shit and does the job 99% of the time I'd imagine.
>be me
>tell people about lifetime warranty
>never registers his tools
I know how many power tools and batteries i have, if the numbers dont add up when im putting them away ive left something somewhere. Learn to count, it will save you a fortune.
is there a brand out there that does magenta/pink and black?
>salmon/pastel
fricking disgusting
Makita does special edition pink & black runs for pink ribbon month.
I'm in the DeWalt ecosystem as well, all cordless: circular saw, drill, angle grinder, jigsaw and considering getting either a planer or an oscillating multi tool.
I went with DeWalt cause I knew once I buy 1 single tool, I'm stuck in that ecosystem, so I decided to go with a company that consistently makes top 3 tools in each category. The other options were Milwaukee and Makita, but Milwaukees are too expensive without a good reason and Makita did some frickery in the past which makes me not trust them. DeWalt seems to be the only company that actually gives a shit about the customer and the prices are fair. Now if someone were to give me some Milwaukees for free, I'd use them without hesitation, but I wouldn't spend my own money on them cause I'd feel I got ripped off.
>Makita did some frickery in the past which makes me not trust them.
when makita was first getting a toehold in the US market and they were one of the only cordless tools available, everything they made had some niggling little issue that didnt necessarily show up until youd used it a bunch- the pad sanders were sized so a 1/2 or 1/4 sheet of paper was *just* too big and had to be trimmed or folded to compensate, drill chucks were *just* different enough that no other key would work in a pinch, rotary tool arbors and nuts either needed a special washer that would get lost or didnt fit a bunch of blades, or they wouldnt accept blades that were *just* a hair too thick but fit indentical tools, etc. etc.
Once those issues were known it just made me long for the day when there would be a non- Makita alternative, and once that day came I never considered them again.
same
thing I don't like about Makita is they have had the same products for the past 30 years and don't innovate. DeWalt and Milwaukee put useful doohickeys on their shit now.
My experience with dewalt tools is universally good. I have no complaints after years of using all their shit, from impacts to Brad nailers to battery circulars drills recip whatever. All of them have been very good to me. Nothing has ever broken or failed besides one 7 year old recip.
Milwaukee all day. Probably the best all-around tool manufacturer.
no because it depends on the tool if you dont buy meme disposable trash battery cordless ones
I use Makita mostly because my dad has always used it so thats why I chose it plus I like the colour. My buddy gives me shit for it because he is biased towards Dewalt and believes that is American made.
Man a few years back Stanley seemed like they were actually trying to do more stuff in the US, especially with Craftsman, but their PR dept has been awfully quiet since Biden has been in office.
A lot of craftsman’s non-battery tools are made in the USA. Nearly all of their yard tools, gas lawnmowers/snowblowers, toolboxes, air compressors, shop-vacs, screwdrivers, etc are made in USA. Not too sure about sockets and ratchets because I’m still kicking with a Sears set from the 80s. I’ve got a plastic 5 layer craftsman shelf they made in the USA and a 24 inch level. They slap a big “MADE in USA *with global materials” logo on the things that are made here and a handful of other things are made in Mexico. But when it comes to battery stuff and disposable tools like drill bits pretty much everything is from China
granted, their snowblowers and lawnmowers are made by MTD anyway, so
I don’t think their hand tools are yet, that’s supposed to be coming with a new factory in Texas but who the hell knows when that actually gets running.
The tool boxes are probably the biggest thing, but some other anon mentioned why they do that. Suppsedly the US puts a big tariff on tool boxes specifically because the CCP subsidizes Chinese manufacturers, ane Craftsman can afford to do that and still compete. The rest of the shit you mentioned is pretty much “Assembled in USA” meaning they bolt the Chinese compressor on the Chinese tank somewhere within US borders.
Craftsman has those new V-Series hand tools which look sweet, they’re basically Facom designs manufactured in Asia. I’m wondering if that’s the stuff they will be making in the US. It’s only sold online so far, I really wanted to try out a ratchet and maybe some bit sockets, but it’s like the new Milwaukee wrenches and sockets where the price is too high for Asian made tools. Even if they’re really nice, I would probably spend the extra few bucks on SK or Proto with the prices already being so high above solid Taiwan stuff like Gearwrench
Milwaukee
Because they probably have an electric toothbrush tool available if I needed it
???
I actually do this, but with a 6 inch extension. Beets the hell out of manual scrubbing by a mile.
i NEED this. Thanks anon.
They’re not as great as you would think. There’s a reason sanders and buffers use a random orbital action instead of basic spinning.
>because the color
i use dewalt and dewalt only but you are a fricking gay so i suggest using milwaukee
i used dewalts pretty frequently during hgih school for my robotics team. Because of that i started buying into the dewalt system.
My favorite power tool brand is the old makita shit with the metal nameplates, made in japan and with the distinctive blue/green shells made of either painted aluminum or thick heavy plastic (not the thin crap that they use nowadays made in china lmao)
pretty happy with my ridgid aegs
hardwearing
Can’t beat the high vis tools!
>Good blades in cheap tools
This guy fricks
That was the point. If I try to cut a 2x4 with that shitty little Ryobi 5.5” saw and it had a cheap dull blade, there’s no way the thing is going to last long.
As for the recip saws, Diablo sells carbide tipped pruning blades in different lengths and those are based for ripping apart tree branches and shit. Cheap blades and drill bits will make a good tool run like absolute shit, I only had to by Hyper Tough blades once to figure that out.
Makita because I'm a weeb.
I got Milwaukee a few years ago during a christmas sale, got the M18 fuel Drill/Impact combo kit for $400 and got a free M18 grinder and oscillating tool. The grinder is kinda meh but most cordless grinders are. Ironically it cuts concrete better than metal. The oscillating tool has been an absolute dream, so versatile. The impact has been solid but most impacts are. The drill is an absolute beast for how compact and light it is. We started using it instead of our corded hole hawg cause it could drill the same sized holes faster, without dragging a cord. Hit a knot one time drilling with a 3/4" self feeding bit and it broke the stud. Only complaint is fit/finish, sometimes the trigger pushes down instead of straight back and wont engage, which makes precision work a little frustrating.
have like a 20 year old milwakee sawzall. a milwakee angle grinder. a milwakee oscillating tool which is actually lightyears one of the best tools i ever bought. i use it to saw weird shit up and use a triangle pad to sand in corners i used to have to hand scrape. i have a milwakee trim nail shooter (18 gauge). and a drill and bit driver. the bit driver is legit awesome i bought some socket extensions for it and its like a mini impact gun now.
they are expensive but ive literally had like zero issues with the new batteries they use now or the tools themselves they are legit
>FUEL
i will share my collection
saved
No.
30 year electrician with a mix of DeWalt, Milwaukee and Makita corded and battery. I'm happy with all of them for different reasons and they're great for the applications I bought them for. Lots of drills (Hole Hawg, right angle, rotary hammer, impact hammer, coring, more...) battery drivers - 1/2" and 1/4" (Milwaukee & DeWalt, prefer the dewalt not sure why), a couple circular saws, sawzalls, a reciprocating saw, jig saw, miter saw (Delta), table saw (Delta), band saws, demo hammers (favorite of those is a 20 year old corded Hitachi sks - light, versatile, DURABLE *no longer made), grinders - prefer Makita and have a Bosch thats just ok, wouldn't buy another. There's more but frick it I made my point, different brands have different strengths. Some are too close to matter. If I were forced to swear allegiance to one brand I'd have to go with Milwaukee or maybe Hilti. Milwaukee for the insane variety of electrical industry specific power tools. Hilti because of durability, productivity and warranty. I don't own any Hilti now, they're too fricking expensive. Panasonic makes excellent power tools as well, I have a friend who swears buy them and I like using his when I'm too lazy to bring my own.
Poor man's Dewalt, yet never failed me.
The new V20 line is really neat, a shame I can't plug my old batteries on it and there's virtually no adaptator on aliexpress.
This looks identical to the cordless craftsman at lowes except yellow. They're ryobi-tier tools.
pic very related
That's cuz Stanely owns Black & Decker and Craftsman...
Ok, I looked at other tools, exact same design and they even call the tool/battery line V20.
I might buy some Ryobi in the future if they behave like the Stanley Fatmax line.
I’m tempted to stock up on more Ryobi right now.
Is that guy still alive? He could’ve been a funny Project Farm but fricked up.
Every tool in the world is made at like 2 chinese factories.
Tool fanboyism is even dumber than console fanboyism, it's all the same chinese junk under a different coat of paint.
what do you mean chinese *junk*?
its literally the best money can buy in retail, wtf more do you want? top of the line DeWalt just doesnt do the trick for you anymore?
Two months into my first job working with power tools, I picked Milwaukee because they were apparently high quality, and I can't stand the colour of Makita or DeWalt
I'm now four months in and my wallet regrets this decision, but at least my kit is red and has more oomph than anyone else's shit.
>he works with power tools but doesnt know how to paint plastic
good job
>painting your power tools
this isn't warhammer, gay
congrats, you are a gay.
God tier:
>Makita
>Milwaukee
Good tier:
>DeWalt
>Bosch
Light use budget tier:
>Ryobi
Why bother tier:
>Craftsman
>Black & Decker
>Stanley
>Kobalt
>Hart (Walmart)
No opinion tier:
>Rigid
>Hilti
>Festool
Suicide tier:
>an angle grinder made by some unknown chink Amazon brand like SUJOM or FUROOPI or HUYNRE
Dewalt is Black & Decker rubbish with serious marketing $$$$.
I would never buy junk like that.
As an electrician in New Zealand who drives power tools hard, I have a Panasonic battery drill and impact drill, I've had these since 2005.
I use Hitachi for grinder, circular saw, recip saw and die grinder (all corded), also bought in 2005.
There is so much hype in power tools these days, especially with cordless tools.
Most of it is mere fake news.
Learn from those that have tools that last.
No Metabo or Hitachi fans?
My experience with german brands is mixed: Ive had bad results with metabo and good with Fein.
The drill/driver I got has horrendous runout, enough to be troublesome when hand drilling. Turns out the chuck attachment is a plain old thread, no tapers or anything. I thought germans were supposed to be halfway smart.
I also got their heavy duty die grinder, the one with planetary gears. It is pretty powerful but it also has some runout and the rear casing tends to flex a bit when using it. Im never buying from them again.
I have the 14" metal cutting cold saw from fein. It is the best metal saw Ive ever used; it cuts through mild steel like butter and leaves perfect surface finish. Cuts are precisely square too.
Metabo quality declined some years ago, when they dumped the green angle grinders for the green and black. They're Chinesium now.
I like ryobi as I don't use any tools professionally. Their HP line of tools seem to be on par with Dewalt just without the price tag. Also their batteries make me feel like I'm loading a gun every time I put one in my drill or impact driver, so that's fun.
Milwaukee
I was lucky that three of my internships paid in tools so I'm now pretty decked out with festool stuff: battery drill, circular saw (with guidance rails), domino joiner, router and a vacuum cleaner. For everything else I tend to go for (vintage) makita.
BOSCH
Bosch cordless is sort of worthless to buy in the US. Their availability is shitty, the sales aren’t nearly as goos as DeWalt, and they don’t sell nearly as many tools as Milwaukee. Even Makita sells more tools than Bosch in the US. If you’re going to settle for a decent quality tool with limited lineups, you would be better off with Ridgid or Kobalt and save a couple bucks.
Bosch is probably the best. Dewalt is very similar in terms of quality but tend to be heavier.
>someone always says they prefer Dewalt because they're heavier. I do not. to each their own.
Milwaukee is okay but they used to be better. Makita is affordable, and while not the high end of things are perfectly acceptable for regular home use. Discount brands are universally junk and only acceptable if bought at clearance prices and the intended use is to be (a.) abuse projects likely to wreck your nice tools, or (b.) light duty chore work, like picture hanging.
There are brands out there that I'd consider to be premium, e.g. Festool which is very nice and feel like a million bucks in your hands, but these premium brands are unaffordable in this economy.
For me, it's DeWalt. Always been the family tools. My uncle uses them, my aunt uses them, and so on and so forth.
Hilti
What are your opinions on pic rel? I hear they're products are pricey but impeccable.
The finish sander was really nice, but I hate the RO sander. The RO drops sanding disks and the velcro plate is $50 to replace. I don't have a lot of purpose for most of their line-up. The domino looks like an actually useful biscuit joiner. I use a Skil wormdrive like any self respecting framer vs that white plastic toy. I'd only go tracksaw if slab tops were a income generator for me.
Depends on what you do. Their tools have good features for a finish carpenter or a furniture builder. And their dust collectors really are the best. If you're a framer get something else.
They frick you hard on accessories though.
I went DeWalt for a few.reasons.
Reputation for being reliable professional tools.
Being the upscale elite Black n Decker.
Milwaukee was too expensive.The
Childhood exp was always good.
Anyone have any insights in how ingco/total tools compare to einhell? In my country Einhell costs about 50% more than Ingco, and Dewalt/Milwaukee costs about twice as much as Einhell.
Einhell is midline, a little inferior to Makita and such, but usable on a profesional level. Ingco is ryobi/parkside tier trash for homeowners to do small jobs.
I am Dutch, cant say I even know any brands making tools over here.
No, but i have a favourite country of origin. The Netherlands. None of my dutch tools ever died on me. Im not perticularly fond of the Netherlands in general, never been there, never will, but they sure know how to make tools
this is milwaukee m18 brushless not-Fuel
I noticed a clunking sound whenever I reverse the direction of the rotation. The sound happens about a split second after I first use it in the reversed direction, and wont happen again until I reverse I again. Is this normal? I have checked some equivalent tier drills, did not notice it.
(easier to notice in the second half of the video) https://streamable.com/qe9evy
any idea wtf this is?
Send it in for warranty or use it until it’s smoked.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ONE-18V-Lithium-Ion-2-0-Ah-4-0-Ah-and-6-0-Ah-HIGH-PERFORMANCE-Batteries-and-Charger-Kit-w-HP-Brushless-Impact-Wrench-PSK007-P262/320251476
>$200
>get 3 batteries, a charger, and a brushless impact
>same batteries will work on a gorillian different tools going back 25 years
I don't see any reason to get anything other than Ryobi unless your tools are how you put food on the table, and I don't understand the hate when they're made by the same people who make Milwaukee stuff