This is the best told company. If you disagree you either
>do not work in trades
>do not build things at home
>your company you work for is incompetent and moronic
I can forgive you if you use Makita as a preferred alternative, but anything else is quadriplegic moron tier
imagine using a metabo bandsaw. lol. LMAO even
What kind of whack ass tool kit gives you 2 drills? What are you gonna do, dual wield them?
ones a 12v for smaller drilling, ones a 18v for bigger drilling. still its stupid, and these "starter kits" are fricking moronic, and youll only see drug addict carpenters running around with them.
three drlls anons
I see 2. The other is an impact driver.
>impact driver
meme tool? or useful?
save the money and buy a martinez framing hammer, and then just use that to hit the back of your regular screw gun
why the frick would i shoot 150 bucks for a hammer. that is moronic
NO BRUH YOU NEED THE TITANIUM STILETTO WITH THE DETACHABLE HEAD, IT WEIGHS 5 GRAMS BUT HITS LIKE A 32 OZ
Useful enough for plenty of people to drop over a hundred on a good
>Useful enough
>unbelievably useful
Any advantage if I use one to drive masonry bits?
Checked
And no. You want an SDS or a hammer drill for masonry bits. Impact drivers have lots of rotational force, like if you were hammering on the handle of a ratchet and those million little taps add up to lots of force. The SDS or hammer drill would be like hammering on the back of the ratchet right where the release button is, like a mini jackhammer and drill all at once, that’s what helps drill out masonry.
>You want an SDS or a hammer drill for masonry bits
This. The Bosch Bulldog Xtreme SDS-Plus was one of the best purchases I have ever made. I can drill 5/8" holes for 1/2" anchors in seconds. I only wish I would have spent the money on an SDS-Max. I have to use the thin wall speed core bits for big holes with the SDS-Plus.
I keep debating the SDS, one day the project will come up. But my orange hammer drill has been a champ so far, had to drop a bunch of anchors into the brick walls of the garage the past week as I outfit this place and she rips 1/4” holes into brick no problem.
>But my orange hammer drill has been a champ so far, had to drop a bunch of anchors into the brick walls of the garage the past week as I outfit this place and she rips 1/4” holes into brick no problem.
Yeah, that should be fine for 1/4" holes into brick because it's relatively soft compared to concrete. I was running column bases and sleepers into concrete that was more than 60 years old. I killed a Harbor Freight corded hammer drill and just said frick it, and dropped the money on the SDS.
Yeah I’ll jump on the SDS when I run into bigger holes with lots of aggregate, I’m sure it will come up eventually with this house.
Meanwhile just got me a stand for this miter saw. Home Depot dropping the Xmas sales, the saw I bought 2 weeks ago is coming with a free $179 stand now, so they gave me the stand today.
unbelievably useful in machine troubleshooting. breaks loose rusty screws without ripping them out.
Built my house with one. Drills are for drilling, drivers are for driving screws
>He doesn't drill akimbo
NGMI
chink garbage.
Whats wrong with a Metabo bandsaw? I got the BAS 261 and it works fine. Also got an old Elektra Beckum BAS500
battery rattling issues
bump
dewalt gays seethe once the milwaukee chads enter the jobsite
>no Lifetime Service Agreement
True
Anyone who makes a living with their tools dont need to send their outdated tools back to the manufacturer so they can replace worn brushes in it for them.
Im not sure what kind of limpwrist redditor thinks its a selling point.
>Free Batteries For Life
With a small payment this product is yours for free! You are free to buy this!
Brushes? Are you serious, in 2022?
I’m all about brushless because muh compact power and cooler running, but when was the last time you needed to replace brushes on a tool? That shit’s like once every decade or two on homeowner use tools and most quality brushed larger tools meant to last more than 5 years will have easily acessible brushes.
you finally give up those cancer sticks Bepis? First pic in a while that didn't have your Newports in it somewhere
Half the Milwaukee stuff is still brushed. Almost nothing from Ridgid is
literally who, is this like an American Hilti or something? If so maybe based on that warrantee
It's TTIs intermediate line
>Milwaukee
>Ridgid (gimmick is the warranty)
>Ryobi (DIY homeowner tier)
>Hart (literally Walmart brand, sold at Walmart)
It’s American AEG.
Ridgid is a US-made plumbing tool company, they make super nice pipe wrenches and stuff.
Home Depot, probably the largest home improvement store in the US, wanted a store brand line of power tools, so they licensed the Ridgid name from the plumbing tool company for these cordless tools and slapped the logo on some TTi-made (parent company of Milwaukee, Ryobi) cordless tools and they’re sold as a high end DIYer or budget pro tier lineup at Home Depot stores. They also have real popular shop vacuums and some pneumatic tools and such.
And however it works, the same orange Ridgid 18V tools are sold in Yurop as AEG tools.
They claimed to have the most powerful tools last generation, and either they got too far ahead of Milwaukee or users didn’t need a 250ft-lb impact driver and a drill that has twice the power it takes to break a human wrist, so they went more compact with their newest stuff and like 90% of the power of the Octane line which is on par with the power Makita and Milwaukee offer in similar tools. The “industry’s lightest” is on their subcompact stuff, like if you’re getting a 6-1/2” compact circular saw with a magnesium shoe, it’s not really a complaint if that’s a lighter model.
I should’ve grabbed the Octane hammer drill when it was still around. That thing was huge. I had the subcompact drill spinning out of my hand today when a 1/2” bit was catching, can’t imagine how dangerous the Octane with a 6.0 pack hanging off would be.
Rigid is literally made in the same factory as milwaukee all made by TTI
>muh Gallardo is basically the same as a VW Jetta!
Also you spelled Ridgid wrong
he needs to lern how to gid rid of em
metabo aka hikoki is based and forged with folded japanese steel (made in china of course)
For me it's Ozito
You make me sick
>pays the same for 4 skins and 2 batteries as you do one skin
>Makita
>Japanese
>Never breaks
Milwaukee etc all just have excellent trade deal arrangements for fitting out entire crews of companies in the same way snapon etc does. It says nothing about build quality.. more about sales and marketing when companies do that.. are you low iq
Cool opinion yankee. Call me when you build real houses out of stone and need real tools.
i would like the hear the opinion on types of tools from people that are not carpenters
seems like most of these people carry cordless kits are
I do Machine Troubleshooting and the most common tools i use are similar to pic related but i bought some items separate for better quality. My impact driver changed EVERYTHING. I deal almost exclusively with rusty machinery, and before I would have to hit most rusty screws with a hammer then spray it with liquid penetrant wait forever then go back and try loosening it. Sometimes I would have to use a propane torch on the surface the screw was in, then freeze the screw with an upside down can of canned air to get the screw loose. Sometimes i'd just look at a screw and just drill it out, frick it. Not anymore, just push the impact driver button to level 4 and press a button.
The "([(woodworking)])" stuff in the pic i use very little, but it is critically important. Sometimes the only way to get to the back of a machine is through a wall, and building wooden scaffolds/hoists/platforms on the spot helps a lot when removing/installing very heavy machines/components.
It's rare I need an impact wrench these days. but it can save hours of work.
My angle grinder and drill are for when shit goes sideways and I'm having to do tailgate hillbilly machining.
I'm not sure what their batteries are like now, but they had a critical flaw at one point where if you drained the battery all the way it was garbage. My brother lost 15 batteries in 3 months to that nonsense and then switched to DeWalt
>switched to DeWalt
man. you must be talking about when dewalt was first created. DeWalt is basically a joke now. And the "battery drained all the way" problem was a battery-industry-wide chemical engineering problem from long ago not just Makita. Batteries no longer have harsh "memory" charging issues, unless you buy old technology stuff.
The Makita problem isn’t because of memory. It’s with the lithium packs. They have an undervoltage protection that bricks the batteries and won’t even attempt to recover or charge them below a certain limit. So if you run a Makita lithium pack down to 1 bar and stick it in storage for a month or two and it self discharges a fraction of a volt more, you now have a brick.
>So if you run a Makita lithium pack down to 1 bar and stick it in storage for a month or two and it self discharges a fraction of a volt more, you now have a brick.
I always hear about this shit. but I've never seen it.
I mean good cells don’t self discharge that fast, so it’s only going to happen if you run the battery down all the way and don’t use it for a few months. Unless one cell isn’t so happy, then an old pack could brick itself even faster. Not great for a DIYer who may not use the tools much, or for OPE that gets stored for the winter.
cant you just take the 18650s out and recharge them one by one with an 18650 charger if that happens?
I don’t think so.
#1 is the cells are spot welded in the pack. And #2, I think it’s something in the circuit board that bricks the thing, you would need a new BMS board. I think people have tried to use power supplies to bypass the charger not wanting to work and it still doesn’t fix it.
It’s some Makita safety precaution. They don’t want that battery pack in a tool ever again if they see cells dropping below their “damaged” threshold.
>doesnt have a spot welder
ngmi
I thought makitaboo just had a battery shut off when the batter drains below 12 volts, the bms just cuts power off until it can draw power
I started on a spot welder, gave up on it while trying to fine tune the resistance to hit a spot between blowing holes in the nickel strips and slowly heating the whole area red hot.
Is that a jigsaw?
its a drywall cutter that functions in a pretty similar way to a jigsaw, but it's a bit neater in use because it has a port to attach a vacuum cleaner.
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nah it's a protection thing, the circuit board sudoku's in order to prevent possible disaster. you've seen how violent the cell phone battery explosions are. Imagine a big ass battery pack like these power tool bricks exploding. That being said, i've been using makita tool on a daily basis for 6 years and i've only ever heard of batteries "bricking" on the internet.
I think it would be a bigger issue for homeowners, especially the guy with Makita OPE, maybe he uses his weed whacker in September and drains the battery to one bar, gets a snow 2 weeks later and doesn’t touch the thing until the following May. Those are the guys who will brick their packs.
>Cost cuts the bearing on their leading impact driver
>Raises the price
>Replaces the directional switch with a touch sensitive button in a moronic place
Being ran into the ground by a fresh set of MBA morons.
The packs in OP are homeowner traps, it's mostly to lure you into their battery family since they gave you all of those tools but only two batteries.
>but anon, you can only use one tool at a time!
Sure but once the battery dies, you either have to take one out of the only lamp you have, and you probably didn't recharge that either.
Jobsite framers have corded tools and air nailers, but they might have some random tools on battery.
Ridgid was more known for their larger contractor-tier specialized equipment, like pipe threading. They only recently started making a battery family because they can copy paste from their parent group's designs.
They usually claim to have the lightest tools too but I don't know if that's something you necessarily want in a circle saw.
moron, our homes literally grow on trees.
No need for Romanian cave trolls to quarry cement for us.
Just another chink brand now.
Not that it's bad, it's not worth a premium.
>TTI is the best multinational megacorp
Okay moron
Milwaukee quality is going down the drain, the company is getting too full of itself and is just pumping out products with trashy quality. Yes they had a decent running record but it's slowly coming to a crash. They are trying to claim that they're a "technology" company at uni recruiting events but it's all bs and seem to have lost sight of their original intentions
Their tools were higher quality before the buyout.
>capitalism
Honestly, at this point I think I would prefer for these brands not to die and have a megacorp stick a couple bucks in R&D to keep them going. Might not be built like brick shithouses like they used to be, but they’re innovating and built well enough for people to keep buying the shit.
>TTI Brand
>Best tool company
You drill shills are on some other shit
I'm team Makita. I have been ever since pic related. But even so, these past 5 years have shown Milwaukee as being the best by a small but real margin (when comparing only against the top 2). That being said, it seems 2022 has been really bad for Milwaukee with them shipping a bunch of trash that breaks easily. A bad batch can happen to anyone, so the only thing we can judge is Milwaukee's response which we will have to wait for.
Milwaukee made a change on one of their popular tools and all the fuss is from a couple idiots who take Youtube unboxing videos with too much seriousness. As soon as the company saw evidence of the problem from users, they pulled all the new versions off the shelf and they’re going back to the old more reliable design and replacing any of the “B” code models that went out.
Not to sound like a fanboi (because they probably should’ve caught the issue in testing if it’s really as bad as the Youtubers are clamoring about), but they did more with that recall and faster than most other companies would have, especially since the issue isn’t causing user injury or anything.
>it seems 2022 has been really bad for Milwaukee
how do you judge these things yearly are tools food that you're consoooming multiple batches entire year
Just upgrade to the 40v xgt gear already anon
Milwaukee does engineer their tools the best.
DeWalt has the best battery system, but their tools are also inefficient.
DeWalt is better for people that want one or two batteries to do literally everything. Milwaukee is better for professionals doing specific tasks all day.
Milwaukee tools won't melt if you make them do things they aren't supposed to do. DeWalt will.
Milwaukee batteries will get more done on a single charge given similar mAh batteries because they're more efficient.
Milwaukee has an insanely good lineup of 12v tools.
My conclusion:
>Homeowners are better off with DeWalt's FlexVolt system
>Pros who are daily on a job site are better off with Milwaukee M18
>For convenient light duty tools, Milwaukee's 12v line
>For all non-power tools, DeWalt wins. Milwaukee non-power tools are dogshit.
The only Milwaukee product I own is their laser distance measure and it's a piece of shit it always has a delay getting the measurement whereas my old Bosch was instant.
Milwaukee tools that don't have a motor are pretty shit. Milwaukee tools that have motors are fantastic.
>Milwaukee tools that don't have a motor are pretty shit.
I've been quite happy with their hand tools. What have you used that was bad?
Their channellocks are just OK. For the money, I end up getting tried and true Channellock brand if I’m at Home Depot. The knockoff Cobras are moronic when you actually compare them to the Knipex they copied. The shape of the handle is messed up. I like their grips a lot though.
Never bought the screwdrivers because real premium screwdrivers made in a first world country aren’t much more money. I know the Fastbacks are nice except I can’t manage to kill my Fatmax box cutters. The wrenches and automotive type tools look quite nice but expensive for shit made in China.
I like the Shockwave bits though. They hold up fo a lot of abuse.
My 2¢
>I like the Shockwave bits though
Same, but pic related are my first choice.
>The problem is they’re among the most expensive Asian tools.
>... made in the US of A aren’t much more money.
That's a really good point.
>I don't even mean they're bad as in they're made shitty, they're just nowhere near as nice to actually use as, say, Klein for electrical or wire stuff.
Fair enough. I've got quite a few Klein tools as well. I particularly like their reversible impact sockets.
I have one Makita Gold socket adapter so I can’t really comment. I have so many damn DeWalt bits from the “4 boxes for $20” sales they do and the one Milwaukee Shockwave set where the bits don’t even seem worn after spinning them around like a moron multiple times so I haven’t had a chance to get Makita.
I wish more companies had 3”+ power bit assorments that are think the whole way to fit in recessed holes. I got pic related from Harbor Freight because nobody else had slim torx and hex bits, and the Hercules stuff seems decently well machined. I have run the T10-T-20 stuff and some hex ones a bit, but the bits are all “security hex”. They weren’t cheap though, like $25 or $30 for this set so I doubt I would be buying a regular Hercules assortment any time soon.
>Makita gold socket adapter
Ahh, a fellow PF connoisseur
No, that guy buys 5 different Amazon brands that are all the same Chinese crap. That Makita Gold one was what was on the shelf at Home Depot. It’s not Yakomoz or REXBETI.
The Makita gold socket adapter beat all of the SHAZBOT shit as well as Milwaukee/DeWalt
Knipex makes better wire cutters and channel locks, it's not really close, I'll say those fastback knives are really good though.
Ratcheting screwdriver.
Tape measure.
Snips.
Flush cutters.
I don't even mean they're bad as in they're made shitty, they're just nowhere near as nice to actually use as, say, Klein for electrical or wire stuff. Frick me if I could tell you why that is, but I WILL give credit where it's due in that Klein was more corrosion prone than Milwaukee for me.
There are some pretty large exceptions to that. Their drills and impact drivers can go further and do more than anyone else's and do it faster. Their wrenches are the easiest to work with in tight spaces.
The former shouldn't be an issue if you aren't trying to destroy your tools. The latter actually does make a difference even in competent hands.
Milwaukee yard tools are incredibly well made yet extraordinarily anemic.
agreed. nothing they do is better than another brand at a similar price.
Honestly, their mechanic tools look nice. Like the wrenches and picks and pry bars, if you want something nicer than Husky and they have some of the tool truck touches added to them instead of typical Taiwan stuff with a different name.
The problem is they’re among the most expensive Asian tools. Gearwrench and Tekton are still quite good for the money, and a Milwaukee wrench set is like another $100 on top of that, so when you get at nearly $200 for a SE Asia made wrench set, the Wright or SK or Williams sets made in the US of A aren’t much more money.
makita or hikoki is the true choice but maybe if your an euro get some muhfell or hilti idk.
only the swiss use festool on jobsites because they are the autistic japanese of europe
I'm from France and we use festool everywere
I have never seen a building site without Festool tools here
I'm american and I use festool and mafell for saws. Do you see mafell much?
not as much as deserved but we still see some
Makita, Dewalt and Hilti are also very common here btw but festool is always seen as the best of the best
I'm torn between a festool and a mafell jigsaw to eventually replace my bosch. Other than that, the mafell erika is the only other tool I have on my "I really want that" list.
I have the festool ts 70 and the ts 55, its powerfull, intuitive and really, really accurate.
The ts 70 is a little bit heavy and oversized for most of my utilisation but the ts55 is juste perfect.
And the precision is awesome, i could take an oak plank with a piece of papier under it, adjust the depth and cut the plank without cutting the paper. I'm not exaggerating.
Don't know much about maffel but i can clearly recommand festool
>ts 55
I have the mafell track saw and love it. I was talking about a jig saw lol.
Lmao i thought you were talking about circular Saw.
I also have a festool jigsaw, can't say much about it, she just do her work perfectly and she endured hours and hours of work, but since i only used festool jigsaw i can't compare
Team yellow is best in currant year because they did the work instead of relying on the good name.
Also helps to be affordable when the alcoholics drop shit multiple stories regularly.
Their rotary hammer drills suck
I'm trying my hardest not to be a Milwaukeegay but it is getting hard not to.
>has only 12v line worth a damn
>packout moggs every other storage option
It would be nice if another company would step up. Feels like Milwaukee has been the only established company trying for the past 6 years.
>packout proudly manufactured in isreal
>>has only 12v line worth a damn
>gets mogged by Skil pwrcore
I'm using Parkside and proud of it
So am I my parkside fren.
That’s from Aldi in Yurop, right? Can you consistently find the tools at the stores in-stock?
I think Aldi in the US is a lot different. It’s almost all food and no Parkside. When there’s stuff besides food for good prices, it’s like Costco where they get in a couple pallets for real cheap and then you won’t see that product again for a couple years once they sell out.
Constantly Parkside tools available at Aldi on Europe. They might rotate particular tools in the middle aisles, but there'll always be some Parkside available.
Lidl, not Aldi, aldi has another brand they push. Yeah, it's in Europe.
so is there something up with milwaukee and quality? I personally witnessed a brand new milwaukee 4in corded angle grinder fall apart at work within 3 weeks, part that was messed up is he got sent another one and that one lasted a week before it fell apart!
I have also have had a brand new milwaukee hammer drill outright die on me after a month of concrete drilling. My buddy had an impact from them that cracked after 6 months of use on vehicles.
Now milwaukee was very good about fixing them, but I cannot be the only one here with horrid experiences with milwaukee quality. I want to give some of their tools a shot again, especially since im running dewalt stuff currently and some of those milwaukees just smoke the dewalt stuff. I want to change out a few of my dewalts for milwaukee, but their quality is shutting me off big time. Have their quality marginally improved or will I just end up frustrated again. No im not buying makita. Their batteries are straight up trash that cost more. Save makita for corded tools.
>No im not buying makita.
GAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY
i prefer the other red guys
They are 4 times as expensive
just got the milwaukee surge 18v brushless impact because I was jealous of how quiet it was, just charged the battery and went to drive a stainless screw into some wood I have drying beside my house, it broke a 3" #10 stainless screw on max power before it was even all the way in, very quiet, hopefully this one is better than my bosch which was plagued with shitty batteries, a broken power setting, and very loud
Strange it broke the screw. I would guess the hydraulic impact would be softer on screws than a regular one with smoother blows. Or maybe there’s some goofy material science stuff going on or a shitty screw possibly.
the fluid only dampens the sound man, this fricker turns, really quiet too, and came with a hard case. very satisfied compared with the bosch offering
Does Milwaukee have a 2-in-1 stapler/nailer?
>Does Milwaukee have a 2-in-1 stapler/nailer?
just buy a porter cable pneumatic and don't buy a 2 in one
uhh... no?
okay, enjoy your crappy product
will do. I'm not particularly fond of lugging compressors around.
paslode
I want a 2-in-1.
you're moronic
Ok
I still want a 2-in-1. Does Milwaukee have one?
Milwaukee
>good power tools
>decent wrenches, toolboxes, lights
>shit hand tools and everything else
wrenches, toolboxes, lights
>>shit hand tools and everything else
Which company is better for those then?
I go with Klein and Knipex for hand-tools
Klein and Channellock. Knipex is soft, I’ve bent the handles and the teeth round off too easily.
>teeth round off too easily
That’s like the opposite of what pretty much everybody says about the Cobras, Alligators, and all of their cutters.
That’s what the internet says mr resident know it all.
Dunno, but my Milwaukee clenching pliers were worth every cent
My work college who is a excavator driver has the milwaukee battery grease gun. I own a makita one but have had a shot of the milwaukee one they are on par with eachother and makes greasing heavy plant a breeze instead of a manual grease gun
>excavator driver
you should go ask him if he likes driving excavator, see what he says
gentlemen
Bauer
Or
Hercules
i use all snap-on because my boss is a rich c**t and buys me shit off the truck once a month, whatever i want under $1000
I want a table saw, 10" miter saw, stands for both, and a good battery + charger. What's a good deal I can hope for(possibly on black friday)?
Trying to plan a budget and see if it's worth waiting
The holiday sales are going right now at Home Depot and Lowe’s. There’s no more real Black Friday sales at most retailers.
The Ryobi 10” miter saw comes with a free stand. And I believe there’s a deal on a nice DeWalt miter saw too with a deal on the stand.
>good battery and charger
Cordless table saw and miter saw? If you say so. Anyway the sales are online too, or stop by Home Depot and Lowe’s tomorrow. Some of the best stuff sells out fairly quick but the sales last through Jan.
Neither.
Ryobi or DeWalt, shit is probably cheaper with the holiday sales than HF.
The internet? You mean Reddit says they’re soft?
Strange because they bite into stuff quite well, and that’s a big reason why they’re so popular. The jaws stay sharp after a lot of use too while other brands get dull after touching anything harder than copper.
>There’s no more real Black Friday sales at most retailers.
Oh. So any sales going on right now are basically what I can expect for the next few weeks?
>The Ryobi 10” miter saw comes with a free stand. And I believe there’s a deal on a nice DeWalt miter saw too with a deal on the stand.
Im new to PrepHole stuff. I already started purchasing Milwaukee tools, shouldn't I stay in the ecosystem? That's my plan other than 2x 40V Ryobi tools.
>Cordless table saw and miter saw? If you say so.
Whats wrong with it? I don't want to run extension cords outside my house if I can help it. I'm not a contractor, I don't need the batteries lasting forever; and if I do run into charge issues, I'll buy an extra set of batteries.
>Anyway the sales are online too, or stop by Home Depot and Lowe’s tomorrow.
Are there different sales online and in the store? Also, I'd prefer to shop at HD since I just opened a CC with them, could use the financing as money is currently tight.
Yea, Home Depot and Lowe’s start their holiday power tool sales the last week of October and they go thru Jan or Feb.
You can go Milwaukee if you want. If you go corded, it doesn’t really matter. If you want to go cordless, than go Milwaukee because a cordless 10” miter saw is going to need some big batteries to run at peak performance.
I almost went with the cordless Ryobi 10” miter saw, then read the reviews and people were saying it’s underpowered compared to the 15A corded models, even with the 4.0 high output batteries. Probably needs like the giant 9.0 packs to get full power.
The cordless table saws and miter saws aren’t that common because it’s a big tool that you set up in one spot all day. I normally shill for battery over cords for most tools, but I wouldn’t compromise on performance with a stationary tool like that. It’s up to you if you go cordless. I’d imagine the M18 Fuel saws with some big 8.0 pack would still slice through most lumber no problem.
If you go corded instead, pic related is like the standard for a good jobsite table saw. This is one of the sales that might be hard to find in stock by black friday because it’s such a good deal.
Saw is $599 regular price, but they have it on sale right now for $399 with a free stand worth another $220. $399 for $>$800 worth of stuff. My local store still has a few in stock but I have a feeling that shit will sell fast because people will be flipping them on FB marketplace for that price.
>jobsite table saw
I mean miter saw.
For table saws on sale for the holidays at HD, there’s a 10” Ridgid that’s $200 off, and a 8-1/4” DeWalt for $100. Not sure what Lowe’s has.
>The internet? You mean Reddit says they’re soft?
Reddit loves knipex.
Not sure what your obsession with reddit is though. Im willing to bet with your level of attenionwhoring, youve got a longstanding account you karmaprostitute with.
Erem pliers for the win
>> Strange because they bite into stuff quite well, and that’s a big reason why they’re so popular. The jaws stay sharp after a lot of use too while other brands get dull after touching anything harder than copper
Put the Knipex on pipe and bolts for a year and see what happens. You won’t, the redditors haven’t and project farm is bullshit.
Not sure about Reddit, but there’s the moronic bro on Youtube who uses his channies as pry bars a whole lot and abuses the frick out of anything within 3 months and he loved the Knipex too.
My most used pliers so far and none of them are as shitty as older Craftsmans and stuff that rounded after one hard bolt. Channellocks are decent too, but I wouldn’t say the Channellocks are doing better over time than the Knipex. Channies aren’t chewed up like cheaper ones, but not as sharp as Knipex after a couple years of DIYer use. Kleins made my NWS need more abuse to tell.
Stop making Bepis look good
You are just flat out wrong, no amount of poorhomosexual cope will change Knipex's dominance over shitty ass channellocks in EVERY SINGLE WAY.
Bepis pls.
I love my 7-1/4” Cobras tho. Favorite pliers I have ever owned. Even well used and jaws coated in tons of epoxy and shit, they grab onto plumbing stuff so well.
>quick eject impact driver drops bits everywhere
>12v battery fallsout
>makes useless shit like dremels
>bits and sockets are overpriced
>blades are shitter than cheaper diablos
they make better gloves than actual tools
It's all overseas plastic bullshit, who fricking cares what color you pick?
milwaukee red just says "I'm young and want to be seen as cool"
dewalt yellow says "I want to be seen as a traditional blue collar man"
ryobi green says "I am le quirky, lol"
That's it, that's the reason they even give you color choices.
I don't get it. People shilling Milwaukee tools all the time here but all the hand helds feel like Chinesium shit in my hand compared to my Metabo/Hitachi tools. Couple buddies own Milwaukee tools and they've ALL had battery connection issues. Used them for a couple jobs to try them out, yeah I just think they're not that great, but then most new tools are Chinesium shit. The best thing about Milwaukee to me is their huge selection of tools on the same battery. I'm sure some tools are really good but I know that some of them aren't really all that special. I just typically buy the "best" value version of any particular tool. I buy mostly corded tools though, I really haven't felt the need to replace my Metabo/Hitachi battery tools just yet, when the time comes though I guess I'll have to pick a battery system, probably Bosch? Maybe DeWalt.
Makita, Dewalt, Milwaukee, Bosch are all pretty damn comparable. I like the Milwaukee surge impact driver because it is incredibly quiet and has enough power for the applications I use it for (carpentry, occasionally tapcons). Other than that, I also like the milwaukee m12 cheap (not brushless) multitool because it doesn't have vibration control and allows for much more accurate cuts than the ones with vibration control. Other than that, all the tools I use are corded because batteries just don't have enough power IMO.
t. professional finish carpenter
It’s because Milwaukee has been a step ahead releasing stuff like bandsaws and impacts and people get hard over muh tork numbers. The 2767 1/2” ugga dugga and the M12 stubbies are like 75% the reason why people jerk off over Milwaukee.
If you’re not a mechanic or a sparky or plumber who needs one of the special pressung or crimping tools, all of the brands have an 18V lineup perfectly sufficient for any DIYer or general contractor. Ridgid has one of the smallest lineups and I’m doing just fine as a DIYer since I don’t need an 18V PEX crimping tool.
that has to be the most moronic picture I have ever seen, 5 fricking impact drivers lol, at most you need two, one for automotive with a half inch drive and one with a 1/4" hex chuck for fasteners, holy shit lol
nevermind, there are 6 fricking impact drivers in that pic, hahahahaha rigid users confirmed brainlet tier
3 impact drivers, 3 impact wrenches, lern2tool
It’s unnecessary but actually quite convenient to not be switching sockets and extensions all the time with PrepHole type bullshit.
What is it called when your impact has a 1/4 inch hex and a 1/2 drive????
https://www.protoolreviews.com/bosch-brushless-connected-ready-freak-impact-driver-review/
>heh this one's this and that ones that hehe
spare me
Ironically enough the bosch freak (Impact driver/wrench) actually performs better as an impact wrench when inserting a 1/2" socket adapter into the collet rather than using the built in 1/2" square drive.
Yeah it does 2 things, but neither of them particularly well.
That part is fricked up, one of those German solutions that completely overlooks the original goal of the tool.
The Nut Buster Boyz did some testing in a video I can’t remember, but that hollow part in the square cuts down on the torque because of some goofy physics shit. Like even if you filled the hole with a little 1” bit and slipped a socket over it, there’s a quite large increase in torque.
Harmonics and all that are a real head scratcher sometimes. And they don’t creep up until it’s too late.
Honestly that Freak doesn’t look bad for somebody dealing with lag bolts and only wants to carry one tool, but they sell most of them to dumb Lowe’s shoppers who think it’s going to act like a 500lb+ Milwaukee 1/2” gun.
>german
Not anymore, at least not what is sold in the american market, that's why they aren't what they used to be.
Some shitty Bosch tool that is sold for $99 w/ battery at Lowe’s and isn’t that great at doing either job. A German compromise.
Honestly the 1/4” impact drivers that are around 2000in-lbs+ are too powerful for a lot of homeowner stuff unless you’re running constand 2.5”+ screws deep.
And a 1/2” square on that same 2000in-lbs is very light for anything you would be running 1/2” drive sockets on.
I prefer Makita drills and hammer drills, idealy ones from pre 2010; I had one freeze solid in a bucket of water; smashed it out with a hammer, let it thaw for an hour and used it for 2 years before a meth head stole it from my truck.
Milwaukee makes the best ware-parts by far, awesome drill bits for sure.
And weirdly enough I didn't absolutely hate using a Ryobi tablesaw, had some thoughtful features and the bright ass green colour made it easy to spot in a dusty work site.
This is a cool tool
This does what an oscillating tool does but isn't as useful. You can get outlet cutters for oscillating tools, and the blades on that drywall cutter look like some proprietary blade?
I use it for making adjustments to drywall sheets that are cut a little too long, like 1/2 inch too long, which would be too short to snap off. You can cut the entire sheet to a factory clean edge. It has a 1/4 inch stroke and kicks up very little dust. The blade can be adjusted to very short depths to cut drywall down without cutting wires or wood beneath.
the older drywall cut out routers were glorified dremels with an 1/8 screw that spit a pressure washer jet beam of dry wall every where
dust from using a multitool isnt as hard to vaccum
I have an aldi brand cordless drill and impact wrench, everything else is corded. I can't decide on a battery brand to buy into. so as a result, everytime I need a power tool I just buy a cheap corded one.
One day I'll defeat my analysis paralysis and choose a brand.
>no overprice coffee maker or inneficient kettle
NGMI