PedroHizzo

The simple fact that drywall screws are not square or torx drive limits my use of them.

Some of chris's posts on here regarding dewalt have been so ridiculous one would think he is a shill. He has some nerve calling out the Milwaukee fan boys when he is probably worse. And LOL at liking the concord carpenter better. I take everything that guys says with a grain of salt. I can't help but wonder if he or the manufacturers pay check is giving their opinion.

Rather than getting a bunch of little things that I may or may not have wanted I asked all interested parties to combine forces and get me the ts55 that I have wanted. Let's just say this is one of my better adult christmas' :-)

I'd keep it. None of the Lowes by me had that set when it went on clearance otherwise I would have bought it. For $40, you could use the tools for a year and sell them and make money on the deal.

Any more info? Can't find anything online

I had the same issue with all 3 of my dewalt drills; dcd785, dcd780, dcd710. The worst of the bunch was the dcd785. I noticed that there is loads more play in all of the hammer drills than in non hammer variants.

The system is great. I like it on my 780. One thing to note, its next to useless when working outside in the sun.

After all the shit they got from trying to hide what they did, they eventually came out with a revised kit and sold them side by side. It was never meant to be a Homeowner vs pro setup and for the first year the 20v max lineup was available you could only buy the kits with the cheapo tools at tjhe same price mind you as the new "pro" kit. In fact until recently I was still seeing some of the older kits at the big box stores. Hence why I brought it up.

Oh for those that actually care about the tool they are buying and not just the color of it, here is the link that shows you the differences between what DeWalt sells in their kits vs buying them seperately. this isnt the first time a manufacturer has dones this but its annoying and in a thread like this deserves to be pointed out: http://toolguyd.com/dewalt-20v-combo-kit-saw-differences/

That would be bad news for DeWalt! Their cover might get blown not being able to hide behind UWO

The fact remains that the INDUSTRY does not use UWO as its respective measurement for torque so all dewalt is doing is confusing the consumer. Who cares if its more accurate, unless an independant lab is doing the measuring of ALL brand the numbers will always be skewed in favor of the respective brands claim. I am fairly new here so maybe I am out of line but I'm going to ask you anyway. How much does DeWalt pay you to post on here? Because you sure do sound like one of their shills. And if you're not, you may want to rethink what you post on here because new guys like myself are just going to assume your some mouth jockey for DeWalt and disregard everything you say as nothing more than marketing bullshit.

I was on my phone most of the day and didnt really have the time for a full reply. There were multiple reasons why I personally switched from Dewalt to Milwaukee. I mainly switched due to the lack of certain tools that I wanted (Cordless Multi-tool, rotary tool, power pack). I use a mix of 12v and 18v tools and Dewalt is seriously behind on their battery capacities and technologies. 12v only gets 1.5ah batteries? cmon! No battery gauge? seriously? 20v batteries only recently got a bump in capacity and fuel gauges. I was also really dissapointed to find out that if I wanted to actually build a 20v max tool collection i was going to need to do it piece by piece rather than take advantage of the combo kit discounts. Why you ask? Because Dewalt thought it would be cute to cheapen the kit tools and hoped nobody would know. Im sure most dont even realize it but if you purchase a 20v kit with a Recipricating saw or circ saw you are NOT getting the same saw you would be getting if purchased seperately. That is honestly pathetic. With the recent announcment of who knows how many more brushless tools coming to Milwaukee if you are planning on buying into a new tool system TODAY its really difficult to look past Milwaukee. Heck, Milwaukees 12v line is reason enough to go with their 18v tools, thats how deep their 12v catalog is. You may not want or need a 12v tool now but if you ever did decide on one you arent getting much out of dewalt. In fact, Dewalts new Compact 18v drill is almost the same size as their 12v drill leaving me to wonder why I should even waste my time with Dewalts 12v line.

A little short? Do you own the Milwaukee? The dcd985 is significantly more powerful than the DEWALT compact. Not sure where the logic is here.

Exactly. The fact remains that smaller, lighter Milwaukee is more powerful and efficient than the dcd985 which is its true direct competitor.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=207040 German Hand Tool is running a promo for the Felo ergotronics which are great. Wiha always has their demo drivers on sale directly from their site(currently not but keep checking): http://www.wihatools.com/featuredtool.htm (I paid under $20 for the set) Harry Epstein has some pretty good deals on craftsman USA closeouts (best part of his site is he lists COO): http://store.harryepstein.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=1930&Category_Code=Craftsman