DR99
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I'm a little confused why they keep releasing stuff in Europe first. I expect that from Bosch, but not Dewalt.
Yea, I dunno either for being the only American owned major power too company left . The only thing I can think of it's not their own design they just bought the rights sell it as a Dewalt. I dunno Dewalt's product launches confuse me more than anything. Look at the Jobsite radio for the 20v max tools.
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Well they delayed the release of the cordless framing nailer in the us market till 2014. I just don't get why Dewalt is taking so long releasing tools their 18/20v lineup it's the the smallest in the market. I was going to say I'm glad I don't own any stanley black and decker stock, but it's doing pretty good so guess I could be wrong about everything.
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Well that fancy cordless nailer they have been showing around has been delayed a whole year for the USA market. I just don't get it Dewalt why does it seem to take forever them to get things to market like the job site radio all most 3 years for a 20v max job site radio.
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Aeg tools in Australia use the same rigid tool design, but offer more tools like an sds drill and angle grinder in an 18v format.
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Sorry I left things a little open ended about winning the pc impact I ended up falling asleep early last night.
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The only down side to the 20v max is you still can't get some of the tools as a bare tool like the sds drill. Milwaukee consistently offers the bare tool right at the launch of the tool. Like conductor mentioned i just ended up going with Milwaukee just because I liked the fuel drill and impact driver better.
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I know this probably isn't the place to post this, but I was wondering if it would be a good idea to combine most of the sub forums on this forum. If it only had maybe 4-5 categories it would make the forum look more active and create more traffic, and maybe then re add some sub forums if needed.
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Yea It's pretty sad when the ryobi boom box will charge batteries. Hey Just to let you know ChrisK from the latest video you won a Porter Cable 20v impact so get in contact with dan or eric.
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That could very well happen they seem to be making every tool you can think of with the m12 line. I wonder what they sell more of the m12 or m18 tools. One think I would have considered is keeping the old m12 drills and impact and maybe selling it with one battery as a budget diy tool prosumer grade tool.
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Well from what I read it the v18 was just bad all around. Milwaukee should have offered a buyout, or extended warranty to users of the v18 series to help with the negative publicity. I love my 12v and 18v milwaukee tools I had the 20v dewalt set and it annoyed me it took over 2 years to release a jobsite radio plus they didn't offer any bare tools for the longest time also , so I sold it and moved over to milwaukee for my 18v tools. The only thing that I wish milwaukee would use an lbox type system and offer a radio as nice as the bosch that jobsite radio is amazing.
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I honestly believe Milwaukee is the top brand for cordless right now. They've really turned things around. I was concerned TTI would ruin the brand, but that just isn't the case.
Yea the only thing makita has is the number of different 18volt tools they make compared to any of the other mass market 18v powertools. Look at dewalt they really lost a lot of the cordless tool market share compared to when the xrp line was first released. They took way too long to adopt lithium battery tech. Bosch tools don't seem to be popular on this forum, but are well like by a lot of people. You also have the hilti metabo's and festool's also, but they are not really mass market tools at least in the usa.
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TTI has the right to sell ryobi and rigid power tools in the usa.TTI did buy out Milwaukee tool and has full ownership of the name.
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Bosch discontinued the old 7/8" Bulldog I believe. That might have something to do with it.
Yea my local HD has been trying to get rid of a display model of that model bulldog for over a year they are asking way too much for it though with all the wear it has.
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You can get the bare tools on HD's webpage except the hammer drill
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My HD never carried Hilti. The have the Bosch Bulldog, multi-tool, and a router. As for PC, they have a couple sanders, a hand planer, a plate joiner, and a grinder. Other than that it's all Milwaukee, Makita, Ridgid, and Dewalt.
Yea they carried the fien multi tool last holiday season. I get some things are regional, but it seems like lowes carries more of the same items in each store than home depot.
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It depends on which HD I go to the newer store has a whole area setup just for bosh with a spokesman there and tool demo's. The space used to be for Hilti tools who bailed after the construction bust in metro detroit. The older store has just the bulldog sds drills and that's about it. Both stores don't carry any pc cordless tools and just a small number of corded
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I think lowes has given up on competing with Home Depot on tool sales at one home depot by me I have the choice of bosch, dewalt millwaukee, rigid, ryobi, black and decker, and makita, and corded and air porter cable tools. Lowes has porter cable, dewalt, kobalt, skill, bosch, rockwell black and decker and hitachi, Lowes carries more brands but they are diy oriented brands. And when you buy cordless tools its the battery platform that has the best tools and the best selection of tools to choose from
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With impact drivers replacing drills drivers the speed settings are a compromise on not having a clutch.
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With the kobalt line I think they are more concerned about price than features/tech its a diy/semi pro tool.
I have one question why do the tool companies still offer non hammer drill models? An example is the new m12 fuel drill line the diffrence in price is 10 bucks between the 2 tools if you got rid of the extra design manufacturing and stocking of another model you could offer the hammer drill at the same price as the non hammer drill version. Is there a reason not to buy the hammer drill version that im missing? I just don't get it personaly as a way to save 10 bucks. I know some people don't deal with masonary that often, but it could come in handy at a later date.
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Rigid has a 3 year warranty on the tools and battery packs, so if you have the proper documentation you should still be able to get the packs replaced. Sounds like you didn't register for the LSA agrement. The tools are cheap compared to the price of battery packs.
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The I think the total mumber of M12 tools is 60 or more now. Although, they are probably counting older versions of the same tool. Rigid is a funny thing they are made by TTI so they have acess to the milwaukee tech, but home depot decides on what gets released so we end up not having much tool slection. The Makita Ltx line is the biggest 18 volt system out there at the moment. What probably stopped me from getting makita is the local HD's don't seem to stock much of the line here just a few of them a few cordless and corded tools Dewalt milwaukee rigid and ryobi have huge displays and endcaps. Poor lowes is stuck with the warmed over porter cable 20v tools that are just reskined dewalt 20v tools which the allready carry these exclusivity deals really suck.
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I bet we will see TTI bring the european ryobi 12 volt tools which look like exact clones of the old m12 line. So even budget 12 volt tools are going to get better
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Makita makes nice 12v tools, but they really are not expanding or updating the line of tools. I wonder if they are going to relaunch eventualy with the converion to brushless down the road.
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The drills and impact's are decent for the price. I got a ton of use out of my 18 volt recpirocating saw its not the best, but it did alot of work for me. The circular saw is pretty hopless though.
Dewalt 20v. What's up with it
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Yea I think that merger really messed things up regarding product lines and R&D.