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i have that same meter,, great tool

we cope all inside corners, unless its square stock only,,.inside corners are rarely 90 degrees, especially after receiving tape and joint compound, you will have less chance of seeing sheetrock behind joint after wood shrinks.

nice let us know how you like it, ive been eyeballing the flexvolt tools for some time now, just havnt pulled the trigger yet. i dont think my local homedepot sells too many of them, got to do more with sale person than tool, he keeps pushing people towards milwaukee,

oh my god, that is unreal

if the patio is a problem with weight, trace outline of diamond pier cutout slab, place pier on ground install rods, get selfleveling polyurethane ext. calk, comes in a bunch of colors, pour around pier for water tight seal

if the patio can hold the weight i would go with the diamond pier foundation system, code approved, no digging, no concrete, all you will need to do is drill four holes through patio at an angle (lol)

cant blame you on that one,, nice buy

those are awesome

bought the two brownings mon (lowes) bought the little gerber yesterday also lowes. dont know why i need so many knives. my wife says i have a fetish

heavy is fine, klein is quality, i like it

cant go wrong with anything from veritas, nice

when im working alone on a job i always have my radio on, i have always had a big ass stereo at home,(thats what we called them then}. so im always looking for something that can play loud with great sound. right now im using the newer dewalt tough system radio.i feel it has the best sound going right now, i have a love-hate relationship with it, love the sound, hate the lack of features. i still feel the bosch is king with good sound, and awsome features.

all my 18 volt tools are dewalt, about a year ago i wanted to get into a smaller battery platform because of all the cabinet building we were doing, dewalt had nothing, which i wanted, so i tried milwaukee m12 fuel, and havnt stopped buying yet, they are great little tools

my m12 fuel system had some new offspring, just keeps growing

i use advance repair technology epoxy. have been for years, interior and exterior, elastomeric, it dries clear, takes 24 hrs to dry, comes in a double tube for caulk gun, requires special caulk gun, 70.00 for epoxy, another 50.00 for caulk gun, i use it professionally, only thing i found that last

being in the home improvement business for over thirty years, ive done my share of applying coatings, pratt and lambert was the best until sherwin williams bought them out and ruined the line, on all our state and government jobs we use sherwin williams, thats what they spec out, they make make some really nasty stuff that nobody else does, and only for use on commercial jobs, now i use ben moore for all my residential jobs, with the aura line getting most of of the attention. i also tried the behr paint on my own place, i hated it, almost impossible to work with, but all the paints are harder to work with because of the voc laws, but the behr does suck.

great job, guys, hitachi surprised me, not a big fan of there cordless, love there air guns, just something more to think about now, its getting to where you just pick your favorite color now, that is not a bad thing

i did contact dewalt, they told me i have to pay, which i dont have problem with, doesnt seem to be any kind of waranty on the tabs, 7.98 each. [ for plastic ] lol

thank you ricky

was wondering if any body has ever had to replace the plastic locking tabs on the tough system boxes,[ the ones that lock the boxes toghther] i have a couple of boxes that need repair, i really like the new metal pin style they have on my new tough system radio, cant seem to find any replacement parts on the dewalt site

if your buying one of the" off the shelf epoxy systems" , you need to know what kind of paint is on the floor now unless your going to remove it completely. your going to have a choice between waterborne, and alkyd base coatings.your true epoxy paints will be atleast a two part system. not the one part systems your seeing all over now, the one part systems cannot hold up under heavy use. a decent two part residential epoxy can cost you 100.00 to 150.00 a kit. some of the systems we use in airport hangers and water treatment plants cost as much as 400.00 a kit, they last longer than the concrete they are applied to. if you dont know what is on the floor now, or if in fact there is a vapor barrier under the slab or not, stay with a waterborn epoxy. none of our floors ever called for grinding the floors to etch, we used an acid and a stiff broom, and then rinsed it good. this is all that was required in the specs for bare concrete.

if you cant fix it with a hammer, then you have an electrical problem. actually, it does sound like you have something loose in the handle part of the tool. when you swap batteries in and out, your causing "vibration" in the contact area.

that is diffinitly one of the better ones ive seen. i did work for a couple in upstate ny a few years back, and the mother was telling me how her oldest son had dropped out of collage and moved to NH to get into wood working, and she couldnt wait for him to meet me. the following week he comes home, and you could tell he was one of those" low impact to the earth type of people", really nice kid. we talk for awhile, and then he ask me if i want to see his new brace, i said sure, he leaves the room and im wondering what the hell he is talking about, i hope its not a knee brace. he comes back with this beautiful wooden case and inside is one of these braces with a leather tool roll full of beautiful auger bits, he said he needed it for his timber framing work in NH, I was floored, here i am over twice his age and the only manual tool i have in the room is my pencil.

wow, nice, that is one nice looking tool, that grip looks like its going to be comfortable as hell

sorry to hear about your wife, the batteries are all the same in one brand line james, you can always upgrade and buy "bare" tools later down the road. i have both brushed and brushless, i work on alot of jobsites where there are several trades working at the same time, alot of them have multi brands, and all of them have both brushless and brushed. there is nothing wrong with what you have now. i dont have any pc cordless, but i do own some of there corded tools, mostly sanders. good luck james, you sound like a great guy.