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  3. DeWalt Tough System Rack

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    Damn Well Ain't that abi@$%!...... I was super excited for this system to I'm hoping at least I can get a couple years out of them.... are any of you guys returning?

    I'm keeping it. I didn't plan on putting anything heavy on these. If I do, I'll swap these lighter weight brackets over to my custom built wall rack and put the heavier duty ones on this rack.

    It's not a major deal honestly. 77Ford and I have been using the heavy duty brackets for a while and assumed the brackets would be the same. We are probably over analyzing it. I'm sure they're fine. If they're not, I'll make DeWalt send me the heavier duty ones in exchange.

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  11. I think it's toast.....

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    Well, my brand new DeWalt jump box, compressor, inverter may have bit the dust.

    I was testing the compressor by filling up my truck tires and it went haywire. Screen went dark, compressor kept pumping and the unit went unresponsive. It's still making this awful noise and I can't get it to stop. I'm going on 20 minutes of this. There was a slight burning electrical smell at first but the smell has dissipated. It's 45 degrees outside so not sure if it may have overheated. No fuse to remove, no way to shut it off. It had a FULL charge so depending on the draw of whatever is running, this may go on all night. The current noise is no where close to what the compressor sounds like when running.

    This is two disappointments from DeWalt in 24 hours.

    https://vimeo.com/195052954

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  16. DeWalt Tough System Rack

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    Initial Impressions:

    Seems to be well built for stationary use. I have a few reservations if you were to mount them in a van, box truck or trailer. The biggest disappointment is that DeWalt re-engineered the DS Carrier brackets. The ones that come with this kit are much lighter weight and do not have the large pin to secure the brackets to the square posts. I can see how they managed to sell these as kits with 5 pair of brackets that normally run $15-$20 a pair when bought individually.

    Part of the re-engineering is the brackets have through holes so you can secure shelves to the brackets.

    The racks are modular and I don't see why you wouldn't be able to stack units on top of each other to get taller units. I would be a little concerned about weight if you went too high.

    Overall: worth $100 as long as you don't have crazy expectations for them. I wouldn't plan on stacking 5 boxes loaded with heavy equipment or hardware.

    I may order 2 more to set them up as a large single wall unit and put a shelf across a few of them for batteries and chargers. Still thinking of the details.

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  20. Santa Came Early

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    For this, we must start from the beginning. It was a cold winters night in the summer of 1939. Ricky McGrath Sr, an aspiring scientist found himself working on a project that would change the future of human kind. Due to his exposure to high levels of radiation from his work on the Manhattan project, the sperm in his testicles had mutated in such a way that it left his future newborn son slightly different from the rest of us. Legend has it it gave him super powers, and once the government found out that kept him for testing in the laboratories of a secret military base, Area 51. Within a year the project to turn little Ricky into a weapon against the Alaskan Natives was proven to be a failure, as the young McGrath proved to be too dangerous to be controlled. After a lobotomy was performed as a last ditch measure to prevent him from escaping the base and laying waste to the desert, it was determined he had lost his powers and all of his young memories with it. Safety was restored, all records of the incidents burned. (He was adopted by a nice Jewish family, the importance of this to be revealed later.) 

     

    However they were wrong. Young Ricky's powers did indeed prevail, and nothing seemed to be able to explain certain strange phenomenon, usually involving computers and circuit boards which could spontaneously bend to his will and perform functions he desired purely from thought. It was later determined that not only did he inadvertently prevent the Y2K disaster from happening, he could communicate from brain to machine in basic binary code...also known as 1's and 0's. Rearranged into the "perfect price" which he so blissfully was unaware he was manipulating with his Jewishly influenced superpowers in checkout isles across the city, he produced 0.01. Which is binary code for "cheap as fuck", synonyms "stolen" and "robbery". 

     

    Legend continues to describe that nobody is quite sure what happened to the ol' chap, but rumors keep swirling about random reports of him getting away with illogical purchases which follow this binary code. Always 0.01. Aliases include "El Cheap0" and "Cheeri0's".

     

    Now that I've revealed the man, the myth, the legend and said detailed account of how this is possible, I wouldn't mind if you dropped $100 (look, binary again...illumaniti) into my paypal account for giving you this sacred knowledge. I'd gladly buy some beer with it. 



    I'm dying over here!
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  24. Look what I found!

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    Picked up the bench charger last night. I have initial mixed thoughts. It's very lightweight, light gauge housing. Only comes with one set of leads. The second set has to be purchased separately to take advantage of the dual charge capabilities. The features are fantastic if they work as advertised. I'm going to look for some old batteries to test out. My diesel truck is in the body shop so I can't give it a good testing this week. Once I get my truck back, I'm going to do a little testing on both units to see.

    The units are all built by the same company and the other units that are branded CAT, Stanley and B&D all have positive reviews.

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  25. Dewalt 12 Volt

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    do they use the 12 volt batteries? (the ones dewalt has quietly pushed to the side)




    I wouldn't say they've pushed them to the side. The lasers are still using 12v platform as well as all their diagnostic tools. Maybe we will see some movement with the 12v Max line after Flexvolt cools off a little.
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