khariV
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On 8/1/2017 at 8:25 AM, Eric - TIA said:
From the picture, it's hard to tell the issue. Might be a dumb question, but are your sure the plastic isn't broken where the knob sits against the metal rod? Does the metal rod turn easily without the rod?
I don't think these radios have been out longer than 5 years and if that's the case, it's still under factory warranty. Double check, but I believe the radio has a 5 year warranty. If they don;t want to send a know or something simple, send it in.
Radios unfortunately only have a 1 year warranty. I guess they expect them to be thrown off of the roof of a garage or a really tall ladder, not that anyone would do that around here...
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Sounds like the switch is either lose or has a bad connection. I can't tell from the picture, but is the switch integrated with the circuit board? If it's not, it is possible that there is a screw or connector behind it that has come loose.
Your other option would just be to have it fixed under Milwaukee's e-repair program. It doesn't look like it's been abused, so I'm pretty sure they'd just replace it for you free of charge.
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18 minutes ago, sparky603 said:
Yes - red, white and blue grips, and the flag imprinted on the jaws.
Warning, do not click this link if you lack impulse control (like me)
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I'd love to get one of these - I just need to figure out what else I'm NOT going to do / buy after I spend $1,500 on this spiffy high tech router.
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6 hours ago, FrosBros82 said:
@BMack37, are they a flat face? Also, is it something you can use on wood? Or will it mark it up?
They have a rotating flat plate that won't mark wood unless you really crank it down. I use them on pine all the time without marking.
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If you're worried, you can always take the drain port out and stick an inspection camera inside to see if it was drained regularly or if it's about to explode.
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1 hour ago, ChrisK said:
One way to look at it, regardless of profession, if you have an investment in tools why not organize them in a fashion that works?On the personal level, look how happy your wife/girlfriend/significant other will be when they see organization and not chaos all over the place.
I fixed your statement so all of us can use it to justify spending more money to buy tools to organize our tools.
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Found this post on TWW about end-grain planing. Take it for what it's worth.
http://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/end-grain-through-the-planer/
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On 7/22/2017 at 11:23 AM, Jscott said:
Ic I would prob still use the same method never really considered the end grain needing to be done differently.
I had an acquaintance run an end grain board through a planer and the entire board exploded. I'm not sure if he tried to take too much off in a single pass or there was some weakness in the glue up, but to hear him tell the story it was impressive and terrifying all at once. I don't know what the state of the planer was after the event, but I don't know that I'd like to repeat his experiment.
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If there's something dumb to be done that requires a fair amount of technical know-how, AvE is sure to be front and center.
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2 hours ago, marsh942 said:
So these batteries are unique to the sanders? Can't be used on other 18v tools and other 18v batteries can't be used on these sanders?
Looks like a new battery format. Maybe other tools will start to be released with this format too as it's rolled out across their product line.
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I don't know what the Dewalt track connector looks like or how well it straightens up the two pieces, but another way is to use a long straight edge (a level works well) to make sure the two tracks are in alignment. The Festool ones are a bit dodgy in this respect and not up to par with the rest of their system. The Betterly track connectors are much better, but I'm not sure if they're compatible with the Dewalt tracks.
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Looking at the picture, it's clear that something could be made to latch to the top, but I can't imagine the PackOut boxes being that something. There are no recesses on the top surface and the latch points are pretty far down the sides. Honestly, with the shape of the tapered top, I don't know that I'd want a toolbox stack that would be that narrow.
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1 hour ago, BMack37 said:
I don't know about showing that another product is better but I'd be happy to see where they admit cons but still highlight pros...the problem is mostly reps are brainwashed into thinking that their product is the best and a lot don't know anything about the competition.
I think the reps probably know a LOT about the competition and aren't brainwashed at all. They're PAID to downplay the strengths of the competition and the weakness of their offerings, so they might come across as kool-aid zombies sometimes when they're talking up how their offerings are 400% better than anything else.
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Great looking work.
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14 minutes ago, Framer joe said:
..if a contractor or his employees are throwing tools around, you hired the wrong contractor . Attention to detail and quality starts the the tools you use to perform said tasks. ....if guys don't care about the tools they use , I would certainly guarantee they don't care about the job they are hired to do...
Nailed it in one. These jokers did a craptastic job that was so bad I've had to go back and re-do most of it that I could get to.
On the other hand, I do owe - because of their incompetence, I've educated myself and learned how to do an awful lot around the house.
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I know this probably doesn't help much, but there's a reason most window frames are aluminum these days...
Basically, there is no outdoor wood finish that won't require some maintenance when exposed to sun and rain. A good marine grade varnish will fare better than others but even that will likely only go maybe 2 years before it will need to be re-finished. If you really don't want to refinish or maintain the trim, you probably should be looking at an exterior paint.
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Why would anyone want to sand without DC attached? I once sanded a dress up center I made for my kids outside and didn't worry about DC and ended up looking like a ghost, there was so much saw dust all over my face, arms, hair, everywhere...
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They're expensive yes - the price is comparable with systainers. However, systainers aren't water proof and will die very quickly if you abuse them. Which leads me to another question....
So, why do most workers (from my observation) on jobsites treat tools like crap? I understand not babying a tool and that jobsites are dirty, muddy, dusty places where "get it done fast" is more important than "keep it tidy." However, that aside, I once had some contractors doing work on the house and I routinely saw them throwing a circular saw 15 ft. because they couldn't be bothered to carry it, tossing drills off the top of ladders on to the subfloor and dropping tools into piles of dust and insulation instead of bothering to set them down somewhere "clean." I know mostly this is because they don't own the tools themselves and don't have to replace them, but at what point do these guys determine they just don't give a flying f#$*?
Sorry to derail the thread but I had to ask...
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Ha ha - I just got a notice that I had to update my payment info for the hammer. It was so long ago that my credit card had long since expired / been replaced.
Now phase 2 of the wait begins...
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I need to line up all of my woodpeckers stuff and take a family photo, though I suspect that if I did that, I'd realize just how much I've spent on it all and be horrified.
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12 hours ago, BK13 said:
So I read somewhere about one of the other fluid impacts not really being good for building a deck. Would those who have one would you consider the M18 appropriate for deck building?
Perhaps that might be from the Ridgid's tendency to vibrate pretty heavily when under strain driving long lags. Putting in decking screws shouldn't be any challenge at all for it. Just last summer, I built a deck using my M12 Fuel impact driver for everything but the 6"lags.
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My guess is that they've got one in the labs, but that it just wasn't "300%/ 24 times better/tougher/stronger/shinier" than the competition. You'll remember they DID just come out with new models of the pneumatic framing and coil nail guns. If I had to bet money, I'd say that's what the models were supposed to be, but the driving tech just wasn't up to snuff yet and so you ended up with pneumatic.
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7 hours ago, SetBuilder said:
Milwaukee did have a table saw ions ago.
I saw this on Craigslist recently.
That's seriously old school, though mounting a circular saw underneath a table with the blade sticking through always screamed "WTF are you thinking" to me. There's just way too many opportunities to separate me from body parts that I'm terribly fond of ever to use something like that.
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WTF Toolnut?
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I was on Toolnut the other day and saw an ad for this spiffy track square. It reminded me of another one that I've been eyeing for some time, but the other one was blue and from a company with a strange name that I couldn't remember. I honestly thought that a company had licensed the design from the inventor and gotten it into some online retailers to expand their sales - good for them I thought. I even went so far as to put one in my card to order.
http://www.festoolproducts.com/insta-railsquare-festool-makita-track-saw-square.html
Then I got to thinking... was this one cheaper than the blue one? Let's go look. So I go back through my history and find the original.
https://tsoproducts.com/tso-products-guide-rail-squares/grs-16-guide-rail-square/
Looks pretty much exactly the same, right? Yeah, well that's what I thought, so I did a bit more digging and what did I find? The Insta RailSquare (black one) is pretty much a rip off of the GRS-16. GRS didn't register a trademark / patent in Canada, so they STOLE THEIR DESIGN, changed it slightly (added a useless ruler) and are now selling it as their own product. There are several discussion threads over on FOG saying the exact same thing. TSO even commented saying that, the design isn't authorized and that it was their fault for not being able to provide scale up production fast enough to meet market demand.
I know people aren't fans of Sawstop and their patents for the tech they developed / legal strategy, but this is blatantly stealing a product. I'm even more disappointed at Toolnut for picking up this tool and selling what is a rip off of someone else's good idea. If they wanted to do the right thing, they should have LICENSED THE IDEA from the inventor and paid them a royalty, not just made the same product and claimed it as their own.
Sorry, but I'll pay $20 extra for the Made in the USA original and not this blatant rip off. I'm seriously contemplating pointing my tool buying budget away from Toolnut in the future if this is what they stand for.