khariV
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Who knows - You'd think that if they had an M18 miter saw in the wings and ready to ship any time before Fall 2016, they'd be shouting about it from the highest tower, if for no other reason than to keep the red faithful from jumping on the Dewalt. My guess is that they might have one that will showcase in next years event along with the fabled cordless nailers.
If you need one now, go for the Dewalt.
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If you're looking for pliers to work on conduit lock nuts, you need to pick up a pair of these.
The PVC / oil filter pliers are probably going to be too large to fit inside a standard metal box. You can find these pliers at Lowes or Amazon.
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I like the Bosch tech better specifically because it doesn't ruin your blade. The only problem is that Bosch has only announced a contractor's saw so far. There's no big, cabinet makers saw on the horizon.
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When I was growing up, I had so many uncles and cousins that were missing fingers that it wasn't even that unusual. Kickback can happen even to experienced woodworkers - all it takes is a second of lost concentration, taking a shortcut, a stupid decision or even bad luck and your fleshy parts can get pulled into the blade, even if you're using a push stick. Even if one of your acquaintances hasn't been injured by a table saw, it does happen and when it happens, it's bad.
Current generation saws with riving knives and blade guards notwithstanding, I won't use a table saw until I can afford a sawstop or a bosch; I'm just too fond of my fingers.
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Checked my HD - the price on the display was a yellow $89, but there was another yellow sticker hidden around the corner on the shelf that had the $75 price. I think I'll hold off to see if it drops any more before I pull the trigger.
Thanks for the heads up.
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I'm trying to figure out how long they will something sit on clearance before they knock it down again. They have the Makita 18v X2 circular saw for 148 but it isn't moving so I'm thinking if it hits 99 I'll grab it. I have the 18v brushless Makita, but hey why not get another saw!
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I've been told by HD employees that the way to tell is by the cents in the price. Specifically the cents value for true clearance items it's a number of weeks. If an item is $xx.03, then there's three weeks to go before it disappears. If the cent price is more than 0, that's how many more price cuts it has left on the shelf. So an item with a price of $xx.24 will get a price cut in 4 weeks and it has two more price cuts left before it gets to the mythical $.01 price.
Of course the guy could have been making all of this up, but that's what his story was.
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I haven't found the 7 1/4" Fuel to be underpowered at all. Quite to the contrary, I've gone through quite a bit of PT lumber without any problems at all. The framing blade that comes with it is also surprisingly good. Compared to some framing blades that have torn and massacred plywood, I've gotten very smooth cuts from the stock blade when I've forgotten or just been too lazy to swap it out.
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I apologize for not following up on this sooner. I got distracted looking for a job, watching the kids this summer and traveling to take care of my dad and fix up his house.
Anyway, I finally had a chance to revisit my woes with the Klein voltage testers while ripping out the drywall in my kids bathroom. I even made a couple of quick videos to show the problems that I am having.
The first video describes the general behavior of 3 different voltage testers. In a nutshell, the Southwire is the only one that can reliably beep ONLY when there is power in the line. The Klein NCVT-2 beeps continuously on a powered off circuit. The Klein NCVT-3 beeps a bit whenever you touch something -wire, drywall, wood, hand. On a side note, both of the Kleins beep more when touched to a live circuit, but the low level beeping leads me to believe that they think that there is in fact power in the line when the breaker is cut off.
The second video focuses on the NCVT-3. Now, to preface this, because I believe in Klein, I actually went out and bought another NCVT-3 after all the problems I had this summer. I just unboxed it prior to shooting the first video. In this second video, you can see that not only does the NCVT-3 beep randomly, it shuts itself off pretty much whenever it feels like it. To me this is incredibly dangerous as you think that you've got it turned on and detecting, only to have it shut itself off because it bumped something. I can easily see thinking that circuit was dead only to find out the hard way that it was in fact live and your detector had just shut down.
I'll forward this on to the Klein rep that posted above. Like I said, I believe in the company and I'm slowly switching all of my electrical gear over so I'd love to get this resolved and have two functioning tools again.
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These drivers are insulated for high voltage use. I don't know if they are also anti-esd rated as well. Don't get me wrong, I use plain old screwdrivers to work on computers and network gear, but I would think that an ESD rated set would be more useful if you're looking for specialty tools for that kind of work.
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I've been getting more into Channellock recently because they are still made in America and their tools are well made without costing a fortune. I've picked up a couple of pairs of pliers and I have been impressed with their quality.
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I always check the clearance shelves whenever I visit. What annoys me though it's when they've got items in "clearance" that are marked down from $14.95 to $14.73 or some nonsense like that. I've gotten some great deals (Milwaukee M12 Fuel impact driver with 2 batteries for $110), but more often than not, it's an exercise in disappointment.
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Now that's one heck of a deal. A reconditioned 2797-22 kit usually goes for $299. I've had so-so luck with reconditioned tools, but you've got CPO backing up the sale and they're great with warranties.
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I believe that $129 is the normal, bare-tool price for the 2653-20.
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I thought the website looked familiar, then I found this on the About Us page.
Tyler Tool Company was founded in 1963 in Tylertown, Mississippi and was known for service, quality and integrity in business. In the late 90's, Tyler Tool expanded its business to the Internet and launched Tylertool.com, which became a leading website of quality tools, equipment and more. In 2011, the website TylerTool.com was purchased by CPO Commerce, which is committed to running the site according to the guiding principles of the original founders: old fashioned customer service, convenient fast shipping, and a huge selection of great name brand products you can’t find at your local hardware store.
As far as I can tell, it's just a reskinned CPO - not that this is bad, I've had nothing but good experiences dealing with CPO as a company. I pulled the trigger on the 2520-21XC last week from CPO.
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I like them and look good in the toolbag too. I like them better than the Dewalt i had prior.
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I like my Milwaukee screwdrivers. They're good for everyday beaters. One thing I really don't like though is the fact that Milwaukee screwdrivers only have a + or - on the handle. There's nothing to indicate tip size, length or anything else. I'm slowly switching over to Klein drivers for just this reason.
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This may not be the right place to ask, but do you know if that speaker works with XC batteries? It's hard to tell from the picture.
Yes, the speaker will work with any 12v battery.
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$99 south of the border... Ok yeah that feels strange to say that even though it's true!
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First off, don't get me wrong, I'm all for every possible tool to have a cordless M18 or M12 Fuel version. However, in all honesty, how often do you ever use a biscuit joiner away from mains power (jobsite woodworking?) or where having a cord is really a serious inconvenience? Biscuit joining is something you do in a fully equipped wood working shop and it isn't really something that moves a lot during use, unlike say a sander or a circular saw.
Milwaukee isn't the strongest woodworking powertool company in the first place, but I have to believe that they'd need to see a market for a tool before they put the time and money into bringing it to market.
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Yesterday, I dropped by my local depot to check out the multimeters. They had a 2216 marked down from $149 to $97, so I passed. After checking out the terminal for clearance prices/stock (big thanks btw to whomever it was that suggested I look at the job application terminal), I found that another store across town had the clamp meters for $30.
I drove over today and I managed to snag one of the clamp meters for $30.03. All of the 2216-20's were marked at $74.98 both in-store and online and nothing I could do would convince the sales people to give it to me for $30. Oh well, I got one of the two. Apparently, the sales guy told me that they were probably dropping Milwaukee as a supplier of electrical tools, so take that for what it's worth. He also said that once they go to $.01, they can't sell them anymore... yeah, sure, OK.
FYI: anyone looking to score one of the clamp meters, you may have to ask them to look in the stock in the shelves above the electrical section. They found a box of 10 or so of them up there. None of them were clearance stickered and the in-store inventory only said that they had 2 in stock.
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I've checked every store for 100 miles around and the 780 isn't listed at any discount, never mind 179. That's an awesome deal you got.
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Any computer in the store.
So once you manage to get to a computer, what do you do to find the clearance deals? Not that I've had a lot of time to poke around, but to save time, is there a specific site to launch or link to click to do the search? I've looked on just hd.com from one of them and didn't see anything special.
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I love it. I haven't let my daughter try out my airstrike just yet, but she's all about the inspection camera and my M12s.
Need to get your son a nice pair of hearing protectors, btw. Then he can get all kitted up and ready to help when things get loud.
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It's great that members regularly st up their own giveaways - definitely shows the strength of the community and the people. Thanks for giving back to the crew.
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I'd love to hop on this, it's a heck of a deal, but I honestly have no idea when I'd ever really need a rotary hammer. I think I've put a grand total of 15 holes into brick since I bought this house in 98, and my M18 hammer drill did just fine.
New inflator spotted on home depot.com?
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So I was looking for which local HD had the 18+ inflator in stock when I ran across this...
It's not in stock anywhere yet so I assume that it's another case of an overzealous web department spoiling the surprise for marketing.
Looks like it'll be an interesting option if you only ever need to inflate tires and balls. Cheaper to!
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