Hugh Jass

These have a new name? I want to know more.

Charging cold packs can damage them, period. If you were allowed to you'd walk yourself directly into a complaint about a platforms batteries prematurely failing without considering why it probably happened. The cells found inside these batteries are often the same or very similar architecture across platforms, the fact that one brand may allow you to slowly fuck them up while another does not is hardly a feature. As stated there's obvious workarounds to this, hell throw them in the floorboard and run the heat in the truck for 10min if all else fails, but it's naive to blame a company for trying to prevent you from complaining about your ignorance.

Hey Glass you never said you worked for Dewalt.

It weighs less than my older wormdrive. There's benefits to this.

They're already coming in far cheaper than the Milwaukee version, I doubt it'll be much cheaper this year.

I don't mind, my question was answered off the bat. Price point is $199 bare tool.

I just placed my order in, can't wait!

...that they're makita fans?

...what makes you say that?

All the time, really keeps the dust down with drywall or demolition, and they're super cheap compared to other air scrubbers on the market ($800+). I'm still on my original set of filters, I just blow them out and put them back in. Probably due for replacement on the pleated filter now after a year.

Best money I ever spent, I want to buy more. https://www.amazon.com/WEN-3410-3-Speed-Remote-Controlled-Filtration/dp/B00LPD9BDI/ref=sr_1_4?s=power-hand-tools&ie=UTF8&qid=1509507251&sr=1-4&keywords=air+scrubber

Sweet, thanks Travis.

Anyone have solid info on when this is hitting the market?

Man people been bitching about the lack of a rafter hook for years on dewalt saws. I'm just glad that's over, lol.

I've never seen any on a job I've ever been on, same for Makita. M12 is everywhere in comparison.

...I'm fairly sure nobody actually cares either way. The only 12v platform worth a damn has a M in front of it. Dewalt has and always will half ass effort with just about everything that isn't 20v/60v. Yawn.

Not all hero's wear capes.

If true, telling people they just wasted their money on a legacy platform is generally bad PR.

This will be my first push into Flex, I think I'm going to go with the Toolnut deal so I get the extra battery. Technically compared to the Acme it's about the same deal and you're paying the cost of the extra battery in a 2 pack just split in half. Can't deny it's a good deal though, effectively 2 9ah batteries and a rapid charger for $100 more than the bare tool.

I'm confused, so Acme has the kit for sale at $299 somewhere but shows $399 on the site and Amazon? And Toolnut's offer, bonus 9ah...is that the kit plus bonus 9 for a total of two batteries? If so I'm jumping on this that's a ridiculous deal.

Proof my caution into the 12v lasers was for good reason.

$189? Good grief it's $20 more than the others. Wonder if it's been upgraded or they're just adding insult to injury since it's being released a half a year late.

That's a move I didn't foresee coming.

The radio doesn't consume enough energy to constitute using flexvolt for power (2ah @ 8hrs IIRC), and the charger is shit and would take all day to charge a flexvolt. It's a useless proposition. I'd take a compact unit over one designed for a useless feature. Now if it had a rapid charger I'd agree but thus far I don't believe anything with an accessory charger has been anything but shit thus far for whatever reasons, probably cost and uninformed purchasers.

Diamond core bits would work too but get very expensive.