JerryNY

http://www.bullseyebore.com Not really sure how useful it is but it looks cool with the concentric laser rings, and to be honest who doesn't like lasers piled on lasers! I guess it'd be useful if you need lots of really straight drilling and to specific depths etc. Anyway it's kinda cool looking if not a little goofy looking on the end of the drill...

I know, like most guys here I probably have a light fetish ( especially LED's) and when I use my Milwaukee m18 led stick light I'm afraid to put it in jeopardy because with the battery it's practically $200! It's a great light but they ain't cheap. A Ryobi light to throw around isn't a bad idea...

I did include the fan for $40 lol. I have to pick up the lantern too. I've played with one and it isn't bad at all. It's not as nice as the Milwaukee lanterns to be sure but it costs less than 1/3 which is crazy. It also means I can use it and not worry about a $70+ lantern attached to a battery worth even more.

It's not a bad strategy to keep the expensive tools' batteries for the expensive hard working tools and use the cheap Ryobi batteries running their led flood lights, lanterns, fans etc. Just because you have a Ryobi Airstrike doesn't mean you can't use those batteries to get into some Ryobi's excellent inexpensive accessories. Their little led lantern is a ridiculous $20 and runs a long time on the 4.0 battery and the fan is like $40. The LED flood is $70 and bright as hell. Your dollar goes a long way with Ryobi for sure.

I had some ryobi stuff before moving to Milwaukee so I had some of the batteries already so the airstrike was a no brainier. One really compelling thing about the One+ platform is the batteries are dirt cheap compared to brands like Milwaukee. You can get a two pack of 4.0 Ah lithiums for $99 and sometimes they even go on sale for $90. It hard to find any single Milwaukee battery for that.

Yeah Ryobi is so competitive in so many places at a very good price it's remarkable. Their 40v stuff is fantastic for the price in the yard, I think got their 40v weedwacker on sale with a big battery and charger included at HD for $99. The Airstrike Brad for just over $100 has no real competition in that price range either, I love mine and have put thousands of brads through it without a single jam.

Diablo blades can even turn what you thought was a so-so saw into awesome sauce. Like tires being the only part of your car to contact the road, making them critical and under-rated wrt performance, the blade on your saw is the only thing contacting your cut. Kerf, teeth, coating on the blade makes all the difference in the world. The saw determines how accurate the cut, the blade determines how clean and easy the cut is. Cleaner and less struggle also helps accuracy because you're more likely to let the saw do the work instead of muscling your cut out of position.I understand why Dewalt wanted this saw compact and light weight but I wish they made it at least 8.5". I'm really looking for a miter and unfortunately I have some rather tall base and crown that are just a little too big for it. After I'm done with the crown and base this saw would have been great but I'm gonna have to look for a bigger one.

Looking at that photo why exactly did your family leave again?

I'm just shocked that not only isn't the festool track saw brushless it has dip-less field coils?!? Maybe that's the new it thing to have... dip-less is better than brushless!!! Jk

I've never shopped for a track saw but looking at Amazon here in the US it looks like the Festool track saw runs around $640 and the Dewalt and Makita's run about $200 less? $640 still ain't cheap but it's a far cry from a grand so it's isn't quite as bad AVE makes it sound. Still I think it's just engineering to the task and price because these saws aren't abused like circular saws probably but AVE hates those types excuses anyway. Btw did anyone catch the little friendly jab AVE took at Tools in Action's intro music at the beginning of his Festool tear down? He actually made a comment on the tool fight video about their intro music being like big hair bands and pickles in their leather pants type rock bands or something to that affect. Kinda funny but it's all in good fun and AVE has lots of viewers and sending him beat up tools to see what failed and repair them for give away is cool.

The only entities that hate having a zillion SKU's needed for a zillion colors on expensive products more than manufactures are retailers. Certain colors might not sell others might sell out and the added complexity of inventory and smartly ordering in ratios that will work etc. just isn't worth their trouble for the most part even though it would be cool.

I switched my locks. It took all of 15 minutes to swap the locks, taking all the drawers out to gain access took more time than anything.

Yeah kinda surprised some of the corners cut. If it was half the cost it wouldn't have been so bad but still his Hilti tear down was much more impressive to me...

You might be able to get your local HD to locate them for you at another HD like Shuutr says.

That fan is one of the cheapest and best of the bunch. Really can't go wrong with it.

I've heard good and bad things from people who've used it. I think the problem is it's not magic and peoples decks are in varied states of decay. Some mild wear and decay it's probably great but if it's rotting and structurally a mess thick paint isn't gonna help.

That's crazy. That guy likes to wring every ounch of flavor out of his smoke by recirculating it from the bottom to the two top smoker pod things. Well looking closer it's really a bbq with smokers up away from the hot bottom part. I like the way he did that. He can bbq over direct high heat on the bottom and still smoke low and slow at the same time on top.

Things change. We have refrigerators with computers in them. There's no going back as computer power gets cheaper and cheaper as well as more power efficient. When these chips get into everything and commoditized manufacturers end up saving money because they can replace much of mechanical complexity with chips that cost pennies and software that only cost devevelopment dollars. Think mechanical watches with their labor intensive innards and complexity vs a quartz watch. Tech will advance and get into everything. Hey anything can happen, looks at Makita they even put charge indicators on their batteries these days!

It's China though, I think if you get fried they'd make your family come do the cleanup. I don't think they do settlements like here.

Yeah I think that required more than a sawzall and grinder to fix lol. It's crazy how stupid people can be. Imagine going near that thing in the rain...

Lol, that reminds me of that Chinese foot bridge that was built a few years back that they built around low hanging power lines so they wouldn't have to touch them themselves: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/500255/qcs-high-footbridge-is-also-high-voltage No worries school children, just step over the power lines and all is fine....

Don't worry in a couple weeks we'll have dozens of comparisons to look at..,

I think this forum needs a TOOL FIGHT section were member can get their aggression out!

On a slightly tangential topic but does anyone else remember before impact drivers became ubiquitous struggling to use drills to drive even much smaller lags and now you see tiny impact drivers nonchalantly driving in 2 ft. lags...

One test does not make a full comparison though. Purely from the spec sheet this would be predicted. I think the Makita is 3600RPM while the Milwaukee runs 3000RPM. Doesn't the Milwaukee have 1800 in-lbs of torque vs.1600 for the Makita? This would mean the Milwaukee could drive everything the Makita could albeit a little slower but then there would be stuff the Makita would get stopped on that the Milwaukee would keep driving, that and near the Makita's maximum torque the Milwaukee would be having a much easier time and be faster. They're both great but if you're doing lags longer than your forearm I think a Makita or Milwaukee impact wrench would be the way to go