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Actually it is kinda like Christmas. Bigmikez won the ultimate tool giveaway so in effect he didn't pay a dime and two elves named Dan and Eric made sure the gifts were delivered to his door. The only thing missing is the wrapping paper

Under the hood the impact driver is probably OK for loosening bolts but for fastening lots of those bolts probably should de done by hand with torque wrenches. I don't think you need a full blown wrench unless you really work on large rusted bolts, there is a reason they spec wrenches in ft. Lbs. instead of in. Lbs like drivers, and why they mention "nut busting torque". If you were doing lots of exhaust systems, lugs and suspension bolt I'd say you'll be much better off with a wrench but just loosening under hood stuff the driver should be fine.

Did you get her at Home Depot? I'm not familiar with that model though. She has a nice red and black overmold but is she Fuel because I don't see any Fuel badges. She's adorable.

Yeah I'm mostly Milwaukee tools now that I've been using them a lot rehabbing a house but I've had Ryobi and still use them for certain things. Their impacts are quite good for the price and the drills are very good but probably a little anemic for doing lots of hole saw cuts but other than that I think they are unbeatable for the price. The One+ lineup's breath is really amazing too. You have drills, impacts, sanders, buffers, saws, grinders, nailers, blowers, trimmers, weedwackers and on and on... As DR99 points out too the battery situation is pretty cheap on Ryobi with 4.0's going for $50 a pop when you can get a twofer $99. Even though I went off the Ryobi reservation to Milwaukee's camp I ended up getting an Air Strike brad nailer when the price dropped. Just over $100 for a brad nailer that can go all day shooting brads on one battery is something I don't think anyone else is even close to competing with. That and the thing just works great. I must have put 1k nails through it ranging from 1" to "2 trimming out casements and not a single misfire and no compressor. If they painted it red and slapped a Milwaukee lightning bolt on the side, the two have the same parent company, they would have charged $250 for it and people would still sing its praises If Ryobi has the tools you need/want I say go for it. Are they the absolute best tools out there? Probably not, except maybe their LED work light and nailers IMHO, but they make quality tools at a great price point. Case in point: I'm just a hack but I cut most of the trim on an old Ryobi saw for convenience and nailed it all up with the Airstrike. It was just a hole in the wall when I started with bare studs exposed. Remember, only a poor workman blames his tools

Did they get excited and decide to push the launch up a bit? I thought it was supposed to be Aug 1st but that page says July 30th. It's all fine by me if they want make us wait a couple days fewer

I've seen some HD's have clearances on the M18 6 1/2 circular saws, oscillating tools and jig saws. They're probably being upgraded to new models. If you get lucky you can score them as low as $30. Not bad if you can find them.

Well we all know why his Milwaukee Fuel Hammer drill chuck came loose. I don't even want to imagine what he was sticking in there and ratcheting down to make that happen. It's strange he fixed it without locktite, I wonder what other sticky substance he substituted for the "fix"

I think PROTOOLNUT is getting a little too excited by Milwaukee's fine products. Maybe he should start thinking about DeWalt, Ryobi or maybe Bosch to cool off. Anything but red tools and maybe take a cold shower while looking at a Harbor Freight catalog to kill any high end tool related excitement

I think Ryobi's One+ 18v is the perfect example how you can grow and evolve a tool platform while maintaining backwards compatibility. Ryobi's tech basis for their system isn't even close to as advanced as Milwaukee's Red Lithium and it's still choochin' along and growing the lineup's versatility while bringing new life to older tools. I think the m18 will be here for a decade or more. If they can give you a 1-9/16" SDS-Max Rotary Hammer Drill with a 9.0Ah battery in 2016 it's really just about making the batteries more compact in the future allowing them to push the power draw of the tools and still increasing capacity regularly to push cordless tools to greater capability. If we have say 18Ah batteries in half a decade the tools will follow that can take advantage of them. As long as they can keep pushing the capacity and decreasing the size and weight accordingly M18 will keep going. Look at the jumps from the 3.0->4.0->5.0->6.0 packs all the while maintaining the same size and improving heat characteristics. Those jumps really didn't take that long either when you think about it. Once runtime isn't so much of an issue the motors can be bulked up to take advantage and increase performance.

It's shocking how self preservation is strangely absent in some people...

Nice photos! Can animated gifs be posted to the forums? I have some fuel grinder slo-mo's which look cool... I used to think the same thing til I got a hackzall myself, it came free as a combo with my fuel hammer drill/impact kit. Now it's one of my favorite tools for cutting anything from PVC to conduit to demo in tight places where the full sized big brother can't fit. One job where it was indispensable was to cut drywall screws away from the studs behind a wall where I wanted to put a pocket door and not disturb the drywall on the other side. You can't use a full sized Sawzall one handed like that either. Most of my house is 100 y/old plaster but this wall happened to be newish and the little saw saved me tons of work, not to mention sanding and dust etc. in a room that otherwise was going to remain untouched. I don't even have the fuel version which must be a crazy good little saw.

Wow, those keys for some reason look cool. Not sure why I'd want/need one but for some reason would love to have one. Damn you Milwaukee and your seductive lighting bolt!

I really like this idea. I'm always messing around with spade bits when unknown dowel/pipe sizes are involved being paranoid it will be too snug etc. The glory holes in the side let you stick the pole in knowing instantly if it will fit or not. For use in my Milwaukee toolbox I think I might lay your concept on its side at a smallish angle and put the glory hole board in front of the bit holder so you pull the bit out and check the dowel. Just to make it more compact. Thanks for posting.

I like how sleek and modern looking it is. I can see why they have that thick black security cable coming off the base of the handle because people would be too tempted to walk out of the store with them. Where does the battery go though ?

Lol, I love my m18 vac.

If that were true what would stop everyone from having 5 or even 10 year warranties? Proving something is the customer's fault is sometimes tough to do. Look at Apple where they put little plastic tabs in their electronics that change color when exposed to water so they can empirically prove the customer submerged the device. Most of Milwaukee's tools today seem to have electronics to shut down the motors to avoid letting the customer release the magic blue smoke from their power tools but they've had that warranty for a while afaik. All that being said there are lots of other things that fail besides motors getting burned up. Probably the weakest link on many tools is the trigger. Capacitors blow, soldered connections get brittle and break, electronics packages fail and on and on. They are more likely to just fix things under their 5 year warranty than fight with you but it all depends on what and how things were damaged in the end.

Ouch, glad it wasn't too serious. That's one reason I like cordless grinders. I love my fuel grinder, no cord makes for one less thing to get snagged. I never use it without the guard but I'm now considering using a face guard whenever I use mine now...

Yeah totally. I was getting sloppy trying to keep my tools organized and it was a losing battle. The chest makes it easier to keep most everything in one place. I think next I'm gonna need a fuel 7 1/4" circular saw and hopefully a fuel miter saw not too far into the future...

I think if I hadn't been going to HD like twice a day lately I wouldn't have caved and bought it right away. The day I bought the top and bottom I promised myself I wouldn't walk by where I knew it was parked and run my hands over it again for the fifth time and as luck would have it an orange apron wheeled it in front of me to put it by the front of the store while talking to another guy about just selling one. I grumbled and walked immediately outside to the parking lot to get one of the heavy flatbed push carts and loaded the bottom onto it and went back later in the day for the top...

Did you mean "piss and vinegar" or is that a different Canadian colloquialism?

I still have that big case which contained what were also some of the first cordless tools I'd had. The drill took some abuse before being replaced by a green one and I still use the little circular saw because it's so handy being so small and lightweight. The later addition of lithium batteries really rejuvenated many of those tools. I love the new Airstrike brad nailer and its kinda crazy it's based on such and ancient battery platform. Props to Ryobi for keeping the upgrade path so wide open and seamless over the years.

Are you sure it's not still under warranty? Can't hurt to try...

Lol, I left out a couple of little things and my jobsite box now that I think of it but I'm sure sooner or later there will need to be an updated photo...

Sadly I've not needed a big assortment of tools until I recently decided to take on rehabbing a house and got disapponted with the level of workmanship on some of the jobs here so I only bought my first Milwaukee tool late last year and have been steadily adding:

Thanks all.