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Makita would benefit from having some high capacity slim packs for their impact drivers. Looks like the Bosch is getting 4.0 ah from their slim packs from the image @kornomaniac posted. Be cool if Makita is similar or better. Just hope they don't forget a battery life gauge.

Not exactly my trade but you can get a free bobcat beanie if you show up so I'm down even though I've had bad luck with the new bobcats. Kentucky is a little too far away. I bet we'll see some DeWalt mower demos.

The only way they could just go taller is if maybe they turned the cells so they are set in vertical. 20700 and 21700 cells would be 5mm longer so you would need 5mm spacing between the batteries and 2.5mm on the outsides of the two batteries unless they can cut out a good chunk of the battery shell. I guess we shall see when they release them. Curious as to how much space the 18x2 recip and circular saws have. I think a few guys have them on here.

I'm curious to see if they have fitment issues on the 2x18 tools. I haven't used one. I would imagine they anticipated bigger batteries and left some space? If Makita starts using 21700 cells they'll be able to give horsepower (I guess kW) specs for their impact drivers. Curious to see the change in performance in the td170dz. Still the best impact driver I've ever owned. I'd trade my dcf887 for it any day.

I guess I don't know your level of experience so I don't know if this will offend you or not, sorry if it does. You are tapping the burr/attachment in toward the collet first to get it release, correct?

Yeah they both do. DeWalt's is the same specs as the 1/2" though. The first gen Milwaukee brushless ones the 3/4 was a little higher. I can't really find a lot of info but it sounds like there is also a 3/4 version of this new high torque impact wrench.

Oh they did that again. Not sure what the point of that is. I've heard some spiel about detent being used in fastening something something but like you said bigger number is more better right? I get the feeling there's going to be a lot of frustrate people with a lot of broken wheel studs. I'm curious to see if they ever do get around to releasing a decent 1" impact wrench. Either M18 or if it's yellow 60v. Would be so nice. If they can put 1400 ft/lbs in this size double the size and torque and make the run time enough to remove and tighten 10 nuts and I'm sold on it. Interesting enough I was shopping for 3/4 drive pnuematic impact wrenches and you don't get over the torque of this new Milwaukee until you get to the $800 range. So I can't argue against the value of Milwaukee's new product. The kit off the shelf with no promo will probably only be $500 with two batteries. 3/4 drive probably a little more. Interested to see what happens with cordless impact wrenches over the next few years. I started with an impact wrench that only put out something like 350 ft/lbs and it's already double that four years later. It's going to get to where they Max out the torque relative to drive size and component strength and start putting it out in smaller and smaller packages. Give it twenty years and who knows what we'll have.

Oh yeah that's been out for a few years now.

Can't speak for the other brands but that DeWalt saw rips MDF like a champ. Clean enough for finish work.

Where is the 19$/month gps information coming from? Can't seem to find anything backing that.

1400 ft/lbs is a dangerous amount of torque. Anything under 3/4" or a 20mm bolt will shear before you get to the 1000 ft/lbs in forward. At that point you're over a 30mm socket and should probably be using a 3/4 drive. My DeWalt and the 2763 have to be careful with because they will stretch a 12mm bolt with little hesitation. That being said the extra 200 ft/lbs would be nice in terms of time savings on the bolts you have to hammer on for a while. Would rather have them go more compact and maintain power than maintain size and go more power. Arms get tired after you burn through your second battery in a day. I'm curious to see how sockets hold up to the new impact. Hopefully DeWalt updates there's as well. Don't like Milwaukee's pin detent. DeWalt has a pin detent you don't need a pick for and offers the perfect amount of retention. Hog ring ones don't hold on well enough. Just a little thing, but enough to make the 899 a better choice over the 2763.

For the most part I don't think contacting DeWalt directly will do much because there's just so many people getting ripped off that they couldn't keep up with giving out discounts. That being said if you catch a rep at a vendor they will almost definitely toss in a free battery if you buy a kit off them if you tell them what happened. You can almost always get the reps to toss in a free battery regardless though.

Haha, it was stuck to the top of a Ridgid case that must have been to greazy for the inside of their Civic. Looks like they just dumped the contents and the tick fell out and they left it behind. Probably has more to do with it not being expensive looking. Between pickups so this one was actually left in the equipment yard at work where it was ripped off sometime last night. Luckily with being between pickups not everything was in there so they only grabbed like $1500 in power tools and left the hand tools. Word is they hit the yards of all the trucking companies. Lot of service trucks broken into. Stupid thing is they took my bin of like $300 (not my $300) in specialty and random air brake fittings that took over a year to amass. If DeWalt really does offer a $19/month tool tracking I'm going to buy one each month and leave it out on weekends. Then my Monday hobby can be to sit across the street and eat popcorn and watch SWAT bust in some doors.

Don't worry they were kind enough to leave this behind. Milwaukee is never getting another dime out of me. No more red left now anyway so might as well keep it that way.

Yes I am just an angry a-hole.

Yes but higher voltage is more efficient. You have less resistance and less loss to heat is what I believe he was getting at. No one is saying that the initial potential energy in a battery is going to be changed by how it is drawn. Edit:and that higher voltage while maintaining current does increase the amount of energy being delivered. Just if he's confusing anyone by tension he means voltage. Why use the term tension instead? Couldn't tell you. So you can use smaller wire and other components. The components being where the gains are made. Wiring and components are a bigger deal when you're dealing with industrial wiring, but also applicable to the internals of power tools.

Sorry I was just trying to demonstrate that you can't really use one principal to judge a whole tool let me edit that a little for you. Or make them more efficient. You really like ohm's law like everything uses energy in equal efficiency, or that it's the only judge of how well a tool performs. Yes ohm's law accurately conveys potential energy of a battery but don't go whipping it around like that's the criteria for testing tools. If you truly believe that then I'll trade you a brushed cordless grinder with a 9ah for your brushless grinder with a 5ah. Hey Power (Watt)=voltage*amps and it has the same voltage and more amps. Obviously it's a better tool, right? If you make your tool stronger/faster/more powerfull you'll use up more energy. Really you want to stand by that? If you make a tool stronger/faster/more powerful you'll put out more energy. Does that often mean you use more, yes, but not always. I'm not saying that I have a design for a system that defies the law of conservation at all. I'm saying energy stored in any form can be put into use more efficiently and get more useable energy while draining less of the stored energy. Why would you get offered rebates for converting to led lighting? Sorry not about cordless tools don't want to confuse you. Let's say instead you have two cordless lights one draws x amps at 10.8v nominal and uses an incandescent bulb, the other draws the same x amps at the same 10.8v nominal and uses an LED light. Are you going to tell me those lights are both just as powerful? Let's talk impact drivers. You are then saying that because a brushed DeWalt impact driver draws more amps at 18v it is more powerful than your td170 because it draws less amps at 18v? You said more amps or voltage or both is the only way to make something, "stronger/faster/more powerfull" Your td170 doesn't draw more than brushed impact drivers at 18v then if your statement is correct you have an impact driver that is inferior to a brushed DeWalt impact. Even not all brushless motors are created equal. Why would Makita release so many impact drivers so frequently if they weren't improving the motors? Makita, DeWalt, Bosch, Milwaukee have until recently been using 18650 cells that discharge the same 18v at amperage rates that haven't had any huge increase. So has the power and runtime of tools also not increased? I'm fairly certain it has. You can very much have an increase in power and runtime while decreasing draw. Don't worry I'm sure you would be a perfect fit for the Milwaukee marketing department if they're ever hiring.

Or make them more efficient. You really like ohm's law like everything uses energy in equal efficiency, or that it's the only judge of how well a tool performs. Yeah you can tow a 7 ton trailer across the United States of America with a Toyota Tacoma that has a 100 gallon tank and say driving there requires x joules of work. One could say, "While no matter what you're favorite color of vehicle there's no changing that gasoline has 46.4 MJ/kg so that means that that Tacoma has the potential to do 13131.2 MJ of work. Your F250 is diesel but that's all marketing wank and people aren't smart enough to see through it unless they're as smart as me. Doesn't matter how much of a fanboy you are, it doesn't change that diesel has 48 MJ/kg and and an F250 has a 35 gallon tank so that means you only have 5049.6 MJ of work available. 13131.2 MJ is a larger number than 5049.6 MJ. It's so simple even you should be able to see it. There's no getting around that no matter how big of a hard on you have for an F250 or how good Ford's marketing department is. A Tacoma is the better choice." Good luck with that. Would you install low voltage single phase motors when high voltage three phase is also available? I know it's not as much of a difference with cordless tools. Yes ohm's law accurately conveys potential energy of a battery but don't go whipping it around like that's the criteria for testing tools. If you truly believe that then I'll trade you a corded Ryobi reciprocating saw for your 2x18 cordless Makita, or even a brushed cordless grinder with a 9ah for your brushless grinder with a 5ah. Hey Power (Watt)=voltage*amps and the first one has more of both and the second one has same voltage and more amps. Obviously they're better tools.

In case anyone is wondering the Mac protective boots are a perfect fit.

A little past due. Less than a year old. New ones were $100 off and trying to get them warrantied isn't worth my time.

Yeah. BWP150. Mac has had a bunch of different impact wrenches and ratchets that run off DeWalt 20v batteries and some on 12v DeWalt batteries. Just red DeWalt tools. I have Mac boots on my impact and batteries because DeWalt doesn't make them. Who knows if more tools will migrate over as I wouldn't think they would want to compete with their own automotive line. Then again it does send a lot of people away from DeWalt to their competitors. So yeah if you really want a "full" line of 20v and 12v ratchets and impacts to work with your DeWalt platform you've been able to buy them through Mac for a while. Almost bought the 12v ratchet a while ago but cordless ratchets aren't really my cup of tea lately.

It costs as much as you can get a name brand one for so I wouldn't even lean toward it and it's one of the only things on that platform. Seems very odd that they would choose to go with three separate simultaneous battery platforms.

Yeah we even get a pretty hefty discount through Grainger and it just gets us to everyone else's prices.

My new ride against the radiant Northwest sun. Toolboxes are a week or two out.

True most of the time. There's some exceptions though. Last season we had a windrower go down. First guy to fix it called a Deere dealership parts department and they told him to put it together this way because that's what the diagram shows. Three hours in boom $300 in damage and six hours down time plus four hours labor. Second guy who fixes it does the exact same thing. Another $300 in damage and more down time. I think they did this three times. They call me in as a fresh set of eyes. I was just an operator at the time, if it was now I would have been the first one to make a call on the machine. Instead of calling a parts counter or looking at the diagram they printed out for us or listening to the two guys who had already tried to fix it I looked at the other machines and put it back the way the other ones were. 600 machine hours later no problems with that part. Parts diagram showed all of the available shim sizes stacked up on the assembly for the sake of getting part numbers so they bought all the shims available, put them all on and it was interfering with another part. Put the one right shim and it's gold. When bad advice is expensive I would much rather have my guys not listen to it and not learn from it than be stuck with a couple thousand dollar bill. Like guys saying oh yeah hy-tran works in all loader transmissions, that advice is about to lose us a tranny that they don't manufacture even parts for anymore. Had an interstate shut down for four hours both directions when a truck rolled on bridge across both lanes because the driver had been told he could pull the corner at 70. Learning from your mistakes is a great way to learn and I like the kind of people who are willing to do something. I guess the real issue is people who take bad advise, screw up, and then don't learn from it.