Stercorarius
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I'm younger than all of you guys, but the only thing I gotta say is that just as important as asking questions, probably even more important, is knowing who to ask and who not to ask. Bad advise is worse than no advise.
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50 minutes ago, Jronman said:
One Key and Tool Connect tools have locking features. Bosch might but I'm not sure. Not sure if anyone uses these features. Would seem cumbersome to open up an app just to set how the tool locks. I think the locking options are either schedule based which is tool is unlocked for x amount of time then auto locks, instant lock which is tool locks cause you told it to lock, and finally an out of range lock which locks the tool when the app loses contact with the tool. If there was a more convenient way to lock the tool or set other settings of the tool other than phones, I would think connected tools would take off better.
Yeah the update to one key that let you do this came out after they were stolen. I had the DeWalt batteries with the feature, but I didn't activate it because it was cold and I just wanted to go home.
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Yeah one of the tools in my group had the one key tracking and it hasn't done a damn thing.
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Yep a lot easier to do the spreadsheet before rather than after. Won't really do you any good for law enforcement because even if they did do anything they really can't unless they have video of the guy stealing it. Good for insurance purposes though.
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Welcome to the club bro. Mine worked out to being just under $12,000 stolen. Kinda makes your blood boil. Most frustrating part was that I knew who stole my stuff both times and so did the sheriff's department but there isn't anything they would or could do. My only advice is don't lose any sleep over it because then they aren't just stealing your shit they're also stealing your time and piece of mind. I know it's pretty much impossible to do now that your whole livelihood is gone. I was able to just stop what I was working on and drove truck for a month. Hope you're still able to make it work. I feel you bro.
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Didn't realize not being able to afford an expensive table saw was such a burden for everyone. You're right the government should make me pay for fancy table saws. The speed limit should be 25 everywhere. Cars that don't have lane departure warnings should be a crime. Knives should be banned because they give people owies. Only people with PHDs should get CDLs. The govt needs to keep me safe from myself. I'm too stupid not to get myself killed. Politicians and lawyers know what's best for me. I'm just a cretin.
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6 hours ago, Gnomish Delight said:
Milwaukee does have a good warranty. Never disputed that.
Why are you going to have someone listed on your website as a certified repair center, recommend them to your customers to take their faulty products to, and PAY those people to do your warranty service for you if they can't do the job correctly?
Take a 2704 to the same shop, or any non-one-key tool, and they'll fix it for you without a problem.
You know what the difference between a 2704 and a 2706 is? I've had both of them apart. A bluetooth transmitter, a button cell battery, and a couple extra bits on the circuit board (which is completely potted, so no one is repairing that, not even Milwaukee themselves).
The guy who can repair the 2704 with one hand while snoggin' on his donut and coffee with the other can't repair a 2706, but this shmuck behind this keyboard can?
Come on....
Milwaukee's warranty is fine. The problem is that you have to use the warranty on a regular basis to get a tool that works like it should have out of the box until the day you wear it out.
Why am I going to buy tools that I constantly have to turn in under warranty? I own a couple Metabo tools. I own a Hilti SDS. I've owned several more over-the-pond tools over the years. No complaints about Makita either. I own Bosch's 5.5 amp contractor grade oscillating tool. I've used that poor bastard to probe the darkest depths of Satan's back-end and stomped on it with all of my weight to get it there for over a year and it runs like new. Reliable. That's a word. Remember that word?
Not a single issue with any of them until I was ready to replace them just due to general wear and tear. No finicky BS, no quirks, no electrical tape to keep that twitchy bit from shaking loose. Nothing.
I want my tool to work from the moment I pick it up in my hand to the moment I set it down, and I don't want to think about it in between those periods. People seem to have forgotten that this is not only possible, but it is what we call a "Good Product" which is what I set out to buy every time I open my wallet, and is what every consumer should expect when they buy anything.
You're a hop and a skip away from several parts stores. Great. You know what happens when I hop and skip out to find something to fix my tools that're supposed to be doing the fixing? I fall face-first in the damn swamp. There's nothing out here. I only need one place to get everything I need and that's in front of my computer monitor though. I get it cheap, I get it delivered in 2-3 days (Even Metabo parts), and I keep backups. I don't run out of porta-band blades, because not having a blade handy costs me exponentially more than ordering another 6-pack when I get down to a dozen or so.
Working off of the cuff of your sleeve with your materials and tools may work for you but it's too expensive for my tastes, and even if I were in the middle of a large city where I could walk down the block and get anything I need I'd still operate the way I do because I don't get paid to leave the jobsite for an hour to grab another drill, and in my personal time I'm not going make a trip down to the corner and come back to a warm beer.
Forget the fact that I like to keep all of those pennies to spend them on more tools that don't fall to pieces when I walk in the room at the mere thought of work. I just don't want the friggin' hassle.
Fair enough. Whatever makes you money man. Time is valuable. I don't even own a portaband anymore. Congratulations on having a job where you can stay at one site. I have to go into parts stores on a regular basis because it doesn't pay for me to order parts online while I have equipment down. Amazon prime doesn't ship me argon, or pallets of twine, or tires, or brake cans, or sticks of conduit, or pex, or sanitary stainless tubing, or knotter arms, or grease cartridges. You know who does? Places that also happen to sell and warranty DeWalt and Milwaukee. I just own the bare minimum drill and impact wrench and they're all DeWalt because everyone carries DeWalt. If it's better off for you to order your tools then it's better off for you. Different strokes for different folks. You can work your day on a job site that's you. I'd go for that over my 400 mile days most of the time.
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3 hours ago, Gnomish Delight said:
They won't sell you or any retailer anything for the One-Key tools. "No user serviceable parts. All maintenance has to be done by a factory certified technician."
And it gets even better. Not all factory certified technicians are allowed to work on One-Key tools. I sent my first 2706 to a local shop I found through Milwaukee's website for the warranty work, figured I'd help their personal economy a little. After it sat on their shelf for a week because they were busy they called me up and said "Sorry about this, but according to Milwaukee we're not allowed to do warranty service repairs on this model of tool. We're going to have to send it in to the factory to get it fixed."
So it seems like even authorized repair shops aren't allowed to buy parts for them. You can't even get around their shenanigans by chatting up the guy at the local shop and asking for a favor now and then.
Just about every tool in the world is listed on Amazon, (by the way, buy your Milwaukee tools from Amazon and Milwaukee won't honor the warranty) Hilti, Metabo, Bosch's european line of tools, Fein, etc... are all just as easy to buy now as Black and Decker. I see no compelling reason to keep bending over for corporations that aren't content with just all of the moneys, but also want you to abandon your sense of reason in the name of brand loyalty and maybe take out a second mortgage too.
Yeah that's because Milwaukee has one of the best warranties in the industry. If it's sent in and done by them it doesn't void the warranty. Sounds like they were all new tools and should be under warranty. We've sent Milwaukee tool in for stuff as small as a loose direction selector switch or a touchy trigger and the ones they couldn't fix they sent back with an upgraded model for free. It isn't costing you anything so I don't see the reason for the hate. Really you think some tools from Europe are going to be easier and cheaper to service? In one block I can go get stuff for a Milwaukee or DeWalt tool at four or five separate places. You know how many places will sell you a blade for a Metabo porta-band? Zero. You have to order them online or have them made and welded for you which takes a while as no one does it in house. Would you expect Ford to just send you a bunch of engine parts for a new F150 that's under warranty? No because even if you know your shit the majority of the world doesn't know dick and so for them to continue to honor the warranty it has to be done by someone who is certified. That's the same across the board with every automobile manufacturer anywhere. Why would your drill be any different?
I'm not saying they aren't after your money. Just about each and every corporation would do anything to get another dime out of you because that's what they're supposed to do, but they do it more strategically. Apple doesn't let you repair their devices, John Deere doesn't let you modify their software, and the list goes on and on because companies can't honor warranties when some jackhoff did who knows what to it already and they can't have us regular jackhoffs doing work on them because it is too interlinked with their reputation. If they have dozens of drills breaking on the job site because people screwed up their repairs they'll lose customers and potential customers because all they are seeing is broken drills. If they have handfuls of broken drills because of shotty QC in China but guys see that they are quickly warrantied for no cost it won't hurt them as much.
You think TE won't sell a copalum crimper because they have a hard on for money and will only rent it out to certified users because they are money hungry? No they could very well make more money selling the crimpers, but because they only let certified technicians handle it, copalum crimps are the ONLY way to do a pigtail fix on aluminum wiring currently on the market that hasn't resulted in a house fire. They aren't about to let an asshole like me or any homeowner who watches too many YouTube videos go out and start doing a shit job and getting their houses burned down because then people will start to think that the product fails and not the installer.
I'm not saying you don't know how to fix your tools. I'm sure you can with no problems. I'm just saying a lot of people can't. For what it's worth I also think Milwaukee chucks are shit. It's not like fein is any less American than Milwaukee. It's all made in the same place so I really couldn't care less about which tools you prefer. Just feel like going on a solid rant every now and then.
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BS 18LTX BL Impuls @D W
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Anybody try using grey seam sealer in one?
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It depends on the drill. This is in reference to only drilling metal. Most brushed drills it won't work because you have to lock the clutch into drill mode where it won't slip every to you know, drill. Newer brushless drills have e clutches. It just kills the motor rather than any actual slipping so you can put it in drill mode and then adjust the setting to where it will cut out right before the point where it really hurts. Works fairly well. Good enough that if I have to I'll drill one handed. The only drill kickback protection that I trusted and worked 100% of the time and didn't sacrifice power was my Metabo. I do believe it was accelerometer based. Metabo makes the best metalworking cordless tools on the market even if the specs say they aren't.
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Really the color is the big difference and since you like red, just go with Milwaukee.
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33 minutes ago, Jronman said:
21700 would make flex even bigger than the 9.0 which would seem like a bad idea considering it is already big enough. I think DeWALT should wait for solid state battery tech. If Makita is going 21700 then x2 may start outperforming Flexvolt. They are already pretty close in performance.
Only by like 5mm at most
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On 8/18/2017 at 8:37 PM, Hugh Jass said:
Launch in October.
Yeah just go ahead and pre-order one through cpo
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I know SB&D does the show for their other brands usually the day before or after the DeWalt show. Did I miss it? Any coverage?
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15 hours ago, Jronman said:
why not just use your phone hook up a pair of noise canceling bluetooth headphones and call it good. No fights over what music to listen to and you get to pick the volume too. Another bonus you don't have to hear noisy power tools.
It will get you fired on most job sites. Can't hear people trying to yell at you. Can't hear machinery.
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Technically still a sidewinder, just in a much better format. If you're using sidewinders instead of a skilsaw for framing I am sorry.
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Looks like Dealt might be finally getting their shit together
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It's just ridiculous to me to be creating a legal monopoly like that. If they require it on every saw, and simultaneously won't let anyone but sawstop sell it in the US. The writer of the article makes it sounds like cutting fingers off is an inevitability. Like every time we turn on a saw we're all in tears knowing that we can't just cut wood we have to cut fingers off too but we just keep cutting wood and appendages because big bad capitalist pigs running the evil collusion of table saw manufacturers are getting off by not giving us access to the one and only thing that will ever let us cut something safely. Accidents do happen, but in the same crowd that's buying table saw there's all of us that are pinning guards back on skilsaws. That's like the stupidest thing that a guy can do, but we do it anyway to save us a second even though we know we're probably going to lose something doing it sooner or later. What's next are they going to legally require flesh sensing tech in any and every cutting tool? I know that this wouldn't be the only instance of a safety device that can legally only be made or licensed from one company being required by law, but I still feel it's bullshit.
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Fuck Gass. Fuck the guy who wrote that article.
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Well I could have told you that the Metabo is the best drill on the market, but that's would just be stating the obvious.
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40 minutes ago, FrosBros82 said:
@dwain for runtime they have the best batteries? 5.0? I don't know too much about them, I just see all the videos like everyone else, for the most part.
6.2Ah batteries that have been out for years. They were (one of) the first to start using 20700 cells. They have always been ahead with battery tech.
60V max vs 54V XR
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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.