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  1. Yeah, its awesome, I have one too. Bought a battery powered one because i use it kinda rarely, and dont wanna deal with all kinds of gunk that forms in the carb when a gas saw is not in use for a while, and also not want to deal with the hassle of cord.

  2. Just keep in mind that over discharging kills batteries. Especially with the Makita protection electronics. The battery might still be perfectly good after charging the cells with a different charger, but it wont work with tools because the protection electronics mark it as bad.

  3. 1 hour ago, dwain said:

    FYI the  x2 Makita drill was listed as both 2.5 J and 3.0 J on the Australian website until recently. I questioned them on it, and they changed it to be 2.5 J. They said the discrepancy was the difference between how they rated it internally, and the standardised (international?) way of rating impact.

     

    I think that cordless SDS drills are awesome, and can be just as powerful as their counterparts. But I do concede that they suck the juice, so you need a fair arsenal of batteries if you want to use them continuously. 

     

    Yea, you need atleast 6 batteries and two twin chargers to keep the Makita 18v x2 rotary hammer going on all day while removing tiles... 8 batteries would be even better. Been there, done that. My boss was skeptic about it, and insisted that I take a company corded Bosch with me as backup. Didn't take it out of the case. I was using 8 5Ah batteries. 

  4. Im thinking its something similar to DeWalts "20V Max". 3J on fully charged batteries, 2.5J on average...

    Edit: Alse the RPM and BPM are listed higher on XRH05... So im definitely thinking they are listing the best case scenario. When using the tool, you can definitely feel it slowing down a lot just before the low battery lights turn on.

  5. 7 minutes ago, D W said:

    I was counting on Drills always 3/8 or 1/2, however, now I think I've seen metric used somewhere (10mm or 13mm). 

     

     I was not implying the size of the chuck, but the thread it uses to attach the chuck. 1/2"-20UNF is definitely imperial.

     

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  6. 2 hours ago, kornomaniac said:

    Circular saws and  angle grinders  are In Metric in Belgium/Netherlands :)

    Makita lists them in metric here in Finland as well, but a most of the guys still use inches when describing the size. Heck, even Makita product numbers have the inch size. (dga452 is 4.5 inch, dga 504 is 5 inch, dga700 is 7 inch, etc).

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