PutnamEco
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Milwaukee has seemed to favor battery protection over letting the tool work hard, it has been this way with all the Lith-Ion they have come out with, real pain in the butt with circular saws. This is one of the reasons I switched to other brands.
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They are kind of funky and the ring gear eventually wears out, other than that they work fairly well. They can be used with the V18 battery system as well as the other 18v NiCd tools.
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Various internet sources announced today that Bain Capitol LLC, which you may recognize as the American investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, is trying to acquire Apex Tool Group. Apex is the tool conglomerate that owns the following brands:
Airetool Crescent Jacobs Chuck Plumb Allen Delta Truck Boxes Jobox Quackenbush Apex Diamond K-D Tools Recoules Armstrong Tools DGD K&F Sata Atkins Dotco Lufkin Spline Gauges Belzer Erem Master Power Utica Campbell GearWrench Mayle Weller Cleco H.K. Porter Metronix Wiss Collins Iseli Nicholson Xcelite
Additionally, Apex is one of the several manufactures who makes tools under contract for Sears producing wrenches, ratchets, and sockets, for the Craftsman line. The deal is expected to exceed $1.5 Billion. I can only speculate as to what this means for we the consumers. Many of the Apex brands are already being manufactured in China so I guess it's just wait and see.
My prediction, even more tools will end up being made in China....
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What tools do you write reviews with?
I like to write my reviews with a chainsaw.
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I am the same I can't see me parting with Stabila levels.
But I am a little disappointed with the LAX200 laser level by Stabila that I bought.
How so? I like the LAR 120. For cross line I like the PLS 180.
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I don't own any but, they seem pretty well made. I have never had any problem with my Stabilas and don't really see a reason to change.
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I don't think it's that. The theme of...well, the whole world seems to be about getting more from less. The cost of the higher voltage tools narrows the market considerably. Take the Milwaukee 0726-22 M28 Hammer drill kit for example. At nearly $500 for a 6.5 pound tool delivering 750 in/lbs. of torque it's hard to pass up a $300 M18 model delivering 725 in/lbs. and weighing a 1.5 lbs. less. I think most manufacturers realize this which is way we've seen most of their higher voltage efforts devoted to outdoor power equipment. Cutting out Exxon seems like a more worthy goal than cutting the cord, at the moment at least. I would like to see some higher voltage stationary tools, but I think in time hand held tools will become more and more impractical in a higher voltage. As with most all 18V tools Circular saws are way better than they used to be. The power is there, the runtime will come.
The Milwaukee M28 has not really been updated other that a slight modification over the V28 tool to accommodate the newer battery. This is one of my chief complaints. I can just imagine how much better it would be with a brush less motor and some 4 Ah batteries. I had to go with Hilti for my big circular saw a few years ago because only they had high amp (3.9 Ah) battery even back then. It still kicks butt over any 18v tool in both power and runtime. I won't even consider ripping any 2x wood with an 18v tool while my Hilti will take care of it with almost as much ease as a corded saw.
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Sounds like an ambitious project, to swap out blade holders. It might be considerable less frustrating to just get another tool. Bosch and Festool make some really good jigsaws.
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As an update on this tool folks.
As with quite a few Metabo products,I can see it on the Metabo website,I can watch it on You tube, but if I wanted to buy one with the 4ah or 3 ah batteries I can't.
I can buy it bare tool.
I can buy it with two 1.5ah batteries ( not cool for a saw which will need the extra power and run time).
But I can't buy the version with two 3ah batteries as this is not available in the U.K and I can't buy the version with two of the 4ah batteries either for the same reason.
I can however buy the 4ah batteries as a single item,and the saw as a bare tool.
This ends up costing a bloomin fortune so for now I am sorry Metabo I will be giving it a miss.
World class tools but marketing and product availability are woeful.
Metabo really need to pull up they're socks up as far as marketing is concerned,great tools,but the school report from me says "Must do better".
Not much better over here on this side of the pond, as for availability of any Metabo tools.
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Some of my first tools were hand me down Craftsmans, they were kind of course but they did get the job done. Their tape measures were the hot ticket a while back, before Stanley took over the market, the lifetime guarantee was one of the strong selling points back then. One of the reasons I think Craftsman tapes are getting hard to find now. I think Craftsman/Sears is not honoring/offering their warranty like they once did. I don't believe I have any Kobalt tools other than a utility knife. I don't believe I have any Husky tools, although I have bought unbranded tools from Home Depot before. I have one of their florescent work lights that I am rather fond of, Of course they have discontinued it now.
I do have some other commodity tools, like Stanley and Crescent sets that I pick up as disposable/beater tools or for tools that will do things like sit under the seat of my truck for on road emergencies.
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About the only thing I could see these being useful for is for things like shelf pin holes and keyhole slots, other than that I just don't really get them. About the only other base I like for these compact routers is the angled base.
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I'm wondering if the next generation of power tool users is intimidated by larger more powerful power tools. Could this be what is causing the trend towards all these downsized tools and the lack of the tool manufacturers catering to those of us who really rely on our tools for serious work to be shortchanged in the advancement of larger more powerful tools?
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If you want people on the bleeding edge of social media you should be trying to reach people there. Try Reddit or Slashdot if you want an opinion on what kind of chance you will have. They both have many posters who have considerable experience in online communities from both sides of the fence. The tool/DIY type forums people are late adopters and DON'T like change. There is always a falling out when ever any of the forums change, and it takes considerable time and effort to build any community. Even more so among the professional building trade communities.
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Just noticed that Bosch has come out with a plunge base for their Colt router. Can routers this size really benifit from a plunge base? I just use my little router for trimming laminate and the like and usaully go up to a full size router when I need to do any plunging work.
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What is the backstory on this? Sometimes critters have to be culled when we kill off all their natural predators.
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No idea on that one. I'd think I'd have ran across something like that though. I do know that most of the War Finish tools carry the lifetime warranty.
I thought it was th opposite, the war finish tools were supposed to be a comodity item and as such were not warranted for life.
I don't have the link handy, one of the plomb history pages spelled it out. It was not on alloy artifacts but some other site.
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There other style o pliers look as if they could be handy if you were to spend your day working with one size a pipe all day.
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I still maintain that I like magnetic screwdrivers and driver bits. That's about it. I don't really mind them on my torpedo level, but I could live without them.
Don't get me wrong, there is a time and place for everything, it is just when they start putting them on everything it starts to get annoying.
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Any thoughts on those SharkBite fittings. I'm afraid to try them any place that may end up flooded, and most of what I work with could end up that way.
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My favorites are the Pebble Grain Plomb and Proto's. Just don't see that kind of art in a production tool any more.
I had heard at one time, I don't know if it was true or someone was trying to pull one over on me, that the pebble finish tools were cheap version that used shot peening as the method of case hardening the tool rather than the more traditional heat treatment. This was told to me by someone who was known as a fine BS artist, though it does have a slight ring of truth to it.
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While looking around for some locking pliers that were not made in China I came across Rennstieg tools.
they look like they have an interesting line up. They do have locking pliers that are made in Germany, I could not find them on their website, they can be found on page 28 of their catalog. They do have an interesting take on water pump pliers.
Any power tools review writer?
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To big and bulky and you need access from both sides, I can just dive write in with the chainsaw, disc griders can work well too, with the write disc installed.