i never buy cordless. cordless is a joke. They arent made as well, and the batteries are $$$$. Never have i needed a toold where i could run an extension cord, sure its a pain sometimes, but well the corded tools are just made better and has more $$, and never runs out of juice.
Milkwaulkee has all of the parts for almost all of their tools new and old available for sale to the public at a very reasonable price online. I recently replaced both the drive and bevel gear, all bearings in an angle grinder for around $30$, oh and that included a new set of brushes. Dewalt on the other hand, you have to go to their service center, and I'm not even sure they would sell parts to you. I have a dewalt angle grinder i got for $50, in almost new conditon (bro bought it for work, and 2 weeks later they bought them all new ones, haha), couldnt turn it down since they retail for $135. It has a weird sound to it on accoasion, reminds me of when a bearing chatters or when a gear slips on its shaft (bearings and gears/shafts are fine, I checked them), its not often, but its every now and then, maybe i just hit the part to be grinded wrong i dont know. The case never gts warm (motor
), and the gearbox gets warm, but barely after a long time of use (like 15 min continuous). The key to most power tools lasting is simple...
Let the tool do the work, if your bogging the tool down, then either you need to let up on it, or buy a more powerful one. The cheaper ones obviously dont have the power. The key here is to not reduce the motor rpm alot or a burnt commutator can result. Cheaper angle grinder (or any motored tool), like a homier one my dad got for like $10 are just plain out peices of dog poop. This angle grinder would get so hot physically in a matter of minutes of light grinding you couldnt even touch the case and you had to physically stop using the darn thing because it would burn your hands. This is due to a lower number of windings in the motor which makes them cheaper to produce. The gearbox held up the life of the tool (but was getting sloppy), about a total of an hour, with alot of cooldown time, I was getting pretty ticked off. In any event, it sucks B&D bought dewalt.. I never buy new, I just get used and fix them, so my choices are limited, but I do prefer the color of my tools to match my tractor, being red. Its not the color of the stuff, its the quality in it!!
As for bosch, well i refuse to support them, they are our #3 competitor in the dishwashing industry, where I work.
It really just blows that companies are so crappy now a days. With all of their new fangled technology and design that is supposively a replacement for just brute poweful designand materials. Dad has an old B&D drill, probly 20 years old at least, those tan plastic ones. It is indestructible, I have beat the living poop out of it, and it wont die, doesnt sound the best, but it just wont die!!. B&D used to make good stuff, but not anymore. I seen some of those last year at the flea markets cheap, gonna pic some up this year if there are any, about $1, only bad thing is their chucks are kinda small. Oh and watch that sears stuff, my friend bought one of their 5 piece cordless tool setups, and in 1 year (hes got the 2 year service plan), he burnt up 2 curcular sawz, and 3 drills. The only thing I dont think he had problems with was the light. Only good thing is the new ones they replaced it with (had to return the WHOLE kit everytime)were laser guided =), still what about after the warranty?
Oh well.. disposable society, what drives it? stupid people, greedy manufacturers, or what? This world is going to he11 in a handbasket
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