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   My preferred cordless tool line for a long time was Milwaukee.  Used to   
   be Makita 30 years ago but they kind of fell behind.  Day in day out as   
   a contractor I bought Milwaukee cordless.  When one of my drills died,   
   and new brushes didn't revive it, and then I got down to just one good   
   battery I gave up and went cheap.  I used the Harbor Freight Bauer line.   
     Its not horrible, the tools are cheap, and the bigger batteries are   
   actually decent.  After my dad passed away I found he had gone with   
   DeWalt.  I gave all my Bauer tools to my son and started using my dad's   
   DeWalt stuff.  Well, not in that order.   
      
   I also found (with both Bauer and DeWalt) that for some tools the   
   smaller batteries are fine.  I figured they would be fine for   
   everything.  They just wouldn't run as long.  No.  That's not true.   
   Some tools just wouldn't run very well on the smaller batteries that   
   usually come with the "packages."  A couple come to mind. Cordless angle   
   grinder, chainsaw, hedge trimmer... Bauer or DeWalt both kind of bogged   
   out instantly with the small batteries and produced respectably with 4AH   
   or bigger batteries.   
      
   I just spent $700(+) dollars on four legit (not Amazon or eBay knock   
   offs) 8ah DeWalt batteries.  I figure after dropping real coin on   
   batteries I'll walk in the shop tomorrow and find melted pools of yellow   
   DeWalt plastic everywhere there used to be a DeWalt cordless tool.   
      
      
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   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
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