From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 9/23/2024 3:39 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   I have broken one DeWalt tool since switching.  I was helping out a   
   buddy, and I stuck a blade in backwards (tang end out) in a DeWalt   
   cordless jig saw.  Of course I broke the blade clamp mechanism trying to   
   get it out.  I finally looked it up and ordered a new blade clamp   
   assembly today.   
   --   
   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
      
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