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Whats your latest purchase?

clshades said:
Definately older than 5 years ago. Smoked an impact driver within an hour and fried a fein saw in under 10 minutes. The Fein saw fiasco was an after hours job and basically ruined the entire night. Needless to say, the quality just isn't good enough for me.

For someone stocking some part time garage tools for the occasional repair etc I suppose they are a reasonable option. Most of my Milwaukee tools are going on 14 years of hard labour. I've ruined two of their cheaper drills coring holes, 2 of their hacksawzalls cutting steel or pipes with water 😡. The impact is original, still works, and so are the batteries.
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Ryobi is probably fine for hobbyists. Industrial workers seem to stick with Dewalt or Milwaukee IME. If I was doing anything serious I'd steer clear of Ryobi.

I think for hobbyists that use them a lot, Ridgid is the best brand due to warranty and having some great tools, but they definitely have a smaller selection than Dewalt or Milwaukee (milwaukee esp if you do lots of plumbing as Ridgid's power tools are a separate company from their plumbing and piping tools).

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Ryobi is for the DIYer/home projects. They are not for people who work in the trades at all; they are just not built for that daily pounding. For quality, it's Dewalt/Milwaukee/Makita, a DIYer like myself Ryobi works just fine for the 10-30 times a year I need to use them.
 
my FIL has burnt out a dewalt impact and a weed eater. There is a service center in Edmonton and they basically gave him the newer weed eater at a heavy discount even though it was out of warranty.

I have just about finished killing a drill but it came to me second hand and already abused when an installer left it behind. Yes I called them to come get it 4 months later it came home instead of sitting in the office.
 
Hilti makes good tools too. I have a preference for them and Bosch. My dad liked Delta, Grandpa was a Craftsman guy so I have a mixture of everything in my shop. If I was starting over with an unlimited budget, Festool and Milwaukee would be where I'd start for power tools.
 
SugarJ said:
Hilti makes good tools too. I have a preference for them and Bosch. My dad liked Delta, Grandpa was a Craftsman guy so I have a mixture of everything in my shop. If I was starting over with an unlimited budget, Festool and Milwaukee would be where I'd start for power tools.
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Hilti makes a lot of industrial grade tools (literally insert concrete anchors are called Hilti anchors), but they've got a smaller selection of 'mainstream tools' from what I remember.

Craftsman was my go to in my teens and early 20s when sears still existed. They were the premium automotive tools for consumers. Sadly their current products feel vastly inferior in quality.

I'm too cheap for festool so I haven't bought any, but would grab either a festool or mirka sander if I had money to burn.
 
We are one of Hilti's larger customers in BC. We fleet-lease our tools, but sometimes they do promo sales where you get a tool with x dollars bought. That's how I got my cordless screwdriver and worm-drive saw, extras that we didn't need in the field so my boss gave them to me. And my Yeti coolers too, a few years back. :D Their impact drivers work very well for my cladding division.
 
Ryobi / Ridgid / Milwaukee are all manufactured by TTI.

I won't buy Ryobi batteries if I am buying new. I'll just use Ridgid batteries with an adapter. For cordless I'll stick w/ Ryobi or Ridgid now unless it is also 18V and I can use an adapter.
 
lowfat said:
Ryobi / Ridgid / Milwaukee are all manufactured by TTI.
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Yep, and similarly, Stanley black and decker owns bostitch, dewalt, porter cable, mac and, obviously, stanley and black & decker. Thought the piping ridgid is owned by Emmerson.

It's another industry where it's a lot more condensed when you dig into it and when you look into who's actually manufacturing it shrinks more as there's some companies sharing Chinese fabricators.
 
SugarJ said:
Hilti makes good tools too. I have a preference for them and Bosch. My dad liked Delta, Grandpa was a Craftsman guy so I have a mixture of everything in my shop. If I was starting over with an unlimited budget, Festool and Milwaukee would be where I'd start for power tools.
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HIlta and Bosch build some good stuff, I have a Bosch bulldog Xtreme hammer drill, which I got for a steal on Amazon and I love the thing, it has saved me a lot of time on several concrete jobs since we moved into the house. I was a little worried when buying because the basic Bulldog (5amp) doesn't get the best reviews but so far the BD/Xtreme (8amp I think) works great Plus I have never owned a Bosch tool before. great tool
 
I currently have Bosch, Ryobi and Hilti cordless drills in my workshop. I bought the Bosch, the others were gifts. The Ryobi is lightest, Bosch is most comfortable and the Hilti has the most torque. For woodworking I keep the #2 Robertson in the Hilti, #8 countersink bit in the Bosch, and a #2 Phillips in the Ryobi. If I had to pick only one, it would be the Bosch.
 
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