Whats your latest purchase?

[FreeKnight]

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.

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.

 

[SugarJ]

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. Their impact drivers work very well for my cladding division.

 

[lowfat]

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.

 

[FreeKnight]

Ryobi / Ridgid / Milwaukee are all manufactured by TTI.

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.

 

[gingerbee]

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.

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

 

[SugarJ]

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.

 

[clshades]

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.

Hilti has the best service and protections from theft by far.

 

[Izerous]

2x HR-09 M.2 heatsinks.

New NAS has m.2 (sata not nvme) cache drives. I'll get a small bursts of 300MB/s transfers then suddenly drop off. After some investigation turns out these cache drives are thermal throttling. The owners manual actually suggests only using m.2 drives with heatsinks on them. Previous owner didn't take that into account, might have been one of the reasons they were unhappy with it.

They are going to be rotated the wrong way to really take advantage of the natural air flow of the NAS. So a little 40mm noctua fan I have laying around I think will help with that or maybe I'll 3d print a duct to help out not sure about that part yet. Get the heatsinks installed and see what happens.

(would be nice to swap out the 70mm fans as well but thats an odd size to find a quality replacement that isn't as loud)

 

[gingerbee]

Just grabbed an EcoFlow River 3, 245WH, 2 AC plugs rated for 300watts with spikes up to 600, a DC car plug, 2 USB-A and 1 type C rated for 100watts. my main reason for buying is the pure sine wave and the UPS function with 20ms max. I have tested it already and I think it's much closer to 10ms or lower since it has the same hardware as the new River 3 pro that supports 10ms switching.

So far the little guy is very impressive and very handy, They are on sale right now on Amazon for $209, I am thinking about grabbing another couple of units maybe to replace my APC UPS units.

if anyone is interested this is the unit no clue when the sale ends

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DB4Y5VVT?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

 

[Izerous]

2x HR-09 M.2 heatsinks.

New NAS has m.2 (sata not nvme) cache drives. I'll get a small bursts of 300MB/s transfers then suddenly drop off. After some investigation turns out these cache drives are thermal throttling. The owners manual actually suggests only using m.2 drives with heatsinks on them. Previous owner didn't take that into account, might have been one of the reasons they were unhappy with it.

They are going to be rotated the wrong way to really take advantage of the natural air flow of the NAS. So a little 40mm noctua fan I have laying around I think will help with that or maybe I'll 3d print a duct to help out not sure about that part yet. Get the heatsinks installed and see what happens.

(would be nice to swap out the 70mm fans as well but thats an odd size to find a quality replacement that isn't as loud)

Heatsinks are working really well. Instead of getting alerts that the drives are hitting 70'c within a minute of starting a large transfer they are not breaking 60'c now even after 500G sustained transfer.

Also means it is able to maintain above 1Gb/s transfer rates without thermal throttling. And since not thermal throttling fans are not kicking into turbo mode anymore.

Only 1 comapint about the heatsinks. Because these drives are so close to eachother and the screws holding the heatsinks are not counter sunk I had to only use 3 screws of the 4 from the heatsinks. Removing 1 close to the socket and 1 away from the socket where they touch. Otherwise they were pushing eachother out of alignment.