Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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Grand Vol said:
I swore by Craftsman for the longest time before slowly moving towards Ryobi. I've still got a handful of Craftsman 19.2 volt tools that i broke down and bought the Lithium batteries for. But they tend to be way underpowered these days and I'm replacing them one at a time. SSC had fun at Christmas tool shopping for me.

If I wasn't invested in Ryobi, I'd probably get Dewalt myself. Though I'll probably get corded tools in that brand. Had a guy selling me on Rigid a few weeks ago. They have battery replacements for life. One goes bad, they replace it no question.

Not sold on the "big" Ryobi tools like their table or miter saws. I'll stick with Dewalt for that too.
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Damn, the only problem I've ever had with a cordless tool is the battery dying. A lifetime guarantee is as good as it gets. Free batteries for life would get me to go with them, assuming they don't make it a PIA.
 
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VolStrom said:
Damn, the only problem I've ever had with a cordless tool is the battery dying. A lifetime guarantee is as good as it gets. Free batteries for life would get me to go with them, assuming they don't make it a PIA.
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Rigid is spensiiiive stuff.
 
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VolStrom said:
Damn, the only problem I've ever had with a cordless tool is the battery dying. A lifetime guarantee is as good as it gets. Free batteries for life would get me to go with them, assuming they don't make it a PIA.
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I think one of the big problems is you learn about these things AFTER you've already bought a metric ton of items in another brand lol
 
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hog88 said:
Contractor friend of mine swears by Ryobi. I'm kind of locked into DeWalt since the wife was thoughtful and gave me a set of 20VMax tools for Christmas.
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Almost all my old hand and power tools are Craftsman (from Sears), my battery powered tools are DeWalt, and my plugin chainsaw is Makita. They've all worked well for years. For stuff I see as somewhat expendable or one time use, I will sometimes use Harbor Freight. A set of black air sockets and sets of drill bits made for cordless drills from Harbor Freight have held up amazingly well. The Makita chainsaw is probably the best I've used - definitely not cheap; they tell you to use 12 ga extension cords, and those aren't cheap either.

I borrowed a neighbor's DeWalt hammer drill (corded) to put a 2 1/4 inch hole through the concrete block foundation at the other house, and that worked like a charm with a carbide tipped hole saw. I was concerned about that (no experience with hammer drills or putting large holes in concrete) and looked up stuff online. Read a bunch of guys saying they started drilling with a drill like I borrowed, got white smoke, and the drills quit. I'm wondering if they used wimpy extension cords and burned the drill up - I used one on my 12 ga cords with me - no problems at all with the drill. For corded tools, definitely us extensions as heavy duty or larger than recommended.
 
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VolStrom said:
Pro tip, don't waste your money on the Chinesium imitation batteries unless you store them in a concrete bunker miles from your house.
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I admit when my DeWalt batteries died, I did a bunch of research and bought a pair of Chinese batteries from Amazon. They've worked as well as the original DeWalt batteries, except the pushbutton release is really tight and makes getting the batteries back out a pain.
 
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AM64 said:
I admit when my DeWalt batteries died, I did a bunch of research and bought a pair of Chinese batteries from Amazon. They've worked as well as the original DeWalt batteries, except the pushbutton release is really tight and makes getting the batteries back out a pain.
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I had to buy aftermarket batteries for my old Craftsman. They changed the battery platform at some point in the last few years and the only thing available now are the Chinese knockoffs.

They've worked pretty well though. Though they are tight like you mentioned.
 
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AM64 said:
I admit when my DeWalt batteries died, I did a bunch of research and bought a pair of Chinese batteries from Amazon. They've worked as well as the original DeWalt batteries, except the pushbutton release is really tight and makes getting the batteries back out a pain.
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I bought a pair and one worked for 1 or 2 charges and quit and the other started smoking and I threw it out onto the driveway and watched the case smoke and melt for 15 minutes or so. Maybe if I had just used them to drill a hole in a piece of wood, they would have fared better.
 
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VolStrom said:
I bought a pair and one worked for 1 or 2 charges and quit and the other started smoking and I threw it out onto the driveway and watched the case smoke and melt for 15 minutes or so. Maybe if I had just used them to drill a hole in a piece of wood, they would have fared better.
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I admit that I killed one DeWalt battery with a defective DeWalt charger. Got smoke but no flames. I'll also admit I got stupid and didn't trash the charger (thoughts of repairing it) ... and then a couple of years later mistakenly used it to destroy another battery. The second incident was just short of flames. I got smarter and got rid of the charger before I could get stupid with it again.
 
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AM64 said:
I admit that I killed one DeWalt battery with a defective DeWalt charger. Got smoke but no flames. I'll also admit I got stupid and didn't trash the charger (thoughts of repairing it) ... and then a couple of years later mistakenly used it to destroy another battery. The second incident was just short of flames. I got smarter and got rid of the charger before I could get stupid with it again.
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I should have mentioned that the Chinese batteries I bought came with a charger too. It never worked.
 
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Grand Vol said:
I swore by Craftsman for the longest time before slowly moving towards Ryobi. I've still got a handful of Craftsman 19.2 volt tools that i broke down and bought the Lithium batteries for. But they tend to be way underpowered these days and I'm replacing them one at a time. SSC had fun at Christmas tool shopping for me.

If I wasn't invested in Ryobi, I'd probably get Dewalt myself. Though I'll probably get corded tools in that brand. Had a guy selling me on Rigid a few weeks ago. They have battery replacements for life. One goes bad, they replace it no question.

Not sold on the "big" Ryobi tools like their table or miter saws. I'll stick with Dewalt for that too.
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I like my Ryobi products. Had a battery go bad...technically went to sleep mode and wouldn't wake up.
Dont allow your batteries to lose all charge and sit for weeks.
 
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As to cordless tools, we use mostly Rigid here at the floaty thing factory. The lifetime service agreement is pretty sweet. Have to register them though.

I love Milwaukee too. I have several of the M12 line. I've experimented with some cheapo batteries from amazon and have been impressed. Two for $30 as opposed to one for $150.
 
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