ITT Tool Master race What brand is king

Hilti

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makita

Metabo

Milwaukee

>>742921329
Milwaukee

The brushless Milwaukee Fuel gear is fucking phenomenal

>>742921472
Metabo seconded
Milwaukee are shit

>>742921329
New DeWALT 54V flexvolt shit is top of the line, but expensive AF

>>742921329
Bosh pro / makita

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>>742921434
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>>742921680
Enjoy your strain

>>742921329
Hitachi

>>742921690
BOSH, HAHAHAHHA FAGGOT

>>742921761
Dewalt is trash. I'd rather use craftsman. Milwaukee and Snap on masterrace

There all made in and owned by the same chinese company you faggots.

>>742921329
what is that? tin snips?

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>>742921824
I have to praise Bosch for inventing the sds

I have ryobi rn but if I had a choice Milwaukee

>>742921824
bosh PRO you retard ... know your stuff or GTFO

>>742921911
Ill chalk you down as Harbor Freight or Princess auto

>>742921806
very good too, i do not own any but tried and it s really reliable

>>742922044
>Saying this and still not spelling it right

bosch

>>742921329
with my companies money - Festool
With my own money - Metabo/Dewalt/Panasonic

its very difficult. i need light/small and efficient cost not so much

>>742922068
They are all literally owned by some chinese company or another that also own 3 or 4 "competitor" brands, im not saying buy fucking horrible faggot shit, im saying youre a fucking retard for brand loyalty.

You honestly should be buying old industrial on ebay or elsewhere.

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How many of you here are actually professional craftsmen or tradesmen who need truly industrial grade tools and what is your role? Name your preference.

>>742921877
Snap on Are SHIT
Metabo and Kincrome masterace

>>742921680
>>742921761

Dewalt is literally black and decker shit painted yellow. Used to be a good brand.

>>742922399
Never try panasonic, any infos to share about?

No brand today is worth shit. Old iron my friend. Serviceable and will last generations.

>>742922499
I work at a huge warehouse in Australia, where we sell all different power tools:
Metabo, Milwaukee, Makita, Hitachi, DeWALT, Ryobi etc.

>>742922399
You lost me at Panasonic

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story time
>buy makita 18v hammer/impact drill with charger and battery (2Amp)
>use it for a 9 months or so for normal drill stuff
>1 2Amp battery with kit
>battery stops being able to be charged one day
>Fuck!
>buy 2 3Amp batteries at HD for 100$
>3 months in, one dies
>Month or so after, the other dies
>Fuck!
>buy 2 2Amp batteries at HD for 100$
>4~months later they both die within a week of each other
>Fuck!
>Fucking Makita and their lithium batteries
>"Gotta keep shit from blowing up! ;-)"
I've been looking at a used Dewalt that's NiCd

Depate over motonet and biltema makes the best tools.

>>742922499
computer dev, terrace/gazebo builder in Indonesia/Africa

>>742922499

I rented industrial tools and almost all of it was makita/hilti

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>>742921329
This

>>742922041
Ryobi is best for the in my opinion

>>742922660

Lithium battries can be a crapshoot quality wise, but still way better than NiCd

>>742922862

Ryobi is almost harbor freight teir. Buy it for a specific job and if it makes it to the end it was worth the money.

>>742922981
I bought a normal drill and impact combo for building swing sets and they have lasted me 2 years

Glazier, Makita. Used a new Ryobi drill recently. The chuck on it is completely garbage.

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>>742922660
Kobalt

Festool aryan master race

>Anything other than Mastercraft or Milwaukee
Kill yourself.

>>742923119
You know what's up

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>>742923158
Ive been considering it

>>742923110

Well that's great dad, but for anything beyond weekend dyi not so much

>>742923302
pricey but they will last forever

not fan of ryobi, never lasted more than 2years

>>742923110
My dad has been a sole auto shop owner/mechanic 35 years and is just a super mechanically inclined/handy person in general and uses Craftsman in his shop if he wants something to last and have a lifetime warranty, and uses Ryobi at home because decent quality and interchangeable batteries.

Kobalt is good a bang for the buck.

Hitachi for chop boxes, they're amazing. Milwaukee for pretty much everything else. Makita is good too. Depends what your doing. I'm a spray foam insulation tech, but do carpentry on the side.

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Ive got a question, this ones for welders.
Miller or Lincoln?

Mikita, for the small power tools
Nazel for P-hammers
Snap-on for hand tools

>>742923452

>craftsman
>wants something to last

Thank god craftsman have a lifetime warranty, because everything they make that isn't a hand tool or a measuring tape breaks within a year

>>742923512
lincoln no question, there's a reason theyve been around forever

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Fuck yall

Black and Decker duuuuuuhhh

>>742923633

Craftsman used to mean something. Now its chinesium like most others

>>742923678
what console is this?

>>742923345
I build swing sets for a company at least 3 days a week, so I'd say it's worth the money

>>742923119
WAT>>742922660


>>742922901
always bought makita brand, but the battery has some digital bit that it flips that prevents the battery from charging at all

i get it for safety, but fuck. the guy i work with has the impact only version and hes had the same batteries from day one

Your answer depends on what tool you are actually looking for.

A rotary hammer is going to be a very different answer to a drill. A 26" compound miter saw is going to be a very different answer to a right angle drill. The only people who get laughed at are the guys who show up with Ryobi, and brandfags who have everything 1 brand, including bags and their radio

I'm A pipe fitter, and bosch angle-grinders arent half bad, their straight grinders are shit though.

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>>742923279
Personally own this combo driver + impact since the 24v max release and have not been dissatisfied.
I work in custom manufacturing drilling into wood, metal and concrete... solid set and have not yet wore down the original batteries .

Kobalt for me.

>>742922602
Montgomery Wards

>>742922473
you need brand loyalty because none of the brands batteries are interchangeable so it's a waste of money to have multiple brands. that said a lot of the brands are owned by the same company. i think black and decker and dewalt are the same shit and milwaukee is the same as ryobi i think.

but there's still levels of quality if you're actually using it for construction. if you're just a weekend warrior dad, then it doesn't matter you're not going to break it unless you're incompetent.

>>742923965
I use my impact all day, never fails. Batteries are cheap and last a while. Love kobalt.

>>742923759
Haas

>>742922521
Snap On are some of the best tools on the market. Not only because they perform, but if they break, the tool truck and a free replacement are a phone call away. BluePoint however is total garbage

>>742923512
Lincoln. The old AC225's are basically immortal as long as you blow them out with an air hose every couple of weeks.

Seeing as this thread is occupied by people with the right kind of intellect, i have a question i need you to answer:
What type of consumer battery can i buy which would be within a budget of 1oo dollars and which would have a voltage of 3V or higher?
I wan't to make a railgun and develop a prototype sniper rifle, can't do that if i dont have the charge.

Also, what type of capacitors would you recommend, im looking for one with love capacitance and massive charge, since i will need to release all that power in an instant.

Rigid all the way baby!

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This Porter Cable is the best choice for cordless impact drills. Mechanic of 16 years. I've used them all.

>>742922499
Refrigeration Mechanic in Canada
I do mostly service now but I always try to stay away from dewalt nowadays, i've found it's quality to start lacking quite a bit the last few years, big Milwaukee fan for some time but makita is good as well.

>>742921329
not fucking dewalt anymore since they contracted it out.

If you have the money. Go with hilti. But I hate their cordless circular saw.

>>742924034
Aside from a drill and maybe a small sawzall, nothing you own should be cordless to begin with

>>742924275
For the caps you can try photo flash electrolytics. Even the cheap ones will hold 30 joules and they can be banked easily, plus they're dirt cheap.

>>742921329
Hilti

Anything from harbor freight

>>742924161
This is incorrect. To only be loyal to snap on is to miss out on better stuff. I traded in my snap on cordless impact for the Mac cordless and never looked back. Also matco makes a better angle grinder than snap on. However the snap on air saw is a fucking monster.

>>742924161
Snap-on in my city is no longer allowed at the city shops or another large truck shop I know of because one of the tool trucks was a fuck not honoring warranty for guys because he was too lazy to do the paperwork

>>742924489

Stanley/ Black and Decker/Dewalt family. Solid entry level for pneumatic. Wouldn't bother with anything else

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>>742922544
It's literally literal you literal fucking piece of literal shit millennial

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>>742922499
Electrician, all the contractors around here get either Milwaukee or Dewalk. I vastly prefer Milwaukee. Though for non-battery powered tools Hilti Hammer Drills are the best.

>>742923302
looks like some fine designed crap tool wih a lot of housemaid grade gadgets to make it expensive..

>>742924623
true, i myself use corded with most stuff. but again i'm not in a jobsite. some sites are too big to connect to a generator/fighting for plug space.

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>>742921329
Chicago Electric

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>>742923678
Homie... my cnc router table 5ftx8ft and my Kobalt tools.

>>742924834
Except the drill I posted isnt pneumatic.. Black and Decker is junk. Stanley is Mac.

>>742924800
Sounds like someone needs their franchise revoked. Snap On doesnt fuck around with that. The guy who services my dealership was doing something similar, on top of charging all kinds of hidden fees (storage fee if you didnt accept a tool the day it hit his truck for example) Snap On revoked his franchise of 5 trucks and divided up his protected districts

Mastercraft

>>742921806
Electrician and glazier. They make great cordless and corded tools. Batteries last years. I buy a new drill and driver about every 2-3 years after heavy use. 18v Lion tools are all great. I have most of them. Cordless SDS is especially good.

>>742924725
Ok Satan

Carpenter and plumber, Hilit is the best then Porta Cable

>>742925030
Lol you would be better off using your hands to turn the bit.

>>742925193
Mah nigga, rockler as fuck

>>742921329
Their reciprocating saws suck now.

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>>742925243
fuck out of here rat

>>742925246
Honestly harbor freight is the best choice for sockets. Fuck too truck prices for that shit. Plus they warranty them.

>>742925193
It earned its name MasterCrap for a reason. Their sockets dont break, they shatter. Their open ends will distort on the first nut. Their ratchets are complete trash. Their electric tools are a fire waiting to happen... There is a reason they are always the cheapest option in the tool aisle

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Did anyone I v tried this? I want to buy it or build one.

>>742925442
They are a great green option. New guy, no cash? Harbor Freight.

>>742924624
I'm assuming i won't need to worry about capacitor leakage, since the discharge comes soon after the charge?

Also: I need this to be lee enfield sized or close, for convenience. Therefore i will need small batteries (like those pill shaped ones) or whatever type of battery so long as it takes up the least space for the most voltage. Same principle for capacitors.

>>742925407
Fuck you, did 4 year apprenticeships in both, and im better than everyone else. Master electrician and can cut patterns and polish glass by hand. Bitch.

>>742925442
>Plus they warranty them.
Yay... so I can drive to the store 3 times in a day to exchange the same fucking socket. Lets not even bother worrying about their sockets and wrenches are all out of spec. The only thing I have ever bought from Harbor Freight that didnt become useless within a few days, was a small butane torch for shrinking wire wrap. It lived for 4 months before tipping over, and under its own weight, bending the head

>>742922499
Paramedic Rescue

We purchased battery powered Jaws of Life, they run on Milwaukee 28V but could run on the 18V....Since then we switched to all milwaukee.

Though our cots use dewalt.....

>>742925617
I have the kreg master pockethole kit, best whatever dollar amount i ever spent.

I do alot of wood fabrication from furniture to framing

>>742924725
most my hand tools came from harbor freight

>>742921329

Real talk, for around the house get a compact drill. The 12v Milwaukee and Makita lines can handle 90 percent most diy tasks.

>>742925718
And yet you still are a scab.

>>742922544
You (literally) do not understand how modern capitalism works.

I doubt you've ever touched a tool that didnt have a dildo on the end of it.

>>742925845
Im sorry

>>742922499
Residential Carpenter, DeWalt and Makita are king in terms of durability and quality

>>742925786
Hats off to you sir. Still a kobalt nerd here.

>>742922473
I wa buying a new Sawzall and i was looking at some. They housings were literally the same shape, every detail was identical except the colors

>>742922650
They make good welders.

>>742922660
Habe had Makita set for years. Lithium 4s. Gets used all day every day during the week.

Makita is God-tier due to torque ratings. TAPCON beast.

>>742925895
Im self employed. Fuck the union. Im better and make more money.

I do gas line installation and maintenance for a convenient store chain. bought a new 1/2 brushless milwaukee impact 18v. Pulled a 2 inch galvanized plug out no problem after trying to take it out with a 3 foot pipe wrench

>>742924489

This. I worked for a solar installation company and seen so many wrecked tools of every brand... the porter cable tools are durable is fuck.

>>742925708
Those caps will hold a charge for a day or so, more then enough time to get a shot off.
Outside of that you'd need either some sort of induction set-up or you'd need to know how to rework a civilian dynamotor into a rotary pulse generator to hold the kind joules needed to throw a projectile at any respectable velocity, both of which are massive and expensive.

And aside from that there's the issue of switching, you're going to need a reinforced silicon cube rectifier minimum to keep your trigger assembly from blowing apart on you. I learned this the hard way when i was trying to make a railgun using a bank of Maxwell caps pushing around 50,000 joules.
Energy storage is going to be secondary to finding a power switch capable of handling a pulse more then a few dozen joules.

I have no clue on batteries though, i was working on a table top version that was never meant for moving around.

>>742924683
Too expensive, but probably the best.

>>742921761
I love milwaukee but yes heavy as fuck some of the tools

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Epic tier in performance and price as far as clamps go... this battle goes to harbor freight.

>>742925786
Oh and forgot, we have corded Hilti Hammer drills, reciprocating saws and drills on our logistics truck. We use the hammer drills to drive pins into parking lots as anchors for shit

the hammer drill rocks

>>742926037
thats the thing, i think i over-torqued some stuff with it and that killed the batteries

>>742926523
I actually have quite a few of those, dirt cheap. They're good for the price and I don't give a shit if I get garbage all over them and fuck em up. Glue? Epoxy? I dont' give a fuck if it gets in those clamps. They're not the best, and I've broken a few on some projects and they aren't that strong. They bend sometimes but they DO NOT break so that's a good point for them. But really it's just so I don't care if maybe I even pour aluminum on them by accident. For the price they're amazing.

>>742926857
If i need to do glue ups im using several clamps across a large surface... im not paying 18-25+ dollars on irwin name brand when i need at least a dozen, $4 harbor freight made doing my glue ups far less painful

>>742926396
Why would i need a rectifier if all the charge is stored in DC?
I plan on having the capacitor bank in series to store up a larger charge, but i wander if storing in parallel would allow for a greater current and thus a higher projectile velocity?

You guys like tool reviews?
Check out AVE on youjewb
Only giving his a shoutout because its worth it

>>742923158
Have a couple of their tools. Tracksaw, compound miter saw, and a planer. They're decent tools but I don't think they were meant for heavy use after having to do some maintenance on the tracksaw..

>>742921329
Carpenter here, I love makita and milwaukee but I've had a string of bad luck with my makita batteries. dewalt impact gun has noticably less torque than my makita, even thou they are both most recent model

>>742927194
Is he the crazy kanuck engineer with all his shmoo?

>>742925617
I have their full pockethole kit, it's pretty good. This particular one I don't have, can only talk about their other tools.

what type of tool?

Grobet-Vallorbe files.
Boley Lathes. (though Lorch get a mention too.)
Mitutoyo Vernier calipers.

Liogier rasps.
Robert Sorby chisels.
Pax "Lynx" handsaws.

all those are the best for their applications.

>>742921403
That isn't even fair.

For demolition tools Hilti is hands down the best

>>742927155
I love that they're only 4 dollars and STILL do the job. I sometimes clamp together some forms so I can pour aluminum, copper, and iron and make some one off castings I need. Fuck my good clamps holding that shit together.

>>742922499
Commercial Carpenter.
Use hilti tools
Best durability

>>742927298
haha yeah

>>742927490
This is why i give them an epic rating, can serve as sacrificial without breaking the bank

Anyone use a portable band saw?

>>742927611
Yep, those and my pipe clamps are the sacrifical bitches. Pipe clamps cause they're.. almost indestructable(yes.. I've managed to destroy some), and then when they are destroyed.. who cares? Replace the pipe on the cheap from the scrap yard!

>>742925718

>Master Electrician
>4 year apprenticeship

Shit doesn't add up

>>742927714
Im mainly cutting aluminum square tubing and for that i use a Kobalt 12" miter saw with a diablo non ferrous materials blade 50 tooth i think

>>742927186
SCR's are just the official name for large transistors. There's many different forms of rectifiers, some for turning AC into DC, and some used for switching on and off massive power loads. Thyristor's is what you'll be looking for. Preferably one that's atleast 30% more then your max energy pulse, atleast 50% if you want to use it more then a handful of times.

>>742927753
They are called journeyman
Not masters.
You they may be posers

>>742924334
>Rigid
Lifetime warranty master race.

atlas copco

>>742928033
>Thyristor's
Sounds useful.

Unfortunately i cannot continue in this thread. Thanks for the advice though. Wish i were an electrician so i did not feel like such a plebeian for not knowing what you do.

>>742928216
I have 1 rigid tool. A 14" cut off saw with abrasive disc by diablo... the arbor slips luke nobodys business... but i have to say it clamps down like a beast.

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Currently on the lookout for a good 18v combo drill/impact driver set (training in electrical).

Right now I'm low on funds and stuck with one of those $20 Harbor Freight drills. Pretty sure I blew out my shoulders trying to drill holes with that damned battery powered screw driver.

Back when I was on an assembly line, used to use Milwaukee M12 brushless. Idiots used to crank up the speed and torque on those things and strip so many screws, little things are powerful for the size.

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American Made master race

>>742921922
yes. tinknockers use them to cut holes and work on hvac shit.

Thats looks like an attachment though, not just the item.

I mostly see pneumatic power snips on sites.

>>742921329
makita

>>742921403
>mah nigga

>>742929066

Not anymore. Dewalt has a some US made stuff. Makita does too. Most of the stuff made in US is made with chinese parts anyway.

>>742928917
Dead serious, on a budjet and for top notch tool combo, pick up the Kobalt 24v max driver+impact combo... you will not regret it.

>>742922862
Ryobi one plus is great for the money.

>>742922499
>>742924881
Another union electrician here. Milwaukee for small stuff like drills and saws, Hilti for big shit like hammer drills.

>>742930014
Made in USA nowadays only needs to be final assembly, this can be as shady even as placing the tool in the packaging.

>>742930545
Second note to this, proper design and engineering account for slop work of sweat shop workers. Brand still matters in this regard.

>>742931024
Looked a bit gimmicky to me, looks like OP picked it for thread visibility...

>>742931120
was never a fan of Makita, but i'm Bias as i've only had the pleasure of working with the white/gray (whatever fucking color) set and it was far below my expectations in quality and build. However the milwaukee fuel, dewalt 18v, and Kobalt 24v (impact) have had me pretty impressed as far as ruggedness weight and torque.

i'm impressed /b/
yesterday a thread about highway intersections and today one about quality tools

>>742931467
/b/ has been in a lul, just need some quality spark topics from time to time.

Chicago electric Master race. Power tools are meant to explode after 20 minutes of light use.

>>742928917
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MhqG2luhQM

Home Depotfag here, dewalts are always trying to be returned on a daily basis, Milwaukee and Makita rarely so. Either way though your warranty is with the manufacturer unless you give us your jewbucks for a replacement plan, so please stop trying. We wont give a fuck unless your a contractor spending in our store every day.