Rigid power tools.

[bryjcom]

After burning up two Dewalt 20 volt lithium drills this last summer I've switched to Milwaukee.. So far so good......

i have their 20 volt drill, impact drill, band saw, hammer drill, expander tool, wire strippers and wire crimper. I'm starting to look like a Milwaukee billboard with all their stuff now.

[vossman]

Thanks for the info gents. Thanks for the link too Irving. I think these will suit me for a while.

[Grant H.]

Given the good deal, I would get them without any hesitation for your house. One of the guys that helped us re-frame and re-roof the pool room at my brothers house has the Ridgid kit, and they worked just fine. The only complaint was the cordless circular saw that has some sort of current draw watch dog, that shuts the saw off when it thinks it's pulling too much current. Stop the saw for 3 seconds, pull the trigger again, off you go again. The drill, impact, sawzall, and nibbler worked perfectly.

I use my 18v Dewalts (drill, impact, sawzall, bandsaw, and grinder/cutoff wheel) everyday. The only downside is that after 2 years, the batteries don't last as long as I like. Not a huge deal, since you can buy knock off's of the Dewalt XRP batteries, except more AH than the XRP batteries, for $50 for 2 batteries. We have replaced all the original non-XRP batteries with these and it's not cost prohibitive, and they last quite well through a day.

[PSS]

Cold temperatures seem to affect my milwaukee batteries far more than dewalt. I prefer dewalt impact drivers and drills but milwaukee has a lot of sweet specialty tools. They seem to really cater to skilled trades. I've wired a lot of 500' poultry barns and made an interesting observation. There's a lot of screws in a metal roof that size. The dewalt guys would wear out dewalt impact drivers faster than the makita guys. I put up 2 for myself and out of 8 new impact drivers, 3 failed by the end of the second barn.