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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking
Subject: Re: Simultaneous Multiple Tool Melt Down
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:02:42 -0700
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On 9/23/2024 3:39 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> My preferred cordless tool line for a long time was Milwaukee.  Used to 
> be Makita 30 years ago but they kind of fell behind.  Day in day out as 
> a contractor I bought Milwaukee cordless.  When one of my drills died, 
> and new brushes didn't revive it, and then I got down to just one good 
> battery I gave up and went cheap.  I used the Harbor Freight Bauer line. 
>   Its not horrible, the tools are cheap, and the bigger batteries are 
> actually decent.  After my dad passed away I found he had gone with 
> DeWalt.  I gave all my Bauer tools to my son and started using my dad's 
> DeWalt stuff.  Well, not in that order.
> 
> I also found (with both Bauer and DeWalt) that for some tools the 
> smaller batteries are fine.  I figured they would be fine for 
> everything.  They just wouldn't run as long.  No.  That's not true. Some 
> tools just wouldn't run very well on the smaller batteries that usually 
> come with the "packages."  A couple come to mind. Cordless angle 
> grinder, chainsaw, hedge trimmer... Bauer or DeWalt both kind of bogged 
> out instantly with the small batteries and produced respectably with 4AH 
> or bigger batteries.
> 
> I just spent $700(+) dollars on four legit (not Amazon or eBay knock 
> offs) 8ah DeWalt batteries.  I figure after dropping real coin on 
> batteries I'll walk in the shop tomorrow and find melted pools of yellow 
> DeWalt plastic everywhere there used to be a DeWalt cordless tool.
> 
> 

I have broken one DeWalt tool since switching.  I was helping out a 
buddy, and I stuck a blade in backwards (tang end out) in a DeWalt 
cordless jig saw.  Of course I broke the blade clamp mechanism trying to 
get it out.  I finally looked it up and ordered a new blade clamp 
assembly today.
-- 
Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff


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