What brand of cordless tools?

[DarrellB]

Something else to remember is to not leave the batteries in the chargers. Once they are charged you ned to take them out. If you leave them in the chargers it will dramaticly shorten the life of the battery.



Big D

 

[WOWZY]

I have found that by not completely draining the batteries on my 18v DeWalt before I put them on the charger will cause the batteries to develop a shorter charge memory. I always drain them as much as I can by holding the trigger while getting another battery.



That has been the case on all my cordless tools.

 

[illflem]

Originally posted by WOWZY





Those 24's have got some serious torque! I'll stick to my little 18v.

Wowzy, I hear you, my 18 v Milwaukee has a enough torque to twist your wrist like a wet rag!! Beware of cordless drills that have a pistol type trigger guard. I had a DeWalt 18v with one, when the bit stuck I couldn't get my finger out till it dislocated, drill went in the trash.

 

[WOWZY]

Yeeeowwww!! That hada hurt Illflem!!



Being Left handed, I always have trouble with trigger locks activating on big corded power tools. I don't use the locks anyway so on my older tools I have ground down the pin to keep them from locking.



I have kept the Ace Bandage company in business for years because of wrong handed tool operation!

 

[BK]

The three biggest drills (Milwaukee hammer drill, B&D right angle and Bosch demo & hammer drill) I own don't have trigger locks.

They dont just rip you hand/wrist... they'll wrap you up with your own arm and spin you around.

 

[Dkevdog]

Geez, between corded and cordless, I own more than 20 Dewalt tools- I didn't know there was any other brand!



Kev

 

[DGFoster]

Ive broke numerous Dewalt and Craftsman Cordlees tools,the ONLY ones that last are the PorterCable or Milwaukee,Dewalt is junk now that Black&Decker bought them out. .

 

[LSMITH]

I use my cordless tools extremely hard. The only one I have owned that I have not destroyed is a Ryobi 12V, it simply does not have enough power to be hurt. I have owned recently (all 14V) 3 Boschs, 2 Milwaukees, a Porter Cable, and 6 Makitas. The Milwaukees were gutless pigs, both went back in less than 10 days. Great ergonomics and good features but less power than most 12V tools I have used. The Porter cable is a HOSS! Great power and built stout, but heavy and short battery life, still runs great. The Bosch is a nice tool, power is OK, battery life is good, but kept breaking the transmissions. Bosch is a nice unit, but not really suited for heavy hard use. The Makitas are my favorite, but not without problems. Battery life is awesome, ergonomics are good, power is good to excellent. I have had 4 transmissions break with the new NiMH powered 14V drills, the NiMH batterys make it nearly equal to the PC in power. The standard batteries (nicad) in the Makitas have had ZERO problems. I do use a DeWalt 18V quite a bit too, best drill on the market. Downside is it is very heavy and expensive but the power and good battery life make it worth it. I will buy the DW 18V next and see if it can take me using it. Bear in mind that my use of these tools goes from very hard to outright major league abuse, so the breakages I have had do not surprise me and are only an indicator of quality for people that use them as they were intended to be used. Hope this helped.

 

[SteveH]

There are several good ones. Dewalt, Dewalt and Dewalt.

Steve H.