Tool Let's Get This Started - Tool Test Tuesday

[SomeGuy]

This is a good thing: now that you have two battery systems you have twice the potential to buy more tools!

I have Milwaukee 12V, Bosch 10.8 & 12V, Proxxon 10.8V and Craftsman C3 19V ( no longer made, but NOS still available) so I have more choices than space .

That was part of the idea, I can now have Milwaukee tools if so desired....Makita would be next because I REALLY would like their tiny duster thing.

 

[6.5 Fan]

I run the Ryobi tools although i have run into issues with a side grinder, it sucks a fully charged battery down real fast. We use the grinders a lot. I've been considering a move to a better quality of cordless tools.

 

[SomeGuy]

I run the Ryobi tools although i have run into issues with a side grinder, it sucks a fully charged battery down real fast. We use the grinders a lot. I've been considering a move to a better quality of cordless tools.

Grinders from any brand will eat batteries really fast.

That said, I absolutely LOVE my Dewalt grinders and on a 5ah pack can usually get a day of welding fab cleanup out of a single charge on the smaller sized grinders.

I did a video on grinder a couple years ago (can't believe I've been doing this this long):

 

[6.5 Fan]

When i say fast i mean like 10 minutes or less with a 2ah battery or even a larger one. I suspect something internal in the said grinder.

 

[SomeGuy]

When i say fast i mean like 10 minutes or less with a 2ah battery or even a larger one. I suspect something internal in the said grinder.

10 min runtime on a 2ah battery? That's actually really good...more than I'd have thought.

 

[Ironman]

I use my battery grinder for a zip cut wheel only. It is handy to go out in the snow and cut what I need off of the steel rack. Even with a 12AH battery, the battery does not die but the overdraw protection shuts it off if you put too much effort into the cut. Some tools are just meant to have cords.

 

[Mcgyver]

I tend to buy cheap pliers as they go missing to easily. Those knipex look great though. Hmm maybe in my basement shop they would be protected from the great tool hole that sucks in tools, never to be seen again.

I learned to take care of tools watching my Dad. He was an awesome guy, and miss him constantly, but he was pretty much a disaster in how he cared for tools. I swear when I was a little kid every two weeks we'd be at Perkins Hardware (main street Unionville, creaky wood floors and nails sold in paper bags clawed from bins and weighed on a balance, all before Unionville became giftshops and restaurants (not a bad outcome considering the alternative was bulldozing it)) and he'd have to buy another crappy claw hammer because he'd lost the last one somewhere on the property.

5000 years from now some archaeologist digging away and finding them all will conclude our little property was temple of hammer people.

As I grew and started using tools, it made me nuts because he usually bought low quality knowing he'd lose it, so every tool was either crap or not in there.

I vowed to do differently, and have. I've bought exactly one claw hammer 36 years when I bought my first house, a good quality Estwing, and know exactly where it is