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What brand of power tools do you like to buy?

645 sats \ 30 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 7 Dec DIY

All of us like to buy power tools for use around the car, house and garden. What brand of tools do you like to buy for yourself? If you don't see your choice here, please say something in the comments. As always, I will publish the results and pin them when the poll is finished. Some others not in choices: Ridgid. Kobolt. Flex. Delta Any others?

DeWalt15.6%

Milwaukee15.6%

Dremel3.1%

Ryobi12.5%

Makita25.0%

Craftsman6.3%

Skil0.0%

Bosch15.6%

Black & Decker0.0%

Others - please put in comments6.3%

32 votes \ poll ended

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0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 10 Dec

What brand of power tools do you like to buy?

DEWALT. 15.6% MILWAUKEE. 15.6% DREMEL. 3.1% RYOBI. 12.5% MAKITA. 25.0% CRAFTSMAN. 6.3% SKIL. 0.0% BOSCH. 15.6% BLACK & DECKER. 0.0% OTHERS - PLEASE PUT IN COMMENTS. 6.3% 32 votes \ poll ended

The other comments were filled with good examples of the names not mentioned.

102 sats \ 6 replies \ @justin_shocknet 7 Dec

Harbor Freight Tools have never let me down and save me sats

17 sats \ 5 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Dec

Yep, I love buying their hand tools, too. Walking through is interesting, much like my wife shopping for whatever she is shopping for. :)

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @premitive1 8 Dec

They make great tools, but I've heard mixed reviews about their warranty service due to their franchise model.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 8 Dec

You mean the extended warranties? No experience with those, math doesn't work out. The best part about HFT is they're so cheap if something dies a little young you can replace it and it'll still cost less than a major brand.

I did recently have an issue with something that sat in a box for over the default 90 days before I ran into it (which turned out to be the operator that was the issue). I couldn't return it or get a full refund after the 90, but they gave me a gift card since support couldn't get it resolved and the hassle, which worked out to about ~25% of the product retail... The next day however a product engineer from corp reached out via email trying to figure out how the tool could have failed abruptly, found the issue was me not them. Exceptional UX.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @premitive1 8 Dec

i'm without a doubt a tool snob. I have no problem with harbor freight, but mostly don't want to deal with it. Icon is usually pretty nice though. Everything else I got from them was pretty subpar, and I returned a pipe wrench for being awful.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Dec

The tools have to be pretty bad to have to return them~

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Dec

I don’t know about that, I have never had to return a tool for warranty service.

22 sats \ 1 reply \ @premitive1 7 Dec

I hate buying powertools. I have mostly dewalt and milwaukee.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 7 Dec

It would be nice if the jobs went as fast using the hand tools, wouldn’t it? But, time is of the essence.

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 7 Dec

Ryobi HP+ power tools because I have been using Ryobi for more than 20 years and they have yet to fail me.

I use the Milwaukee Packout system for storing and using tools both at home as well as out on jobs. I love the Packout system for it’s versatility.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Dec

I have battery operated Ryobi drills and router. After about 15 years, the batteries finally gave out. Not a big problem, though. I buy the batteries and tools in a bundle to save money on the batteries,

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl 8 Dec

Yeah, I’m pretty committed to the Ryobi One system because I’ve spent so long building my tool collection. It would cost me a fortune to switch to another brand at this point.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Dec

That is the big problem with the power tool world, non-interoperabliliy. I just wish, at least the batteries were interchangeable. That would make life a whole lot easier. The plug-in variety don’t need to be interoperatable.

I had to do a whole lot of routing one time. I went to another place to do it and brought one fully charged battery. When I was almost done, the battery went dead and I didn’t bring a replacement. There were plenty of different batteries where I was, but none of them went into the Ryobi router. What an absolute pain in the a**. I had to finish the project another day.

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 8 Dec

It was craftsman but with Sears out of business I guess Dewalt now

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Dec

Wasn’t that a shame? Craftsman tools had the best warranty and also were of good quality. They did not breakdown very often, in fact, they never broke for me. And the best part, i remember that they were not so expensive, either.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @realBitcoinDog 8 Dec

That was the biggest miss for Sears to not realize online sales were a thing like Amazon

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8 Dec

Yes, they could have survived, but Sears like a lot of other big department stores couldn’t see the internet as an outlet for selling. Most of them were created about 120 years before they went out of business. Sears started as a catalog sales company, so the jump to the internet shouldn’t have been to big for it, but they lost their roots. You know, Sears used to sell houses out of catalogs and ship them to your location to build (they were metric measurements, too). They forgot how to do that, apparently.