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On a routine visit to HD to pick up a table saw blade and some stain, one of my guys told me the had 2 new things brewing in the tool world.
1. Dewalt is in the process of converting many of their drill/drive tools to plastic gears
2. Milwaukee is preparing to roll out some updates to the M28 line.
Anyone else heard this? I can’t, or at least don’t want to believe that #1 is true. I can’t believe #2 has taken this long.
Thoughts?
If Dewalt do that after making so much of a song and dance out of being all metal, then they need a kick in the pants.
Agreed. The guy that told me is about 50/50 for accuracy.
Lets hope the tools are more accurate 🙂
I’m really holding out that this turns out to be more rumor than fact.
Lets hope so Pal.
I am soon in the market for a 36v cordless drill because a manufacturer decided to make the 24v range out of toffee wrappers rather than the top grade materials they use on the 18v line up.
Metabo 24v blew up AGAIN and now it is out of guarantee so I will be paying for the fix. Hole for buck this has been the most expensive drill I ever bought.
Fantastic when it works,and out performs everything else out there, but it self destructs every few weeks because the internals are just made of crap.
I would have expected more from Metabo. I wasn’t aware the had a 36V line. Guess that’s one of the perks of being across the pond, or in this case, a curse.
Its a 24v but it has the power of a corded Pal it just too powerful for its own gearbox and just blows it apart even just drilling using 6.6mm sds drill bits for brown plugs.
It goes like hell but very bad gearbox.
Yet the 18v tools are just the Best I have ever used.
Ahh, gotcha.
I really hope that Dewalt does’nt do that. I think that would ruin our relationship.
Dewalttoycollector wrote:
I really hope that Dewalt does’nt do that. I think that would ruin our relationship.
I think it would for a lot of others as well
Unless its some crazy plastic with carbon fiber I don’t see how they could go to plastic with the torque these new tools are producing. It might be just be for the lower end Dewalt 99 dollar drills you see for sale all the time they just sell them to they dyier that does not know better. The old xrp and 20v max are designed and built to handle contractor grade punishment. Wow, I didn’t write a post bashing Dewalt like I have been lately.
Lets be honest guys if some tools were not crap then this forum would be much less entertaining LOL 🙂
Wayne Burgess wrote:
Lets be honest guys if some tools were not crap then this forum would be much less entertaining LOL 🙂
That’s for sure. The world needs a few duds here and there.
Just sucks when you buy one thank god for the 90 day return policy most power tools have now.
Conductor562 wrote:
1. Dewalt is in the process of converting many of their drill/drive tools to plastic gears
I remember when The Garcia-Mitchell line of fishing reels went from bronze gears to nylon back in the 60’s. Within the next couple years their entire line of open face reels literally vanished.
Any manufacturer who does this is clearly saying, “I’m going to take your money but I’m only going to give you junk in return.”
I hope for everyones sake dewalt doesnt do that!