Conductor562 wrote:
Congrats on the new drill. Nothing like knowing there’s an awesome new tool on a truck somewhere bound for your house.
It came this week! Man the 790 is a great drill, and with those skinny 2.0ah batts …. ahhhh. The brushless impact driver also feels so much nicer with a skinny batt.
I’m stoked!
Congratulation on the new drill.
Hello all! I just joined today. I love this site. I am a remodeler although mostly do flooring and also do home theater installations on the side.
Welcome Javier
Welcome Javier! Do you pronounce it HA-VEE-A or JA-VEER?
Welcome Javier!
Welcome Javier!
Conductor562 wrote:
Welcome Javier! Do you pronounce it HA-VEE-A or JA-VEER?
Lol, its pronounced Ha-Vee-Air
Thanks Chase, Conductor, Jeth
Thanks Eric J, this site and your YouTube videos are great. Ive gotten a bunch of tools because of your reviews.
Welcome Javier!
Hello there. IRL everyone calls me RD. I’m a Capricorn, and enjoy long walks on the beach, candle lit dinners in front of the fireplace, and romance novels. Baaahaaaa!!!
I’m a reformed tool hoarder. In other words I had to sell all of my tools to liquidate my assets and nicely give the money to my ex-wife. You know the story she got the house and kid, I got my clothes. She told the mediator the reason she cheated was I loved my tools more than her. I told her, “With the tools I brought home I had fixed and built things. Most of them I cleaned up and sold. The tools she brought home cost a doctors visit and a round of antibiotics.”
I did have a lot of tools that I never used. I’m no mechanic but had a pickle fork and two sets of jaw gear pullers. I had a shingle froe yet never made one shingle. I owned a broken hose crimper I never got around to fixing. Never once did I use the Miller Falls breast drill I oiled and hung on the wall.. Most of the time I bought old/antique tools, cleaned, oiled, sharpened them and resold them. You would be surprised how cheep you can pick up a box of “junk” tools for at an auction or yard/estate sale. If I would have done some research and used eBay I would have made bank.
Now a days I work at a big box retailer where the best brand of power tool you can buy is Blech & Dicker. My gf was kind enough to buy me a 12v B&D driver tool set for Christmas last year. After trying to use it to install some cameras and other equipment at my mothers business it quit working. I had to finish with hand tools.
I’ve been learning a lot here. Even though everyone has their go to brand, Milwaukee, Dewalt, etc and you have to hack on the other brand, (Stihl saws rule and you have to wear frilly panties to own Husqvarna,) I appreciate the honest reviews, so that when I can afford to start buying again I’ll be better informed. Thank you.
Welcome RD. Sorry to hear it didn’t work out with your tools 🙁 It’s like Bob Dylan says, “Strike another match, go start anew”. What tools do you have at the moment?
Welcome!!! Darn right you cant best Stihl!
Let’s see a Dewalt hand saw, Fastback knife, 100 or so piece Husky tool set, Estwing framing hamer, and a Stanley ratchet and wrench set. No power or pneumatic except an old Craftsman corded drill. But we are moving out of this small apartment and buying a 30’s built home with detached garage, and double lot yard.
So maybe tax time I can start picking up stuff here and there.
I would imagine the B&D drill would still be under warranty call them up and if that does not work complain on their Facebook and Twitter. It’s a 12v B&D drill but it should have lasted longer than that it’s not like you abused it using on a job everyday. If you end up buying check out CPO and other places you can find some smoking deals on new or refurbished tool online for a lot cheaper than normal retail. They also the companies run buy a tool get a tool or battery free sometimes during major tool buying holidays.
Hang around RD. We have giveaways fairly regularly 😉
Yeah DR I imagine it may have been under warranty. Once it seized up and the percussive adjusting maintenance (hitting it) didn’t work, I trashed it. I’ve been checking the reman market out too. I’m thinking that’s probably what I’m going to do unless I find a hot deal around Christmas.
Conductor I love free. It cost a lot less. 🙂
RedSionnach wrote:
Yeah DR I imagine it may have been under warranty. Once it seized up and the percussive adjusting maintenance (hitting it) didn’t work, I trashed it. I’ve been checking the reman market out too. I’m thinking that’s probably what I’m going to do unless I find a hot deal around Christmas.
Conductor I love free. It cost a lot less. 🙂
CPO is great for remanufactured stuff, like new, and great customer service!
ETS7345 wrote:
Welcome Javier!
Thanks, sorry for the late reply
Welcome RD. I would suggest craigslist and eBay for some good deals on tools. Also don’t be afraid to buy used tools, although most of the tools I’ve bought were new, the few used ones I’ve got work great.
ChaseRogers wrote:
CPO is great for remanufactured stuff, like new, and great customer service!
Yea they have the M18 fuel drill with compact batteries for $139
Anybody knows hilti te 3000?
Only thing i know is that it cost 2 100$ and its brushless
First:sorry for my bad English.second:sorry for my telegraphic write.im Italian and im totally newbee with the web.im a construction worker and I love my job.expecially the concrete!we usually use hilti tool and we have almost every building toys of it.they are amazing.my favourite its the te 3000avr ( a monster breaker)and the te-a36 avr(the future).for the week-end wars im taking a lot of metabo cordless tool and I love it,cost half than hilti but very pro stuff.if you guys want to know something about I will be very glad to answer.sorry again for maccheroni English.i will improve.thanks to Tia for keep me smilin of our killer job.you are the best.buon lavoro ragazzi. PS:this is my first time ever writing to somebody in English without a pen.you think its good?no translator.for last what you mean with lol? Claudio petrini
Don’t worry I have seen people with English as their first language do worse. I can’t even Imagine how hard the concrete you guys are working with. Over here in the USA most houses are wooden framed so we tend to use concrete tools less.
Thanks for the answer dr 99.for a medium size house (300 square feet)we use about 200 ton of concrete,10 ton of steel and 2 trucks of bricks.a lot ofstuff but you can be sure with the hurricanes or flooding.why in the USA you use wood whith your crazy weather? and what about the lol word?(I suppose:lot of laugh but maybe lick all lady…)
Welcome Claudio!
We have different building codes in different areas to account for the regional climate variations.
LOL stands for laughing out loud. It’s just and expression to let people know you thought their comment was funny.
Welcome Claudio !
Welcome Claudio! Lots of good info on here.
Welcome Claudio! Wow first time on the web!
Thanks Javier. I would like to stick to new or factory reman for power tools. EBay and CPO are looking pretty good.
Welcome Claudio. I think you did pretty good.
Thanks for the welcome guys!the only way for me to learn English was always be the rock song but the problem is:in the rock song you can’t never find words like jigsaw,impact driver or angle grinder so..thanks Tia and all you guys.about that I’m working with my”carotatrice ad acqua” hilti dd 200 I wish to know how she call in English..
Water carrot???last one:I know how much a foot or a inch value in metric sistem but what about millimetres?
1 inch = 25,4 millimetres ! And the hilti is called diamond drilling rig wet i think and in french its called a carotteuse !!! Sound alot like italian
Thanks jeth.metric sistem for life…lol.im so proud of today’hole with the diiamond rig!40 cm in 30 cm of concrete with a llllot of fucked Italian steel.i can pass myself trough!right idea for a bank robbery in the Italian style!lol again
Welcome Claudio
EBay is great, never tried CPO outlets but people on here love them. I’ve seen a ton of awesome deals on new tools on eBay and if you buy out of state on eBay no sales tax. Just make sure to buy from experienced sellers.RedSionnach wrote:
Thanks Javier. I would like to stick to new or factory reman for power tools. EBay and CPO are looking pretty good.
Welcome Claudio. I think you did pretty good.
I do have a question for you guys on here. Does anyone have positive experiences with recondition tools also known as refurbished or remanufactured? All of my electronics purchases for refurbished electronics have been sour. Because of that I tend to steer clear of reconditioned tools.
Welcome Javier and welcome RD!!!
Javier wrote:
EBay is great, never tried CPO outlets but people on here love them. I’ve seen a ton of awesome deals on new tools on eBay and if you buy out of state on eBay no sales tax. Just make sure to buy from experienced sellers.
I do have a question for you guys on here. Does anyone have positive experiences with recondition tools also known as refurbished or remanufactured? All of my electronics purchases for refurbished electronics have been sour. Because of that I tend to steer clear of reconditioned tools.
Almost all my 20v powertools were reconditioned and if you are on a budget but need professional tools, that is the way to go, All of them look and run brand new, may have a blemish here or there but for lets say the Milwaukee fuel hammer drill with the compact batteries new is anywhere from 210-300 vs recon 150, its a steal, the only problem is with recon tools, the warranty is only 1 year..
I agree with Chase !
I’ve purchased recon corded and pneumatic tools in the past. There weren’t as pretty as new, but they worked just as well. Electronics, on the other hand, are a little more delicate and touchy. I don’t think I would ever buy a reman laptop or tv. I’ve seen too many people get burned.
I’ve bought several recon’d tools from CPO and all have been good. I’ve always bought corded or bare cordless tools though. When buying a cordless kit just be sure you’re getting up to date stuff. If you have any questions on an item just post it here and we’ll evaluate 🙂
Hello everyone, Another new guy here with to many tools to count and still wanting more. I work for a residential construction company so im allways buying new tools that I “need”. To continue the conversation of refurb tools I have no problem with them as long as they are oem company approved other than that i stay away from them.
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