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At work I find myself observering my tools and all their glory..I even sometimes stage them in a way that other people can’t help but admire aswell..
So here I propose a thread of these said moments for all to enjoy!!
And if we can only post when it contains a picture of “tool porn”..leaving us with endless scrolling of Milwaukee goodness!!
BTW, I might have a problem..
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What I wear everyday..everywhere..at all times!!
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Fresh and unabused!!
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Let’s see what you can come up with!!!!
Dead sexy! I heard scratchy porn guitar playing in my head lol!
Those tape measures are the bee’s knees!
damn I gotta wait till I get home today but I will post some pics later! nice pics guys!!
Was disappointed with my Milwaukee tapes (first gen). Magnetic especially, I don’t work with steel stud much, so the majority of what that tape did was collect debris, and the magnet broke off with moderate use. Ill see if I can’t add to this thread with a pic of some decent tools
Here is a couple pics.
the picture you posted is of the new 2nd generation layout type tape. Looks to be much better, and closer to a Stanley FatMax which is my favourite tape (though I’m using a 25 and 16 Milwaukee until they break currently).PROTOOLNUT wrote:
Hey Bremen, out of curisotiy, how many tapes have Milwaukee made? Like I know they have the different model of tapes, 16 feet, 25 feet, 35 feet, SAE/Metric combo, but how many generations have they made? Whatever generation they are on now, I like them, just too dam sexy for me to pass up on. Besides, I could use a quality tape to replace my old Stanley, and my dollar store tape lol
I’ve certainly read plenty of bad reviews on the tape..
Only bad thing I’ve expirenced w it was I left it under a house lol..I even went back for it but couldn’t find it..some little critters have a sweet ass tape down there now haha
Seriously though these tapes are tough..I bought a combo pack at HD for about 25$ and a co worker bought the 16 off me and he is less than nice w his tools..if anyone can break it it’s him..been about a year or more and we wear/use them daily and haven’t had any issues!!!
Only dislike is it can be tricky to get to sit up right due to its less then flat bottom..
But for me these tapes are great..best part is milwaukees awesome wire clip..easy to find and slip on & super strong to stay w you where ever you go!!
Awesome purchase PROTOOLNUT..those 35ft are biggg though!!!
PROTOOLNUT wrote:
I love that drill and especially that sawzall! I think I am addicted to tools, I wonder what the first clue was? Was it that I enjoy having more power with FUEL, or is it that I am in love with that RED color. HAHA 😀
I’ll second that! I have such a hard time not buying Red and Fuel everything. But sometimes I can’t justify… well, heck, I’ll just get the Red. That Red, that Fuel logo, that extra rubberization, and that warranty will play tricks on one’s ability to rationalize.
I just got the 25′ mag tape. So far, loving it. Got the fastback II, had problems with the blade mechanism, they sent me another one in less than a week! Now I got two!
It’s not the just the weight, it’s the bulkiness that I don’t like w a 35′. The new Milwaukee tapes stand up better than mine (vertically, can’t speak to durability). The housing on these tapes are bulletproof though and the wire loop is much better than a clip as far as not destroying your jeans or leg goes.
I love Milwaukee tools! They just have so much power.
^^^^ and their warranty..gotta love a company to back their product!!
I have just recently went to all Bosch just to try a brand I hadn’t used before, but I kept a few of my Milwaukee tools. I’ll have to say that great performance aside the Milwaukee tools just look sharp. I think sometimes aesthetics can be enough to sway someones decision when they are torn between brands.
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comp56 wrote:
Kreg bit?
Bremon wrote:
Was disappointed with my Milwaukee tapes (first gen). Magnetic especially, I don’t work with steel stud much, so the majority of what that tape did was collect debris, and the magnet broke off with moderate use. Ill see if I can’t add to this thread with a pic of some decent tools
I’ve got a Milwaukee 16ft Tape Measure. The thing looks bad ass, but I don’t like the tape on it. It only has a 7ft stand out which really sucks compared to the 11′ foot stand out on my Stanley 25ft Fatmax. The Milwaukee also developed a slight kink around the 11 inch mark or so, i’ve had the thing for less than 3 months I think. Thing’s I do appreciate about the Milwaukee is that its built like a rock, the hook on the end grabs nicely, the belt hook is the best ive seen, it looks really nice, it feels really nice, the built in finger guard is kinda funny though, its not like my finger was ever in danger from the hook anyway lol
Love this topic, the perfect excuse for me to set up some product photography!
C Harris wrote:
Kreg bit?
as a matter of fact
NaluRash wrote:
Love this topic, the perfect excuse for me to set up some product photography!
photography equipment ? do tell….
comp56 wrote:
photography equipment ? do tell….
Nothing special, just a home made rig i set up using shop lamps and a white background. Here are some pics i took using the setup for selling products online.
camera?
comp56 wrote:
camera?
just used my smartphone camera, samsung galaxy s4
gotcha…
PROTOOLNUT wrote:
And since you are just so inquisitive comp56, I thought I would throw it out there that I have a Canon 16MP camera. If I uploaded the full resolution photo’s to this site, the file size would literally break the server. So I always scale the photo’s down for successful upload and to avoid overload. 😛 But I must admit, the details that you see in the photo’s that it takes, you realize that it sees things better then you do.
yes I too have this problem, I have a 24.2MP nikon
I love my Milwaukee tapes. I have heard good things about the Stanley Fatmax also.
yeah the blade stand out isn’t so hot. The finger guard is actually for using a finger to hold the blade out, which I do find quite convenient. If it didn’t have the wire loop I imagine the hook would eventually get sheared off. The nylon feel to the blade is odd and also makes an annoying noise while retracting. I agree with your thoughts on it overall NaluNaluRash wrote:
I’ve got a Milwaukee 16ft Tape Measure. The thing looks bad ass, but I don’t like the tape on it. It only has a 7ft stand out which really sucks compared to the 11′ foot stand out on my Stanley 25ft Fatmax. The Milwaukee also developed a slight kink around the 11 inch mark or so, i’ve had the thing for less than 3 months I think. Thing’s I do appreciate about the Milwaukee is that its built like a rock, the hook on the end grabs nicely, the belt hook is the best ive seen, it looks really nice, it feels really nice, the built in finger guard is kinda funny though, its not like my finger was ever in danger from the hook anyway lol
comp56 wrote:
yes I too have this problem, I have a 24.2MP nikon
24 Mega Pixels! Holy Jesus! hahaha…I remember about 10 years ago, a 12 Mega Pixel camera was high end
NaluRash wrote:
24 Mega Pixels! Holy Jesus! hahaha…I remember about 10 years ago, a 12 Mega Pixel camera was high end
ya they have come a long way….this thing also has wireless shutter, GPS, even wireless internet so you can instantly upload the picture you take to your home computer or others with smart phones ect ect………lighting has also gone crazy, put a light box on the shoe and put 4 or 5 around the room and you can sync them to go off in sequence or delayed …crazy stuff
Bremon wrote:
yeah the blade stand out isn’t so hot. The finger guard is actually for using a finger to hold the blade out, which I do find quite convenient. If it didn’t have the wire loop I imagine the hook would eventually get sheared off. The nylon feel to the blade is odd and also makes an annoying noise while retracting. I agree with your thoughts on it overall Nalu
Thanks Bremon. I’ve always used my finger to hold out the blade, I do think it’s cool that this feature is built into the Milwaukee tape’s, I just thought it was funny. But you know Milwaukee, Disruptive Innovation is their theme lol. I’m just so used to using the Stanley Tape Measures, it’s taking me a bit getting used to the Milwaukee.
I have to say the only thing I don’t like about my Milwaukee tapes are the large end seems to bend easy and therefore must be checked frequently.. but that is just my growing up in a machine/fab shop…..
Yeah I agree, I’ve always held the tape out that way as well and have yet to be cut, though the Red tape is a bit more ergonomic. Stanley level lock is still more elegant though.
comp56 wrote:
I have to say the only thing I don’t like about my Milwaukee tapes are the large end seems to bend easy and therefore must be checked frequently.. but that is just my growing up in a machine/fab shop…..
Wow…right after you said this, I decided to check out my tape ruler, and your right. It’s slightly bent, I didn’t even notice this before >:(
New toy at work. I was using a makita hammer drill with a standard Chuck before i got this baby and i must say it is a completely different beast. Eats cinderblock for breakfast lunch and dinner.
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New toy at work. I was using a makita hammer drill with a standard Chuck before i got this baby and i must say it is a completely different beast. Eats cinderblock for breakfast lunch and dinner.
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You lucky Bastard! haha. Let us know how you like it! After the 2731, I think I wanna get what you got are the smaller M12 version
I never used a hammer drill before a few weeks ago so idon’t have much to compare to. like I said i had started with a combo drill with a standard Chuck with chuck key. This thing with a good bit is almost completely effortless, you can hardly feel the hammering action and the battery seems to last quite a while as well. with a New bit It digs like drilling foam
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Stanley fat max are great tapes.
Little disclaimer, I have only used the drill with a 1/4″ bit for nail anchors so i cannot speak to the performance with larger bits
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This is my collection of Milwaukee tools. It acutally is missing a few tools I added like the leaf blower, 1/4 inch fuel impact wrench, M12 bluetooth radio, M18 fuel hole hawg, and M18 fuel fuel 3/8″ impact wrench.
You guy reminded me of a story about my best friend that was killed a couple years ago.
When we we seniors in high school a bunch of us took a trip one Saturday night night down to Pt. Pleasant to ghost hunt. Pt. Pleasant is famous as being the site of the mothman legend back in the 60’s as well as other strange occupancies. I don’t believe in ghost and didn’t back then either, but it was a good way to get closer to a chick I was after, so I was game.
We started out at the TNT area (the mothman site) and worked our way down to Lakin State Hospital. Lakin was originally a work farm for troubled black kids, spent a few years as a nursing home, and spent its last years of life as an insane asylum. It was the home facility of the guy who popularized the labotomy for awhile and was eventually shut down in the late 70’s.
It was a creepy place for sure. I have some family in the funeral business for whom my dad drove a hearse in high school. He can tell you some real horror stories about things he saw in that place, which is probably why it was frequently on those “most haunted places in America” lists until it was torn down after a kid fell off the roof.
Anyway, we’re going through this place and even as a non believer in the supernatural, it made the hair stand up on my neck. My buddy has an older, no name, 1.0 mp (seriously, 1 fucking megapixel) digital camera that he got at Big Lots , which at that time made it the very lowest end of early consumer grade digitals, and snapped all the pics a 120 mb SD card would hold. The next day he calls me and says “dude, you’ve got to come to my house and check out these pictures”. He believed in ghost and shit and was completely disturbed that several of the pictures had orbs and other odd images in them. I on the other hand, was convinced the lens must be messed up, but despite my skepticism, he was conviced.
To settle the dispute, we took the camera down to an electronics repair shop to have it looked at. The guy looks at it, snaps a few pics, the shows us that these too have orbs and streaks. My buddy says “so you’re shop has ghost too?” dude says “no, it has a gullible teenager with the shittiest camera I’ve ever seen”
I don’t know why I though of that story, but I’m glad I did
Nice spread DR. I don’t have an updated family photo and everything is to scattered at the moment to get one.
I see you did get the M12 jigsaw. I love that little saw
Yea I picked it up a few years ago as a Home Depot deal of the day. It was on sale for like 59 bucks for the kit. How can you say no to that!! Yea, I want to do an updated photo sometime soon just for personal enjoyment and insurance reasons too. I also have a bunch of Knipex hand tools now. I’m kind of addicted buying their hand tools. I have most of the pliers wrench sizes now.
I found lots of good deals to help cushion the cost 🙂 Don’t get me wrong its still a lot of money.
. Man DR I remember that deal and regret so bad not jumping on it :/DR99 wrote:
Yea I picked it up a few years ago as a Home Depot deal of the day. It was on sale for like 59 bucks for the kit. How can you say no to that!! Yea, I want to do an updated photo sometime soon just for personal enjoyment and insurance reasons too. I also have a bunch of Knipex hand tools now. I’m kind of addicted buying their hand tools. I have most of the pliers wrench sizes now.
. This is the SUPER MILWAUKEE FUEL PORN!!!DR99 wrote:
This is my collection of Milwaukee tools. It acutally is missing a few tools I added like the leaf blower, 1/4 inch fuel impact wrench, M12 bluetooth radio, M18 fuel hole hawg, and M18 fuel fuel 3/8″ impact wrench.
Holy crap the clerks response is too good, thanks for sharing!Conductor562 wrote:
My buddy says “so you’re shop has ghost too?” dude says “no, it has a gullible teenager with the shittiest camera I’ve ever seen”
I don’t know why I though of that story, but I’m glad I did
DR, I might as well not post my pics now, you’ve got everything I have and then some lol, and batteries for days to boot! Nice collection :).
Conductor562 wrote:
You guy reminded me of a story about my best friend that was killed a couple years ago.
When we we seniors in high school a bunch of us took a trip one Saturday night night down to Pt. Pleasant to ghost hunt. Pt. Pleasant is famous as being the site of the mothman legend back in the 60’s as well as other strange occupancies. I don’t believe in ghost and didn’t back then either, but it was a good way to get closer to a chick I was after, so I was game.
We started out at the TNT area (the mothman site) and worked our way down to Lakin State Hospital. Lakin was originally a work farm for troubled black kids, spent a few years as a nursing home, and spent its last years of life as an insane asylum. It was the home facility of the guy who popularized the labotomy for awhile and was eventually shut down in the late 70’s.
It was a creepy place for sure. I have some family in the funeral business for whom my dad drove a hearse in high school. He can tell you some real horror stories about things he saw in that place, which is probably why it was frequently on those “most haunted places in America” lists until it was torn down after a kid fell off the roof.
Anyway, we’re going through this place and even as a non believer in the supernatural, it made the hair stand up on my neck. My buddy has an older, no name, 1.0 mp (seriously, 1 fucking megapixel) digital camera that he got at Big Lots , which at that time made it the very lowest end of early consumer grade digitals, and snapped all the pics a 120 mb SD card would hold. The next day he calls me and says “dude, you’ve got to come to my house and check out these pictures”. He believed in ghost and shit and was completely disturbed that several of the pictures had orbs and other odd images in them. I on the other hand, was convinced the lens must be messed up, but despite my skepticism, he was conviced.
To settle the dispute, we took the camera down to an electronics repair shop to have it looked at. The guy looks at it, snaps a few pics, the shows us that these too have orbs and streaks. My buddy says “so you’re shop has ghost too?” dude says “no, it has a gullible teenager with the shittiest camera I’ve ever seen”
I don’t know why I though of that story, but I’m glad I did
Any sort of mental institution is creepy as hell. They tore down all the ones near where I live now though. I saw some pictures people took on the internet and they are freaking insane. The one where Lobotomies were performed might be creepier though.
A Little bit more Milwaukee porn for u guys! This my Red Team so far. And once again I would like to thank DR, Chrisk and Dan and Eric!! Damn u guys!! ur the reasons why I’m so broke!!!! LOL!
DR99 wrote:
This is my collection of Milwaukee tools. It acutally is missing a few tools I added like the leaf blower, 1/4 inch fuel impact wrench, M12 bluetooth radio, M18 fuel hole hawg, and M18 fuel fuel 3/8″ impact wrench.
Now this is what I’m talkin about..great stuff man!!