Cordless Tool Battery Platform

[barbender]

Some folks can turn just stupid and spew nonsense. I'm glad that you've figured out how to deal with that stuff, Magic!😊

[thecfarm]

Maybe the news ones have a chip in them to cause problems when using an adapter.

[Magicman]

His job is to promote his employer's products.  

[Magicman]

I have fallen and I can't get up......HELP !!! 

Here I am moving toward the Milwaukee platform and then Home Depot puts their 1/2" impact driver on "Father's Day" sale:  LINK.  Tool, battery, & charger with tax and my military discount; $191.64.  That is a $319 value.  Just the tool is $249.  Anyway, a man has to do what a man has to do.  This one will live at the farm.    I also now have battery adapters to run the Craftsman C3 tools with the Craftsman, Milwaukee, or the Ridgid batteries.

[Old Greenhorn]

I'm not one to cast stones here, but this is beginning to sound a bit like yellowhammer and his peashooters. Just sayin'

[Magicman]

YH has peas dat need shootin', ah has tight nuts dat need loosenin'.    

[Magicman]

My final battery adapter came today which will allow me to use a Ridgid battery with my Craftsman C3 tools.  


I had already gotten the adapter to allow using a Milwaukee battery with the Craftsman tools (Reply #68) so now I am 100% flexible with my tools and batteries.  This solves the dilemma that I was questioning with my original posting.  It also saves an entire fleet of Craftsman C3 tools from having to go to the woodshed.

[SwampDonkey]

You got'r made now. 

[Magicman]

I had three Gift Cards from Home Depot soooo......


The new addition is the mid range (550psi) 1/2" Impact Wrench seen in the top right.  It along with the set of HF sockets will join my "truck tools".  Red Reigns.

[thecfarm]

Red is good.

[TreefarmerNN]

I started out with Dewalt 18 volt, then went to the 20 volt max when I was having a hard time getting replacement 18 volt batteries. I bought a string trimmer, impact driver, and a 7 ¼" circular saw. I'm happy with the first two, but that circular saw was a disappointment. It really wanted to bind and stall (advertised as having the power of corded) eventually something fried when it stalled.

Dewalt replaced it under warranty with no issue, but the new one had the same stalling issue. When I got looking into the issue more, the saw is not aligned with the base plate. So when you are pushing the base plate straight across the work, the sawblade is turned a couple degrees. This is what caused the binding on this saw and the prior one I'm sure. I had to get a dremel out and widen the holes in the base plate, to be able to align it with the blade.

Because of that issue, neither of the saws are lined up with the sight marks either. Not very impressive for a tool that was around $250 then.

Since then, I started buying some of the Milwaukee 12 volt tools and have been very impressed buy the power and build quality. They have such a huge line up of trade focused tools, you can tell there is a lot going into their product development.

Dewalt's 12 volt line is kind of a joke. Really, Milwaukee is the only game in the 12 volt category.

Well, I'd been eyeing a cordless framing nailer. Dewalt's got some poor reviews, where the Milwaukee was pretty positive. Lighter and more power. So I bought one, which kind of broke the ice for getting into the Milwaukee 18 volt line. So now there is a hammer drill, grease gun and top handle chain saw. I'm probably going to be focused on these red too now.

One other brand I've been pretty impressed with is Metabo HPT (used to be Hitachi). I bought one of their 36 volt rear handle circular saws. It got really good reviews for having good power and being really light weight. I've been very happy with that saw. I bought it to use for trimming boards and slabs coming off the sawmill, and it works great. Well, I ended up also getting a tower LED light, a grinder, an oscillating multi tool and a cordless heat gun that has been very handy.

I have a couple of Ridgid tools. Tools are fine, but the batteries (at least my 2 battery experience) are junk🤷

Interesting about your Dewalt saw and the one I have has been pretty good.  MY SIL and I were working on a project and he is Milwaukee but found him picking up my Dewalt saw more than his red one.  That being said, Milwaukee has some tools I'd like to have but don't want to replace all my yellow ones so adapters may be in my future.

[Machinebuilder]

I used the July 4th sales to upgrade my 1/2" impact, The new one easily takes off my truck lug nuts.
I have an appropriate torque stick to use when tightening them up.

I had been considering getting some of the blue HF tools, the bang for the buck is there and they keep expanding the line.
I just really don't want the additional batteries.

[gspren]

I'm staying with Milwaukee m18 from now on and next I want to look at the smaller m18 fan and figure if I can put it on my zero turn mower for these heat waves. It would definitely find other places I'd use it.

[Dave Shepard]

Torque sticks may not be accurate on battery impacts. There are a few YouTubes covering the subject. 

[Machinebuilder]

If I remember correctly its the impact guns with a higher rate of impacts.

This new one has 3 settings and I'll leave it on the slowest. I carry an old torque wrench to check them too.

[caveman]

I let all of the magic smoke out of my DeWalt impact while changing yet another trailer tire on the side of the road a couple of weeks ago.  I have not replaced it yet but have been considering a blue one with an adapter for a DeWalt battery.  I think I have eight DeWalt batteries.  If I was not so invested in DeWalt with batteries and tools, I'd be using 18v Milwaukee tools.