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originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: nonspecific
Makita 18v lxt is a great hammer drill and impact drive drill. Certainly NOT a "girls" tool. Their lithium ion batteries slowly discharge rather than abrupt making them much more valuable on a ladder than the Dewalt Chinese made 20 volt.
I'm a carpenter amongst other things like a farmer and herbalist. Makitas are fantastic tools today. I'll bet you I can frame 1000 SQ feet faster with a Makita 18v, than a Dewalt, and that it can take a fall to a slab and still operate more times than any tool I've ever used.
Now I really use a Hitachi 21 degree framing gun, but have framed smaller projects with screws. I'll take a Hitachi framing gun over a senco and definitely over a shi##y Bostitch.
originally posted by: charolais
As far as new power tools and cordless tools go I highly recommend Milwaukee.
originally posted by: verschickter
a reply to: nonspecific
BOSCH ist the best!
I have tools from them that are over 25 years old still working like a champ. And it´s not that they have been used rarely. One hammerdrill is over 30 years old and I fixed the coal holders with parts of a coke can. They are absolutely durable.
Recently I bought a high pressure water cleaner and was not that happy about the power. I gave it three stars on amazon and two days later they contacted me and send someone personally to pick up the device and check it.
Absolutely professional customer service.
There is a saying in germany, no kidding:
"Halt deine Gosch, du schaffst bei Bosch!!"
Translates into: You really can´t be complaining, because you work at BOSCH.
MAKITA
Their portable Drillmachines are very good.
HILTI
Good heavy equipment.
FESTOOL
For high precision work on wood and metal. Really, I have a circular saw that´s at least 20 years old with electronic blimblim and ask me what else it´s unbreakable.
DEWALT
I dislike them because the haptic is bad in my opinion.
originally posted by: verschickter
a reply to: nonspecific
You mean that "t" that slipped in? I do not use any translate or spell checkers other than google translate. What else is wrong?
if you mean haptic, I mean the feeling of the tool.
originally posted by: verschickter
a reply to: nonspecific
To be honest I just assumed it exists and if I exchange the "k" with a "c" it´s ok
"haptik" describes the feeling of a tool, the grip, the weight, the balance, does it feel sturdy or instable, how much recoil the motor has when it stops, how easy is it to change battery pack and all those things all boiled down into one word.
If you take a cheap plastic screw driver and compare it to a good one with soft ergonomic grip, you have the best example of it.
The "haptik" of the cheap one is bad but the other one with soft ergonomic rubber grips has a outstanding "haptik".
Or call it "the way it integrates to tool into you body to become one with the tool".
Because being one with the tool is important.
I guess it´s a german only word or type of thinking.
Makita. good for girls