/diy/ - Do It Yourself

> t. Eurobeppis

Since I see no batteries or charger you have a bunch of hammers.
Speaking of hammers why do you need a trim hammer. Nobody hand nails trim

>>2760482
more likely aussie bepis

what a pathetic load of tools, australians probably have the worst tool selection out of any western country.

>>2760503
Can almost definitely confirm, T: Aussie.
There's a pretty good selection of tools however, we get anything manufactured in Asia for other countries. OP is just a troll that spent a few measly bucks at Bunnings.

>>2760481
How is it compared with Bauer (hazard fright) default milfuckee and ... dare i say it, makita?

>>2760521
AEG is the same as Ridgid in the US. A step up from Bauer and Ryobi which are aimed at DIYers. It’s the same parent company as Milwaukee but a little below Milwaukee. Makita is 8 years behind everybody else so no comment. AEG/Ridgid are like entry level pro grade, but don’t have nearly as extensive a lineup of specialty tools as Milwaukee.

>>2760481
Those little blowers are nice to have for clearing off sawdust and shit, more useful than I expected.

>>2760482
Yeeeeet!

Sometimes you can look at the Bunnings AEG selection and see some stuff that might possibly be coming to the US market in the next year. Like they had AEG OPE such as the chainsaw and backpack sprayer over there before it was released with the Ridgid name.

Also I feel bad for them whenever I see the prices of stuff over there. They don’t seem to get nearly as good of sales either like the 2 free tools with purchase of a starter kit.

>>2760481
is this the buyfag thread?

I caved and bought the m12 fuel drill/impact driver kit because it was under $200 on amazon and I had $30 credit from a lost order that arrived a week after the refund. also JUST found out vaughan has a manufacturer's second branding called grayvik where they put all their blemished runs for half price, picked up a nice new 16 oz rip claw for $15

>>2760566
Junk

>>2760566
$10 isn't a deep up in anything it's just a different color. You have a mental disorder

>>2760607
>>2760609
>subjective statements that don’t align with the facts
Milwaukee drops a product first, then 2-3 years later Ridgid drops it for $50 less with very similar designs, and 2-3 years after that Ryobi drops the same product for $50 less with one or two less features. The Ridgid version is normally like 10% less powerful than the flagship Milwaukee Fuel, but more powerful than the budget Milwaukee versions. And the Ryobi version will be like 10-20% less powerful than the Ridgid.

Even though the Ridgid Octane high torque 1/2” was more powerful than the M18 Fuel offered at the same time, I never went so far as to say Ridgid is better even if it was ;^)

>>2760616
Not an upgrade. Not better in any substantive way. It's all in your head.

>>2760618
meds

>>2760618
>subjective statements that don’t align with the facts

>entry level pro grade
Do people really just go to the internet and start typing nonsense? Lets see proof of professional use before we assume these tangerine toys are for anything other than glamor shots.

>>2761570
there are no professionals on /diy/

>>2761590
Bepis is probably the closest to being an actual professional.

>>2761570
Ok we call them “tools that will survive on the jobsite for more than 2 weeks, but won’t be the envy of Jamal and will get you ridiculed by Makita boomers and insufferable Red Lightning fanbois”

>>2761607
Bepis pls…

Which reminds me, I have had this idea for decades but never did it yet, I really want a box of business cards with my info and some BS logo that states my job title as “Professional”

>>2761590
> no professionals?

There are lots on youtube.
Most of them are very wealthy, because they take $4.00 in materials, plus pallets and other garbage, add $100.00 worth of epoxy they get for free from epoxy vendors, and sell the table for $750,000. They can crank out and sell 1 or 2 of these tables every day.

>>2761607
>pepsi truck driver

>>2761774
>Professional*

>>2761590
I use ridgid brushed drill drivers with a 5/8” countersink to deburr cnc machine parts at my day job

Professionally used

It’s actually the exact one bezos recommended during Black Friday 2023

>>2761837
post pictures with timestamp

>>2760566
how do you clean your power tools

>>2761848
>how do you clean your power tools
Professional tool cleaner

>>2761848
If you don’t use them, you never really have to clean them.

>>2761942
most of your ridgid stuff looks pristine
>>2761870
I've been using brake kleen

>>2761942
Nice props.
They’ve clearly been artificially distressed to look like that.
I know you work in the movie industry.

>>2762081
I will bet 100:1 his dad used the screwdriver, but the gay-assed 25-in-1 painter tool has Beppy written all over it.

>>2762084
Unfortunately he got a kobalt instead of a real brand… he can afford a real one with the money he saved by only applying 7 coats of lacquer to the first 4 inches of his 1/4" OSB-top workbench.

>>2761848
Personally, I bought a multipack of the 40 count heavy duty tub-o-wipes containers and always keep one in my tool bag, I wipe down everything that gets dirty before I put it back in. gotta be the ones labeled "heavy duty" because they're textured like a scrub pad, the normal ones wont do shit

>>2763588
thanks alot, I'll try to find these or Canada's equivalent.

>>2762313
You love it bby ;^)

>>2762084
Anon’s on to it! Hard to tell about the screwdrivers because I got my first Craftsman set sometime in the mid 90s. A couple of the real old ones were probably taken from his toolbox and ended up in the junk drawer of the house and now my garage.

Like the flathead with the fucked tip from using it as a chisel, that was def me.

>>2762053
I wouldn’t spray brake kleen on that stuff, some of those plastics and rubbers really don’t love fluids. Ask the orange rubber on my Klein meter.

>>2763601
If they’re really greasy where it’s making a mess of other shit, there’s always a spray bottle of simple green around.

>>2762053
New tools look new in pics taken of said tools when they were new.

>>2762084
Picrel is always good for a laugh, I could’ve had everything on this list if I wanted it. He had mad tools before but this was at the end after the alcoholism got worse and worse. I kick myself for not grabbing the Fluke stuff and a vac pump and good set of gauges. Dude mailed me a bunch of DeWalt 18V tools that I sold for $100, pretty sure it cost more than that to ship them to me.

Pipefitter’s union gave me like $1500 tho.

>>2763603
good tips, thanks. a hot rod builder I met uses simple green on his classic engine bays even

>>2763608
Brakleen isn’t even supposed to go near most plastics or paints, let alone the soft shit like overmolds.

Pic related, except I think that was from PB blaster which isn’t nearly as harsh as brake cleaner. The little soft rubber things on the back to hold the leads just started crumbling off, and the whole overmold is super brittle and cracking.

>>2763588
I call these turbo towels to piss my kid off. Even added an R with a yellow paint marker when he kept insisting I was wrong.

>>2763609
you might have just saved me a lot of pain.
I've been cleaning our mechanics m18 grease gun with a rag soaked in brakekleen for the past year when i borrow it. I'll stop that....

>>2763635
This is 4chan so take any advice I give ya with a grain of salt. Also lots of brakleen these days is low VOC bullshit, and power tools tend to use pretty good plastics, but yeah plastics and solvents like brake cleaner don’t mix.

Pretty sure DeWalt or Milwaukee actually sell special batteries that cost more that are supposed to hold up longer in auto shop environments and I believe brake cleaner and any other solvents are the worst offenders for destroying that stuff.

>>2763635
>>2763640
…and the special M18 battery, which obviously means the standard stuff isn’t specifically built to resist the fluids or it would be one of their marketing points on impacts and ratchets.

>>2760481
why is everything so sterile? do you actually use these tools or it is a museum?

>>2760606
this me, m12 kit arrived and I fucking hate the ergos, the grip is so fucking chonked up it's unreal. Think I'll sell this kit on market place and buy something else 12v, performance be damned

>>2763648
There’s nothing else 12V worthwhile. If you don’t do the battery in the handle like M12 and Bosch, the form factor is exactly the same as 18V tools. And you’re far batter off going with a compact 18V line, like the DeWalt Atomic hammer drill is smaller than the M12 Fuel hammer drill, and the PowerStack batteries help. Plus when you’re on the 18V/20V platform, the selection is fuckhueg and you can buy real full size saws and impacts that you can’t get with 12V.

Also try not having manlet hands.

But picrel shows how small the 18V subcompact stuff is, and this Ridgid has extra stupid electronics in the base that make it bigger than it needs to be, the gen 2 is smaller.

Do you already have 18V stuff? If not, you’re retarded for being one of the people who got M12 because they wanted to be TeamRed for <$200. If you really can’t handle the M12, don’t go with any other 12V brand because they’re all like 3-4 outdated tools and that’s it. Go get the 18V like you should’ve done in the first place, and get 18V brushless subcompact or compact versions with some 2.0Ah batteries for tools where you want smaller versions.

>>2763651
I have several 18v makita tools I inherited from a crazy uncle. He's not dead, he just did a lot of drugs and "ascended beyond mortal possessions" and gave away basically everything he owned then fucked off to be a monk or something. Had no idea 18v "subcompact" was a thing, guess I'll check what subcompact makita offers if any since I've already got like 6 of those batteries

>>2763653
How old are the tools and batteries? Makita is straight but they’re like 8 years behind DeWalt and Milwaukee, and DeWalt has much better sales if you’re in the US. If those Makita batteries are old and weak and you can get a DeWalt Atomic hammer drill + impact driver with 2 batteries on sale for $149 or with a free bare tool for $199, might be worth considering a different line before sinking more into the Makita.

5-10 years ago, I woulda said stick with Makita, but they really seem to have given up in North America, especially with their 18V stuff since they released the 40V, and the 40V stuff isn’t worth the money for a marginal improvement over 18V and the only reason they had to release 40V is because they handicapped themselves with poor battery layouts and are stuck with 5.0-6.0Ah max 18V packs while you can buy 9.0-12.0+ for DeWalt and Makita.

They don't seem terribly old, him going crazy only happened two years ago and I think he bought a lot of these within the past decade at the longest

got a drill, impact driver, jigsaw, recip saw, die grinder, a chainsaw that takes two batteries at once, and a tire inflator. I have literally only used the drill, impact, and tire inflator in the time I've owned them, lol. But the drill is just a bit too tall and too long to fit in my tool bag, why I wanted to look at getting something smaller

>>2763659
Japanes are getting out of US markets. Hitachi basically pulled out in a convoluted way, they sold it through KKR and the perverted/spun it into “hikoki”
Also out of consumer electronics, chips, hard drives, etc. not sure what they even do now.

They just can’t compete with a population that wants american-owned and made stuff like dewalt and milwaukee.

>>2763696
Makita was the standard for the cordless drill and so many boomers loved them. Makita only had themselves to blame, they are so far behind the other brands. Same with Bosch, their SDS and a couple woodworking tools were super popular, but they haven’t done as muxh as DeWalt and Milwaukee when it comes to cordless stuff.

>>2763651
He's right. If you don't like the milwaukee 12v then go with the subcompact 20v.
>>2763648
Have you tried turning it off then on again?
>>2763663
Go with some more modern alternative listed in this thread.

>>2763641
we definitely don't have the fancy upgraded batteries in our shop, but good to know thanks!
>>2763640
that's fair enough - good to err on the side of caution with other people's tools
>>2763603
8 bucks for simple green. when the fuck did that happen
>>2763588
I'm gonna give em a try. thanks anon

>>2763842
>8 bucks for simple green
What size? I get like the half gallon or gallon and it’s fairly concentrated. Don’t know what the mix is supposed to be, but if it’s going in a spray bottle, I normally do like 20% green and 80% water. Only time I go full strength is super caked on grease where I need to scrub it.

>>2761846
It looks brand new I’m a snap-on/Matco/Nepros/mitutoyo type guy


So you know my shit is all labeled and perfectly organized

And my closet is all margiela, Hermes, Zegna

Jewelry all David yurman and miansai

I have nice things and like to take care of them

>>2763845
8 bucks for 22 oz , 20 for a gallon. I usually buy the purple ZEP cleaner / degreaser, but I'll try the simple green when I run out of these turbo towels

>>2763853
Purple power is about the same. Simple green smells good tho

>>2763769
> makita and boomers
Problem is, I still have my makita from 30+ years ago, and it works great and it’s been through hell.
The quality was *too* good.
All other brands only last one or two years even if unused (batteries permanently die left uncharged).
New ones probably need to run windows 11 and can’t run without a software update! Hahaha.

>>2763853
Nice intellectual theft there chinese-millfuckyee.
Jeeze, americans will do anything to get their hands on the cheapest chinese shit imaginable. And fawn over it. With pride.
The entire manufacturing sector in the U.S. can’t even make a simple drill even if you combine all the remaining manufacturing capability.

>>2763917
if you could read English, you would have easily seen that I am not American. jack-ass

>>2763917
These screwdrivers have existed for 40 years and they have been garbage the whole time

>>2763913
my grandad has two of the old stick-battery makita drilla and they still fucking work. the batteries finally got to where they don't hold charge long, so he bought some knock-offs from amazon and they're back in action for now. and it's not like they were gently used, he was a farmer and did a lot of bizarre fabrication and DIY solutions to problems he ran into, they were getting used in a project basically every week throughout their life time.

>>2763937
mine ratcheting and based
>>2763917
this is dollar store garbage

>>2763913
>Makita batteries from 30 years ago
If you say so…

Also Makita packs use the same cells as everybody else, except they have less options. A Makita pack will brick itself when put away dead for a few months the same way any other pack will. Except for the whole thing about Makita’s perma-brick LXT packs, most packs you can recover in other ways if they refuse to charge because of low voltage, but there’s some story about Makita packs having a chip that straight up locks them out. Like you could recover the cells, but you would need a replacement board to get them working again.

Makita has some straight corded tools, as does Bosch and DeWalt and all the ancient Milwaukee Hole Hawgs and Sawzalls still running 30 years later, but it’s 2024 and most people want cordless versions of the majority of these power tools.

>>2763951
> makita batteries last 30 years???
No, my makita… it’s corded.
I am the guy that replaces the NiCd cells in my dewalt and hitachi drill packs. They’re 2/3 C or so something like that. I have to get them from chaiwan now, probably the only manufacturers now.
NiCd cells have also been getting better over the years, too. A lot of people don’t realize that. Also tolerate the cold, more cycle life, can withstand complete discharge, etc. energy density is about half Li-ion, but then again you can get insane 12 Ah packs for dewalt, so that’s not a serious issue for double the lifespan/durability.
I don’t have the og makita cordless with the in-handle batteries, you can probably refill the batteries in those too.

>>2763942
meds

>>2760481
Those tools say rigid in America, to remind us of our bepis. They are allright, it's definitely weapons grade chinesium.

>>2764054
Yeah and I had a Black & Decker 1/2” ugga dugga that was running good until I sold it like 2 years ago, so that means Black & Decker definitely isn’t a shitty choice for a cordless platform.

>>2764063
Ridgid*

>>2763951
I have a black and decker 9 volt kit that still works nicad cellsn30 years ago

I used to use the drill on my Civic back then

>>2764076
The only reason this name brand became famous is because of the old meme
> that job looks hard
> don’t worry, I have a Ridgid Tool.
t. plumber

>>2764130
The power tools are fake ridgid.
The plumbing stuff is real.
It would have been better if they made the power tools waterproof, so you could take your ridgid tool into a wet hole (as one does) without worry.

But Zhang doesn’t even know what this shit is he’s copying.

>>2764134
It’s a license not fake, fashion houses do that all the time

Lower end shit that people buy because the name

Personally ridgid brand name means nothing to me, I like the LSA

You can call it “tranny suck and fuck power tools” for all I care

>>2764151
Shut up fag, no one asked you

>>2764134
We call it “TTI’s mid-range store brand especial!”

Except when it’s not mid-range and they accidentally build a tool with more balls than the M18 Fuel line like some of the Octane stuff.

>>2760499
not that anon but I never use waffle faced hammers, I don't like marring the wood even if I'm just framing a house

I feel so dirty…

They had the Icon Twingrips in stock too, I had a 15% off any item coupon, but I couldn’t bring myself to buy them. At least the swedish pipe wrench isn’t a Knipex design and it’s one of those “twice a year” tools for bigger plumbing stuff. If I got the Twingrips and was using them at least weekly, there would be much shame.

>>2764435
U naughty whore bepis

>>2764444
Checked. I know.

I bought the Icon Raptor knockoffs a long time ago, and I’m glad I didn’t spend more on the real version because they barely see any use. Cool theory but not super useful unless maybe you want them to grip a bunch of 1/2” nuts while you ugga dugga the other side.

Also the raptors don’t have teeth, and that’s where Knipex shines and the knockoffs are never as good. I figure with the big swedish pipe wrench, there’s a 90% chance that’s going to be used on copper, PVC, or some other soft plumbing fitting so le german heat treating won’t be as big of a deal.

Refuse to buy the knockoff Cobras though, same reason I would probably buy the real Twingrips. The properly sharp teeth are like 95% the reason those tools stand out so much. At the very least if I need to save a couple bucks on the big 12”+ sizes of pliers, Channellock will give you a pretty good jaw strength, but that’s some shit I can’t rely on the Chinese for.

I bought these stupid Icon snappy knockoff pistol grip pliers too. I’m a sucker for a goofy pair of pliers that save your fingers in a tight engine bay a couple times a year.

>>2764455
I bought a 3 pack of the irwin brand knock off cobras to throw in my car trunk tool bag. I do a lot of handyman shit for friends and family, but I don't want to carry around anything I'd miss if the bag gets lost or stolen so everything in it is knockoffs and 2nd or 3rd rate brands

All the nice shit stays in garage

>>2763851
>It looks brand new I’m a snap-on/Matco/Nepros/mitutoyo type guy
>So you know my shit is all labeled and perfectly organized
>And my closet is all margiela, Hermes, Zegna
>Jewelry all David yurman and miansai
>I have nice things and like to take care of them

>>2764455
if you aint a knower, channellock makes a raptor-like with teeth. mechanic i know introduced me to them, ~$18 on amazon, it's a cheaper alternative as well and can grab shit over 1". there's a larger version that has 2" jaw capacity but i'm not sure on the price

>>2764582
Huh… actually made in U.S.A.
Weird. They must need them for making 155mm shells or something.

My tool haul yesterday was this toughbuilt 12-in-1 screwdriver that was clearanced out at my local Lowes for $4.XX, I thought wowee a solid multi-driver for less than 5 bucks what a deal, but the fucking ¼" nut driver insert is out of tolerance and barely fits inside the ⅜" nut driver, it cannot be inserted or removed by hand-strength alone, I've been repeatedly forcing it in and removing it with a pair of pliers to see if I could get it to break-in a little to no success, now I understand why these shitheaps were on clearance.

>>2764591
All channellock pliers are made in the USA, and they all are rather mediocre in comparison to stuff like Knipex or even Kleins.

Traditional tongue groove slipjoints arent hard or expensive to make, so they still make them in the USA.

>>2764526
Once you realize who it is, the inane posting makes a lot more sense.

>>2765280
I think channellock offers some of the best bang for the buck tools for the typical DIYer/home owner. Obviously professionals have different needs, but channellock hasn't really changed their formula in like 50 fucking years, so the pliars grandpap used til he fuckin croaked is still being made today for relatively cheap.

>>2765285
>best bang for the buck tools
Objectively speaking, you can get the same or higher quality out of a chinese import tool, for half the price.
Spend a few bucks more you can get into a real pair of pliers like Kleins or Knipex.

If it makes someone happy to spend double to have made in the USA, great. Thats the only reason they still exist. Not because they are some bastion of quality or low price.

The ONE and only pair of pliers they seemingly did better than anyone else was their 548, but they discontinued it like 5 years ago. They stopped making a LOT of pliers, not sure if competition was getting to them or what.

>>2765290
Idk man home depot sells the babby's first plier set for $60, I don't think $15/pc chinkshit is on par from my experiences, although a lot of the $20-30 range taiwan mfg stuff is pretty solid

>>2765294
> I don't think $15/pc chinkshit is on par from my experiences
In terms of what exactly?
The grind quality control and finish on Channellocks is genuinely bad. It was bad in 2018 when they first shuffled around manufacturing, and its even worse now.
They arent even close to the same as grandpas tools, yet thats why people blindly walk into home depot and grab them off the shelf.

If you really wanted to jerk yourself off over having USA made slipjoints and tongue groove pump pliers, you can buy WILDE made ones which are way nicer.
The Tekton $60 4 piece set has them with Tekton stamped on them.

>>2765290
>The ONE and only pair of pliers they seemingly did better than anyone else was their 548
just buy Tsunoda ones
https://www.amazon.com/Tsunoda-PLC-200-Slim-Pliers-inches/dp/B0CJ4STKNV

>>2760481
haha nice
me when i todays haul !! :DDDDdd

>>2764520
Those aren’t bad for the money. I have the Milwaukee knockoff version in the truck because anything left in there tends to walk off and I bought both sets when I was having issues and real near a Home Depot.

The Knipex are still way nicer to use.

>>2764591
What other anon said, all of Channie’s pliers are USA made, I think their screwdrivers too. The adjustable wrenches are made in Spain.

>>2764582
I got those, bought them real near the same time as the faux-Raptors. Seemed like a great idea but doesn’t get used a lot. Almost any situation I run into where they seem like a good idea, the Cobras grip so damn well already, or get some good vise grips on there.

>>2765285
I’ve got no real complaints for most of their stuff. It’s only a couple bucks more than the better Taiwan tier stuff and just as good or better. I go Channellock for a lot of stuff where the premium for Klein or Knipex really isn’t worth it. Got some older well-worn Channellocks that still have good teeth.

>>2765278
decided to product register and submit a warranty claim to see what they tell me. Part of the registration I had to upload a pic of the receipt and I figure when they see I bought this thing on clearance for $4.72 they're going to tell me to pound dirt, since it's still a functional 9-in-1 as is

>>2760481
>todays haul
What are you doing breaking into peoples sheds?

>>2765485
>I go Channellock for a lot of stuff where the premium for Klein or Knipex really isn’t worth it.
Like what

>>2765485
Made in USA doesn’t automatically mean good, channel lock makes some real shit tools right here in the USA and so did craftsman

>>2766182
> made in U.S.A.
Don’t worry, we’re boycotting you too, and your little colony in the middle east.

In the U.S. you can boycott yourselves, but you can’t boycott the colony that runs the place.

Channellock's stuff is great, their finishes definitely are pretty bad, but it's the only company I've found that can make a pair of cutters with consistent mating that will survive lateral handle wobble.
Klein, Knipex, Milwaukee, if you get lucky and get a pair from them with properly aligned blades, the handles will start wobbling by the time the pliers are broken in, ruining the cutting ability. Channellocks will cut through finely stranded material no problem for years, and does it with more leverage than the other companies. Their new speedgrip pliers also grip better than Knipex's equivalent. (Though the Knipex are way lighter, and easier to carry around in a pocket)

>>2766279
Channel lock dykes were they only dykes i ever bought which the jaws didnt meet out of the box .
I returned them, got a new pair and the tip broke off first time I used them. I might as well have bought store brand ones.

I have multiple Klein's and Knipex, I have Proto, SnapOn, Fujiya and a few others. The channel locks are the worst of the bunch.

Also their speedgrips aren't new, they are like 5 years old. The original button design was defective and routinely broke, to the point they had to redesign it a year after release.

>>2760481
Are there any tools that are actually made in Australia? I can only think of Cyclone shovels. Looks like Mumme stopped making stuff here.

>>2765635
A few of the channies I have gotten in recent years. I don’t need super German hardened teeth on an oil filter wrench. And the cutter/crimper tool, I don’t crimp terminals very often and the extra $10-$15 for Klein wouldn’t matter. The small 6” dykes too, those get used on zip ties and copper and I like the handle shape and head dimensions a lot. If I burn those out, maybe I go Knipex next.

>>2766819
You know if you bought less shit tools you would have money for higher quality versions of the tools that you actually do use?

You don’t need every brand of pliers that sells for under $20 at Home Depot to try out…

You could have just spent $40 on knipex or snap-on

>>2766832
>Snap on pliers
Meme. There is really nothing worth buying from them unless you work at a shop and have a good rep. Everything is overpriced by 60% to pay for the services of the tool truck guy.

>>2766834
Their pliers and sockets are pretty good

A lot of tool fags are very cheap for some reason… the whole Matco doesn’t make tools crowd and claim they wouldn’t accept a Matco tool even if it was free… but then go out of their way to buy a tool from the OE that Matco spec’d the tool from on Amazon… except for less features, lesser quality and no warranty

Like to save $10 on the Matco sockets these dudes are buying sunex which lack the quick release cut out, lack the quick start shallow broaching and include a lesser quality blow molded case rather than magnetic clip rail… and also don’t have a lifetime warranty unless they pay to ship the broken socket back to sunex ….

$10 more and you call up Matco and get a new tool no ship charge

I mean you have to be a real dumbass that does zero research to buy a sunex socket set over a Matco one on discount

>>2766834
I regret buying knipex with comfort handles instead of plain red like yours but now I'm too invested and want them too match each other so I keep getting the bulkier handles unnecessarily :(

>>2760503
yeah it kind of sucks. I want one of those skil saws with the worm drive and blade open on the left so I can see what the fuck im doing. We only get shitty sidewinder saws.

>>2767007
I don’t like the comfort handles on lots of pliers. Knipex dipped grips don’t slide off easy like some dipped grips, and I find it easier to open pliers up with my ring finger without the comfort grips. Like dipped Cobras seem much more natural to move around than the bigger Irwin grips.

Milwaukee’s grip might be my favorite out of any pliers I have used, but I won’t buy them just for the grip.

The Klein double dip on their Kurve wire strippers is nice too.

>>2767611
You seriously don't have skil worm drive saws over there? That plain sucks if true. They are by far the best circ saw money can buy.