/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2778891
Do you have a multimeter? Never assume the wire colors are correct when doing electrical.

>>2778861
Wew lad. What exactly am I paying all these taxes for then?
Modern 18V lithium is not your grandpa's corded plug in electric lawn tools.

>>2778086
I still feel like there’s going to be some other stipulation, like the plumbing contractor says “12 months on labor”. So if your plumber-installed Rheem starts leaking after 4 years, they say “well you’re lucky, the $1000 in parts is covered under warranty but the $1400 in labor is due right now”

>>2778530
If you do automotive work, sure. The only other jobs around the house would probably be changing the hot water heater anode and changing lawn mower blades, so somewhat infrequent jobs and up to you if you want to dick around with cheater bars on ratchets or get a bigger impact.

>>2778597
Maybe at the factory you work at. In mine, the assembly line goes into a giant vacuum-sealed room where the welding robot is and there’s no oxygen in a vacuum chamber so an explosion can’t happen.

Multiple ways to fry an egg I guess.

>>2778466
He’s in the automotive field. Milwaukee is super popular with mechanics because they were the first major company to come in with a good lineup of mechanic tools and undercut Snappy and the other tool trucks, plus their 12V system is the only 12V line with a proper battery design in the handle and more than one tool a mechanic would want.

DeWalt is still super popular with general conrtractors and stuff. And it will vay by jobsite and location because dudes will buy stuff they see their coworkers liking.

>>2778449
Surprising the Ego batteries get hot. If it’s on the mower, I guess I understand, that’s a lot of cells doing a lot of work. My weed eater gets my 4.0 black Ryobi 18V packs toasty if I’m running it a lot, I’m curious to try the HP packs one day and see if there’s much of a difference.

Fwiw, the charger will still start charging when they’re somewhat warm, but not hot. I’m sure the fast charger on certain packs like 6.0 10x18650 packs will get toasty if you slap them on there right below the threshold for cooling em down.

>>2778221
I have one of the smaller Ryobi chainsaws, maybe a 12” bar, and that thing is good for shit well beyond just pruning. I’m sure 99% of homeowners would be totally fine without going gas for the occasional logjam when a storm takes out a tree if they’re running a 14”-16” brushless chainsaw, especially a 40V-60V model. I’ve fuckin buried that 18V brushed Ryobi into a stump and she kept on keepin on.

>>2778076
The Packout setups are pretty damn sweet. They have to many compatible products, I’m tempted some days for a good mobile setup. The black Ridgid boxes were pretty standard before that and are still cheaper. DeWalt keeps trying and their boxes actually look sweet, Klein tried to roll their orange ones out too and they’re already on clearance at Lowe’s, but I see more Packouts than anything for sure.

>>2778104
Hey man, the only reason I tell people to go Makita is if they love teal or they’re a JDM fanboi and don’t mind losing out on all the objective qualities, but I like my high-vis orange so I don’t leave an impact under a car and run over it

>>2778386
Gearwrench goes on sale on Amazon a lot, I’ve seen the 4pc 84T set go on sale around that price from time to time.

Got a couple Icon shits from HF I still need to use too. They send me those random “We miss you! Here’s 20% off!” and I’m a sucker for a coupon so I snagged a larger pipe wrench and those Snap On pistol grip pliers with the screw grabber tip, it looks like it might be good for a retarded clip or plug in an engine bay from time to time.

Also don’t forget to check your local Lowe’s for clearance steals. Those Cobras got disco’d in store awhile back when they got all the Klein so some employee stuck them on the tiny Wiha endcap they have by those Cobra knockoffs with red grips. I brought em to the register and they rang up for $11. And the Demel accessories were like $8-$9 off of $39, and Dremel consumables seem to last longer than the generic kits you can find for cheap. There were some of those Craftsman Overdrive kits for cheap too, that would be a nice kit for the trunk of the car if I needed one.

>>2778386
Look at the official Twingrip posting on Amazon and click on the 1-star reviews. I’m not the only person. It’s hard to tell if somebody returned the Chinesium or some independent chink vendor snuck in on the Knipex official page and sold that. It may have been the latter if Amazon themselves ran out for a day or two so they Prime same-day’d me the nearest third party seller. In between the time I ordered and the time I received the real one, I watched the Twingrips drop from 4.9 to 4.8 stars, and I guarantee it was because of the fakes.

The jaws of the knockoff were so bad.

>>2777656
Milwaukee offers a better warranty. There’s a reason you barely see anybody rocking Makita cordless stuff these days. If they had reliability far above the competition, some people would still be buying them despite having less tool selection, less battery options, shitty battery compatibility, less power, and a higher price compared to the competition

>>2778002
The ones in your pic are dogshit. I have had much better luck with sets like picrel, bonus points if they come with the left handed drill bits. Worst case scenario, you end up drilling out most of the screw with the bit and the remaining flakes fall out and you clean it up with a tap if necessary.

>>2778030
Something something about the Home Depot Rheems and the warranty is nothing like the 10 year warranty you get when you pay somebody $3000 to install it.

I have no idea if there’s any truth behind it, but I have heard something similar once before, but it was a plumber trying to make a sale so take it with a grain of salt.

>>2777982
Thermostat and/or heating element prob fucked. The replacement kits like picrel are cheap at Home Depot/Lowes. Hopefully it solves your leak too

>>2777916
Is it some 100k mile warranty with no time length? Or Anon never led the fine print. I don’t understand how you ever get them replaced under warranty without them claiming some exclusion like you didn’t have an alignment within the past 6mos.

What kind of warranty to ze germans give on their pliers anyway? It’s not printed on the box at all. Why should I buy from them if Icon can copy their pliers and sell them for half the price and stand behind them for life?!

>>2777935
This. My sister liked hers until she lost it

>>2777846
>>2777838
And that 4k TV is lighter and more energy efficient so you would get much further through the newest Disney woke tranny movie than with the old CRT TV.

Also you went totally past the point where the cordless drill is objectively better in pretty much every way than the old corded boat anchor.

>>2777527
Ok, so you’re still trying to defend the post saying “It must be a 1/2” drive because it’s an impact socket” and I explained to you why that was incorrect.

Your 4th post should be “Damn you’re right, I learned something today”.

>>2777461
…that are 3x the price?

The other thing is, people shit on the Ryobi but lots of them are still on corded shit because they remember borrowing a 7.2V NiCd Makita some decades ago and determining that cordless tools suck. But pretty much any 18V+ lithium battery tools are miles ahead of that bullshit. Like when I was still trying to hang onto the 18V XRP stuff with dying NiCd batteries, those were top of the line a few years before, but even the brushed 12V Ridgid was a big upgrade to that.

>>2777122
…and here I am wishing the Ridgid 12V would die so I have an excuse to get the M12 stuff. I refuse to buy a goddamn 18V ratchet.

>>2777466
>>2777487
They still topple easy as hell if you set them anywhere near where you’re working. It’s not exactly ideal for standing up. Even 18V tools aren’t stable on the pack unless it’s like an impact driver on a 4.0+ battery

>>2777462
>probably 1/2”
And you were incorrect because you were assuming anything with an impact socket must 1/2”. Maybe because in your very very limited experience, you have only seen 1/2” impact sockets? And that would be a super limited experience. There is no reason to say it must be 1/2” because small impacts like that are quite likely to be 3/8” drive.

So I pointed out that you were incorrect, and then you claimed you said something else, but your post is written in plain english, and now you get all defensive and trying to insult rather than saying “Oh shit my bad”.

Also Armor All would be a poor choice to clean muh pliers, that shit is slippery. Driving after wiping the steering wheel with Armor All is sketchy. You should get more experience outside of the keyboard warrior universe.

>>2772493
Yes but with automotive, even if it ends up being worse with a couple extra parts, it’s still so much better than the dealer or whatever shop is going to charge. Especially if I have time to get the parts on RockAuto.

>>2777395
I mean old man I did the work for lives in a decent condo overlooking the ocean in South Florida. Don’t have to be poor trash to save $900 on a repair job.

>>2777428
In fact, you were probably wrong. The subcompact impact wrench was released in 3/8” first. If that’s an early promo pic, which it seems, and there’s only one impact wrench in the pic so it’s the beginning lineup of the subcompact tools, so that’s very very likely a 3/8” drive impact wrench in the pic and not a 1/2” socket like your dunning-kruger ridden response said.

>>2777428
But they aren’t “typically” half inch. They are very often other drive sizes. You would be dumb to see an impact socket and assume it’s 1/2” drive. Depending where you are, there’s an equal or better chance it’s a 3/8” drive, 3/4” drive, or 1” drive. That was a stupid thing to post which makes me think you know less and have less experience than I would’ve assumed if you stopped after the first sentence. There is an equal chance that impact in the pic is 3/8” drive and if it is, they would not put a chrome socket on a 3/8” impact wrench in a marketing pic unless they were dumb.