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Chris Green

Tim Streater wrote:
On 06 Jul 2020 at 18:11:02 BST, newshound
wrote:

On 03/07/2020 21:21, wrote:
On 03/07/2020 09:01, wrote:
I'm tempted to spend some of the kid's inheritance on 18V tools
(they'll probably be less-than impressed to inherit used tools instead
of cash - kids today! ;-) ) and would like some advice from those who
use Mak, Ryobi, DeWalt, etcetera.
I've only just started looking and had expected that Ryobi would be
significantly cheaper, but the price difference is not so great. I've
had a Ryobi scroll saw and a chop saw for many years and both are best
described as "adequate", but the chop saw has recently died and the
Bosch replacement is hugely better (and hugely more expensive).

What do people think of their main brand (18V) tools?
Has anyone here tried the battery adapters for Ryobi-Mak-DeW?

Thanks everyone. Makita seems to be favourite and TBH that's the way I
was leaning at the start, but Milwaukee is tempting as well. A bit more
research needed.

Milwaukee is American, that is enough to put me off these days.
Apparently Makita have factories in the UK, Germany, etc.

And if anything's Chinese that should be putting us all off. Trouble is, too
much stuff is, these days.

I suspect that Makita, Milwaukee and others that are nominally UK or
US or EU made all have underlying Chinese manufacture. Where do the
components come from?

What you (may) get with a good 'brand' is better testing and quality
control.

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Chris Green
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