"Alex" wrote in message
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"Grunff" wrote in message
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:

What are people'e opinions of De Walt tools? My right angle drill
packed up 1 day inside the 1 year warrenty period, thank god. I took
it to the service agents who suggested that DeWalt were rubbish and I
would have been better off buying something else.
For a drill to seriously overheat within a year of purchase seems to
suggest something amiss, especially as this was a right angle drill
and hardly got much use anyway.


Overheating a drill doesn't usually have much to do with age of it.
You could do that 5 minutes after you bought it, or never, depending
how you use it.


I did! I burnt my DW566 out. Entirely my fault.

Superb tool, and great spares availability/pricing. Will be buying many
more DeWalts.

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Grunff

Whilst I am a Makita man myself, I can't fault DeWalt products. Sure there
have been the occasional 'surprises' (my DeWalt heat gun is the same as
B&D's) - but if they were as crap as your service agent suggests why would
people go back to them again and again?

Tell you what though, I used a Milwaukee (sp?) the other day - looked
crap,
but felt very solid in use, I was impressed.


Don't let the looks fool you - they're industrial to the core.

Quick company recap (from memory)....

Atlas Copco are a very large industrial tool group - they do huge
compressors, mining tools, big pneumatic stuff, etc.

They're a group, and have a number of brands and operating companies, the
ones of interest to us are Milwaukee (predominantly USA), Atlas Copco & AEG
Electric Tools.

They used to be mostly sold as Atlas Copco tools in the UK, D&M sell them
but don't now have the AC branded tools on their website
(www.dm-tools.co.uk), Milwaukee are there, though. The identical tools were
sold as Milwaukee in the States, but it seems that in the last two years
they have launched the brand over here & they're to be seen cropping up on
the various DIY tv makeover programs now. AEG is their "trade" brand, ie
lighter duty than AC and Milwaukee.

I speak to the folks at dm relatively frequently (whenever I pop into the
shop) & a conversation I had with them ages ago revealed that they liked the
tools because they had very few problems with returns on their mail-order
sales with them, & the tools seemed to be v. reliable.

I've got two of the tools & they're the kipper's tits (as I read somewhere
recently...) - a small 9.6v drill/driver (that came with a 13mm chuck &
actually has the torque to cope with it) and a 240v jigsaw - BSPE100XL or
something like that. I love 'em both. No nonsense, beautifully built,
accurate.

I really wish I'd bought the AC circular saw instead of the slightly-cheaper
DW that I bought. Had to repair thatjust out of warranty - fan assembly
came adrift from the armature & would have been a £70 fix. JBWeld sorted it
out though. (but the baseplate & saw accuracy is still pants).

As you can tell, I like them!

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Richard Sampson

email me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk