Killed!
Lasted almost 10 months but died today.
I took it back to the BM but they insisted on having it repaired under
warranty.
I've not managed to break any of my Makita tools.
I may have abused the DeWalt (we are builders!) but no more than any
Makita tool has been abused.

Back to Makita methinks!
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mark Roberts

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mark roberts wrote:
I may have abused the DeWalt (we are builders!) but no more than any
Makita tool has been abused.

Back to Makita methinks!

Why did you change to DeWalt, then, if you have been happy with Makita?

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Dave Plowman London SW
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In article ,
mark roberts wrote:
I may have abused the DeWalt (we are builders!) but no more than any
Makita tool has been abused.

Back to Makita methinks!

Why did you change to DeWalt, then, if you have been happy with Makita?

I don't thing there is a make I cannot break or burn out. It just takes
longer with some makes. But a 2kg DeWalt is not a builders tool.

Adam

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
mark roberts wrote:
I may have abused the DeWalt (we are builders!) but no more than any
Makita tool has been abused.

Back to Makita methinks!

Why did you change to DeWalt, then, if you have been happy with Makita?


Needed an sds breaker quick and the BM had one in.
I told them then that I liked Makita and they said the Dewalt was just
as good.


I can do smug tho........

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mark roberts

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
mark roberts wrote:
I may have abused the DeWalt (we are builders!) but no more than any
Makita tool has been abused.

Back to Makita methinks!

Why did you change to DeWalt, then, if you have been happy with Makita?

I don't thing there is a make I cannot break or burn out. It just takes
longer with some makes. But a 2kg DeWalt is not a builders tool.

They've been claiming it for a while now. Axminster list 'em as
'industrial'.
I must say, while it was working it was fine.
The trouble with a site environment is the 'abuse' that tools get.
I'm fully expecting Dewalt to return the thing saying its been abused
instead of being used as the hand book stipulates.
I shall inform them of how all the Makita gear gets similar abuse and
still manages to survive for years (well for ever really). I'll lose a
100 quid and they'll lose a trade customer


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mark Roberts

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In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
mark roberts wrote:
I may have abused the DeWalt (we are builders!) but no more than any
Makita tool has been abused.

Back to Makita methinks!

Why did you change to DeWalt, then, if you have been happy with Makita?


Needed an sds breaker quick and the BM had one in.
I told them then that I liked Makita and they said the Dewalt was just
as good.


When I bought my 566 the BM asked several times to check I wasn't
demolishing walls with it.

In article ,
mark roberts wrote:
Why did you change to DeWalt, then, if you have been happy with Makita?


Needed an sds breaker quick and the BM had one in.
I told them then that I liked Makita and they said the Dewalt was just
as good.


Well, yes, but that could have meant just as good profit margins. Or
better...
Chaps behind the counters can't be expected to know how anything they sell
will last - unless they've had loads of complaints.

I can do smug tho........

How do the prices compare? Not being funny, but I don't use these things
professionally.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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In article ,
mark roberts wrote:
Why did you change to DeWalt, then, if you have been happy with Makita?


Needed an sds breaker quick and the BM had one in.
I told them then that I liked Makita and they said the Dewalt was just
as good.


Well, yes, but that could have meant just as good profit margins.

I expect so.
Or
better...
?
Chaps behind the counters can't be expected to know how anything they sell
will last - unless they've had loads of complaints.

Of course not. But they claimed Dewalt was *as* good as Makita despite
my mentioning other ppl who had told me they weren't as good.
They only had the Dewalt in and I took it on the condition that I'd
bring it back if I killed it. Which we haven't managed to do with
Makitas in the same environment.

I can do smug tho........



How do the prices compare? Not being funny, but I don't use these things
professionally.

My old Makita 8419b that I've had for nearly 20 years, regularly
abused with core bits, plaster mixing and being jammed while drilling
18mm holes in 8mm steel girders on site now costs about a couple of
hundred quid.

Our Makita sds drill/breaker costs about 130 quid.

The Dewalt cost me about the same.

We do have one of them challenge things that argos sold.
The makita and the dewalt have a far superior impact and weigh much much
less.

We did manage to break it in 2 weeks. Is since been bodged up and now
finds use a plaster mixer.

30 quid every 2 weeks or a couple of hundred every decade for a Makita.



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mark Roberts