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dewalt or makita not the best but for the money you wont go wrong
ive now got a brusless drill and normal drill and saw angle grinder dewalt
angle grinder 2 impact drills makita
most otherstuff some better but way more money
ive now got a brusless drill and normal drill and saw angle grinder dewalt
angle grinder 2 impact drills makita
most otherstuff some better but way more money
Loads of good comparisons on youtube of all the different brands versus each other. Dewalt usually comes out top. They have the best hammer action and the best chuck.
Lots of problems with milwaukee chuck.
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This is the drill I bought. It was that good I ended up getting another.
You can usually get it for £150. Either with 1 5ah or 2 ah. The second drill i bought it naked with separate charger and battery and it ended up cheaper.
Lots of problems with milwaukee chuck.
DeWalt DCD796P1 Brushless Combi Drill - PowerToolMate
You can usually get it for £150. Either with 1 5ah or 2 ah. The second drill i bought it naked with separate charger and battery and it ended up cheaper.
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These days they are all pretty good, buy whichever platform you are on - if you aren't on a platform look at the other tools they do and see which platform offers the ones that you might find most useful in the future. Also look at the cost of batteries.
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Buy the ones you like
I looked and studied and compared all the pro brands, settled on Makita
For me, these were the reasons
Dewalt, good but not the same quality as the tools I had years ago
Milwaukee, expensive but felt heavy and cheaply built plus quite a few stories of early failure
Metabo, first choice but out of my price range for everything I wanted
I got sds, combi drill, impact driver, multi tool, jigsaw, recip saw, circular saw, torch grinder, 3 5ah batteries and twin charger. All 18v and brushless. About £2k plus vat.
I looked and studied and compared all the pro brands, settled on Makita
For me, these were the reasons
Dewalt, good but not the same quality as the tools I had years ago
Milwaukee, expensive but felt heavy and cheaply built plus quite a few stories of early failure
Metabo, first choice but out of my price range for everything I wanted
I got sds, combi drill, impact driver, multi tool, jigsaw, recip saw, circular saw, torch grinder, 3 5ah batteries and twin charger. All 18v and brushless. About £2k plus vat.
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Milwaukee and hikoki would be ahead of makita and dewalt
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Just interested in this comment, I ruled out hikoki as they don't do everything I need but having held and used the milwaukee they are not ahead of anything.
The sds was very heavy for its capacity so not ideal for using up a ladder and the combi drill was the opposite, really cheaply made
For reference, when I bought the gear I was working as a heating engineer so they were daily abused, not weekend diy stuff
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dont think you will go wrong for the price dewalt and makita may not be the top of there class as hilti etc but bang for buck they are the best
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How long ago was that though?
Cordless technology has been moving at a lightning pace over the last couple of years.
Milwaukee seem to be on a mission to make an M18 version of everything, 190 odd tools and rising. Some really niche stuff too.
Most of their tools seem to come out somewhere near the front on the various tests (somewhat dubious how independent some of those are so taken with some salt).
So you are getting a platform with a massive variety of fairly solid offering, which is really their selling point.
Since their takeover and rebrand Hikoki appear to have set their sights on catching up with Makita and have release a ton of new brushless tools in the last 18 months.
Their 18/36v multivolt platform is ingenious and backward compatible with the older Hitachi stuff. They also have some weird stuff too like rebar benders, a 9" grinder and are releasing the first 1/2" cordless router in a few weeks.
Makita and Dewalt of course are long established and not standing still either, so there appears to be a lot of competition at the moment which is really pushing things forward.
I'm on the Hitachi/Hikoki platform and been extremely pleased with them so far.
I've got 18 and 36v tools and like the fact i can just grab a battery that will fit either. 36v stuff is a beast - lot of the tools are on par or sometimes even slightly ahead of the other brands.
Some of thier stuff is mediocre, especially the older stuff that isn't yet brushless, and the DIY end of the market - but then you are really buying into the battery system, as each manufacturer has tools that excel in certain areas and its just not practical or cost effective to have half a dozen different battery systems, so you have to to compromise at some point.
I've used the M18 drills at work, and they were fine, compact, powerful nothing to complain about. Haven't used much else from their lineup.
Dewalt stuff I’ve used has been older, non flexvolt, and I didn’t like the impact driver (but to be fair it might have been shagged).
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Last year or maybe one before
Decided to upgrade my kit, held and tried all the brands when trade vans came around and stuff. Distinctly unimpressed with Milwaukee and surprised to prefer the Makita. Honestly thought id have gone back to Dewalt
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I like my Bosch blue gear too. Only got their gear in 12V though. My 18V gear is all Makita, & for how often I use the 18V stuff nowadays, it'd be a case of just replacing things for the sake of it, so the 18V gear is still Makita.
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I think you also need to take into account if youre buying for a home hobby use or day to day tools .
last year I swapped from makita to hitachi/ hikoki after having a load of makita hoisted. Sold of what I had left and bought new but I couldn't fault what I had it took a real battering without much complaint.
I really like the h/h stuff the 18/36 volt is really good it seems a bit of struggle getting any of the accessories though as the bare tools come with nowt .A bit dissapointing for so called trade tools.
last year I swapped from makita to hitachi/ hikoki after having a load of makita hoisted. Sold of what I had left and bought new but I couldn't fault what I had it took a real battering without much complaint.
I really like the h/h stuff the 18/36 volt is really good it seems a bit of struggle getting any of the accessories though as the bare tools come with nowt .A bit dissapointing for so called trade tools.
Once upon a time I could get it at trade but the supplier has changed hands...thye best buy was that tip off on here when Wolsley (Plumb Centre) were selling off the Li Ion hammer drill with 2 batteries for 60 quid.....got one and its actually better than a 24v one i bought years ago thats very heavy
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i got the dewalt brushless with 2 batteries from screwfix for 150 quid a few years ago and it gets hammered 6 days a week id deffo buy another if it packed in. i was augering a 25mm hole with it and caught a nail and it nearly broke my wrist 
