19December 2021
welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm
gonna talk about a new kit that I just bought from Dewalt it came with the quarter inch impact
driver the drill and the flashlight now it came with two batteries and when you do get these
smaller batteries believe this is one and a half amp or two amps Allah there's no gauge on
the back that shows you how much is left in it but that's fine with me I really don't mind that
at all and of course came with this just a second when I got now it came with this flashlight
and you could see on the back here that's a battery that I already have from another unit
but today I'd like to talk about there's a lot of controversy people are talking about different
power tools and which brand you should get I only have Milwaukee and the Walt but I'll tell you
something today the way the technology is moving around I don't think there's a bad power tool
out there and for most people what I would do is just stick with one brand I'm not saying
back to Walt or by Milwaukee but so far I've had terrific success with them now I know other
manufacturers have like lifetime guarantees and that's how they actually sell their product
is on the warranty and from what I've heard the warranty is good and so are the power tools
but some power tools you just cannot get from a different manufacturer take for instance the m12
ratchet this is an older model and of course I just made my own base to it here this is just
a regular battery it isn't the extended 2 amp hour or anything this is just so it'll stand
upright if you want to put a clip down below a little bit of a bid on how to actually make this
didn't cost me nothing and it stands up and this right here guys there's other manufacturers like
the Walt that actually makes something similar to this it's all on price point this is a terrific
price point and here's their extended run battery with the platform on the bottom and this is a
terrific tool a lot of other manufacturers have different variations of the tools but I would say
Milwaukee and Dalt have pretty well cornered the market in the power tool division and I think you
can't go wrong with either one of them now when I bought this three piece kit here it came with
this charger and if take a look there at what is it a 107 okay these are the two batteries
I put them on the charger one on that one and one on this one that came with my Dewalt impact
driver the half-inch impact and this is the 115 and if you take a look on the back you can seen
the specs this one here charges up as twice as fast as this one here that I got in the kit but
for me it doesn't matter I'm going to take one of these and leave it up north so what I have
is I have the old variation of all the DeWalt tools in 18 volt and to make them compatible I
bought the adapter so this snaps in the bottom and you can put your 20 volt batteries in this
one here so I've got the circular saw I've got the half-inch impact driver and I have what's
the third one there well I've got a third one I'm not too sure but I do have another one and
so that way there I can use the 20 volt and the 18 volt batteries they didn't do too good for
me in Dewalt the 20 volts are terrific or the higher voltages up are terrific as well except you
get into such a costly investment into batteries once you go above the 20 volt so this kit right
here with these three including two batteries in the charger was a hundred and ninety dollars
for me up here and I thought that was a great deal because if I tried to buy this individually
two batteries these two and the flashlight would be well over $300 for me to buy individually so
sometimes the kits are the best to buy and as you can see I've got the the angle grinder and I've
got the reciprocating saw and I've been using them and they're just terrific I wouldn't really
buy anything today except for Milwaukee that was under 20 volt like I really like the the m12 I
have their jacket as well so I use them batteries in my jacket my heated jacket but besides that
they're just terrific so I've seen lots of videos you know when you're looking at buying power tools
there's all kinds of different reviews on YouTube about different power tools and a lot of them
the tools are given to the YouTube channel to do a sponsorship promotion kind of thing where
they give their review and most people actually still do give an honest review and but for me I'm
buying all these myself and using them and in the future if I have a problem with one of these tools
well I'm going to let you know about it but to do a review on different power tools you have to have
an immense budget and have or have manufacturers send you the power tools you try them out yourself
and that's pretty well all you can do but for me if I were going to recommend anybody to buy
any power tools I would say just look at what you're doing for a living if you're not using
them commercially I got to tell you the truth commercially though I wouldn't buy any of these
things not one I know what I would buy and it would cost four times the price and they're worth
four times more because one of these tools break down on you if you have a business and you know
time is money and it isn't worth buying homeowner stuff if you're not a homeowner but for me I don't
use these tools consistently every day day after day after day and I would like to know if any of
you are in the construction business or you know have some type of use for these tools on a daily
basis whether you buy the home owner tools are you move up to the more expensive brands there's
a lot better stuff out there than what I'm showing you right here and that's the truth but for the
average homeowner like me who's going to use some of these tools maybe over the winter never like a
lot of these I wouldn't use over the whole winter usually just in the summer and that's pretty
well it so how much money do you want to spend and invest in power tools when in reality most of
us are just homeowners using them little projects here and there and I read a statistic from a power
tool manufacturer that said the average homeowner uses some of them tools 12 minutes a year I'm
thinking you know that sounds like a little bit short for me but in reality I do have some
specialized tools that I'm lucky if I use once a year so it all comes down to how much you can
afford and how much you're going to use them and you know I thought I'd make this little video just
to explain to people you don't have to buy the most expensive tool to get the best bargain and a
lot of times like when I shopped at Lowe's I mean the other tools here they didn't come from Lowe's
I got some from Mississauga Hardware in Toronto I got some from Amazon I buy them wherever I can
get the best deal and to tell you the truth I wouldn't pay four times the price for any of these
power tools for the professional-grade because I'm not a professional and I wonder how many of you
are so thanks for joining me here today I hope you like just a little bit of a chat on power
tools and these guys come back again Cheers