Recent content by noctone

I'm a field engineer for an electrical testing and maintenance company, so quite often. Flathead tweaker is probably my most indispensable tool, actually, use it all the time to change trip settings on breakers.

Kind of rich to blame American consumers for buying cheap when you consider how much the cost of living (especially health care and education) in America has risen over the last few decades, while wages for the middle class have had virtually zero growth. If anyone is to blame it's the greedy...

Channellock proponents will be happy: Didn't really need the linemen's pliers but I'm waiting on a pair of NWS combination pliers and it'll be nice to have these in the mean time (plus the NWS I ordered are smaller, so these'll be nice for rare heavy duty applications). And an 80% impulse/20%...

May give them another look then, the sticky positioning was my biggest turnoff. Not particularly concerned about COO inasmuch as it relates to economics, but I do avoid Chinese stuff generally due to quality issues. One other thing I would prefer about NWS and Knipex is the hex forms inside the...

ehhhhhhhhh Was at HD tonite picking up a few random things and checked out the Channellocks. Really didn't care for them, would much rather use something with a push button locking mechanism. Switching between the grooves on the Channellocks seemed really finicky and more annoying than it...

Picked them up off of Amazon. They're extremely useful. SAE and metric. Haha yeah I know what you mean. It gets the job done but I've been disappointed in the adjusting mechanism. For what I use it for I might just ditch it altogether and buy some Channellock, Knipex or NWS tongue and groove...

Came in yesterday: Since I'm new here may as well post pics of all the various tools I've bought over the last couple months (transitioned from electrical design engineering to electrical testing and maintenance, so I've had to buy A LOT of tools). Many of these are thanks to lurking GJ for a...

Sounds dubious to me but whatever. Bottom line point I'm making is that $169 is a pretty effin reasonable initial price (relative to the market) for a compact 12V, brushless motor driver with 2Ah batteries that outputs almost as much torque as most brush motor 18V drivers. I mean really, what...

Do you mean the M18 FUEL impact wrench? Because the impact driver has been available in stores for a while now.

Not really fair to compare the price of a brand new product (that's not even shipping yet) to a previous gen product that you got on sale.

Where are you seeing 18V brushless impact driver kits for $169 or less? Pretty sure they don't exist. Makita, Hitachi and DeWalt are all $250 or more.

It'll drop below $150 eventually, probably not for at least a few months unless you can get lucky with a store doing a sale for whatever reason. I don't really see how you can call it "quite expensive," considering what it is.

I agree that the brushed line is very solid and the brushless line isn't necessarily world changing, but there are some pretty significant advantages to the FUEL line. To wit: more power. For example, the M12 FUEL 3/8" impact wrench is a whopping 40% more powerful than its standard M12...