Your unceasing quest to pinch a penny is exactly why stores like HF exist and stores that invest in paying good people well and to be informed to sell good products, are on the decline. Hope you found your coupon.
That’s too bad, I love my M18 fans, I use them to push heat from the wood stove upstairs. However, they definitely need anew, infinitely adjustable dial.
It’s not worth doing, they are different use cases. For serious work, you simply cannot get around the energy density of fossil fuels and that’s not even counting factors like battery degradation due to the cold, battery cost, charge time, etc.
Those ads were completely beyond his control, he had nothing to do with them. It wasn’t long ago that our best “media and reviews” were thinly disguised ad copy posing as “articles“ in magazines (magazines you had to buy) financed by the companies and now we have true independent creators...
Then we both agree that independent testing should show that Ryobi and Milwaukee power tools test identically. I happen to know of an independent tester whom does not accept corporate donations and shows their work.