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A new place for my rear end. The one of the left has been through a lot - I replaced the casters not too long ago after one of them snapped. But in between that I got the one on the right and have only sorta-liked it: It's a little large, not very comfortable (IMHO), has no grab-handle and...

The number of tools stolen is undoubtably a tiny percentage of their sales (retailers would be even more aggressive to control the impact of 'shrinkage' from theft/shoplifting if it was enough to show up on Milwaukee's financials) and a likely a rounding error to the cost of their warranty...

That wasn't my experience with them when I had to warranty a drill - bought from Home Depot and they demanded (and got) a copy of the receipt. What was stupid was the 5 year warranty applied since the tool had only been announced for two years. Later I had a battery die and they again wanted a...

I try not to give companies like Milwaukee more power over where I buy their products than I have to or ways to duck their own warranty. I see no reason why Milwaukee should fail to fulfill their warranty. And I do not believe the reseller registers with Milwaukee - otherwise their support...

Not to be snitty, but it's an Impact Wrench (not driver) It's a pretty great one - lots of power and fits in a lot of places. Assuming it's a US model/SN, if you need to use the warranty (unlikely), just say it was a gift. They'll use the date of manufacture to calculate the warranty.

I don't need it as I don't have a shop for a living, but I saw a good deal on this runout gauge and decided I liked having the information:

I wouldn't know - we're a fleet of older cars at my house that we generally keep for a long time, which I mainly maintain myself (hence all the tools and ultimately my presence here). I drive two old BMW's from the mid-80's, one of which has over 100K miles and one that is pushing 300K on the...

I'm really not trying to pick apart everything you say (and I'm guessing you might have me on Ignore anyway), but: They don't have to be dumb to make a serious financial mistake. You keep insisting it's not and saying there's documented examples of that - I'd like to see them. They can get...

I think there are tiers: Professional - max quality and high price. SO is the best example of this, and the largest Prosumer - Very high quality at moderate prices. Icon is probably the best example of this IMHO, and more-than nudges the Professional level in a lot of cases, but I'll leave...

I don't want to devote room to 3/8", and 3/8" doesn't generally go up to big sizes for hub nuts/etc. My impacts are both 1/2" - M18 Mid Gen2 and M12 Stubby Gen2. I can save a ton more weight and size/clearance with the Stubby than I could ever achieve with 3/8" sockets over 1/2". If they...

I apologize if my sarcasm meter is borked, but I legit can't tell if this is a joke or not. There is no universe where buying an Epiq and counting on its appreciation as an investment makes any sense at all - firstly because you're still having to buy something to replace it and work out of at...

Was my thought also - I got that as part of the kit I bought many years ago, and have been surprised how much I've used it.

The sockets I have seem beefy and well-made overall. Tolerances seem good too. The set of SK X-frame metric ratcheting combination wrenches I bought had chrome issues all over the place out of the box. They replaced the whole set, and the news ones looked good... ...but not as good as my...

They have a MiC set that's very different-looking than the MiUSA stuff. I have 3/8" and 1/4" MiUSA sets, and grabbed the MiC set on a sale and promptly lost track of it in some life-chaos and then a move/reno/etc. Seemed decently made and came on a nice rail. EDIT - Found some pix I took...

There's a sweet spot for sure - 72-90 teeth seems to be it for me. At some point I think too many teeth create backdrag issues (IMHO). The Dual-80 mechanism (which I understand Snap On didn't invent but acquired when they bought Bahco) was a great balance. Personally I hate the feel of the GW...

I don't think you understand that system nearly as well as you think. There are lots of derivative patents. Knipex was standing on top of any number of them for their pliers wrench, but their implementation was unique enough that it was still able to be a patent of its own, despite many...

I was in the NAPA closest to my house a couple weeks ago, and was really surprised how "retail" the inside was vs. the last time I'd been there. Guess they have to pay for all that somehow...

I'm 100% fine with all of that. Everyone should buy and use what they like, and I respect that. Even if someone said "I love the Sunex ratchets" (which are objectively-bad self-reversing backdrag nightmare garbage IMHO, but they have a very comfy handle), I'd disagree but be fine with what...

That's a shame about Carlyle - did they lower their prices? They were at a pretty premium price point, even compared to Icon. I doubt Icon will go MiC or to a lower standard. They seem to have pretty solid momentum, and shadowing Carlyle would be a bad move IMHO. I guess we'll see...