Any reason to keep brushed drill/impact?

[cbus]

I just purchased the milwaukee fuel combo at home depot. Now i m thinking of selling the brushed models that i also own. Is there any reason other than back ups that anyone would keep these around. Does a brushed model have any advantages over the brushless in any scenario/jobs

 

[T45]

The failure modes are different. Brushed motors can tolerate more abuse. The fuel motors need to be nanny-controlled by a computer. You basically have a drill-by-wire feature in the fuel model. The only downside is if the computer wacks out, you may be looking at a damage that is worse. But... you have a 5 year warranty. So the reasons to keep the old suff are (1) it provides physical redundancy; (2) if you are worried about performance in >5 yrs and are willing to keep a low-used brushed model around as insurance. In other words, there's not much reason to keep the others around if things like space are at a premium and you don't need the redundancy / insurance aspects of keeping an inexpensive spare around.

 

[Moose364]

I would keep it at least a year then if you find you never use it sell it, I not sure why all of the sudden if you don't own brushless it's junk, sure brushless it awesome but there not without problems too brushless motors do not like high heat and they are new in tools time will only tell how well they hold up, I still have my grandfather's old metal case drill from Im guessing the 50s plug it in and it run's like new, so brushed motor's last.
But Iam happy everyone is drinking the Kool-Aid because the prices of the brushed Milwaukee is dropping like a rock,