Is MAC cordless tools made by Dewalt

[arz71]

Looking at new cordless impact and drill between Dewalt and Hitachi.

Does Dewalt make the tools for MAC?

 

[scissorman]

Looking at new cordless impact and drill between Dewalt and Hitachi.

Does Dewalt make the tools for MAC?

Yes, but Mac owns Dewalt.

 

[arz71]

Yes, but Mac owns Dewalt.

So would that be better to get Dewalt over Hitachi?

 

[bowtie3]

Stanley owns them both.

 

[kctyphoon]

and the batteries are interchangble between the mac/dewalt tools.

 

[arz71]

Thanks, thinkin the Dewalt may be better to go with with those options.

 

[sk farmer]

Yes, but Mac owns Dewalt.

mac does not own dewalt in any way, shape or form.

 

[Skin]

DeWalt and MAC are owned by Stanley B&D. DeWalt started to make some items for MAC a few years ago however many are exclusive to MAC as opposed to being MAC rebadges of existing DeWalt tools. Except for branding batteries and chargers are identical and interchangeable, which was actually really cool of them to do.

 

[CJM8515]

mac does not own dewalt in any way, shape or form.

Actually they do in a way. They are all owned by stanley tools.

 

[Tiny Jackson]

So are the Dewalt air tools the same as MAC air tools?

 

[arz71]

MAC tools are my favorite so that is a great deal on the batteries!

 

[Skin]

So are the Dewalt air tools the same as MAC air tools?

MAC doesn't make air tools. They're all rebranded or produced under contract. Most of the newer items seem to be Aircat rebrands and many of their newer more exclusive designs are made for them by PTP of Taiwan. There are also some design changes between brands. For example MAC AWP050 (made by PTP exclusively for Stanley) is composite and has a titanium alloy hammer housing. The similar looking DeWalt (also made for Stanley by PTP) is more steel and plastic and has been de-rated to about 50-60% the torque.

 

[xurusaibobx]

the MAC red/black branded dewalt 20v stuff have a oil resistant rubber grips where as the regular dewalt yellow stuff arent oil resistant.


i went throught a bunch of bodies when i had the dewalt impacts as the grip would swell up and fall apart once if it was around oil or grease automotive area. the MAC red/black guns wouldnt fall apart

 

[928'er]

Are...

 

[wagon]

Stanley Black & Decker owns both MAC Tools and DeWalt, along a huge list of other brands.

 

[liam.fenemore]

I'm pretty sure Mac makes their own bare tools, all the impact bodies seem to be bigger than DeWalt's. Also, they're rated higher torque-wise.
I own DeWalt impacts, and would actually be curious to know if those Mac ones really are as powerful as they say.

 

[Monte]

more Dewalt in different colors