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Have ya'll seen this? Dewalt now makes an adapter to use 20V batteries on the 18v tools. I just might have to order this!
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Just picked one up today. Rockler had a deal with a $50 gift card when you buy the kit and turn in an old NiCad battery.

Bought the kit, handed the gift card to my wife, and she paid for an additional sled adapter with it. Guy at Rockler just grins and says "Well played!".

Two batteries, two adapters, and a charge for $150.
 
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I will be adding a table saw to the collection in the near future as well. I also have a dewalt 4.5" angle grinder somewhere haha.

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I sold all my Ryobi toxic green 18V tools (impact, drill, recip saw, circ saw, multi-tool, jobsite radio, 2 lanterns, 3 batteries/charger) to a veteran I know who's starting a light remodeling biz. He's already a Ryobi guy and wanted more stuff.

And I just ordered a brand new DeWalt lithium DCF885 1/4" impact driver. So it will be my gateway drug into the DeWalt world. :) Now I just need some batteries, a charger, recip saw, circ saw, multi-tool, jobsite radio, etc..
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Just stepped into a good deal on a DeWalt brushless kit and am considering doing the same. But Im just a homeowner DIY-er who already has too many tools (in red, sorry!)

As "cheap" as Ryobi stuff is, they have some darn good tools. I love the 19.00 bluetooth radio I picked up a couple months ago.
 
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From 1954!

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I bought a DeWalt DCL510 12V Max light a week ago for $34. I ordered a 12V generic battery off eBay for $14.

It's a cool little light and is built well. You can attach it to a belt, put in a shirt pocket, hang somewhere, stand up on floor, attach it via magnet. And the light also swivels to where you need it, so it's a hands free light. It puts out 130 lumens.

The generic battery seems OK so far. Haven't had to charge it yet after about 10 minutes of use. It came pre-charged. Build quality seems alright on the battery. It was 1/3 the price of a DeWalt battery. I never bought a generic before.
 

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That vintage DeWalt sign is cool. It says "AMF", so they used to be owned by AMF -- the co. that makes bowling alley stuff? Didn't they also own Harley-Davidson for a while?
 
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jd_1138 said:
That vintage DeWalt sign is cool. It says "AMF", so they used to be owned by AMF -- the co. that makes bowling alley stuff? Didn't they also own Harley-Davidson for a while?
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AMF owned a ton of things. American machine and foundry, they owned voit sports equipment, which did scuba equipment among other things. I think AMF had a bicycle company as well.
 
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More yellow toys decided to bite the bullet. Got new privacy fence,Barn roof, And new decking boards to put on my deck. So save me a lot of hammering $179.00 at the HD


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Nice. That'll come in handy.
 
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Finally had a chance to use my framing nailer wht a beast that thing takes no prisoners. 3in. nails buried them in the fencing without a sweat. And that was with my pancake compressor.
 
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$129 at home depot. I already have a 20 volt brushless impact and a 20 volt hammer drill, so I figured for $130 just for batteries and charger is a good deal. This one will go in my toolbox at work.
 
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I've been saving up Canadian tire points for a year and a half waiting to get this as celebration for myself for finishing my apprenticeship. It finally went on sale at Canadian tire this weekend, my local store was useless and tried to pass off a different version of the saw on me, so I had to drive out of town to find it, but ts finally home and assembled.
 
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I had this in my basket at Amazon but decided not to get it since my home repairs trickle at maybe once per year.
 
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rocket1420 said:
Dewalt is as American as Milwaukee is. Oh wait, they put some of them together here? So take yours apart and put it back together... Assembled in the USA! About as American as the stuff HF sells that you have to assemble yourself.
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Milwaukee is not American, DeWalt is. DeWalt is owned by Stanley Back and Decker an American Corporation. Milwaukee is owned by Techronic Industries, a China (actually Hong Kong) based company.
 
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I don't have a pic but I have a number of corded DeWalts (4-5), a number of 18v DeWalts (8-10) and a few 20v DeWalts (5) and a few drill and bit kits.
 
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ALL: just picked up this 718 Dewalt compound miter saw from an 80 year old that has had it sitting in his office in his little condo for the last 5 years. it's a little off square which i've learned how to fix, but wondering if any of you have serviced yours and any tips that you might want to lend would be helpful because i'm going to start a big fencing and deck project soon. thanks

i also bought a Dewalt 12 inch planer a couple years ago that was a couple years old and it looks like new that i'm going to plane a lot of wood. any tips before i start planing a few thousand feet of cedar? i heard you need to do it with the grain a certain way going through the planer, but i forgot which way.

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Just got my DeWalt 20v brushless string trimmer and used it for the first time. Wow! Cuts great and well balanced. Easily did my entire yard and still had 2/4 battery lights left. I got the free extra 20v battery with purchase. I like it so much I just ordered the matching blower from Acme.
 
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rocket1420 said:
Milwaukee headquarters is in Milwaukee. TTI is a publicly owned corporation, as is SB&D. I hardly see how it matters where the holding company is headquartered. I care more where the tools are actually made, not just "built." Most of these companies get their materials in the same place.

So glad Dewalt builds some tools here:
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Sorry posted this in the wrong thread. It was supposed to go into the Milawaukee tools for 2016-2017 sa someone was saying "...more Chinese garbage."
 
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Received my DeWalt 3/8" impact wrench today, DCF883. I love it so far. I got it for smaller stuff where the 1/2" impact is overkill but this removes lug nuts and is pretty powerful for its compact size. It's shorter than my 12v Milwaukee impact driver. I can see myself using this a lot.

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Anyone in here buying the (cough), "compact" Dewalt lighthouse? Lol
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At $400 and lack room to transport it, never. If I needed something like that, I would just build my own. Since I don't work on anything where I need that anymore, if it was in the $100$-$150 I probably would just to have one. I seem to have every other Dewalt led light.
 
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