Milwaukee Tools

Are you serious? I don’t even need it at all but I might buy…

 

Just came in to post this

bought 2, and $50 off with pro perks hell yeah

 

Installation driver for the win again. Finished up our pulls. I’m sure if I’ve mentioned it before, I freaking love that tool.

 

As I move away from hand ratcheting and more towards power ratchet and impact use for 75% of what I do I’m leaning towards getting rid of my craftsman socket sets and opting for impact sets. I really hate to get rid of socket sets I saved and mowed lawns for as a kid but it seems like this is the way my life is going, lean towards convenience and speed and no room for extra stuff.

Has anyone else gone through this?

 

Why even get rid of the socket sets?

Not all power tools are impacts thus not all power tools require impact sockets.

I still have plenty of my Made in USA Craftsman tools.

 

Impact sockets are a lot thicker than regular sockets. I would definitely keep the regular sockets.

 

i think there's a place for both. i don't feel confident in suggesting the entire use of a socket can fit entirely into only either category. though i also mostly use my standard sockets as impact sockets most times...

 

Definitely don’t want to be torquing with an impact driver.

 

No

 

after having some additional time to reflect on this, i realized what your really offering.

i'll graciously take all your spare tools and sockets. as part of my tool pasture re-homing program(501lolc4 organization), they'll gain access to a vast 2 car garage, where they can run free for the rest of their lives, with ample countertop space to bathe in the warm glow of the led lights, and various nooks and crannies to hide away into when they don't want to be bothered anymore.

 

Honestly I bought thin wall impact sockets when I was young and that handled all my large needs. I mostly grab a 1/4” set if I grab anything to be used as a hand tool. 3/8” is a hold out of not enough use vs too much space taken up. My half inch stuff goes down to 3/8” hex or 10mm so why not just change over to all of my 3/8” drive to impact socket? I would consider 3/8” intermediate sockets over standard or deep well. I just could use the drawer space over the wallet space.

 

Sounds like you just need another toolbox Or better organization to utilize what you do already have. Thats not a shot at you - I'm sure your stuff is way more organized than mine.. but there's tons of socket organizers out there to get them out of the space they're in and more organized somewhere else, to make room for your new impact sets. Nothing wrong with having both. Especially since they're sentimental. Keep them.

 

Anyone here uses a recip saw as a substitute for light chainsaw work? Ive always been partial to Diablo blades regardless of type and have happily used Diablo demo demon carbide tooth pruning blade but I noticed that Milwaukee now has a similar AX carbide tooth pruning blade. Is the Diablo or Milwaukee drastically better then the other? Price is almost the same and the Milwaukee looks like a rebranded Diablo.

 

If you have a 4-1/2” grinder you can use a metal cutoff wheel to sharpen bimetal sawzall blades. I also use mine to touch up hole saw teeth. Only works with wood or nail embedded wood blades where the tpi is low enough.

 

i believe they are rebrands. that said, i always found the diablo's to last slightly longer in harsh conditions than the milwaukee iterations.

for a while i was doing demo on plaster backed with metal mesh and/or wood lathe. it ate everything outside of diamond-coated grinder -discs, and that was typically far to messy for most jobs--to aerosolize that much plaster dust... the milwaukee wood-type-nail-embedded carbide blades lasted ok, i could get 1/2-2/3's of a day out of them-they typically ejected the carbide edge somewhere, and then would almost immediately dull. the diablo's normally lasted at least a day, with the carbide typically staying in place and dulling over the course of use to the point that the metal around it would wear down and the carbide part would eventually fall off, but would be so dull at that point, it rarely mattered.

towards the end of my time doing it, i migrated to using the carbide-tipped pruning blades for drywall demo. if they found a nail, they never made it out unscathed, but the 9tpi design allowed for the fastest movement through large areas, something a normal drywall saw, or wood sawzall blade won't allow for as much. i could mark, cut, and pull the bottom half of an entire room in less than an hour

i haven't compared them in some time again, but when milwaukee first debuted the carbide versions, i deep-dove into comparing them in the store. irrc, the milwaukee's are thicker metal, which can mean more scrap/dust/debris, but also a slower cut because it's got to remove more material to complete the cut. overall, i just always ended up back at the diablo blades, no matter how many times i tried other versions. they were just more consistent, and seemed to last longer in the worst conditions, regardless of price.

 

Get the Hatchet if you just need something for heavy duty pruning, you won't be disappointed.

 

I use my Milwaukee recip and the Diablo Pruning blades to prune Mesquite bushes in the spring instead of a chain saw. The mesquite will dull a chain but the Diablo blades cut right through the Mesquite without issue. The other thing I like I can use the recip one handed to reach into the Mesquite and not get torn up by the thorns where the chainsaw you need to use both hands.

 

$223 after the “hack”
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