welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm gonna talk about a new kit that I just bought
from Dewalt it came with the quarter inch impact driver the drill and the flashlight now it came
with two batteries and when you do get these smaller batteries believe this is one and a
half amp or two amps Allah there's no gauge on the back that shows you how much is left in it
but that's fine with me I really don't mind that at all and of course came with this just a second
when I got now it came with this flashlight and you could see on the back here that's a
battery that I already have from another unit but today I'd like to talk about there's a lot
of controversy people are talking about different power tools and which brand you should get I only
have Milwaukee and the Walt but I'll tell you something today the way the technology is moving
around I don't think there's a bad power tool out there and for most people what I would do
is just stick with one brand I'm not saying back to Walt or by Milwaukee but so far I've
had terrific success with them now I know other manufacturers have like lifetime guarantees and
that's how they actually sell their product is on the warranty and from what I've heard
the warranty is good and so are the power tools but some power tools you just cannot get from a
different manufacturer take for instance the m12 ratchet this is an older model and of course I
just made my own base to it here this is just a regular battery it isn't the extended 2 amp
hour or anything this is just so it'll stand upright if you want to put a clip down below a
little bit of a bid on how to actually make this didn't cost me nothing and it stands up and this
right here guys there's other manufacturers like the Walt that actually makes something similar to
this it's all on price point this is a terrific price point and here's their extended run battery
with the platform on the bottom and this is a terrific tool a lot of other manufacturers have
different variations of the tools but I would say Milwaukee and Dalt have pretty well cornered the
market in the power tool division and I think you can't go wrong with either one of them now when I
bought this three piece kit here it came with this charger and if take a look there at what
is it a 107 okay these are the two batteries I put them on the charger one on that one and
one on this one that came with my Dewalt impact driver the half-inch impact and this is the 115
and if you take a look on the back you can seen the specs this one here charges up as twice as
fast as this one here that I got in the kit but for me it doesn't matter I'm going to take one
of these and leave it up north so what I have is I have the old variation of all the DeWalt
tools in 18 volt and to make them compatible I bought the adapter so this snaps in the bottom
and you can put your 20 volt batteries in this one here so I've got the circular saw I've got
the half-inch impact driver and I have what's the third one there well I've got a third one
I'm not too sure but I do have another one and so that way there I can use the 20 volt and the
18 volt batteries they didn't do too good for me in Dewalt the 20 volts are terrific or the
higher voltages up are terrific as well except you get into such a costly investment into batteries
once you go above the 20 volt so this kit right here with these three including two batteries
in the charger was a hundred and ninety dollars for me up here and I thought that was a great
deal because if I tried to buy this individually two batteries these two and the flashlight would
be well over $300 for me to buy individually so sometimes the kits are the best to buy and as you
can see I've got the the angle grinder and I've got the reciprocating saw and I've been using
them and they're just terrific I wouldn't really buy anything today except for Milwaukee that was
under 20 volt like I really like the the m12 I have their jacket as well so I use them batteries
in my jacket my heated jacket but besides that they're just terrific so I've seen lots of videos
you know when you're looking at buying power tools there's all kinds of different reviews on YouTube
about different power tools and a lot of them the tools are given to the YouTube channel to
do a sponsorship promotion kind of thing where they give their review and most people actually
still do give an honest review and but for me I'm buying all these myself and using them and in the
future if I have a problem with one of these tools well I'm going to let you know about it but to do
a review on different power tools you have to have an immense budget and have or have manufacturers
send you the power tools you try them out yourself and that's pretty well all you can do but for me
if I were going to recommend anybody to buy any power tools I would say just look at what
you're doing for a living if you're not using them commercially I got to tell you the truth
commercially though I wouldn't buy any of these things not one I know what I would buy and it
would cost four times the price and they're worth four times more because one of these tools break
down on you if you have a business and you know time is money and it isn't worth buying homeowner
stuff if you're not a homeowner but for me I don't use these tools consistently every day day after
day after day and I would like to know if any of you are in the construction business or you know
have some type of use for these tools on a daily basis whether you buy the home owner tools are
you move up to the more expensive brands there's a lot better stuff out there than what I'm showing
you right here and that's the truth but for the average homeowner like me who's going to use some
of these tools maybe over the winter never like a lot of these I wouldn't use over the whole winter
usually just in the summer and that's pretty well it so how much money do you want to spend
and invest in power tools when in reality most of us are just homeowners using them little projects
here and there and I read a statistic from a power tool manufacturer that said the average homeowner
uses some of them tools 12 minutes a year I'm thinking you know that sounds like a little
bit short for me but in reality I do have some specialized tools that I'm lucky if I use once
a year so it all comes down to how much you can afford and how much you're going to use them and
you know I thought I'd make this little video just to explain to people you don't have to buy the
most expensive tool to get the best bargain and a lot of times like when I shopped at Lowe's I mean
the other tools here they didn't come from Lowe's I got some from Mississauga Hardware in Toronto I
got some from Amazon I buy them wherever I can get the best deal and to tell you the truth I
wouldn't pay four times the price for any of these power tools for the professional-grade because I'm
not a professional and I wonder how many of you are so thanks for joining me here today I hope
you like just a little bit of a chat on power tools and these guys come back again Cheers