Everybody has their own favourite brand of power tools for me I don't have a
particular favourite brand but I tend to stick to Dewalt because I have
the Dewalt batteries already and I've never really had a problem with any of their gear so far.
I did actually switch to Milwaukee a few years ago because they
did actually have some powerful impact wrenches which at the time were market
leaders. I actually took one of these to work and
I've been using it for a couple of years. The impact wrench still works but
it vibrates that much that it's actually broken two of the batteries.
They've actually vibrated themselves to pieces. I also bought this 18 volt drill
which is the C18DD and this basically lasted a couple of weeks before it burnt
out. So I was drilling a 10 millimeter hole in some mild steel at work using
this drill and I did drill a pilot hole first and it started to smoke very badly.
So that didn't really impress me because we have had much better quality drills
such as Dewalt where for example I've never had a problem. To be honest I
was a bit disappointed with it but I have to say that the service from
Milwaukee is absolutely excellent if you do get in touch with them and you have
registered your machine they do normally send a courier to collect it, it's
usually fixed within a few days and sent back to you. So you can't really fault
their service but the actual machines do leave quite a bit to be desired in
the quality department on certain models.Then I bought the M12 IR which
is a ratchet and I actually got this for a specific job during the plant
shutdown because I thought it would be very handy but unfortunately when I
was using it it actually stopped working very quickly. I only actually managed to
undo a couple of bolts and I passed it to my colleague who was working on the
opposite side of the machine and when I gave it to him it actually stopped
working like it actually has done again now. This has actually been repaired and
again it has actually stopped working. There is actually charge in
this battery which I will prove to you in a second so you can see that the
batteries connected, I'm squeezing the trigger and nothing is happening.
So I'm going to take this battery off, put that on another drill, you can
see that it's working and we have two bars of charge on that. So despite this
being sent away a couple of years ago it is again not working so I have to say
that I'm not really happy with Milwaukee tools. I've just removed the battery
and now it is working again. I then have these two lithium ion batteries which
are 3amp power. If you had to buy these you're probably looking at between £60
and £100 each and you can see that I've actually glued that one back in the
past and that was tapped up and then when I was using it the other day it
actually vibrated that much that it broke itself to pieces like so. This one
is even worse I did actually lend this to somebody with the impact wrench and
when it came back and I saw the battery was cracked I thought they had actually dropped it, but
they hadn't. It's just a fact that these machines when they are used on the
impact wrench actually shake themselves to pieces and the vibration is that bad
that it actually breaks off the plastic where the screws go. So for me I have to
say that I'm not that impressed with the Milwaukee gear I have had a few problems
with reliability especially with the drill which burnt out after just a
couple of weeks and I must admit it wasn't being abused when it started
to burn. Then the problem of the batteries vibrating themselves too bits
on the impact wrench that isn't good and also the ratchet that I bought for a
specific job which coincidentally again has stopped working and you could see
that all's I did was place that down on there, I've picked it back up again the
battery has got charge in it and that is not working again.
So for me I'm not that impressed with Milwaukee tools and I will definitely be
looking at getting rid of these and buying something that is more reliable.
I do have to say that the service is very good and if you do have a machine that
goes faulty under warranty they are very good
at fixing it but they shouldn't really need fixing in the first place after
such a short period of time. Then of course we've got that one which has been
fixed and has gone faulty again. So you may have had different experiences with
Milwaukee you may think that they're absolutely brilliant and you may not
have had any reliability issues whatsoever but for me I'm definitely going to steer
clear of them in future and I will be looking at definitely changing to
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