let's go Brad here and today's exciting episode I
thought I would talk about DeWalt tools because if you've watched my channel for
a while you'll know that we use a lot of makita tools but we do have a few Dewalt
now I've got all my droves and skill saws and grinders and you know a lot of the tools that
I use every single day a Makita but some of my bigger items like the drop so here is the watch
so this is the 10-inch drop sir the dw7 1:7 this is probably like 10 years old and it's been pretty
damn good yeah it's like it does everything you need it to do I guess the question is
why isn't this a Makita job so well I think the makita drop saws traditionally have been a bit
average they've always been quite big they've got these great big round base plates a little
bit cumbersome and the ones that I've used in the past they they weren't as nice to use as the
as the DeWalt ones that's basically the reason I'll go to the water drop so I'm not a Makita I
know this is new Makita drop so let's copy the Festool style with the rails that come forward
and they look pretty sweet and they've also got 18 volt ones so I've been looking at them and
you know I've got the 18 volt Makita batteries so it's tempting but for now I'm sticking with this
and here's something mildly embarrassing by the way today when part of and I were talking about
making this video I realize that I should say first one thing that's annoying me about this
drop saw is the dial at the bottom here so it's got all these locking points like 0 15 degrees
22.5 and so on and they're all good and everything but we've always had a problem where like say you
want like 14 and a half you lock it in if you so much as knock it like that it would go to 15 so
that's that's always been an annoying thing for us and we've always thought wouldn't be better if it
had like a gradual sort of sort of winding system it just went rather than dropping in these slots
well it doesn't have the gradual one but this thing right here look at that it doesn't drop
in any slots at all and then when you when you're happy like say you want that 14 degrees here it is
there you're like wow there's my 14 degrees boom and you can knock it well it moves back and then
you have it right there and then that's it it's not going to drop into that slot because it's
not onslaught mode I guess you could call it and that's how you put it in slot mode burn slot mode
so like I said I literally found that out today anyway on to the next thing the table saw this
is the 10 inch the won't you can see that the DW seven four five all right I'm just gonna come out
and say I love this table saw it's fantastic it can do like up to six hundred mils so you can rip
a sheet of plywood and have very small very light I don't know man it's just been very reliable it's
very compact fits everywhere to get that six hundred mil out there you can put this fence
on right there and it will support your sheet run along there nicely and back right into the
fence so it's compact as it is it can still cut a wide so a sheep now obviously like if you're
really into the table saws maybe you're gonna work show up to or something this will be like a bit of
a jerk it's so small and when you're using big sheets it's like not really ideal but for what
we do day to day coming through a different house every day just about taking it in and out of a van
it's is perfect it comes with these little middle legs to that fold up flat and you just slide that
in somewhere in the van and away you go now my Rees for not getting a Makita table-saw are kind
of similar to my reasons for not getting a Makita job so the very big cumbersome the stands they
come with like these big trolley things I've said it in the past like with tools it's not
about it's not about sticking with a brand and loving a particular brand it's more about what
tool works for me so I was after a small compact table saw and a reliable compact drop saw so I got
the DeWalt polish drops was pretty much the same there's a 12 inch drop saw though but newer the
DW is 780 so it's newer he's got that lock what I call again locking the locking thing that we were
talking about before he's got that as well oh here we go so that's on the slide mode and it's
like it there we go oh yes way tighter yeah the dust extraction works a bit better and has one
my one kind of goes all over the place whereas his ones down here it's more direct with the cut and
it shoots out the back but if you look at my one violins underneath here it's not down there and
it goes at the top so it's a bit of an indirect path for the dust where's this one straight out
so I think his is better with dust control mine's a little I feel like mine you can't even use it
inside properly without dusting everywhere even with the vacuum so that's probably the biggest
downfall of my saw I actually like the 10 inch blade - I know Party's got the bigger blade we
find that sometimes is a bit of a wobble you know under pressure like if the if you're trying to cut
something accurate you can get a bit of movement in that blade because it's quite a distance from
the center to the outside and especially of the blaze a little bit blunt and asked to struggle
at all it'll go to the go to the path of least resistance and there might mean that it will Bend
so those are my only two DeWalt tools until I got this laser a couple of episodes ago this
is my third addition to the DeWalt family so I use that more and I'll do like a review or
something in the future yeah and if you've got some thoughts on like what brand you use
and why you use it or what your philosophy is on tool brands in general then please
comment below you anything they're both regarding why we have to well over Makita
you know we pretty much pick up here we gotta wait for that window to get made
from the last episode they're opening that we made we just finished patching under two
feet there we'll close then now it off so we're gonna get out of here now and
we'll see you in the next episode yeah the Walt stands are pretty sweet I've
noticed at the makita Milwaukee stands are very similar they either copied or