"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
08/17/2018 at 08:16 • Filed to: None
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
08/17/2018 at 08:16 • Filed to: None | 2
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CalzoneGolem
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2018 at 09:16 |
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This vehicle is giving me the fizz .
shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2018 at 09:21 |
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Oh my!
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> shop-teacher
08/17/2018 at 10:46 |
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I have a ten-year-old DeWalt cordless drill, 18v. I am about ready to treat myself to a new cordless brushless drill/driver with hammer and impact. Do you have any experience with the DeWalt 20v model? I was looking at Milwaukee at home Depot yesterday. My current DeWalt is big and heavy and well balanced and I like the left of it.
In other news, I used the Milwaukee corded drill you recommended to drive about 200 3-inch deck screws. Nice drill, but it needs a counterweight because not balanced.
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shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2018 at 11:41 |
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At home I have a big honkin’ DeWalt 20V cordless hammer-drill. I can’t remember what model offhand, but it’s got a 3-speed transmission. It’s fantastic, and while it’s lighter than your old 18v drill, and it’s well balan ced, it’s not exactly light. I can tell you the model number this afternoon, if you want . At school I have a compact DeWalt DCD777 20-volt drill. It is also a great little drill, still has a 1/2" chuck, but is really light and balanced. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend either of them. If you want big power and the hammering option , get the big beast. If you want something small and light, that still packs a decent punch, get the DCD777.
I have not used the big Milwaukee cordless drills, but they look good to me. I have a set of their 12v compact tools, and they are nicely deigned high quality tools .
I had a Makita brushless hammer drill for a couple years, and I was wildly disappointed in it. The chuck was a plasticy piece of junk, and the thing had no balls. I had replaced my 18V DeWalt with that, and I missed my DeWalt very much. The light weight and longer battery life weren’t nearly enough to make up for the lack of guts that my DeWalt had . I was so happy to sell that thing at a loss, and buy another DeWalt.
And yeah, the only problem with those old pistol grip drills, is they’re wildly unbalanced.
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> shop-teacher
08/17/2018 at 13:32 |
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I like the heft; gives me more control. Lighter weight is really not a selling point for me. Yes, please send me the model number of the beast.
If I ever have need to use the corded Milwaukee again for decking, I will fashion a counterweight for balance.
Thanks for the 4-1-1.
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shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2018 at 15:52 |
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I’ll let you know when I get home.
I personally will never use a drill for decking again. Impact drivers are a real game changer when it comes to driving screws. If you don’t own one, do yourself a favor and buy a combo kit when you pick up your new drill. They’re freaking incredible.
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> shop-teacher
08/17/2018 at 16:05 |
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For me to do decking is unusual. I do a lot with torx head screws and old-timey screw guns do fine there. I had a Milwaukee M18 drill/driver/impact kit in my hand yesterday at Home Despot. THey’re on offer for $199 the kit. But the two batteries are different sizes and it seems like more kit than I truly need right now. The only problem I had with the corded drill — the deck screws were torx — was knowing when to unwind so the screws wouldn’t go deeper than I wanted them to. The old DeWalt drill in low gear gives me
scads
both of torque and control. I’m sure you can relate...
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shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2018 at 16:21 |
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I really like the torx screws for driving into wood. I still recommend the combo kit.
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shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2018 at 18:40 |
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DCD996. It’s a fantastic tool.
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> shop-teacher
08/18/2018 at 00:14 |
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And lots of control? And impact? And hammer? Pricey though...
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> shop-teacher
08/18/2018 at 15:18 |
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I think this is the tool that I want. If I decide I want an impact driver later on, I’ll buy a bare tool that uses the same battery.
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> shop-teacher
08/18/2018 at 15:32 |
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/18/2018 at 15:33 |
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shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/18/2018 at 23:40 |
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Yeah, that's the one. It's a great piece of hardware.
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shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/18/2018 at 23:50 |
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Yeah, it’s not cheap. But it’s good
I got lucky. A friend of a friend works for DeWalt, so I scored a new one for $150. It would've been worth full price though.
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> shop-teacher
08/19/2018 at 00:32 |
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People sell that stuff on Ebay, but they’re gaming it. I haven’t figured it all out yet, but somehow, they’re buying bare drills and batteries and chargers and making up “kits.” I’ll keep looking. I have a friend at church who is a fairly big time contractor and I’ll get him to set me up a demonstration of impact drivers and maybe borrow one and bring it home and play with it.
So, here’s a question: say say I’m doing a small woodworking project like that deep cycle battery caddie I made earlier this summer. Would I be using the impact driver to drive the screws in that “finer” project, or would I be saving
the impact driver for
when I have to drive 200 3-inch deck screws or install a bunch of sub flooring?
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shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/19/2018 at 04:07 |
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I use my impact driver on screws about 95% of the time. The only times I don't, are when it's super easy to over torque the screws and strip out whatever they're being driven into
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> shop-teacher
08/19/2018 at 09:15 |
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Are you saying that you use the impact driver for 95% of the screws that you drive? Even in your “finer” work? A little #8 x 1-1/4 torx-head screw, even? I’m just trying to wrap my head around this, after 20+ years of making my own man. When I started, the only screws available were crappy pot metal zinc-coated wood screws and black sheetrock screws, all Phillips head.
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shop-teacher
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/19/2018 at 11:30 |
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Yeah, usually. I'm just careful with it.