What’s your favorite flavor of cordless tools?

[KansasArt]

Have always used the yellow brand of cordless tools. Once you get tied into a platform you’re kinda stuck with it. Have no regrets, they have never let me down.

 

[DILLIGAF]

I hear ya! Once you have tons of batteries for whatever brand you are stuck with them.

Ive broken every brand of tool in 25y of construction work. Same goes for batteries. They all suck after a while.

 

[nlambert182]

That makes my hands numb just reading that!

Haha it's not too bad. 3 days before Thanksgiving my wife asked if I thought I could build, paint, and install the shaker cabinet doors in our kitchen prior to the family coming. 32 doors and drawer faces built in 18 (straight) hours from rough cut poplar. Real assembly, not pocket holed.

I spent the next 15 hr day sanding everything smooth. Those little makitas worked wonders. Tossed on my favorite podcasts and took off.

Primed and painted that night and hung the next morning. I installed the last drawer pull as my mother in law walked in the kitchen.

All of the tools mentioned above made quick work of it... I spent the weekend sleeping after that.

 

[Mike Townsend]

I have had a few different brands but many years ago my dad bought me a Ryobi tool set with around 6 tools. Then I went to lithium 18v drills and batteries and they worked so much better. Even the old ones worked better with the new batteries. It just kind of snowballed from there. I have around 10 different tools(just need stuff for around the house) and now a brushless carbon fiber weed eater and a battery powered mower that take 40v batteries. The weed eater is awesome for its lightness and brushless power.

 

[Badger 13]

All Milwaukee for me, with the exception of 2 old Bosch drivers that are never used. Most recent Milwaukee item acquired was the M18 Inflator, which works very well.

 

[mullet6577]

I'm cheap and use a variety of 18V and 40V Ryobi tools. Most recent acquisition was an 18V 1/2" impact for control arm and ball joint work on my daughter's Jeep, and a lower ball joint on my wife's Santa Fe that I wasn't expecting to fix. The cordless worked great on everything except getting the remnants of ball joint out of a knuckle...that required the old Craftsmen compressor and a Craftsmen air hammer.
Hand tools are all switching to the 18V Ryobi as needed or found on deals, yard equipment is going to the 40V minus the mower because I couldn't finish my yard without charging batteries.

 

[Travelin Ram]

Since most of my batteries are DeWalt and I’m moving into Makita tools, I ordered one of these to try out.

DeWalt battery to Makita tool adapter

 

[stevenP]

I Use RIDGID (home depot), because if you register your purchase in 90 days or less. Everything including the batteries are warrantied for life.

 

[Randy Grant]

Well, it's obvious that no women are on here.

 

[JW2 Innovations]

From what I understand from the Utubes the 18-20v Craftsman and DeWalt will use the same batteries. Both are made by Stanley Black & Decker.

Yeah, the play on numbers is amazing...all the same size cells used inside. Marketing gimmick. Anything that says 18v to 2Xv is all the same battery size and qty.