If you got the money, buy Hilti
I canāt bring myself to pay the price of the more expensive brands. I had some Ryobi stuff and bought a Dewalt hammer drill because I needed one with the intention of switching over to Dewalt stuff. The next thing I needed was a big boy impact wrench, and it was so much more from Dewalt that I went back to Ryobi. Also, looking at tool tests, the price difference didnāt seem justified. Most of my tools donāt get used hard often, though.
I work with dewalt tools every day, they are good but I donāt think everyone needs to pay the extra for them. If itās just once in a while use any harbor freight tool will do. If you use them and abuse them daily dewalt can save you a few seconds of hassle every task and that adds up. I would never get hilti for personal use as it is too expensiveā¦ but for my work tools i get some of them because of the service life. Especially powder actuated tools, less jamming and safer interlocks that never stick. Also big boi roro hammers as they donāt kick as hard but melt through concrete.
Home gamer shit: cheap tools will do good and when the one or two you end up putting enough use into to actually break it does break - get a nice one of thoseā¦ but im spoiled rotten and use my impact as a hammer 
when it breaks i get a fresh one
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Hilti cordless tools are overpriced wank factor.
Their powder-actuated and heavy duty corded tools are excellent though
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Important to note:
IF YOU DONT ABSOLUTELY NEED CORELESS TOOLS, CORDED TOOLS ARE THE WAY TO GO
Youāll save money, theyāll be more powerful, you dont have to worry about sticking with one brandās battery system, etc. etc. etc. Iāve come to the opinion that most home-gamers dont need cordless tools. Especially us hobbyist freaks who do 90% of our work at a workbench. That other 10% can easily be achieved with an extension cord. You know itās true.
(not directed at you, Al. You just reminded me about this.)
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is mboards still shipping? ive got an almost 3 week old order with no updates
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I had this philosophy, but it has ended in me having multiples of quite a bit of stuff. For example, I already had a very high torque pneumatic impact wrench, but then I wanted to pull a transmission at a junk yard. Now I have a very high torque cordless and a pneumatic that probably wonāt get used much anymore. Also, cordless tools have gotten a lot better as far as price and power. I still buy some non-cordless tools, but Iāve moved more towards defaulting to cordless in case I need to take it to a junkyard, for example.
I will say, needless cordless stuff does bother me, though. Iāve still not figured out why like 95% of the beard trimmers sold are cordless. Iām not trimming my beard in some remote location without power, Iām in my damn bathroom. I donāt need to be fussing with wether the damn thing is charged and buying new ones or replacing batteries on something that has never left the bathroom in itās entire existence.
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Any novas on there? They are waiting on a resupply afaik and are out of 8ā novas right now
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nah, just some pulleys and single bushingsā¦
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Powertools- I use DeWalt and Mafell. Dewalts cheap enough because I look for deals on used stuff sometimes needing the trigger serviced, and some of my batteries are still going after 13 years of initially daily sparkying.
Being injured is having its perks. Iām starting to get better with freecad. Iāve drawn the same incomplete mount multiple times but am using more efficient methods each time so finally feel optimistic about learning this stuff, now thereās no physical jobs to be distracted by.
Had a mate show me kiCAD this week too. He develops new components for Amiga computers as a side hustle, in between being sent overseas to fix radio networks. I can see potential to design battery header boards reasonably effectively and affordably when time and interests allow, kiCAD is reasonablly straight forward.
Garage foundations start tomorrow, Iāll try get a photo of my hole being filled in soon.
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Make sure your zipper is up before pressing play 
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Too high a risk, if I crack a fat one this very minute itās gonna blast a hole through my laptop touchpad.
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You know some people have ALL the equipment keys. Are you sure itās where you left it.?Because nothing breaks like a deer an my350G is down.
Wait until the image upload finishes before you click post.
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Iām excited to get in on the hole action! Mine isnāt a hole yet but it will be tomorrow! Kinda proud of this one cos i got to use some of my nerd skillz at werkā¦
We need to dig a footing for this curved retaining wall. Curves can be a little tricky in construction, but with good set-out and good tradesmen, its usually not a big dealā¦
For this job we had no set-out except for the boundaries and the builder and architect expected us to work out the location of this wall using the center of a tree as a radius point 
just to add insult to injury, the base of said tree is over 1.5m higher than the cut level we are working from 
I used the dimensions given on the plans and gave myself a reference point outside of the radius (down on my cut level) so that I could measure back from it and mark several points along the radius and mark out my footing.
Very happy with what iāve marked out, fingers crossed the machine operator doesnāt fuck it up!! 
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Nice work, doing some maths. Wonder how many other builders would figure out the numbersā¦
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Barely any in my experience. Most will either get the land surveyor to mark it out for them or just wing it and hope for the best 
Iād say youāre right there. Before I started working solely with machinery, I worked as a sparky. I met very few other tradies who could even do trig to work out a triangle.
Years back when we had our sparky regs tests, which is open book, I worked with people who failed it five times consequatively. I was still half cut from the night before and got the highest equal mark in NZ that year, and being only an average student, still find this a little concerning.
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Yeah they donāt make em like they used to!!
Back when i was doing carpentry there would rarely be a day that I didnāt pull a 3,4,5 for one reason or another.
My crews will do it for all of their setups to make sure the slabs are square and Iāll often check frames if they donāt seem to be sitting properly.
I found a frame that was considerably out of square on one job and it took me the best part of an hour trying to explain to the builder and the carpenter that the frame was out of square and the rectification works required were not our responsibility as a result. They literally argued against Pythagoras
Iām a geometry nerd, I donāt particularly like the maths side of it, but I really enjoy the way that different shapes interact. So todayās little CAD/on site flex was a fun one.
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