/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Will catch flak for it, but Ryobi has come a long way since their old blue tool days and they're a great value. I beat the living shit out of mine and haven't had any issues, other than a hammer drill giving up the ghost after about 6 months of heavy use. I had the extended warranty through home depot and had it replaced, new one has been going strong for 2 years now. I use almost daily to drill through block walls to run conduit.

For anchor bolts, I ran pic related through their impact driver for almost a year before I finally bought the impact wrench, fearing I'd eventually burn out the impact driver torquing down on these big 1 5/16" nuts, but haven't had any issues.

Main gripe is the batteries seem to lose about 50% of their original performance after about 3 years, but you can find them dirt cheap on Craigslist all the time. That and the rubberized grip gets pretty ate up after a year.

They're about half the price of Miluakee shit, but 75% as sturdy in my experience