/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1621693
I don’t think you realize how many homeowners need to drive in a couple of these >>1621500 every 6 months or year to hang a new hook in my garage or hanging a plant outside. It’s worthless using a regular drill and I’m not about to go rent an SDS hammer.

>>1621786
How old? There’s not many options if you don’t want to drag extension cords or air lines behind you.

>tfw hurricane season started and Target had 3750W generators for like $260 including tax
Damn I wanted to buy one as a backup. Throw that bitch in the back of my car and drop a 30gal compressor and the world is my oyster.

>>1621779
Soooo the overpriced DeWalt made by Jose?

>tfw the American made DeWalts are going to be cheaper than Mexican made when Papa Trump gets done.

>>1621657
Lowe’s is dropping most of their Kobalt stuff and replacing it with Craftsman. You should be asking “Husky or Craftsman”?

>>1621740
This. There are (or were) more Kobalt tools I think, but if you go to Home Depot and they don’t offer a Husky ______, you can buy a Milwaukee or Channellock or Klein _______.

>>1621181
Milwaukee is the ONLY company that has a real 12V lineup.

>>1621702
I think I’m close with DeWalt, charging up 4 old NiCd batteries and the fucking sawzall won’t even take out some thick roots.

I’m sure the new stuff is miles ahead just because the Masterforce 1.5Ah was way better despite feeling like a cheaper tool.

>>1621741
That’s fucked up. How much more does the Bosch model cost? You’re taking a hit on the warranty though.

>>1621755
The fuck is this Lego pic?

>>1621122
You got a shop vac? Go find where it drains outside, make sure it’s clear, and suck all the shit out of there.

It’s good to do that once every month or two, that shit clogs up fast with these humid Florida summers.

>>1621454
No, they managed to barely get it working and it was unsafe the whole time and putting extra strain on the motor and everything else.

>>1621476
They had 3 mismatched springs on there before and when garage door guy came, he replaced it with two matching springs. Even when the power first went out before the springs let go, there was nowhere near enough force helping the door up.

>>1621444
Checked

Then buy the regular drill and save your few dollhairs if you want, then drag out the SDS and extension cords whenever you need to drill one or two holes in concrete.

>>1621437
Kek. Those springs are nothing to fuck with. Lost power from a hurricane and had to open the big 2-car door by hand to get my car out. All of a sudden the spring tension lets go and the garage door drops. I tried to tighten the springs back up and get confused because there’s 3 springs and it looks like two of them are spinning the correct way to lift the door, but the 3rd spring is going backwards, like unwinding. That 3rd spring explodes as I’m trying to load them up with tension and I give up and get a garage door tech over.

Garage door guy basically says the boomer previous owner and boomer neighbor who helped are idiots.

>>1621401
The 5-6 holes is often what homeowners need anyway, a decent hammer drill is normally enough.

Are you talking about the Bauer? Those tools look decent, like Ryobi or Porter Cable tier, but I would be nervous using that for any real work considering all of the dust it will be exposed to. I guess if a DIY homeowner has a project with a bunch of larger holes that need to be drilled in concrete, dropping <$100 on the HF tool might be a good buy considering it will only be really used for one job.

>>1621406
Kek. What kind of concrete? Just wait for it, one day you will need to drop 2 anchors into a real concrete wall and you will sit there drilling and drilling for half an hour and go absolutely nowhere and you will wish you spend the extra $30 on the hammer drill. Unless you already have an SDS hammer, then fuck if.

>>1621391
Do you like being able to work places that don’t have an outlet?

It’s not going to be an SDS hammer, but it should drill 1/2” and smaller holes into masonry just fine, especially if you’re doing a project around the home and need to hang out mount something to a concrete or brick exterior wall.

Also if you have a corded hammer drill, the cordless may be way nicer to use. Power companies haven’t updated their corded tools worth a damn if they have a cordless replacement, all of the innovation goes into the cordless tools because there’s a lot more money in it for them if they can sell you on a battery platform.

>>1621360
You might be able to use that supply, but I’m not smart enough with electrocity.

There are tons of cheap 18650 chargers, some of them that hold 2 cells or 4 cells and have little displays with voltage and current for $10-$20. Otherwise you could get pic related if you wanna play around, it has CC/CV so feed a power supply into it (either the one in your pic or some DC laptop supply or whatever) and then you can follow the instructions on how to charge Li Ions.

>>1621342
>>1621350
This is a good website

https://batteryuniversity.com/index.php/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries

>>1621342
Do you know how CC/CV works? Read up on it. As long as you know they’re supposed to be 4.2V fully charged, just run 500mA- 1A CC to be safe up to 4.2V, then it switches to CV at 4.2V and the current will start dropping. So total time depends on the cell and all those variables, but to make it easy, just start the timer when you hit 4.2 and it switches from CC to CV, and time it for an hour or two after that or watch for the current to drop off real low.

Try to find the data sheets of known cells and read up on C ratings because that will tell you everything about the optimal current to charge at.

>>1621325
Kek, I think I have done this before. I tell people that I really enjoy a good matte finish.

>>1621330
They throw in a few extra things that people bitch about like the folding hex keys, but OP will definitely want like more than half of that set right away. A comprehensive socket set with all 3 drives deep and shallow, plus the flex head ratchets, extensions and u-joints, ratcheting combination wrenches, and box wrenches will all add up to at least the cost of that set so the rest is kind of a bonus.

There’s some Klutch sets from Northern Tool that are good starter sets as well.

>>1621326
I wonder if this translates. Read up on Battery U and come back. Or just run the CC/CV charge and see how long it takes because cells have all different capacities based on temp and age and cycles and all other variables. You really should just be focusing on the time it’s at CV.

>>1621179
Looks fine, save the tool truck discount for some specialty tools. In the 5+ years I have been at my job, I have seen a bunch of diesel mechanics come and go and most of them use Craftsman-Husky tier sockets and wrenches. There has only been one real Snappy Boi and he doesn’t get the job done any better than the others.

>>1621051
Even if you don’t /diy/ worth a damn, you gotta have a basic drill. I made sure my older sister and little brother both have drills because you never know when a nail won’t cut the job.

And I would rather take a 12V drill from a good brand over a cheap ass 18V any day considering the pricing is pretty close.

Fwiw I think B&D 20V 2.0Ah Lithiums are $50-$80 most places and you can get a 2pk of M12 1.5’s on Amazon for like $40 all day.

>>1621066
There’s an orange Amazon impact gun that is exactly the same thing. And people are saying it seems to be the same as the Porter Cable too with a slightly different case. Both are rated at 450ft-lbs, but the HF gun gives those ridiculous breakaway numbers while the PC doesn’t advertise that stat.

With that being said, the big cordless guns will break bolts WAY faster than that Porter Cable. And there are like no comparisons or real tests online aside from some dumb kid trying to pull a Honda crank bolt and the Bauer wouldn’t do it until he used a special extra heavy special crank bolt socket, leading me to believe that those HF breakaway numbers are complete BS because there’s no way that tool is only ~30% less power than the Milwaukee Fuel.

>>1621070
I mean that’s just the out of my asshole number, but Li-Ion cells aren’t expensive, balancing boards and temp sensors aren’t super complicated electronics, and the plastic case isn’t worth a damn.

DeWalt and Milwaukee aren’t banking when you grab the Black Friday special drill + impact + 2 batteries + charger for $149. They might even lose money after overhead and the retailer’s cut (and the rampant nog theft). They’re making all of their profit when you come back and buy a 6Ah pack for $150.

>>1621143
I imagine, but that’s more of a manufacturing thing where the employer is paying. I’m talking about service tech type trades, the dudes who go out to sites to build-install-repair things. Automotive is relatively low paying compared to the other union gigs and there sure are a lot of auto techs with 2 years worth of salary tied up in their tools.

>>1621057
Meh, I could probably order one for a few bucks. I believe I jammed a hex or torx in there one day and got it to spin somewhat. Or I could pull the cord like a man.

I’ll buy the driver bit when my wife starts using the trimmer.

>>1621055
The problem is none of the corded impacts come anywhere close to the high power cordless. They could make a corded model that is powerful, but the money isn’t there.

If you need to break loose a fucked up axle nut like OP and are sick of cussing at it and jumping on cheater bars, Milwaukee and DeWalt know they have you by the balls. You can buy their corded model with 300ft-lbs of torque, or you can get the brushless battery powered model with over 1000ft-lbs of busting nuts capabilities. Do you want to bust a nut or not? Oh, by the way, the $250 impact wrench requires a $150 battery (with all of $15 in materials and labor in it) because the $80 battery doesn’t work as well. Charger? Sure! $50!

>3 months later
Anon: Oh no! My old green drill is shitting the bed, it’s not worth fixing because the batteries aren’t even supported anymore. I just spend $200 on a Yellow battery and charger for that impact wrench so it would make sense to get the Yellow drill. But one battery? What if it’s on the charger? I should buy this 2 pack of batteries on sale for only $170 ($25 in parts & labor) as long as I’m here.