New Jig Saw...like it!

[Dirt Rider]

Just went to the www.makita.com ....there is also a $20 rebate!

[Dirt Rider]

Thanks, I used the drill tonight to do some stuff and it's fine. Not sure what that was all about, but it was pretty warm. It's functioning perfect now. I REALLY like the drill!! The chuck is awesome.

[vwguy3]

Originally posted by Dirt Rider
Well, I scored a drill today....Makita M-force 12v kit with free gloves...$99 at Home Depot. I totally lucked into the deal. The sale was actually for two days only and ended yesterday, reg. price was $159. The gal at the register made a few calls, I played dumb (not a stretch) and walked out with the drill...sweet!

I do have a question though...the first battery I charged up was a little WARM when I took it off the charger. I put it in the drill, messed with it a little and put it down. I came back about an hour later and picked it up again (you know, the new toy syndrome) and the battery & lower part of the drill were still pretty warm. Is this normal....a new battery thing?? Possible bunk battery?

DirtRider
It is a normal function of the battery to be warm from charging and discharging. Warm is fine hot is not . You are gonna LOVE that drill,I bought an M force 14.4 at cough cough maynards the first of the year and got 20% off it was about 135.00 with gloves
which are real nice but kinda fragile, used them for about 4 months with no problem and one saturday at our township clean up day and trashed em.

[Dirt Rider]

Well, I scored a drill today....Makita M-force 12v kit with free gloves...$99 at Home Depot. I totally lucked into the deal. The sale was actually for two days only and ended yesterday, reg. price was $159. The gal at the register made a few calls, I played dumb (not a stretch) and walked out with the drill...sweet!

I do have a question though...the first battery I charged up was a little WARM when I took it off the charger. I put it in the drill, messed with it a little and put it down. I came back about an hour later and picked it up again (you know, the new toy syndrome) and the battery & lower part of the drill were still pretty warm. Is this normal....a new battery thing?? Possible bunk battery?

[Jerry]

Hello Dirt rider your right you get what you pay for. I've used the Milwaukee jig saws for years and loved them. But recently purchased the Bosch and I love that one I think even more now.

Good luck bud

[skinner]

Aaron

Aaron, I am in the same boat as you are with your adiction, I am thinking of opening an equipment rental center so I can keep going. I am getting tired of working 7 days a week just to have an excuse to buy another tool. ( I have more tools and equipment than most of the big contractors in our area have.) Maybe we can start a 10 steps program to beat this adiction. Not that I really want to!!!!

[DaveD]

I never sell any hand tools. They just keep accumulating for the last 45 years. Even if you use it once every few years its nice to know you still have it. I'm like the rest of you as far as being a tool junkie. Did woodworking as a hobby, side money generator for years. Built some nice custom cabinets along the way too. Many decks and a large adition.Remodelled houses for a few years after the 1st retirement. Love doing finish carpentry work.

Always did my own car repairs. Son got me into the metal working, welding, and fabricating on his offroad vehicle. Have a cousin in NASCAR and I have been in Jack Rousch's (spelling?) shops and I'd work there for minimum wage just to be there and use those tools.

Metal working is just like woodworking to me except different tools, more permanent and harder to fix if you make a mistake. If you can picture things in your mind, sketch the concept out, and then create them then you can be successful at both. rRght now I miss the woodworking side since I lost my 20x40 shop space when I moved 5 years ago. Now its all packed in the 2 car garage.

[WildBill]

aweaver , im a framer and woodwroker too, i love woodworking so i could never sell my wwtools but im sure spending my pay checks on welding stuff and guns, i have the router, i love it( beats the portercable any day of the week) but back to the point keep those tools youll kick yourself if you get rid of them sell a house or car instead j/k

Bill

[ChadRat]

Aweaver, keep your woodworking stuff so ya can make bucks when ya get into metal shaping. Start saving up for the big shop building now.

[morpheus]

man, you guys sound just like me. I hardly even go in the tool section of sears/lowes/homedepot except to buy some consumable type stuff occasionally ... just nothing I need or want there. <sigh> ...

- jack

[dsergison]

he who dies with the most toys wins. (bumper sticker)

tools, toys, same thing.

and I feel like a winner.

does anyone rember a sunday comic cartoon, the middletons? where midge and her husband go to the mall for her to go christmass shopping. she drops her man off in this tool department, but there's nothing for sale, that's just where the wives drop their man off so they can play while they shop.



problem is, there is NOTHING in the mall sears that I need or want anymore. I've graduated to the realm of mail order and it seems.

[morpheus]

that's cool !

tools can you ever have enough

- jack

[morpheus]

you've got quite an arsenal of tools there Aaron ... what kind of work do you do ?

- jack

[WildBill]

i have metabos and makita cordless drills and love them but for corded ill stick with milwakue(does anyone ever spell it right) for 1/2 and bocsh for 3/8, i also have a bosch jig saw and it is awesome thats allo i need to say is awesome. anyone else put there have a skill worm drive now thats a saw

Bill

[vwguy3]

Buying hand power tools are no different than buying a welder. You need to test drive them. What works for you may not work for the next guy. I base my puchases on more than power and such features,does the tool feel comfortable to use?. I have tools of most every brand, Dewalt(sell em every day) Bosch,Makita,Porter-Cable,Milwaukee. I have found that the nickel metal hydride batteries have better life and longer run time.
Also remember when you are beatin the H*%$ out of the batteries you are also killing them. Heat is the death of those batteries and there is heat on discharge as well as under charge. That being said I have a 12v Makita and a 14.4 Makita and 2 old 9.6 Makita workhorses(ok maybe ponies) and all have provided excellent service.I have heard(I work in a hardware store/lumber yard) that Panasonic is supposed to be the best performing drill on the market at this time. Hope that helps not just confuses you. Enjoy!!!!