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What are good brands to buy and which are inferior? This is a question that I have asked and have been asked often, throughout the years. Well, there are power tool companies that cater pretty much exclusively to the trade: Hitachi, DeWalt, Porter Cable, Milwaukee, to name a few. Their advertisements appear in trade magazines and there are usually booths at trade shows demonstrating the latest, brightest, and fastest tools from each of these companies. Because they are geared for continual use by tradespeople, they are usually designed to hold up. Everyone has their favorites. Over the years the one name I tend to use because of my own satisfaction is DeWalt. I bought a DeWalt 3/8" chuck cordless drill about 8 years ago and it accompanied me on every job I worked, up to 200 days in one year, always performing up to the task. Just this year, I at last upgraded to a 1/2" chuck and gave the old drill to a co-worker. It still worked great, and he was pretty pleased.
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There are a couple of companies that target the typical consumer for the sales of their power tools. They are the well-known brands of Black and Decker and Sear's Craftsman. The only thing I can say about the quality of these tools is that usually tradesmen avoid them. And 20 years ago the first drill I ever owned was a Black and Decker 3/8" chuck. Though designed for light usage, I subjected it to several light construction jobs... the motor actually caught fire when in use at one point, and so of course I tossed it (after I put out the fire).
One interesting ironic note: Black and Decker actually owns DeWalt power tools. And so there are all kinds of jokes in the industry about how Black and Decker puts out the worst and the best tools available. Lastly, there are, amazingly, very few colors that power tool companies take and use on their tools. The reason for the color is obvious: the tool is easily identified on jobs by other workmen (and women). Grey is used by Porter Cable; blue by Ryobi; green = Hitachi; yellow = DeWalt; red = Milwaukee.
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