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Quite fond of my Milwaukees .. Use the crud out of them on a couple of construction projects. Just the other day, one of the batteries refused to charge. That's the first of four Milwaukee batteries that went south, compared to 7 Ridgid batteries (all toast).

I'm not fond of Makita. Triggers keep busting.

Have a trio of Porter Cables...…………….. 1 drill, 2 drivers.

They have had the bee-jeezez used outta them and they are fit and functional as day one.

I'd DEFINITELY buy them a gain.

I have run various brands of 12V NiCd and Makita's 14.4V NiMH tools in the past, but I only have Milwaukee's M18 cordless tools anymore. A buddy brought his brushless 20V DeWalt impact driver over, when we rebuilt my deck, and I got to monkey with it a bit. It's a great tool, but once you invest in a battery system it's hard to stray. My Milwaukee impact tool is a pre-brushless model, so I'm anxious to try their brushless version, because his brushless DeWalt smoked mine!

Also on my M18 wish list, is their high-torque 1/2" impact wrench. I love my corded DeWalt 1/2" impact wrench, but there are times when it would be nice to have portability, and the specs on the cordless Milwaukee are better than my older DeWalt.

Seven years ago I went to build an addition to my log cabin. Yeah, it looks like 1820 but it is hi-tech and I used hundreds, thousands of screws. I started buying 5 pound boxes at Lowes, wound up buying 25 pound boxes of screws.
So, I knew ahead of time I was going to give the 'ol DeWalt a workout. The batteries were already 7 years old I knew they would fail so went to Lowes for new batteries. Too bad they don't sell 'em any more, not the 14.4
So I bought two new batteries online.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dewalt+14.4v+battery

Anyway, the old batteries did not conk out. I had more batteries than I knew what to do with. Damn, what a great tool.
Anyway I don't know what you could do with the old batteries.

Cost more to rebuild old batteries than buy new ones from eBay, that was the case for the Makita 9V

Either M, Makita or Milwaukee

The brushless M18 with a fuel 5.0 battery is pretty impressive. My most used drill.

Have used an 18 V Dewalt for several years, at work every day, and at home,
Like it, but it is heavy.

Know some who have the Ryobi 20 v drill,, driver set. They rave about it.
These are men who use them for work.

I have 18 volt dewalt, the batteries don’t seem to last that long, even the good ones.

Years ago I bought a DeWalt 18v drill from my cousin who owned a hardware store at the time. I bought it because DeWalts had been touted as American made. Got it home and started opening it up and saw it was made in Germany. Nothing wrong with German stuff, but I wanted American. I took it back and went to Walmart and got a Skil. I think the DeWalt was near $200 and the Skil was probably about $40. The Skil did everything I asked of it and ran for a long time. I think the two batteries finally got to where they wouldn't take a charge-hell, they still might. I've got a Kawasaki from Sam's and a Black Max from same. Neither were as good. I've got a Black and Decker I got from Walmart that seems pretty good but we'll see.

No, Dewalt is American. The newest line is kick ass.

Back then some of their stuff was Made in USA, but I got a drill that weren't. I figured if I was gonna get some foreign thing I might as well get it cheap. Worked out for the best anyway. I doubt a DeWalt would have done any better.

Nah Dewalt is American and I consider it the best stuff out there . I bought the entire new line of cordless stuff in the last year. It's good schit.

I like the Milwaukees better than the DeWalts we have at work, but I bought Ridgid for myself at home for the batteries guaranteed for life.

Use Dewalt 20v everyday on the job for the last 5 years. First battery just stopped taking a charge last week. All other batteries and tools work great even though they get used hard and they’re 5 years old. I’ll keep buying them.

We use Dewalt at home and they've been excellent but for commercial use I'd opt for Milwaukee if I had to start over. I've seen these Milwaukee tools take a lot of abuse and keep on going! If you're running a big operation, getting tools with blue-tooth tracking is also a very nice feature that's available now from several mfgs (Milwaukee, Hilti, etc.).

I use - and prefer - DeWalt.

Mike Holmes

Mostly Dewalt for me. The plant were I work has gone all Milwaukee. Don’t think you can go wrong with either. I had a Ryobi set a few years ago that was junk.

I've always found Dewalt to be poorly designed, oversized and heavy compared to their competition.