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The only thing I really use as far as air tools is nail guns and staplers. About 10 years ago the stair company I worked for vwas on a test program with all the cordless tool companies and I can personally verify that Makita definitely won hands down as the most reliable cordless tool.
 


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Don't cheap out on the tools. Just don't.

Over the past few days, I've seen the difference between a really cheap tool and a moderately cheap tool. My cutoff tool from Northern Tool has been working very nicely. Could use a little more power but it works nicely. In some tighter quarters, I needed to use a long reach cutoff tool. I have one from Harbor Freight. Well, it works. But the gears are noisy and it has very little power. I got through the job with it. But it is slow because of the lack of power. I hope to get a better one some day.
 

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Been interested in these stubby impacts. Enough power and able to fit in much smaller spaces.
On top of using them with these sockets
 

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The only thing I really use as far as air tools is nail guns and staplers. About 10 years ago the stair company I worked for vwas on a test program with all the cordless tool companies and I can personally verify that Makita definitely won hands down as the most reliable cordless tool.
I love my makita corded stuff. But here's the problem (for me) with cordless stuff... every 2 years or so you start needing batteries, and alot of companies change battery types and connections every 2 years or so. So you are stuck buying new tools.

Most of my cordless work stuff is dewalt because I've been able to get new batteries for them for over 10 years and now even though they came out with serious battery changes you can still buy adapters for the old tools. Until that changes I'm a dewalt fan on cordless stuff.

My Milwaukee stuff is new, and I love the power but we will see if I can still get batteries in 5-10 years...
 

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When Makita changed over to li-on batteries 10 or so years ago the batteries have pretty much been all the same. The problem is there are some tools that require a higher a/h battery than others. The tools that can use the lower a/h battery are able to use the larger size but the smaller ones will not plug into the other tools. I've got batteries that are 10 plus years old that still Work fine.
DeWalt did pretty good all around, but got somewhat sloppy in the Long haul.
The big problem with Milwaukee was actually the batteries. They would fail if dropped from about waist height. If they fixed that they are right up there with Makita imo.
 

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