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Recently got one of those cool looking green Kawasaki drills. Second time I used it the chuck failed. It won’t hold a drill tight. I don’t know who to blame, Jacobs chuck company or “Alltrade”, the manufacturer (Kawasaki just licenses the name). Alltrade web site says I can mail it back for repair. Just get a box, the address, go the post office and wait and pay postage and do without a drill and….
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Ahhh, the joys of cheap tools.
I've been very happy with my Ryobi set. Very powerful and cheap.
Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
I think thats the first positive thing I've read on this forum about Ryobi. have had mine for about five years and love it. Except the piece of crap recip saw!
Ward
Love my old Ryobi AP-12 planer. She was a former rental, still works like new.
I'd love to have a planer. I have sone rough sawn lumber that I would like to make some trim out of. currently I use an old hand held craftsman and then sand for all I'm worth....long process.
I'd love to have a planer
It makes it very easy to make window parts, and does make it possible to surface rough lumber, although I don't do much rough surfacing. They are more reasonably priced than when I bought mine.
how much do they weigh? My shop (garage I don't put the truck in) isn't big enough to keep to many tools out at once. I would have to put it out on my wookmate when needed.
p.s. Black and decker workmate is a great portable tool.
Ward
They're heavy, but no problem for the workmate to hold. Mine has a handle on top, but you can't carry it by the handle very far.
10" planer? can't recall the model number, but it might be one of the few quality tools Ryobi put out.
It's the 12" model. I think the 10" was a better machine, but the 12" is great except for being very LOUD.
I have the dewalt 13" and it's pretty quite when it's just running on it's own, they're all load as hell when in use though.
Down side to the dewalt is where the chips eject.... It really shoots them out and they sorta of sting when they hit ya.
Their quality has really improved as of late across the board. Still more of a DIY tool, though, rather than pro. I have their 12" CMS. The savings was too great to ignore.
The stigma is so great though (IMO) if you put a Ryobi sticker on all the festool and bosch (name your favorite) stuff, most pros still wouldn't use it.
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I think cordless saws are hard to get just right - so many variables of use.
If anyone starts a thread here called "What tool did you bounce off concrete today", I think half of the posts would be from me, and 3/4 would be me dropping my Ryobi 18v impact driver. I just pop the battery back in, replace the bit if it has bent or broken, and keep on goin'!Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
So you're sayin' Ryobi makes slippery tools....<g>
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Edited 9/26/2006 6:12 pm by Heck
", most pros still wouldn't use it. "I see comments like his all the time on boards like this but then when Im on sites a look at what the other trades are using and I would say around here at least half the guys are using ryobi. I walked by a scissor lift this afternoon and looked over two blue ryobi hndles sticking out of the plumbers bucket ..any of you fellow ryobi guys tried the 18 volt fan yet ?works a lot better then the dewalt or bosch fans ..