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   ProDek | May 24, 2002 09:07am | #1

   Didn't know they made one Kieth. Does it double as a charger? Is it as heavy as the rest of their tools? If it is you won't have to worry about anyone steelin it. :-)

   Bob

   "Rather be a hammer than a nail"

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   BossHog | May 24, 2002 07:06pm | #2

   Didn't know they made one either. But here it is:

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/hi/B000067S15/ref=hi_br_slwth_1/103-7205853-8794239

   I don't care who you are, what you are driving or where you would rather be.

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   KenHill3 | May 24, 2002 10:04pm | #3

   Clicked on the larger photo and noticed 'Rockford Fosgate' ............Wonder who's next on the bandwagon with this. Perhaps a Makita/Bose jobsite Waveradio............

   Ken Hill

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   BoxLunch | May 26, 2002 01:00am | #5

   If you're into audio, could you be considered a Rockford File?

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   diddidit | May 25, 2002 11:31pm | #4

   I do know that Rockford Fosgate makes at least the audio componentry - a friend of mine works for R-F and told me about it a few months ago...

   did

   I have

   misplaced my pants

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   PhillGiles | May 26, 2002 01:49am | #6

   Here's the Milwaukee listing; at least it looks good, better than yellow.

   http://www.milwaukeeconnect.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=227493&prmenbr=27&CGRY_NUM=51&search=yes

   .

   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

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   MisterT | May 26, 2002 01:42pm | #7

   Can't tell if it's a wormburner or a sidewinder

   Rockford file ---ROTFLMSHWAO

   mR tLayers

   Onions

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   Layers,

   Carpenters

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   4Lorn1 | May 27, 2002 01:37am | #8

   Saw one in the local Home Despot and it looked OK. I didn't think to look for separate tone controls so I don't know. I did notice that it does not include a battery charger as the DeWalt does. It can be run off of, and consume otherwise needed, Milwaukee batteries in addition to running off of 120v.

   One thing it does have is a 12v automotive, lighter, outlet. Milwaukee sells a battery charger that would plug into this but it is a separate unit that is included in the DeWalt. On the up side it might help those who support their cell phones with automotive power keep connected by providing the service on the site as opposed to out at the truck.

   Overall I was not impressed and will keep my $18 radio as it can help me troubleshoot for far less money and bulk.

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   smijal | Jun 11, 2002 03:46pm | #9

   The one I saw a Lowes last week had a front opening for recharging batteries. I like the digital display for tuning, but did not check out whether it has separate bass and treble/loudness controls.

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   4Lorn1 | Jun 13, 2002 06:02am | #10

   Unless I failed to understand what the manufacturer printed on the box, not impossible, I understand that the socket for the battery allows the radio to USE batteries but not recharge them. For that sort of money I prefer not to have another tool using my precious rechargeable batteries. Better to save the batteries for doing real work.

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   Qtrmeg | Jun 13, 2002 06:28am | #11

   Really, at least the Dewalt radio charges.

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   MisterT | Jun 13, 2002 01:31pm | #12

   When the radio is on it is converting electric energy into sound. Seems that you could plug in a dead battery and yell really loud at the speakers and reverse the process to recharge your battery.

   T

   Do not try this at home!

   I am a trained professional!

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   Dant45 | Jun 13, 2002 02:29pm | #13

   Good one.  DanT

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   Qtrmeg | Jun 13, 2002 04:08pm | #14

   Actually, if I just throw the battery at the wall hard enough, and often enough, that should do the trick.

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   Rein_ | Jun 14, 2002 05:22am | #19

   It charges by itself as long as you're in range of the station.

   Loud yappy stations like sports radio charge faster but heat up the batteries too much.

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   Piffin | Jun 14, 2002 05:04pm | #20

   ROTFLMAO

   IMHO, These things are marketing ploys. If I've got the radio, I'm gonna buy their tools because of battery compatability/interchangability even if I like the competitors tool better. I don't want to sign up for that subscription...Excellence is its own reward!

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   BKCBUILDER | Jun 18, 2002 03:56am | #23

    I checked it out a Home Cheapo today.........Jesus H. Christ........that thing is as big a 57' Chevy I once had.  All that for an AM/FM radio? I have to leave one guy at the shop just to take it with me! And I have a full size crew cab truck!  

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   encarsia2 | Jul 16, 2002 04:43am | #24

   The prototypes had chargers in them acorrding to my friend a millwakee to rep.  But dewault cares the patent on charger radio's so we will have to wait.  That is probably why others such as makita and pc do not have on yet.

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   andybuildz | Jun 13, 2002 11:31pm | #15

   Have to say.....I've had my DeWalt radio now for over a cpl a years and couldnt be happier with it. Its fallin off my scaffold two stories high....Got rained on, paint all over it..knocked over, ladders dropped on it and it doesnt miss a beat (literally)......charges my 18 V batteries constantly and when I'm up on the scaffold with no power the battery keeps the tunes goin' all day. I can even plug my CD walkman into it and play my own personal John Hyatt  and Tom waitts tunes through it.....I've gone through one radio after the other before this one....first thing to go is always the metal antenea....then the plastc casing cracks with the least blow......This thing is like the Duracell Bunny....goes on and on and on and on....sounds good too.....I like the Bose wave work radio idea though....Good call bro.

   BE well

               Namaste'

                                Andy

   It's not who's right, it's who's left ~ http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

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   r_ignacki | Jun 14, 2002 12:18am | #16

   what next? Sanyo cordless drills?no turn left unstoned  

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   4Lorn1 | Jun 14, 2002 04:34am | #17

   A man who likes Tom Waits can't be completely wrong.

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   KenHill3 | Jun 14, 2002 05:01am | #18

   Geez, what a faux pas for Milwaukee NOT to put a charger in this radio. So, is it just to be 'cool' and have a radio that sez MW? Idiotic vanity. Stupid stupid stupid move from the red tool company.

   I've always picked up boomboxes from Goodwilly's, or cobbed one together like I have now. Thirty year old Advent FM MONO tuner 50 watts with a cheap Taiwan speaker box, all stuffed into a box of jobsite scrap ply with drywall screws. Kick it around, stand on it, paint and drywall all over it- best radio on the jobsite and practically no cost.

   Ken Hill

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   diddidit | Jun 17, 2002 06:37pm | #21

    

   Geez, what a faux pas for Milwaukee NOT to put a charger in this radio.

   I asked my Rockford-Fosgate friend about that - DeWalt has patented the concept of the combination radio/battery charger, so don't look for one from Milwaukee or anyone else. He says that there is an outlet on the back and a bag, so you can plug in the charger you already have.

   didI have

   misplaced my pants

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   KenHill3 | Jun 17, 2002 10:30pm | #22

   Aw, Dewalt. Those stinkers!

   Ken Hill