C’mon, we have all commited toolacide at some point!
1) craftsman circ saw-These don’t cut wet wood well at all! Burnt Armature smell lasts a long long time!
2) A couple of cheapie B&D Jigsaws, and a cheapie Craftsman as well!
3) B&D cordless firestorm recip. saw (plastic gears are not heavy duty)
4) Craftsman industrial 14.4 volt drill- Was actually a good drill until it smashed into a floor joist during drilling for a pipe/cable run.
5) Dewalt 18 volt angle drills- Shreaded the gears on 2 of ’em. Thankfully was able to return them N/C. Not impressed with this tool at all.
6) Makita 14.4 cordless drill- Not dead yet, but lost 3rd(high) speed. Wonder if the other gears will go out too?
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Craftsman belt sander. Died of a broken heart after 15 years of mostly doing nothing but sit there....
Skil $19.95 circ. Died of seized bushings (bearing-less shaft. Ewww, yuck) trying to rip a green, rough, 2x12x16 on a 15º bevel.
Rockwell jigsaw. Died valiently trying to bull its way thru that last 4-up stack of ¼" Beaver Barf with a burnt-out blade.
Oh, yeh--and the el-cheapo fake imitation 'workmate' stand I stupidly bought fer $15 at Canadian Tire--that POS lasted about three days before I teed it up and drove it 20 yards into a dumpster with a 16-lb sledge....
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Table saw was running fine, ripping pressure treated material, until my employee notifies me that there is fire under the table - wiring burning away happily and motor still running.
Same said employee was being very studious using the framing square to 'square up' whatever he was nailing, unfortunately nail missed whatever he was aiming for and struck the framing square. He got that framing square and bought me a new one.
Later we had to reinforce a wobbly railing so I reclaimed the dented framing square, drilled holes in it, and lagged it between the newel and a floor joist.
Let's not confuse the issue with facts!
1) Craftsman finish sander... armature smoked
2) Dewalt 14v cordless... gears
3) Cheapie Ryobi portable TS... what a POS won't buy another ryobi anything
4) Cheapie 2nd hand no name air compressor (can't complain got it free)
5) Makita sidewinder... sounds like a rock crusher & base plate is loose
6) 80's vintage craftsman contractor saw.... smoked the motor, replaced still truckin
I ran a utility knife pretty hard one particular job ...
felt bad when I finally had to change the blade.
actually killed and knew I was killing my favorite little Makita 4" grinder. I love it for tile work. Had a demo job where thicker than norm razor lath showed up in the plaster walls of a shower. Had no choice to try to cut my way out.
By lunch I knew my favorite little grinder wasn't long for the world ... I burned it up ... had to leave stuck in the middle of demo a bit early that day ... stopped on the way home and got a 4.5 Milwaukee to finish the job. Practically doubled the useful amps.
USed that Mil to do the tile ... hated it for that ... and took the Mak to the repair shop. Guy rebuilt it for free to go back to it's easy life of shaping tile.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Recently, Chicago Electric, 1/2" hammer drill. Now I have to find a replacement corded 1/2" drill.
Stripped the gears.
Majority of tools I have broken in my lifetime, have just been handles. (Broke the handle of my push broom, just today.)
Ran what was essentially a giant dremel, to death once, doing metal sculpture. Man, I have wished I had that tool again, many times since. But I've never found one like it.
Had about 3 Makita 1/4 sheet finishing sanders that sound like squirrels trying to make love. My 25 year old Rockwell (skil77) is about dead. Toasted an old style Makita 9.6 volt cordless drill after dropping it 22' to the floor below.ML
The most satisfying one was a Bosch 8" circ saw. It was a hateful creature, everything was wrong about it, the angle of the grip, the location of the wire, the noise it made, especially when the bearings were failing, which didn't take very long.
I didn't mind the smoke the least little bit.
Ron
multimaster,yea i know no one has ever had a mm quit. well mine did ,tore it apart,decided it was the switch. so i decided to "jump the switch" to check. smoke went everywhere. burned the circuit board. hit the trash and sold all the used blades on ebay.
milwaukee circular saw. replaced the brushes,decided to pull the switch before i put the plastic shroud back on. i have never seen so much electricity fly. for some reason it over rpm'd the armature and blew all the windings out in a big ball of flame.pretty impressive.
does anyone else see a pattern here?i don't think i'm going to take up repairing tools for a living.
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Had a dewalt cordless that I chucked into a cornfield one day when I got tired of bit slipping out.
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Jeremy and Lisa
Was there ever any doubt?
A B&D pad sander.
A Bosch belt sander.
Stanley "contractor grade" chalk box.
Broke on a roof for the third time in a day.
It's sitting at the bottom of the Long Island sound.
Don't think I've ever thrown anything so far in my entire life.
Tried to kill a cheapo B&D jigsaw to justify purchasing a real one. Couldn't do it. Worked like cr@p but wouldn't die. Gave it to my brother. He may still have it.
Wishing the Makita door plane I have would finally quit. Stubborn as the B&D jigsaw.
Hate that tool.....after fighting with it on each project, I have to battle it back into the case it came with but was not designed for.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
Do leaf springs count as "tools?"
I'm on my third set. . .I meditate, I burn candles, I drink green tea, and still I want to smack someone.
Killed a 92 Ford Ranger in the early days. Put a rack on it and would pile up 6x6 posts 16' long on top... three high. Actually went so far to order 8 ply truck tires for it.
One day was pulling about 7,000 pounds of wet cedar shingles and tarpaper and a 2,000 lb trailer for about a 3 hour drive, (slowly), but that wasn't the death of it. You should have seen the steam coming off the tires going through puddles.
When I dealt the truck the rear end was bent, brakes were all burned up, likely put 5 brake jobs on in 200,000 miles, original clutch (which was fine), motor was getting weak, the box was torn pretty much from the top rim to the mounts, manifolds were ready to be changed for the 3rd time, (overheated), and I am pretty sure the belts were all separated on the tires and the wheel bearings were getting noisy.
Killed a Milwaukee hammer drill along with a porter cable circular saw and my lunch one day... when my idiot helper put the tools in a bag behind the back tire of my truck.
Melted a Makita Heavy Duty cord drill mixing tile mud.
Burned up 2 Makita Heavy Duty jigsaws cutting decorative rafter tails, one lasted 20 minutes, one 30, then I kicked in a little more for a Bosch and still have that one.
Used up 2 Makita laminant trimmers cutting sheathing out of windows while we were framing. (was pretty much out of the P-lam by that time anyhow).
L
GardenStructure.com~Build for the Art of it! Decks Blog
had one of those bench top bandsaws, I hated that sucker, threw it in the backyard, spend three hours running it over with the riding lawnmower, finally killing that sucker. oh what sweet death.I been eyeballing the skil circular saw, you know the one with the safety switch in the handle, will it be my next victim, it shaking like a leaf on the shelf.Dead man walking
Mr Bagg, ya crack me up.
Toolicide. Circulopath...
I catch you near my shop I'll keep an eye on you!
L
GardenStructure.com~Build for the Art of it! Decks Blog
Your neighbors must have enjoyed the show.
Family.....They're always there when they need you.
A cheap B&D hammer drill. Ugly black thing, paid $45 for it. I beat the sh!t out of it hoping for an excuse to get a real hammer drill. It doggedly went on for years until one day it couldn't take it and just burned up. Went right out out & bought a Milwaukee 1/2" HD...a REAL tool. The thing lasted maybe a year and a half.
My B&D Sawcat. My chin still quivers when I think about that thing.
A ceramic heater I ran solid until one day it caught fire right in front of a roomful of guys having lunch. The electric cord arced, buzzed and wagged it's tail all over the floor and then the main body burst into flames. It was right out of a Stephen King novel. It put on quite a show.
I have an ugly Craftsman sawzall I haven't killed yet. I have shoved it under the worktable in my garage in hopes that it will rust a bit for......oh 5-10 years before I try to kill it again. I hate it 'cause it refused to die.
I think I might have just killed a Chevy 3500 Duramax.
I did beat a Makita sander to death (many pieces)at the Home Depot returns counter one time. That did not go over so well.
Lets see half dozen or so 48"Levels, still have 3 or 4 of the lyin bastids around here somewhere.
Ive got 3 Dewalt 4.5 grinders that have succumed to my deathly grasp, 4.5 makita takes a lickin but keeps on ticken though, I have traded in 4 or 5 Tradesmen brand grinders to lowes in the last 3 yrs.
I've worked a couple of Marshalltown trowels down to nubs where I use them for repointing now, wanted to be buried with one of them but it don't even look like a trowel anymore , when I was really busy I would go though a handle a yr. tapping bricks and blocks in place, then I started useing the new poly handles. and found out what a brick hammer was designed for.Handles last a lot longer.
Early on, I had Craftsman router that while in use started dropping the metal air fins. The were bouncing around inside the metal housing, made a heck of a racket. The moment the bit was out of the collet, it was lobbed into the nearest trash can. Can't say I was sorry to see it go.
All.........937 chalk boxes.zingggggggggggggg....most near got a bird with that one :)
Brand new Milwaukee "Compact" 18v Lith screwgun. Heavy Duty my arse! Stripped the gear box within a couple months of doing nothing. Makita much better.
Only two worth crying about:
A Makita 3/4" hammer drill- really just a 1/2" that they put a 3/4" chuck on for some reason, but a nice one with the metal gearbox (c/w metal gears). It wasn't the endless 1/2" sleeve anchor holes that killed it- no, Mr. Moltendumbass here used it to mix tile grout...No probs- $60 CDN for a new armature and field and brushes and it's like new again.
The other was a PC random orbit sander. Taunton steered me wrong on that one. Baseplate mounting screws got a little loose and the baseplate screw holes failed. PC wanted over $50 for the baseplate, so it wasn't worth fixing. Thank goodness I didn't- shockingly, the yellow menace replacement I bought is a far nicer tool to use!
Makita grinder.
Milwaukee Sawzall.
Hitachi drill.
Crapsman circ. saw.
Numerous hand tools that either bent, broke, or got me too heated for them to survive.
Partial list:
PC saw, Milwakee saw, milwalkee saw all, dewault 3/8 drills(2),Makita sawsall, craftman belt sander, Mil. heat gun, 3 dewault radios, 2 milw. radios, not to mention several different nail guns.
My conclusion is that I am hard on tools!>G<
So Far (two years).
A cheapie 6' level from crappy tire, two stories up to the ground in a second. Got a stabila 5-8' extendable level for the same price and nobody dare touch it but me.
More dewalt 5" orbital sanders than i care to admit.(i think around 5) (finally switched to makita)
14.4v Dewalt Impact lost it to overuse as I was the first carpenter to show up with one and wouldn't you know it, everyone had to use it. (came in one day and the roofer was using it to put in 10" screws) switched to makita 18v Li-on)
A 3/8" Ridgid Drill, switch burned out and just toasted it. I think they were going for $30 at HD. Switched to Milwaukee 1/2".
I try never to buy "cheap" tools however I thought dewalt and Ridgid were good names.
My dad just picked up the Panasonic Li-0n cordless bundle, and I have had the Makita cordless bundle for a year almost, and I don't know how Panasonic keeps getting top marks.
I lost track a long time ago, but there have been a few vacs (one shop-vac and one ridgid, among others) corded and cordless drills of all sorts (tip: 3/8 drill is not for mixing mud!), a couple of delta cheapo 10" table saws, a 4-1/2" angle grinder, several belt sanders and plenty more I can't think of off hand.
Here's a tip about the cheap 10" table saws - replace the blade with a 7-1/4" or 8" thin curf blade for a lot less stress on the tool. And, they will still rip 2x stock. I learned that one right here at BT about a year ago.
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Bosch 7 1/4" skil saw ...This one was too heavy considering it's lack of power, finally the switch died and while I was waiting around to replace it I left it in the back of my pickup and it rusted to deathBlack & Decker corded drill, this came free with a Workmate and I was using it to run 2 1/8" holesaws through real mahogany doors..it killed it's forward gear(reverse still worked)Craftsman 19.2 volt hammer drill with 1/2" metal chuck..this drill was great, everyone on jobsites laughed at it because it was Craftsman but it worked 6 days a week for 2 years doing everything I asked before I lent it to a coworker and he killed it. Ended up getting a DeWalt because I needed a replacement asap but would get one again, great drill.
speaking of vac, I have one from Lowes that works good but every time you pick it up, the top comes off. so its on a suicide watch too, any minute it might get hung by its own cord, suck the life out of it.
I usually have my 18v Dewalt drills rebuilt once a year. It seems they dont like dull 4" hole saws.
My 18v DW recip has its own table at the repair shop.
Family.....They're always there when they need you.