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Over the last few weeks, quite a few on here have mentioned “I’ve got a makita battery powered” this that and the other.

So....what do you all have?

What tools do you have

How many batteries do you have and what are the aH ratings

Circular saw, big torch, drill/driver, orbital sander and a vacuum for our lass

Circular saw, rip saw, sds drill, combi drill, impact wrench, impact driver, led torch, dab radio, 6x5 amph batteries, 1x3 amph, think that's it.

From memory I think the only Makita tool I currently own is a 110 volt compound mitre saw and I don't have a single Makita battery.
You guys got me beat.

I only have two Makita tools and neither are battery powered. One is an orbital sander which is just a bit better than crap (noisy, vibrates badly) and which doesn't get used much as I prefer a random orbital. The other is a small router which is good but not as powerful as my DeWalt router and it only takes 6 mm shaft router bits (because I've lost the 8 mm collet). Both fit my home made router table so both get used and for light work away from home it's ideal.

I probably won't buy any more Makita stuff as I'm not convinced it's worth the extra money. For me, DeWalt and Bosch Professional range are the tools of choice.

I used to work part time for a well known diy joint and one of the best perks of the job was first shout out to the staff on discounted/display tools.



https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/sanders/ ... 4119712927

This retails at not much change out of 400 quid,I nabbed it for less than a fiver.

Having said that,I don't use it enough to compare to anything.

Needed a new drill / driver twin set so got those from Mrs Gremlin for xmas, the old romantic.
Then bought the hedge trimmer as the cord was so short having been severed multiple times.
Was impressed so bought the lawnmower, which is really good too.
All running off the LXT battery (mower needs both at once).

Might go for the strimmer as well. Buy the tools bare and they're not silly money. Depends on how many you need to use simultaneously. I get by with two and a single charger.

Edit: batteries are 5aH 18v

Skub wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 11:43 am I used to work part time for a well known diy joint and one of the best perks of the job was first shout out to the staff on discounted/display tools.



https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/sanders/ ... 4119712927

This retails at not much change out of 400 quid,I nabbed it for less than a fiver.

Having said that,I don't use it enough to compare to anything.

I've got one of them, it's the only Makita tool I own. The company supplies Bosch blue to its craftspersons...and I was a craftsperson. A long time ago, but I still get the power tools.

I've got shit loads of battery and power tools.

At least 3 battery drills, circular saw, couple of jigsaws, SDS drill, SDS breaker, sanders of various sizes power sources and applications, Dremel..

This thread is a bit of a surprise to me, I didn't realise Makitas had willy's. I've got Bosch tools and they don't

Can I swap the Bosch stuff for the willy waving Makitas - you know, just for entertainment

My b-i-l has pretty much everything Makita, including the radio and the coffee machine ffs. Drills, sanders, saws, strimmer etc. I think I even saw a vacuum? If he had a lawn I'm sure he'd have the mower. They're all really good.

I'm most envious of the table saw (the only one mains driven I think) and circular saw.

I've got a few of their drills and drivers. The rest of my electric tools are a Hodge podge of brands, hand me downs from folk who move away or die. None of those are battery powered, the lesser brands batty range are fairly terrible by comparison, other than de Walt etc

Yellow and black in this house. It’s pretty much tied me in to their products.

Ryobi* here other than mitre saw (Evolution**), sds mains (old Bosch), routers (Bosch, B&Q and Katsu) and track saw (scheppach**), plane (Bosch)

* SDS, impact driver, hammer drill driver, drill driver, right angle drill (gets between joists), trim saw**, 16g nailer, 18g narrow crown stapler, and probably more with 2 x 4Ah and 3 x 1.5Ah batteries

** All with upgraded blades as the OEM ones are OK but resulted in tear out.

Noggin wrote: Sat Jun 05, 2021 7:37 pm This thread is a bit of a surprise to me, I didn't realise Makitas had willy's. I've got Bosch tools and they don't

Can I swap the Bosch stuff for the willy waving Makitas - you know, just for entertainment

Sure. Just search for drilldo

Now bear in mind that this is my business, my van is getting on and in no way posh.
To be fair I quite like it to look unassuming cos its less likely to be broken into. The value inside is way more than what the van is worth. Never having it signwritten either, thats just an advert that its got expensive tools inside.
Some people work in an office and spend their money on a nice car, thats not high on my priorities at all.
I enjoy my work and am not planning on being dragged into an office til the day I'm incapable of doing it so I want my tools to last.
Almost everytime I open up another box I think "Looks like I missed that out" and the values are on there for insurance reasons, most of those tools live in my van everyday and are the main big ticket items.
The list includes handtools as well cos I can't be arsed to edit it all out. I keep a list on my phone so I can update it as I spot something else but its missing a fair bit really and even today I've edited it slightly.

Tools in the van.
110 volt 3.2 Kva transformer. ￡70.
110 volt cable reel.
110 volt Hitachi SDS drill. ￡130.
110 volt Festool TS55 REQ plungesaw ￡400 plus 2x FS1400 rails @￡90 each and 1 x FS1080 guiderail.
110 volt De-Walt planer. ￡190.
110 volt Makita chopsaw. ￡190
Festool CTM 26 cleantec dust extractor with Bluetooth module, was ￡680 but then I put a ￡70 bluetooth module on it.

Cordless tools.
Hitachi 18 volt Brushless 3 anvil impact screwdriver. Mebbe ￡130.
Hitachi 18 volt brushless combi drill.
Hitachi 18 volt brushless multitool. ￡184.
Hitachi 18 volt brushless 16 gauge brad nailgun. ￡250.
Hitachi charger and 3 No 5 Ah batteries for above.
Festool HKC 55 18 volt crosscut plungesaw (about ￡280) with FSK 420mm crosscut rail. ￡107.
Festool charger and 2 x 5.2 Ah batteries for above. ￡184.
A 5.2 Ah bluetooth enabled battery and a 6.2Ah bluetooth enabled battery.
The bluetooth allows a cordless tool to autostart my Festool dust extractor.

De-Walt 18 volt charger and 4 x 5Ah and 2x 9Ah batteries.
De-Walt 18 volt brushless SDS drill.
De-Walt 18 volt compact recip saw.
Dewalt 18 volt planer.
De-Walt 18 volt brushless framing nailer. ￡270.
De-Walt 18 volt Jigsaw.  ￡102.
De-Walt 18 volt site light think it was about ￡90.
De-Walt 18 volt reciprocating saw, about ￡90.

Handtools.
Stanley 5 1/2 Jackplane. ￡80.
Chapell universal rafter square. ￡110.
Bobs leather pouch. ￡40.
Bobs leather wide leather belt. ￡38.
Estwing 20 Oz leather washer handled hammer with ripclaws. ￡45.
Fisco 8m tape measure. ￡16
Estwing claw bar. ￡14.
Pennant adjustable spanner. ￡20.
NWS compound action end cutting pliers ￡40.
Snap On stubby square handle ratcheting screwdriver ￡70
Beta punch. ￡5.
Stanley knife. ￡17.
Lyra lumber crayon holder + Oregon lumber crayon.

A few assorted clamps/spreaders.
6 foot Stanley Fatmax level for doing door casings and so on. ￡68.
600mm Stabila girder level ￡70.
Box of auger bits from 6mm to 25mm.
Stanley 5 1/2 jackplane is IMO a better general purpose plane than a smoother as its wider and longer, I have a Japanese Samurai Laminated and a Veritas PMV-11 blade/iron in it. ￡100.
Two joiners stools made from 4x2 with a 6x2 top.
Birdcage awl made from a snapped sparkys screwdriver, way better than the ones I can buy.
Pliers.
Stanley long aviation style Snips. ￡25?
Marking guage I made myself at college.
Bahco adjustable spanner.
Couple of "normal" screwdrivers.
Plumbers adjustable pliers.
Two plumbers pipe cutters cos you never know when you might need em.


A set of six marples chisels plus a 2 inch one thats just great.
2 axminster 42mm all steel chisels that I have out of the box almost every day.
Set of dividers that one of my brothers gave me for marking circles.
Veritas adjustable mouth low angle block plane. ￡200 or so nowadays.
Veritas honing MK 2 guide.
Stanley 92 shoulder/rebate plane.
DMT 600 grit diamond hone.
Set of nailpunches.
Sliding bevel x2 (one for the plumb cut and the other for the seat cut on a roof for the times I need two of them).
Assorted countersinks.
Estwing 24 Oz framing hammer.
2 foot wrecking bar.

Almost all of that list^ lives in Festool T-Loc boxes that fit in my van toolsafe. Not impregnable but pretty slow and noisy to get into all the same.

So looking through it seems I have three Hitachi batteries, all 5 Ah.
Four 5 Ah De-Walt batteries and two 9 Ah Flexvolt ones.
Two 5.2 Ah Festool normal batteries and a 6.2Ah and a 5.2Ah bluetooth enabled batteries that trigger the autostart on my Festool CTM 26 dust extractor.
I don't plan on ever getting anymore 110 volt tools. Batteries are the way forward for me.

I’m a novice to all this but have enjoyed going from Bosch green type stuff to Makita.

Half term this week and I’ve done:

-small decking round the side of the house
-fitted a new front door
-taken up the floor in one of the bedrooms ( which needed all the furniture taking apart and moving)
-internal shed cladding.

All battery powered freedom and confidence inspired by having decent tools.

Mate finally dropped off the battery he promised me. Good thing was it came with a drill attached! If he’d just given me that in the first place I’d only needed to buy a charger!

Taipan wrote: Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:13 pm Good thing was it came with a drill attached!

Looks like a impact driver.

Pirahna wrote: Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:17 pm

Taipan wrote: Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:13 pm Good thing was it came with a drill attached!

Looks like a impact driver.

Aye it is. It matches my 2 Fakitas nicely"!