www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk

I have just been on ebay and whilst looking at dewalt tools I spotted some milwaukee power tools for sale. These seem very expensive tools and make Bosch and Dewalt seem cheap!

Has anyone out there ever used these tools?

I have heard mixed reports about Milwaukee power tools, some people love them and others hate them, having never used them I cannot comment. But from a price perspective they seem to be more expensive than dewalt or bosch, and personally I'd go for Bosch.

Better the devil you know!

I believe that Milwaukee are renamed Atlas copco tools, who used to have a pretty good reputation.

You are not kidding about the price-

£229.00 for a 9" Angle grinder

ultimatehandyman wrote:
Better the power devil you know!

:evil2: :evil2: :evil2:

Power devil :twisted:

My first cordless drill was powerdevil. Mind you i was only 15

Hitch wrote:Power devil :twisted:

My first cordless drill was powerdevil. Mind you i was only 15

Did it make it to your 16th birthday??

Believe it or not, i still kept it as a spare untill a few months ago.
Gave it to my grandad and hes using it now occasionally!

Batteries not great now, but £30 for 7 years use.

Milwaukee are part of Atlas-Copco, who also own AEG Power Tools and Kango (or Wolf-Kango as it used to be?) so depending on where you are in the world the machine might have one of three different badges. The tools are a mixture of AEG, Atlas and Milwaukee designs (Kango is almost no more) and in general seem to be built to quite a good standard. They do a brilliant corded drill range called the "Magnum" (a US design). I know someone who has moved over onto Milwaukee cordless drills and angle grinders because they last longer, but I can't say I fancy the prices. There are one or two lemons in the range, though, like the Casals FT2000 router badged AEG and Atlas-Copco (also sold as the Freud FT2000).

Scrit

at those prices they can keep their tools :o