Friday, July 29, 2016
DeWalt Experience 2016 – With A Side Of Stanley, B&D, Proto, Porter-Cable and DIYZ
Home Fixated: In late June, the tool team with the yellow shirts gathered up an assortment of their newest products. They rented an airplane hangar to showcase it (there were a LOT of new products), and invited over 100 members of the tool press to Baltimore to check it all out at the DeWalt Experience. The highlight of the event was the rollout of the DeWalt FlexVolt battery platform, which we covered in a previous post, but the 2016 DeWalt Experience featured a slew of other new products, from Accessories to Zip tools. Here’s a quick peek at a sampling of DeWalt products available now or in the near future, along with a bonus look at what’s new at their affiliated brands – including a brand-NEW brand!
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I would be really excited about all these new products if it wasn't for that fact that they're DeWalt tools. I am against using any DeWalt told as they aren't designed as well as they could be. There company has a lot of money yet always seems to be one step behind the competitors in equipment. We used to have DeWalt drills in my high school shop, but quickly replaced them when we realized how poorly made they are compared to Milwaukee's, which is the company we switched to. Our class really felt the difference. It's much more efficient and comfortable. Everything in the 2016 collection seemed very similar to what companies strived for a couple years ago. Also, most of their products have to do with storage and I would've like to see less of that and more on the actual equipment being used. However, I do like the laser cutter and crowbar lift and think they can be useful for a cheap price. But overall, I'm not a fan of DeWalt and this collection didn't convince to like their products and company.
DeWalt tools are consistently less reliable than other companies like Milwaukee and Hilti, and I believe the reason for that is that DeWalt seems to believe that because they already have such an established consumer base they can copy old designs from those other companies years after they are considered new and pass that off as cutting edge to an uniformed group of consumers who, sadly make up the majority of people who are purchasing power tools.
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