Pro Tool Reviews: When you put your hands on and test over 50 drills a year, you get a feel for who makes the best cordless drill. After testing all those tools we understand how each of the Milwaukee cordless drills fits into their lineup. The best Milwaukee drill for you may be the most powerful, the best value, or the most compact. It just depends on what you plan to do with the tool and what kind of work you want to accomplish.
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Hell yeah Milwaukee drill review. As someone who was once asked for a drill for a Christmas gift, and sadly never received it, I love this article. Now I honestly don't know much about drills and the different types and what they do and all of that, however I think it's really interesting to look at the different types and kind of learn more about them. They said the top selling one was the Milwaukee hammer drill with an auto stop. Now I don't even know what that means. I mean obviously I love a good hammer drill. Those are the best. very powerful and helpful, but what does an auto stop even mean? Having run further you find out it means that when the drill bit stops spinning and you would instead start spinning the actual drill and your wrist it stops on its own. I think that's cool as hell, because you can hurt your wrist especially with such a high powered drill. what I say about not understanding drills, is I don't really understand how the torque speed and all that affects it that is a more physics problem and I am not a physics man, but if I have a drill that I can get the job done and the fastest and most efficient way, while making it safe and sturdy I'd be more than happy.
As someone who has used probably half a dozen types of drill over my time as a theater maker I can confidently say hands down that Milwaukee makes the best drills for their price point. I know at CMU we use Milwaukee hammer drills in the school of drama and use Hilti for our drill. With so many new and powerful Milwaukee drills on the market it may be worth making the switch in the school of drama. Something briefly highlighted in the article but should be considered is the cross compatibility between Milwaukee drills and other products. The same 18 volt batteries can be used to power circ saws, Jigsaws and other tools in Milwaukee’s lines. This is a feature I use at the other shop I work with outside the school of drama. Another thing that shocked me when it came to this article was the different types of drills Milwaukee sells. The two types of drills used in our industry are impact drivers and standard drills so it was interesting to read about other products Milwaukee produces.
Milwaukee drills are nice – they’re also really expensive and pretty overhyped. Especially, I think, in the theater world. I feel like for what we do, Milwaukee stuff is kind of overkill. How often do the Hilti drills break, or are underpowered? And even then, I see pictures of a lot of broken Milwaukee drills online – usually right above or below the handle they tend to snap. I don’t know. We don’t make sets out of concrete or drill through our walls on a regular basis, so we don’t really need hammer drills. I don’t think we drill steel enough to warrant getting a spade handle drill or something stupid big. I don’t know. I’m not trying to say that they’re bad at all. The place I work summers at has Milwaukee stuff, and it’s great – especially the interchangeable batteries. But we aren’t making wooden sets, we drill through walls and put tapcons in concrete floors and punch holes in I beams. I just don’t think Milwaukee is right for a scene shop. Their bits really suck, though. They can’t drill shit and the case they come in is terrible.
I like these articles because I always learn new little details about tools and what they’re made of for certain purposes. I’ve seen a lot of Milwaukee tools in the CMU shop and I assumed that they must be a good brand. Until I came to CMU I did not have much experience with power tools or any of the machines in the shop and with articles like this one explaining the most optimal Milwaukee tools for specific needs helps expand my shop vocabulary. I also didn’t know about certain features drivers could have like when it mentioned the 2904 hammer drill’s ability to stop when it feels a counter rotation to prevent wrist injury. I also like that it explained why certain milwaukee drill bits are better for certain materials such as titanium on wood for a reduced friction experience and cobalt quad edge bits for steel since they reduce heat.
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