Pro Tool Reviews: There’s a certain excitement in the air on head-to-head testing days in our shop. It’s the payoff from all the hours we spend designing experiments to mimic real-world conditions and build rigs to help control variables. And there are almost always surprises along the way.
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Tools will always be pitted against each other in order to find out which one is superior and this article does just that. I enjoyed their dedication to testing the drills with a variety of tests because almost everyone ends up touching a drill in their lifetime and will use them for a plethora of different tasks. I am of the belief that everyone should at least learn how to use household power tools because it can open doors to both creativity and practicality. If a commonly used item breaks during a busy week sometimes it can become more cost and time effective to repair the item yourself and power tools are almost always needed to complete the repair. It also opens many creative opportunities because fabrication as a whole allows for people to specifically design their space to be suited to their exact wants and needs. Overall The article appeals to a mass audience allowing more people to feel as though they can purchase and successfully use household power tools.
I appreciate the adherence to the scientific process is how they tested these drills. I find that often a drill is the tool I'm using the most when there's time pressure yet because it isn't as specialized as other tools many shops I've worked in in the past have tried to lower costs by buying cheaper drills. These tests show that in many ways having high quality tools, even for something as simple as a cordless drill can make a real difference in the timing of a task. The only problem I see with a test like this is that many workshops are somewhat stuck using tools all from one brand because of the lack of standardization of batteries. While many workshops do in fact use multiple brands of tools I think it would be greatly beneficial to the tool industry if battery designs were standardized allowing consumers to choose the tool that works best for them using the batteries they already have rather than needing to get a new set of batteries for every new brand of tools they buy.
This article highlights a debate that I think will never have a definitive answer, and this article perfectly shows this. In my opinion the way that this article performed these tests is flawed. I understand that speed is a very important factor for drills, but to me this isn't the only thing that should be tested to determine the best drill. The speed of a drill is definitely a factor that can determine the best drill, but what about how easy it is to swap bits, or how well the chuck of a drill holds a bit. Durability is also a major factor when it comes to which is the best drill, and this could be tested by drop tests or other impact tests. The point is that the speed of a drill is not the only thing that makes a drill the best. Overall though I was surprised to see that the Milwaukee was testing last for most of the tests in this article, and as someone who prefers Milwaukee tools I do not know how I feel about this development.
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