/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2705070
A lot of places already have their 'Black Friday' sales going on. There might be some one day only doorbusters kinda stuff, but there is already are already some really good deals out there. I actually picked up the brushless M12 hammer drill and impact driver with 3 batteries from Home Depot for $199 on Monday.

>>2705070
Yeah Home Depot runs their holiday sales from the last week of October thru like Feb 1, so you might as well buy now. And the “Free Tool” sales and such are generally the same across all the big retailers because it’s more of a manufacturer sale than a retailer sale.

>>2705085
This sale has been going for like 20 months out of the past 2 years. M12 Fuel drill and driver kit for $199-$229 with a free battery or a free non-fuel tool.

Opie check Home Depot’s website too because there are random sales you won’t see in-store, like maybe a Fuel hackzall or ratchet with a battery and charger for $10 more than you would pay in-store for the tool alone.

Also let it be said because there are lots of retards out there… if you’re going to spend $1k on 12V tools and don’t already own the basic 18V stuff like a full size hammer drill and saw(s) and an impact wrench for mechanic stuff, then your an retarded as well.

Black Friday is only a thing if you are actually high in melanin content and want to trample other high melanin content "people" for a television at a Wal-Mart in Chicago.

It's just bullshit.

There are sales on stuff all the time anymore. Black Friday sales are b.s. Anything that is some amazing deal has a limit on it and it's gone in seconds. Hell I don't know if they really even do that stuff anymore because people were actually getting in brawls and trampling each other to death.

>>2705092
I was in the trades for 7 years and got by fine with just M12 impact.
When you go from 12v to 120v AC, you realize 18v is meme

>>2705113
If you’re a sparky who is opening panels mostly, 12V is fine. But it’s shitty to try to build a cordless platform on it.

When you use good 18V, you realize extension cords are annoying and unnecessary.

Also Home Depot has a handful of Milwaukee kits on their “Deal of the Day”. It’s worth opening their app for a second when you’re on the shitter in the morning if you’re looking for deals. Tons of power tools pop up for a 24hr sale once every week or two and the prices can be better than the holiday sales.

>>2705070
If you like Christmas deals definitely get these. You'll be seeing green and red flashing lights from all the batteries that don't want to charge. Only two of my five m12 batteries don't have to be put on and off the charger about a dozen times before they actually charge. Maybe it's because they're my backup tools and the least used but these tools are also several years younger that my everyday tools that have only partially lost 1 of 10 batteries with the first, still working being 8+ years old. The tools are great for a homeowner lever or low level professional stuff but the battery failure rate makes me want to scrap the six m12 tools I have.

>>2705447
they came out with new batteries lately that fix problems like that if you didnt know

>>2705113
>paid by the hour

>>2705092
>don’t already own the basic 18V stuff like a full size hammer drill and saw(s) and an impact wrench for mechanic stuff
I do, m18 is precisely why I'm staying within the battery platform. Otherwise I would have gone DeWalt or even Snap-On (because I have a discount)

>>2705451
If that is true, a "new" 5 amp hour M12 battery costs $15 less than my vacuum that came with a 5amp hour battery. So at the end of the day the tools is being repurchased with the hopes that the batteries were actually fixed and I'm not getting an old battery sold as new

>>2705163
>Extension cords are annoying and unnecessary

Unless you work in an actual trade. Electrical, plumbing and air conditioning are not trades. You are a technician

>>2705675
“Trade” isn’t synonymous with general contractor my friend. Even then, a couple saws and large sanding jobs are probably the only thing still corded on lots of jobsites.

Unless your definition of “trade” is custom woodworker or cabinet maker or some shit like that, and in that case you’re staying within a 10ft radius of a bench. And even then, you could replace some of those corded tools and realize it’s so much nicer not to be fucking with a cord or air line.

god I couldn't imagine being poor enough to have to swarm my local walmart in a horde of smelly brown people the one time of year that I can afford a new flatscreen or drill lmao

>>2706013
Honestly. Just finance that 70” TV for $23/wk like the rest of us!

Is that M12 impact wrench worth a damn? Wanna get some stuff to work on my /o/ hobbies and the M18 wrenches are sorta pricey

>>2706482
what drive? m12 is fine for hobby stuff

>>2706482
The stubbies are straight for general nuts and bolts, but they don’t do much that a regular 1/4” impact driver with a socket adapter will do.

The thing is when you only have one impact wrench, you kind of want one with some balls that will remove nuts and bolts that are a pain in the ass to get with hand tools, and the M12 isn’t going to loosen anything you can’t do with hand tools. The M12 won’t even take off lug nuts that were overtorqued by idiots at the tire shop, and that’s one of the main things you want an impact wrench for.

If you can only have one impact wrench for /o/ stuff, get one of the newer 18V mid torque brushless models. They’re good for like 600ft-lbs and will do almost everything on passenger cars. Plus the current mid torques are pretty damn compact, they’re shorter than most drills.

The only people who shill the 12V stubby as your first and only /o/ impact wrench are those who wanted Fuel for cheap and don’t wrench much and don’t own any other tools.

>>2706589
>hobby stuff
Jfc.

>>2706482
Also if M18 is too pricey for you, that means you shouldn’t buy Milwaukee. You obviously aren’t going to be using them 8hrs a week in a shop, and it would be dumb to limit yourself because you want to be a Red Fanboi like your favorite youtuber. There’s more affordable 18V/20V/24V brands that are more than enough for weekend wrenchers. Ryobi 18V is the best for DIYers, Ridgid and Kobalt are a step up and pretty affordable, and DeWalt 20v has better sales than Milwaukee and is still a higher end brand.

Best route for babby wrencher’s first power tools, get down on a 18V/20V/24V drill + impact driver starter kit because you shouldn’t be wrenching much if you don’t at least own a drill. And that 1/4” impact driver, you can stick a socket adapter in there and it does 90% of what that M12 stubby does. Then get down on a 1/2” brushless mid torque impact from that same brand, and now you’re set to do everything from small interior screws up to wheels and larger suspension bolts.

>inb4 some 17 year old says “no stupid I have the M12 stubby and it did everything I needed it to do that one time I did an oil change on my mom’s Civic!”
Wrench a little more and let me know when you had to borrow your friend’s 18V because you wasted all afternoon trying to remove some rusty bolt under the car and the 12V wouldn’t touch it.

>>2706620
Nothing like a showcase picture of a bunch of spotless tools from our resident retard that claims to “wrench a lot.” Post those pics of that one time you changed plugs again, guy. We’re all waiting with bated breath.

>>2706620
the m12 stubby can actually take off lug nuts which is the highest torqued thing most /o/ hobbyist will come across lol
why are you so stupidly obnoxious i really dont get it

>>2706624
>can take off lug nuts that were properly torqued <6mos ago*
Yeah, wrench a little more and you will see. You don’t have to touch many vehicles before you find a stud that was mangled by the stoned kid doing a tire rotation at Jiffy Bois.

>>2706624
Also if a lug nut is the highest torqued thing you have come across, you really have no need for an impact wrench anyway because you obviously haven’t done shit related to cars.

>>2706625
that's what a breaker bar and/or twist sockets are for
why would you get an m18 before those two things for lug nuts? dummy
>>2706627
I never me PERSONALLY, talking in general for people who do their own car stuff
again, why are you so obnoxiously dumb?

>>2705085
I got a brand new m12 combo pack with two batteries, charger and a cloth carry case for only $165 from some seller on Facebook Marketplace. For some reason they always have new items there for far beyond retail price at least in the NJ and NY area.

Here is exactly what I got:
M12 Fuel combo kit
3497-22

https://www.homedepot.com/p/M12-FUEL-12-Volt-Lithium-Ion-Brushless-Cordless-Hammer-Drill-and-Impact-Driver-Combo-Kit-w-2-Batteries-and-Bag-2-Tool-3497-22/320268525

Includes: (1) 3404-20 M12 FUEL Hammer Drill Driver Bare Tool, (1) 3453-20 M12 Fuel Impact Driver Bare Tool, (1) M12 Redlithium XC 4.0AH Battery (48-11-2440), (1) M12 Redlithium CP 2.0AH Battery (48-11-2420), (1) M12 Battery Charger (48-59-2401)

>>2706640
because a lot of it was stolen

>>2706026
Or, you know, don't buy the tv and sit there soaking in all the uselessness of the propaganda being beamed across the air like a complete noob...

Maybe try going outside and doing something productive instead.

>>2706635
Do a little more work buddy

>>2705070
The two 18V 5.0AH batteries + charger + plus tool deal for $199 is excellent, so long as you actually need one of the tools. I got the blower, since I actually needed that.
Only M12 thing I have is the cutoff wheel tool. I wouldn't bother with 12V stuff otherwise.

>>2706642
Kek, you missed the joke.

Finance it! 8% over 36mos!

I’m amazed I haven’t gotten the Home Depot credit card yet.

>>2706646
Doesn’t look like there’s an impact wrench offering though.

Pic related is a good /o/ starter. Ryobi dropped a new 1/2” compact that’s like 275ft-lbs, so you could get the high torque 1/2”, the compact 1/2”, and a brushless angle grinder and that’s an awesome little mechanic add-on kit for <$300.

>>2706646
There’s some decent DeWalt deals too,

The Powerstack kit with a 5.0 and 1.7 gives you two free XR/Atomic tools. No mid-torque or high torque, but the DeWalt compact 20V Atomic impact wrench has more balls than the 12V stubby, and they offer that new tiny 1/4” impact driver or an XR angle grinder.

>>2706659
… and this with a free extended reach ratchet

There’s a bunch of good free tool deals for about the price you would pay for a 12V plus battery.

>>2706635
The fucks a breaker bar?
Get a long neck ratchet if your worried about car lugs lol.
Personally I would get the dewalt one for a few hundred, but Snap-on isn't really more expensive though after batteries and charger.

>>2706642
stop engaging with tripfags dumbass