> I have the milwaukee 18v combo pack--drill, circular saw, flashlight and
> 'hatchet' sawzall.
I recently bought the Milwaukee 18V cordless sawzall also. Between
remodeling the house and needing to cut some pieces out of a junkyard Saab,
it's proven quite handy thus far. The hatchet-design is clever and in some
cases quite handy, but I'll hold my judgment on that until I see how it
holds up after five or six years.
I've had a corded Sawzall for years, and it's done great work, but most of
the recip-saw work needed around the house has been run-here-cut-this-pipe,
run-there-cut-hole-for-electrical-box, etc. and you'd spend more time
moving the cord than cutting. For something like cutting a bunch of steel
for panhard-bar brackets, as I've done in the past, the corded tool would
probably be preferable.
For what it's worth, I also just replaced my DeWalt 14.4V drill (amazing,
it breaks when dropped onto a concrete slab from 18ft up. Who'd have
thought?) The one on display at OSH was US-made, but sometime after that
one was made they moved manufacturing to Mexico (as seems to be the case
with most of the DeWalt tools, at least the cordless ones.) The Milwaukee
drills are German (rebranded AEG? Bosch?) but everything else appears to
be US-made, if it matters to you. Makita seems to be heading for China
now.
John.
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