[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 83, Issue 48

[Andrew Vida]

peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
> I like those massive old tools. I have an ancient milwalkee 3/4" drill 
> motor that has a 5 # flywheel just benind the gear cluster.
> It's a real wrist buster..Almost tossed a friend off the top of a 20' 
> extension ladder.
> I took it apart a few years ago,  to replace the bearings..but none were 
> available..neither SAE nor Metric fit.
> Wasn't all that bad, guess i'll put it back together.
> Last new tools i got from milwaukee were over engineered and under built 
> POS. ( what's the plural?)...made in china.  sigh.
> But truth be told, when i do have to run a big auger through a timber..i 
> go for my old hole-hog.

It is ghastly to witness the plunge Milwaukee took.  I used to love some 
of their stuff, except the belt sanders which worked about as badly as I 
would expect had Obammy designed it.  Never could figure out how they 
managed such a horrid design.

Most of the tool world appears at times to be going to hell in a hand 
basket.