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Ouch, Monday morning I was using my DeWalt 14.4v drill to screw the rafters onto the frame for the cupola I’m building. I set the fool thing down on the bench for five minutes and sure enough, it got knocked over and onto the floor. Now it’s making a not so nice new noise and vibrating a bit. That hurts, I’ve been using it for a little over a year and I work it hard, but I’ve never heard of that happening so easily to a DeWalt drill. I hope my 18v isn’t next. Anyone else have a problem like this, or just me. Maybe I’m having bad luck lately because my DeWalt skillsaw just started making a strange noise too.
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N, take it back to the Home Cheapo. DeWalt's rep says they'll take any tool with a problem back for an exchange... put it to the test.
*The second time I dropped my Panasonic off a 2 story roof, I cracked the case. The battery is now held in by a velcro strap, but other than that it works fine.
*2 wraps of Scotch "33" on my old 12v. Bosch battery... same situation/same result.
*Hopefully he'll have better luck than I did, George. My 18volt DeWalt cordless drill's chuck would not loosen up to let me change bits, so I took it in, and the repair shop said DeWalt would not honor the warranty because the chuck had rubbed on drywall and the gypsum had gotten into the chuck and was binding it up. They called this "abuse" and I had to shell out $45 for a new chuck, which turned out not to clutch.The good news is last week, I was building a deck and the drill got knocked off, fell twelve feet, and nothing happened to it. So, for problems, I'll take mine as is.MD
*My 12v has fallen off ladders and roofs many times and the body is just cracked in a few places. It still works fine. Just for reiteration... make any laborers use their own tools!
*I can't count the times I've dropped my Panasonic in the last three years, no dents, no cracks, no yellow.
*Same story as G.W. Carpenter, my Bosch took a trip down two flights of stairs, the batterys in with tape, and the motor I took apart to "unlock it" finding three extra pin type parts, so I put back together without 'em because it was obviously overengineered and it still works great. Yea..I'd buy another.
*My Makita went south after jumping off the ladder onto a concrete floor (cops dispute it but I'm convinced it was suicide). Cost me 65 bucks to have it resurected.Just Bob's input
*Ran into a fellow who was dropping off his 14.4 dewalt at the repair store. Broke right at the forward reverse button, just like mine. Mine also whines occassionally like a dry bearing, come to think of it, it sounds like my 14.4 v. saw. Skip
*Mines been making that same whine for two years now!
*Mine started making the noise the other day, right after my neighbor's son mentioned it smelled funny, and that his Dad's smelled that way last week, and that it was "something to do with the brushes". Took it apart, and found that the rear armature busing had fallen out, turning the brushes into a defacto bearing. Fortunately, no permanent damage, and it went together just fine. I think a 3-foot fall, especially hitting on the but-end of the tool could easily dislodge the bushing.
*Hey guys, well just to let you all know I've long since replaced that drill with a 14.4v Makita - hell I even changed my user name a few times since then. So far so good. I liked that balance a bit better on the blue drills and I got those new NIMH batteries plus a flashlight. Real nice drill... real nice deal. Anyways, we've said this about a thousand times now here, DeWalt tools just don't seem to be all that they're cracked up to be. I admit that some of their equipment is okay, but they definately aren't the pick of the litter anymore. Oh well, same old story I guess...
*I really love my Dewalt 12v cause its a pistol grip, I better take it apart and check that bushing.
*My boss had a 18v Makita that fell 8 feet off of a wall, looked undamaged. 4 days later the battery fell out 15 feet above me and landed square on top of my head.(That hurts. BAD.) 2 days after that, I pick the drill up out of the case and the aluminum gearcase falls off of it. He is a lot more cautious with his new Makita. Both of my 18v DeWalt's have fell repeatedly from various heights(Prazi Bigg Lugg's are worthless!) and haven't missed a lick.
*Falls...lets see, one from about eight feet, no problems, ten feet took the clips off the battery and thats now taped in, no problems, second set of stairs about ten to twelve feet, dislodged three pins or something (when I took it apart to unlock the motor, they fell out)they did'nt go back in and it works fine, lighter too! The last one was twelve to fifteen to the concrete with a cracked motor housing, a little tape and it works great. Oh yea, it's a Bosch.
*Had my new bosch 14.4 only a week and foolishly placed it on 2nd floor railing of a deck I was working on...realized just after I heard it slide off that it was a bad place to put it.It fell 13ft onto a concrete sidewalk, split it in two sending all the gear bits everywhere.110 $(can) repair bill later and its good as new.I'm much more carefull were I place it...much more.
* The day before Thanksgiving, I was hurrying around trying to get stress skins screwed down on a timber frame we are building. I balanced my Craftsman 18v over my knee to position a panel. Youguessed it, it slipped off and slid around the toe boards and off theroof about 14 feet to the concrete below. I now have a two piecedrill. For something made by DeWalt it has not seemed very tough.
*Have any of you guys ever heard about Murphy's Law?;>)
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Ouch, Monday morning I was using my DeWalt 14.4v drill to screw the rafters onto the frame for the cupola I'm building. I set the fool thing down on the bench for five minutes and sure enough, it got knocked over and onto the floor. Now it's making a not so nice new noise and vibrating a bit. That hurts, I've been using it for a little over a year and I work it hard, but I've never heard of that happening so easily to a DeWalt drill. I hope my 18v isn't next. Anyone else have a problem like this, or just me. Maybe I'm having bad luck lately because my DeWalt skillsaw just started making a strange noise too.