Which tool has best parts availability?
edwardh1
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Any opinions on which tool brand has the best parts (probably a combination of good initial design, anong with not changing it every year etc??)
. I have had bad experience with sears and their unknown Chinese manufacturers.
Of other brands who is the best for getting that small part that is keeping you from using your poratbe power tool (saw, sawzall) etc
Makita?? i got a drill chuck overnight from them once , ordered at 2 pm – came next day from 150 miles away.
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Milwaukee has been OK for me.
Milwaukee and Bosch.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Dewalt was always real good at replacing parts, trouble was I had to use them to many times
PC has always been good to me because there has always been a PC store near by.
Never needed anything from Milwaukee, that says something in and of itself.
I can still get parts for my Rockwell 315 and all the other Rockwell tools purchased in the 70's. If not new, then canibalized from my lifelong tool supplier. Milwaukee's older tools no problem, that is if they were to crap out which they haven't. None of the newer (90's) tools from Hitachi or Bosch have needed repair either. Maintainence parts (brushes etc) have always been available.
I always go in the back and ask about service record b/4 I buy new. Guys that have repetitive job crews can really give it a test.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
all of Mil from the 70 and 80's are still in service.
Same for Bosch.....
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Has anyone mentioned Milwaukee yet?
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edit to add the word OLD ;)
Edited 10/14/2003 8:42:33 AM ET by CAG
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