Thread: Which Cordless drill to buy??

Originally Posted by CraigE

Most of Atlas gear is rebadged and overpriced. Atlas Copco have a lot of gear bought form manufacturers with their name put on them. I have several Atlas air tools that are actually not made by them. Atlas (Swedish company) actually bought Milwaukee around 1995 and this is why the higher presence in Australia recently and why so many similar drills, but were bought from Atlas by Ryobi (Techtronic) in 2005. As per reference below AEG may be a copy of Milwaukee or vice versa. Contrary to belief Milwaukee are not American tools as most people think, but have always been Hong Kong / Chinese. My brother actually sells power tools. Milwaukee are actually a stand alone company and only manufacture a fairly small range of tools compared to some. Not for a minute saying they manufacture every component, practically no one does. There are quite a number of so called manufacturers that sub out specific manufacturing either totally or partially. I remember my brother saying something about US/Japanese/Chinese based companies sharing some manufacturing base, but can not recall who shared what. But even so, products made in the same factory for brand names are often made to their specs under licence, so even products that actually come out of the same factory are not equal.
Milwaukee


Ryobi


DeWalt


Makita


Bosch/Metabo


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Point taken, just saying that a milwaukee 18v cordless is made by AEG.

Originally Posted by ryaninhilltop

Point taken, just saying that a milwaukee 18v cordless is made by AEG.

Hey, was not having a shot at all. Just posting some info for anyone interested. Generally I am not sure if I would buy a Milwaukee Drill as they are an unknown quantity to me but the Sawzal or recip saws are the best on the market. As for cordless drills, Metabo or Bosch are my pick if you have the $. Ryobi (even though made under Techtronic banner) I have found to be rubbish cordless drills, but apparentlly they have borrowed from AEG and Milwaukee design lately. Makita is my pick for corded drills and grinders with DeWalt a close second. Have a Dewalt Hammer drill as I got a really good clearance price on it and it has taken a flogging over the last 7 years and still is perfect.
Cheers
Craig