Hitachi rubbish

Hitachi has gone down hill badly, wouldn't touch anything made by them now, Makita is another brand,which has lost it's quailty with some of it's tools, their sliding mitre saw is just one, I wouldn't touch now.

But,I do have a two Hitachi tools, a 9" grinder & sabre saw both quite a few years old now, both very, very well used, both performed superbly & I have never had any problems with them.

As for nail guns, look at the Dewalt's cordless models.

 

I've got to say the Hitachi 9" grinder is one of the best out there, have used them for more than 25 years now with little trouble.

 

Agree, my Hitachi grinder must be 15 years old, but older Hitachi tools seem to of a better quailty compared to the newer tools,& go on & on for ever.

 

Must agree with everyone. All my kit is old Makita mostly 240v. No probs at all. OK, will probably out last me, but I can't help thinking that all tools,both hand & power are now made down to a price, Stanley is a good example. I will look after my tools,as they can not easily be replaced nowadays.

 

I certainly wouldn't have put Hitachi up there with the more common brands. Cordless wise its Dewalt XR 18v all the way for me. Nailers wise its Dewalt too. Track saw Festool. Extractor Fein. Big router Makita, little router/trimmer Bosch. SDS Stanley Fatmax.

 

Well, I didn't know that they did drills.

Got a Bosch GBH 4 DFE 4kg SDS Rotary Drill, nearly 12 years old, had a very hard life,but it's never let me down, I wonder if the newer Bosch rotray drills around today would last as long.

 

Not DeWalt for a router?

 

Had an old Makita for years and years and the little palm router though I hate it is a Bosch. I have a Trend kicking about somewhere in the workshop that everything has fallen off and a big Triton upside down in a table permanently. Looking at the little cordless Dewalt cut out tool for letting in hinges though.

 

It was a freebie to be honest! I don't have a massive call for SDS use. It only gets maybe 20 days of use a year and performs well. Most of the time brown and red plugs cover 99% of work and its usually just a combi or drill driver with the Bosch Multiconstruction bits I reach for.

 

My Makita SDS has inter changeable chucks, so dead handy for putting a hole in steel .....Well, it's what I used to do , but really usefull. My Makita percussion drill has a keyed chuck & I love it. Maybe it's me getting old, but I still think that tool quality has gone downhill recently.

 

I have a Hitachi jigsaw, probably twenty years old now. Still going strong. Had new brushes and that's about it. Excellent tool

 

The thing to remember is that most portable power tools are in the light engineering category, and as such prone to a limited life and lack of robustness. Now and then one of the manufacturers makes a surprisingly 'good un', and if you are lucky you can get one at the time. But I can only see the engineering getting more lighter and finnicky and more disposable in years to come.

 

Sometimes you just have to take a wider view on power tool ranges, particularly in the cordless area. Having a system on a single charger saves so much hassle its worth perhaps accepting a couple of lesser quality items. The Dewalt radio is a bit pony to be honest as are some of the torches and lights but having the ability to charge up 5 batteries on one charger in advance and do a days work when the juice is off is a great benefit. I used to carry about a million different chargers and batteries and it just became huge hassle.

 

I do the same with makita i am slowly moving over to cordless everything as and when i can afford it and having a load of batteries that fit every tool is the dogs danglies

 

My Bosch cordless combi batteries are on their last legs, been looking around at what's available, decided to go with Makita LXT kit, thinks it's better than the current Bosch range.
Makita have a very comprehesive 18v cordless range available, even a 18v/240v coffee maker (DCM500Z).

 

i thought the hitachi stuff is quite good although a lot of stuff nowadays is made to pack up 2 days after the warranty!

 

I've got LXT gear and it seems to take a lot of punishment, my corded drills never leave the garage now, they even do a hand held metal cutting bandsaw which works!

 

Hired one of those cordless bandsaw, when I made some gates,rather impress with it, as I was with their cordless 18v chainsaw, had my doubts, but it made short work of a pear tree.

 

Never mind the coffee machine its the battery powered pushbike that makes me laugh