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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:22 pm

I came into some money and have wanted to buy a set for a while. Was looking at Dewalt and Porter/Cable at Lowes and Ryobi at Home Depot.

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Postby skullman80 » Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:30 pm

I have like 4 Ryobi tools. No issues. Swappable batteries are nice since they all use the same one.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:40 pm

I have some Rigid stuff that I’m a fan of. My dad has pretty much every battery powered tool that Milwaukee makes and loves them all.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:42 pm

I'm also not doing anything hardcore. Just household chores.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:57 pm

I hate the color of Ryobi.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:59 pm

I really agree

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:04 pm

It’s honestly the reason why I don’t own any Ryobi stuff.

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Postby Willie Kool » Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:36 pm

All my power tools are Bosch, Makita or Milwakee.

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Postby mac5155 » Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:45 pm

Ryobi, ridgid, and Milwaukee are the good, better, best lines. I believe they are all made by the same parent company.

My main thing is I don't do "much" either and when I do, the batteries are worn out. With ridgid I can get consistent replacement batteries free of charge

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:27 am

All my power tools are Bosch, Makita or Milwakee.
Same.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Thu Nov 14, 2019 10:11 am

Ended up getting this and buying the impact driver separately.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/PORTER-CABLE-2 ... d/50353174

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Postby MWB » Thu Nov 14, 2019 1:53 pm

Just closed on a new house and am getting ready to start projects, first of which is new blinds. Has anyone had blinds installed at a reasonable rate? Is it worth me looking into? I have no problem doing it myself, just comes down to if the cost can be low enough where it’s worth the time I gain out of not doing it myself.

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Nov 14, 2019 1:56 pm

The previous owner of our house had blinds purchased and installed by JustBlinds. I'm glad they footed the bill, because while I do like the blinds they chose, they paid an insane amount of money (IMO). I would have installed them myself if I were in their shoes.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:15 pm

Blinds are stupidly expensive and I refused to pay money for custom blinds or installation, so we went with these from Home Depot: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-Decora ... /301179727

Can cut in store to fit your windows and cost less than $50 per blind.

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Postby MWB » Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:39 pm

Yeah, that’s why I’ll probably end up doing.

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Postby mac5155 » Thu Nov 14, 2019 3:37 pm

We used Ikea blinds in our house until we realized that we don't really need blinds living in the middle of no where. They re cheap and good quality

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:34 pm

We hung our own Levelor blinds. Lowe's had to custom cut two out of ten blinds. Pretty easy to do imo. 12 years later, all are still hanging level. 😂

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Nov 15, 2019 7:37 am

We used Ikea blinds in our house until we realized that we don't really need blinds living in the middle of no where. They re cheap and good quality
If we were surrounded by forest/the sticks, there's no way in hell my wife would let us go without blinds :lol:

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Postby mac5155 » Fri Nov 15, 2019 10:58 am

We used Ikea blinds in our house until we realized that we don't really need blinds living in the middle of no where. They re cheap and good quality
If we were surrounded by forest/the sticks, there's no way in hell my wife would let us go without blinds :lol:
It is fun waking up in the morning/middle of the night and seeing a random light in the woods :pop:

(usually it's a car about a mile away)

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Postby Ad@m » Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:26 am

That’s someone with a spotting scope looking in your windows.

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Postby blackjack68 » Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:18 pm

Image

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Postby robbiestoupe » Mon Nov 18, 2019 11:54 am

Pretty sure my washing machine tub bearing is bad. It will spin if there's a small load or no load, but if there are too many clothes it won't spin. Spent $70 on parts to fix it, but after watching the youtube video on how to do the repair, I expect most of my Saturday to be washed away.

Beats paying for a new machine, so I hope this works.
$70 and a hammered finger later and it wasn't the tub bearing. I had to chisel out the bearing nut as the thing was frozen on the shaft.

Spent about 6 hours on the dumb thing and probably half of that trying to remove the nut. No amount of liquid wrench, heat or pounding on the wrench with a hammer did the trick.

Guessing the real issue was the transmission. Wasn't going to spend $175 on a new one so the old washing machine is gonzo.

New washer coming Saturday. If it lasts anywhere near as long as my old one I'll be happy.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Nov 18, 2019 11:55 am

WELL WELL WELL

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Postby robbiestoupe » Mon Nov 18, 2019 1:16 pm

WELL WELL WELL
:lol:

at least I had some time to myself and learned how a washing machine works

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