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  • Ah good you got the proper ones. Loads of shops sell the despecced version, or the brushed one that still says fuel on it, confusing! Like they'll still be good.
    I have a year of near full time on the above. The impact is an utter beast, best tool in their range. Have active use of Makita and Dewalt equiv. The Makita is a close 2nd (the lastest one), the dewalt is like a childs toy by comparison. Beware though, in each of the respective '18v' range of each of the big three brands there are versions and sub versions and regional versions so you can't go off USA youtube comparisons so much.

    The 12v milwaukee multi tool is amazing, debated about getting it for ages. The blade change isn't as good as bosch or fein (pretty much same thing now/made by same company?). But its small enough, very fast and very accurate at cutting with good blades (fein or bosch blue are the best IME), doesn't walk around so much as my old hand me down 1st gen cabled Fein, and cuts much faster and with dramatically less vibration than many others I've used. Dewalts 18v is ridiculously massive, has a very clever looking blade lock thing, but its so huge that doesn't go the places that the M12 unit does.

    The automotive milwaukee M12 and M18 ranges are all basically power houses and rugged. Not for fine work. The drill driver in your set there is a slight let down, the 'e clutch' lowest setting is like the equiv of at least half way up the range on the Dewalt 18v drill which has a very very good mechanical clutch. The dewalt and makita equiv both have much better chucks, only ever occasionally a drill bit comes loose. On the M18 its gonna happen several times a day and throw a drill bit across the room.

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