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Dan Maynard
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There is a bloke on Youtube, US based, who buys and "tears down" power tools, and if I remember, he avers that the tools retailed by the stores such a Screwfix carry subtly different model numbers from those sold in higher priced outlets and are hence easily confused with the searched for product, AND more critically the guts are different, perhaps a cheaper plastic bushing instead of a proper bearing, etc etc. I know when the brother worked in a motor factors that if anyone brought back a failed bog standard Draper rachet, they simply went in the back and swopped out the broken guts for a Professional grade set of guts,  and the customer went away happy, or so he told me.

So appearances can be deceptive.

'Ere we go!

And honest to God, that was the first clip that came forward!

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1 hour ago, difflock said:

There is a bloke on Youtube, US based, who buys and "tears down" power tools, and if I remember, he avers that the tools retailed by the stores such a Screwfix carry subtly different model numbers from those sold in higher priced outlets and are hence easily confused with the searched for product, AND more critically the guts are different, perhaps a cheaper plastic bushing instead of a proper bearing, etc etc. I know when the brother worked in a motor factors that if anyone brought back a failed bog standard Draper rachet, they simply went in the back and swopped out the broken guts for a Professional grade set of guts,  and the customer went away happy, or so he told me.

So appearances can be deceptive.

'Ere we go!

And honest to God, that was the first clip that came forward!

Could well be. That’s a cheap model, you can see by the casing. 
 

ive not found any of my Milwaukee top end stuff shit, and at £250 bare for the angle grinder I just bought I’d expect quality. 
 

if you search, you can find any tool sold at a big store considerably cheaper from an online power tool specialist, so no reason to buy from screwfix at all. 

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5 minutes ago, doobin said:

Could well be. That’s a cheap model, you can see by the casing. 
 

ive not found any of my Milwaukee top end stuff shit, and at £250 bare for the angle grinder I just bought I’d expect quality. 
 

if you search, you can find any tool sold at a big store considerably cheaper from an online power tool specialist, so no reason to buy from screwfix at all. 

You do not always get what you pay for.

But you most certainly do NOT get what you do NOT pay for.

I imagine.

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2 hours ago, Stubby said:

I have heard ( on here I think ) that there are different " grades " of tools made by the top brands . The lesser grades are sold in screw fix , tool station etc . If you go strait to the Milwaukee web site you pay a bit more but get better quality . I don't know If this is the case though ?

I take that with a pinch of salt. I abuse all my tools and never had an issue with DeWalt in the last 3 years or so. Before that and for a period they where made of chocolate right enough. 

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3 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

I take that with a pinch of salt. I abuse all my tools and never had an issue with DeWalt in the last 3 years or so. Before that and for a period they where made of chocolate right enough. 

I have DeWalt also . Still got the brush moters !

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