Being an Automotive Technician is more than just working on cars, its more than just the 9-5, its a skilled trade that is becoming more advanced every single day. It takes a special kind of person to become a productive and efficient flat-rate technician, its not easy work. I take pride in my trade and hope to help others looking to get into the Automotive repair field, and that already are in the field, find pride in it as well.
As long as the tool lasts, the brush-less will outlast the brushed motors. I still use my brushed motors, in dusty areas, the brushes could be affected. Additionally, brushes will wear out over time, and can be a pain in the ass to change (if you don't know how to do it). In brushed motors, the commutator will also eventually wear out which will require a total motor replacement. I'm considering switching to brush-less for these reasons. I'm tired of having to change out brushes.
It seems over the past maybe 5 years that Gear-Wrench prices have gone up A LOT! Maybe it is all the people online buying and raving about them that drive the prices up, or maybe they have just made better tools. I remember like 10 years ago they were considered to be on the lower end of quality and now you can not even buy a socket set for less then $100. I have some Gear-Wrench and I have been very happy with all the products. I can never afford Snap-On or MAC tools so I am glad that some pros use Gear-Wench.
LOL - That is about the ONLY way I will ever own any Snap-On tools, finding one in a car somewhere. Maybe used tools I can afford, but new, never. Just too expensive and for what I do I do not not the top of the line tools. I am not a every day car guy so I get it that you and anyone who works daily on cars needs the better tools.
Those don’t have any ark support in them. To get the nice comfortable arch support you need the 55 last or higher with the logger heel.. once you go to a pair of those, you’ll never turn back to that useless H&W last
Dimensions? Why hardly nobody covers dimensions? I don’t care whether you feel it’s nice or not, what is the hard data? Length, width, height, depth, etc…..
My brown set took a month and a half to break in but my black set of builder pros took 2.5 months to break in. I'm wearing the black ones right now and after 2 years between two pairs and I still have another year before I'll send a pair off for a resole
Great little setup, not too much fluff but you have most useful stuff, and most importantly you will make it to the repair job because the van is a Chevy
This was an awesome review and while I appreciate the statement about Makita not having much automotive tool’s because it will help get them in gear and hopefully offer more to people like me who are heavily invested in their 18 and 12 volt platform’s I think a lot of people underestimate their automotive offerings.. In the US (not their largest market and we don’t get access to their entire lineup) they offer a cordless grease gun, Inflator, high torque impact, mid torque impact, “low torque” impact (the impact he reviewed), cordless ratchet, grinder, compact sawzall, cordless heat gun, many drills to choose from, they have a cordless LXT vacuum pump… As far as cordless automotive tools go I can’t think of much more someone would need in their shop. These are the tools I could name off the top of my head so who knows what else they might have.
You could have gave us some Brands especially in the Drawer that had all your different type Bits. Hex, Torx, etc. none of those open Blow Molded Cases gave us any idea as to what Brands those were. You can’t go by Color of Case anymore because every Company uses these Colors. It would not have added much time to the Video, besides most of us are accustomed to a Professional Mechanics Toolbox Tour lasting anywhere from 45 mins to an 60+ mins.
I am looking at getting a used 6s with the center hutch because I really like how much extra tool storage you get with the drawers. That being said, I'm coming from a regular 2 bay hutch and I'm worried that I might feel too cramped in the smaller center hutch. Do you find it pretty usable for a laptop and maybe a clipboard with R.O.'s on it? I like having a surface I can write my stories on.
Very nice setup man love this coming form a field tech crane truck I would love to have full boxes and an area to work on rebuilding parts indoors , but you loose the crane and welder generator compressor on top and the bed space getting to bad spots with 4x4 truck vs van but for automotive it makes so much sense very nice
I'm with you on the feel, and function of DeWalt brushless vs the brushed. Unless you're running them side by side I'd almost defy you to tell the difference. That being said, the brushless gets more from the same battery. If you're building a deck, or adding on an addition, you'll be able to see for your self. Something I haven't heard anyone mention is trigger modulation underload. You can drive screw faster with the brushless. I was helping a buddy that has gotten the newer set for his birthday and we each swapped back and forth. He said, "whichever one of these bad boys we like best, I'll with me to work, and leave the other set at the house." He ended up leaving the brushed stuff at the house. I've got old RYOBI brushed 18v stuff, and the brushed DeWalt stuff is better. Not whole lot better, but enough to tell the difference, enough to be worth mentioning. I also have old Milwaukee M12 brushed drill and hex driver set(every year, I think, "this will be the last year you see this stuff available for purchase new, in store, but nope!)other than it being roughly 60% the size of RYOBI stuff I used at home, they only give up top power the much bigger 18v stuff. I also have the M12 FUEL sub compact Hex driver, and sub-compact 1/2" highspeed drill that's easily capable of drilling 5 holes back to back without a break with 2Ah battery through a 6mm thick(just a tiny bit less than a 1/4")Volvo road tractor frame cross member.(I was well impressed. No way my bigger 18v brushed RYOBI 1/2" could have done same job, especially, not as blazing fast as the little M12 did it. I don't have any DeWalt stuff yet, but I'm a tool slut, slut, so I'll be getting some soon enough.
I want to build a van like this so bad but I live in a shitty area and have had issues with people breaking into my sheds and storage buildings and vehicles so I’d be paranoid having all that money in there
