Craftsman V20 Brushless RP 1/2" Drive High Torque Impact Wrench Review CMCF940M1 

Look.... Truth is, the *REAL* Craftsman is gone. The factory where it was made, the hard-working fellow Americans who made Craftsman tools.... Gone. Literally the only thing that survived is the name. And, when a certain company bought the Craftsman name from Sears for $900 Million (not a typo) their lawyers for some incredibly stupid reason, didn't bother getting the _exclusive_ rights to the name. While Sears was still in business, they were able to legally continue to make tools using the Craftsman name. And, due to some more legal nonsense, another company was also able to release tools bearing the Craftsman name as well. All three entities had legal rights to the name, shortly after the sale. All three had a line of cordless power-tools. With three different proprietary battery-packs that didn't work with each other. Sears in its dying day had Craftsman, Lowe's was supplied with Craftsman tools from the company that paid $900 Million for the non-exclusive rights to use the Craftsman name. And, outside of Sears, and Lowe's you had companies selling the 3rd Craftsman line of tools. It was insane! Highlighted the truth. ONLY thing that currently exists nowadays is the Craftsman name. Slapped onto tools that are good, but they used to be great. Brushless models, a very good bargain. Brushed tools are horribly overpriced for what you get. Same goes for Craftsman tool boxes.

I like the red yay 🤤

I think tractor supply is the only or one of few places that still have porter cable. I used to love PC until i couldnt find them anywhere for awhile

Yea I got the porter cable version of this gun it’s holding up to the test axles suspension brakes engine tear down taking off engines mounts a whole bunch of shit it’s still holding up thinking it’s pretty good but I am thinking of of buying that dewalt dc900 or Milwaukee idk 🤷‍♂️

I have all of the batteries too. I haven’t noticed any difference between the 6.0 and the 9.0. The 6.0 really wakes everything up. The 9.0 gives that extra run time. It would be cool to see some real world tests and numbers.

Depending on the tool 9amp battery is great with the circular saw, miter saw and recip saw that's where it shines, impact driver and wrenches don't consume as much power, that is why on Milwaukee impacts the 6amp is better than the 12amp

I got my Craftsman CMCF940 used from a pawn shop and it came with a different charger and 6AH battery. The manufacturing date on the battery was newer than the tool and the tool itself was only months old at the time, so I lucked out. I actually fixed my DeWALT DCF899 and didn’t need two of essentially the same tool so I ended up giving the Craftsman to a friend who absolutely LOVES it. That means it’s on at least it’s fourth owner despite being less than a year old (counting the pawn shop that mixed up the batteries). :) I’m using my DeWALT with 5AH batteries so it’s kind of a small downgrade for me but I didn’t have anything else to use Craftsman V20 Max batteries with making it the logical one to pass on.

I do see a Lowe’s listing for a Craftsman V20 Max 5AH battery (CMCB205) but it’s out of stock.

@@emmettturner9452 odd I’ve searched before a few times and nothing showed up for me on their app & webpage

@Big Shaw I have a 5Amp hour battery I think you can only get them in a kit with certain tools I got my with the weed eater and blower combo that's on sale.

Comes with two 5 ah batteries the push mower and the tiller comes with 5 ah but I'd buy the 6 ah battery anyways better deal and runs a while longer than the 5 ah

I have the P262 and it's no slouch but it's still a mid torque. The new RYOBI high torque would be the one to pit against this Craftsman

If on a budget go with ryobi because you never have to worry about them making a battery format go obsolete. Craftsman seems like they change their battery format every couple years making their tools automatically obsolete.

Not necessarily obsolete... but yes it is very annoying to have to buy adaptors just because they changed their battery platform. Worked at many shops that used Dewalt or Milwaukee... the number of times some poor crew was out somewhere and forgot the stupid adaptor. It's like 80% of the reason I'm with Ryobi.

I have the ryobi p262 and with ryobi you have to have the right battery’s which cost. If I knew what I knew I would have went with this or dewalt

they took an old design(in dewalt), tweaked it based on their internal research, it benefits from the latest components & design guidelines and the result is slightly better performance overall. they never change existing designs unless theres a safety recall and theres no need to change the existing supply chain for something that is tried and tested but they continuously release newer iterations that also feature those benefits(result: the dewalt900). like apple releases new products, but never change the old ones as theres no need.

It’s a entry level brand meant to compete with Ryobi. I say it excels at it. Dewalt is the answer to Milwaukee Craftsman is the answer to Ryobi Porter Cable meant to go against Hart. Black and Decker is super low tier. Meant to compete against Chinese knock offs. Kobalt and Flex although not black and decker is meant to go against Ridgid.

@@juanc5149 flex and Hercules have Milwaukie and dewalt looking over their shoulders

That’s how I felt in the years prior but not now that the CMCF940 is literally a DeWALT DCD899 high-torque that fits Craftsman batteries and not now that Stanley Black & Decker is ramping up to produce Craftsman-branded hand tools in the USA again. Even at their height, Craftsman was just a label on quality American tools made by other companies. It seems like they are headed that way again in SBD’s hands. No one can complain about their best power tools being rebadged versions of what was DeWALT’s best only months ago (new DCF900 kills the DCF899… and everything else).

Who cares if I can buy for almost half the price and same quality and power I'm buying it I have dewalt and craftsman batteries and chargers. I just got the craftsman oscillating brushless that is the best on the market

Craftsman is owned by Stanley Black & Decker who also owns MAC and DeWalt. They all come out of the same factories.

Torque test channel says that's a lie

Yea your the only person in the world who uses power tools all the time,go figure,we are sure you know everything about power tools

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