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<blockquote data-quote="Lasherž" data-source="post: 8704853" data-attributes="member: 679555"><p>Milwaukee's gone downhill since they were bought by TTI. They seem to have two classes of products, one that's about as good as the low end used to be and one that's junk but cheap. They used to be contractor grade tools, but most of the contractors I know now use Hilti. I gotta figure if the companies are willing to fork out that much money for Hilti then they probably expect them to last forever with abuse.</p><p></p><p>The batteries in Milwaukee are good of course, but they use the same cells that everyone else does just occasionally more of them. Yes, even Hercules uses quality brand lithium cells, just very few of them. The main Milwaukee superpower is branding and quick turn around on development, they'll put out products very quickly after Sanyo, LG, or Samsung make new cells with a certain property like cold performance and have a product out that month claiming whatever the cells are good at while the other brands lag behind or upgrade without hardly mentioning the batteries. Milwaukee has some believing they make their own lithium cells and have ancient high tech in there lol. Nah, they don't even stick to one brand of lithiums in concurrent product lines.</p><p></p><p>The quality lines of Milwaukee are still good, but they're priced exactly what they're worth and that's the problem with all TTI companies, I just don't think there's such a thing as a Milwaukee hidden gem any more, but go back 20-25 years and every product was just about. Really if not for the invention of brushless DC motors and these powerful lithium cells we'd all still be using models from the early 90s for reliability and just swapping the brushes every few years of use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lasherž, post: 8704853, member: 679555"] Milwaukee's gone downhill since they were bought by TTI. They seem to have two classes of products, one that's about as good as the low end used to be and one that's junk but cheap. They used to be contractor grade tools, but most of the contractors I know now use Hilti. I gotta figure if the companies are willing to fork out that much money for Hilti then they probably expect them to last forever with abuse. The batteries in Milwaukee are good of course, but they use the same cells that everyone else does just occasionally more of them. Yes, even Hercules uses quality brand lithium cells, just very few of them. The main Milwaukee superpower is branding and quick turn around on development, they'll put out products very quickly after Sanyo, LG, or Samsung make new cells with a certain property like cold performance and have a product out that month claiming whatever the cells are good at while the other brands lag behind or upgrade without hardly mentioning the batteries. Milwaukee has some believing they make their own lithium cells and have ancient high tech in there lol. Nah, they don't even stick to one brand of lithiums in concurrent product lines. The quality lines of Milwaukee are still good, but they're priced exactly what they're worth and that's the problem with all TTI companies, I just don't think there's such a thing as a Milwaukee hidden gem any more, but go back 20-25 years and every product was just about. Really if not for the invention of brushless DC motors and these powerful lithium cells we'd all still be using models from the early 90s for reliability and just swapping the brushes every few years of use. [/QUOTE]
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