A screwdriver is both a chisel AND a pry bar. And after your buddy has snapped the blade of your finest driver clean off, it makes a mighty fine hole punch if you don't mind the screaming.
This channel changed my life and personality on a fundamental level. Thank you faceless man. Sorry I'm piss poor or I'd be delighted to send you off on a tropical vacation.
You new here, right? XD in the old days 1/3 of the video was off frame, and when you saw what you should, it was off focus to a blurry mess, still loved every second and didn't dare to blink. You could miss a sharp second there!
I have the 1/2 version of this impact, so far so good. It has taken an impressive amount of beating, I've run the thing so hard the hammer housing burned me, it's been exposed to , oil, coolant, power steering fluid, transmission fluid, brake cleaner, all the nasty stuff. The thing just keeps running, I'm pretty happy with it.
I still use my 9 year old impact driver. I used the hell out of it. Framing 12 guage metal studs, building fences , decks , hanging sheetrock, dropped dozen of times and still working like a champ.
AvE zapped himself in this video, and here you are ElectroBOOM.. I bet my nuggets you are behind it! Can you please zap him with higher voltage next time?!
I wondered the same thing, but Googling for some photos on permanent magnet motors it looks like the magnets are buried inside steel laminations, so the magnets wouldn't have been visible, but the steel laminations were.
AvE called out the only problem I've had with my 6-year-old 887... No bellows on the trigger switch. Micro metal shavings migrate into the trigger swith and eventually cause it's variable speed control to go demonic. Flushing the switch out with electrical contact cleaner removes the demons. Related complaint... If the trigger switch ever does go down, it is potted together with the brainbox. Replacement part cost for the potted assembly is $20 shy of an entirely new driver. Makes repair pointless.
As a business owner can confirm: Returning a product for warranty costs more in lost time than just buying another. Personally I have doubles of everything so when one breaks I can chooch on until the next one arrives.
Then you need to find a new supplier. Ours keeps track of the serial numbers for us. Tool breaks, we drop it off and it gets fixed. No worrying about receipts or invoices.
The way you make me laugh while sharing your extensive knowledge and experience is why I love this channel. I always learn something, whether it be about a tool or some funny saying. I appreciate you sharing the information you've obtained over the years with all of us on RUclips land. Thanks again, Jason St. Louis, Mo
"The guys who design these things never use them". As it goes with everything else on earth, except airplanes. Come to think of it, even airplanes are done that way lately.
@@kwhp1507 can’t get a PhD in aeronautical engineering from a community college. You can only get engineering degrees from abet accredited schools which standardize curriculum across the country. That’s why engineers from MIT learn the same stuff as guys from Ohio state etc.
I found one of them brushed dewilts at a pull apart, same as the one you’ve yet to dig into and that thing has seen some hot suppers and I’ve put it through plenty more and that thing still kicks ass love them dewilts and your channel
I've had this same model for about 3 years now in an automotive shop, so far still chooches just fine. I've had the impact section so hot it could burn you and have even set a car down on it on accident and somehow it didn't break, just bent (not permanently) and flung itself across the shop. Even the overmolding is still fine after being covered in oil and brake cleaner for its whole life.
Some times the confuser in the brushless controller gets locked up. Yanking the battery and shorting the tool contacts will discharge the capacitor and force the confuser to reboot
I'll try this for my impact, its brusless and i know it has that capacitor embedded in the motor controller because i saw it, never came to mind to discharge the fukin thing
@@phanto4 always fun when they use them to secure crates and then ship it to the UK where no-one has seen them before or has any way of getting a driver bit easily
Welcume unkle BF. We missed your melodic melodies. Your cursing too!!! I've been a Dewalt guy for some twenty plus years. Even the 14.4 tools work fine after getting new batteries
Had one of them older brushed dewalt impact drivers for about 7yrs used in an automotive shop. Damn good tool. The over mold obviously fell off immediately of course but still worked great.
Still, my entire crew runs absolutely full time on dewalt. Dewalt works better, colder, longer and all at way below normal temps. I'm from Northern Montana.
@@sourbrothers73 keeps the schmoo in place when the homeowner flips the breaker on for the master suite closet because the wife didn't tell the husband you were putting the new light fixture in today...not that this has happened or anything
I've warrantied three different things with Dewalt. All they ask for is the date code off the tool and basic info, it's not like milwakee where they want you to send it in to get repaired.
@@marksmith6104 someone at Dewalt seems to have calculated that just sending a new one is cheaper. Says something about how expensive their labour is vs the tool itself in terms of costs that cannot be earned back easily. Training people in repairing tools? Pfff. Too expensive.
I said the same thing they will generally just send a new tool no questions asked like stated above. I have two 12v xtreme 3/8 impacts because I asked them in the oil seal is supposed to leak to be fair she just had a steaming hot supper 🤣
I've been using the 20volt brushless for the past four years. I like them. I've got 6 drills and three Dewclaw specials. All working in the field by everyone. NO FAILURES TO REPORT. WE TRASHED THE BLUE/GREEN colored ones. The new ones fail ed after three months. That's why we have so many yellow handles tools. Assemboled in USA from world sources. (where labors c h e a p.
Yeah I've got a DW brush(ed) impact going on 5 years of daily use. Picked up one of the teal handle ones on the cheap and that's exactly how it performed. Failed on the third day.
love watching the vidjayos man, the way you talk reminds me of my ND friends. You teach so much practicality and always have interesting shit to say. From plastics, milling, electronics, plumbing, I know its simple to you but your breakdown videos help people see and identify how stuff is good or bad. hope to see more milling videos if possible!
off topic, but something sparked a memory of my childhood... i remember reading out of an old farmer's almanac (i believe it was late 60's), that my father had given me, mentioned something about sharpening or refurbishing old metal files using ferric chloride. could have been another chemical, but the basis was that after you had treated your files in the solution, it would "refine" the little cutting teeth or gullets by eating away the curled over edges...
Interesting lil fact I was on site and my dewalt drill died (a new drill for this job) I pulled a fast one and got the cheapest ruching ryobi drill just for the sakes of it and it’s still going 3 years later
The only Dewalt cordless stuff that lasts our company over a year is that which sits on a shelf 364 days of it. Meanwhile, company issued Cryobi stuff, what the newbies get so you know it's extra abused, handily outlasts it. Newest impact is 3 years old, and the one it replaced was dropped 20ft more often than a crack mom drops her crack baby.
Glad to see it works again. I have one of these and I love it. It has survived many drops from an 8 ft ladder, and the motor speed control lets me use it on all kinds of stuff I'd be worried about trashing otherwise.
I have one of the 20v brushless drills. I've had it about 5 years, my only issue is the trigger doesn't always give full speed. I can move the trigger around and it will speed up and slow down slightly.
I've got 3 Dewalt brushed impacts, had them 3 or 4 years, no real problems other than the bit holder letting loose (easy fix btw). Just picked up a set with a brushless impact and hammer drill, no complaints so far
I had the dcf886 impact and it was awesome. Used it and beat it up full time on all types of fasteners big and small, lags etc, dropped it off a second story and it was fine. Had it for almost 5 yrs before the trigger developed a dead spot- still works though. I think the 887 is just not as good a machine though, I keep hearing about them burning up and dying
@@jeffnorbert1871 3/8 square? They're both just standard 1/4 hex impact drivers. I do think there is a 3/8 for impact sockets but it's a different number altogether as far as I know
Had exactly them same issue with a bosch impact... one of the two balls that are between the shaft from the gearbox and the hammer were jammed and prevented the hammer moving back...
The near miss incident papers are located in the lavatory mounted on a roll on the wall you can just tear off copies and fill them out at your leisure.
@@wes11bravo one of my CPE clients started losing CO lines, one at a time - about one an hour. My techs were booked up with installs, so I went. I found that the painters had taken a rain day but they had showed initiative and had taken a six-pair of protector off the wall to paint under it. But, they left it open, in the rain catch position but slightly inclined. Three pair or underwater and the creek was rising. I tried it out as best I could, put the cover back on and called the trouble in to the LEC. I followed up at the premises a little later and found New England Telephone's tech on the phone with either his foreman or the test board. "I had enough one pair of protectors to get their pots lines back in service. But, the police department says the alarm line still shows 'trouble'. He had ignored me up till that point, but I made a horizontal peace sign in his direction, and then flipped it over like a pancake. He gave his brain a high five. "You're not going to believe this. But, a guy just walked in off the street and told me how to fix it. I'm going to flip the polarity and call them back." I didn't spoil his moment by telling him who I was. Why do technicians have hunched shoulders and flat foreheads? Ask them a question and they go 🤷♂️ Tell them the answer and they go 🤦♂️
@@williamdegnan4718 man, did ya disappear into the woods or something, I surely would've come spoken to you later or yelled out a cheers mate at least. To each their own though, I ain't telling that tech how to operate socially.
I’ve got two of those brushless impacts, ones 5 1/2 and the other about 3 or so years old, ive beat the crap out of them, Use them as a dead blow all the time and even dropped one off a roof (by accident of course) down 3 stories onto concrete, just popped the battery back on and back about my business. I love these things. That spring loaded chuck is awesome for those one handed ladder top already holding the work piece bit changes 😁
I use the back of my hammer drill to tap plastic anchors into stucco/concrete. It takes such a light tap I doubt it hurts the tool. I won’t bother adding a hammer to my belt just for that... A hardened case back meant for tapping would be nice. But you can bet some fool would use it on nails and ruin the fun. If it was built to tap, it’d get heavy quick.
Hey AvE, I'm curious if you could reckon the production and logisitcal costs of tools sometimes in BOLTR, I'm wondering what the profit margins are if there is any good reason for brushless to be more expensive than brushed. Enjoyed this one, thanks!
I often come across the tracks of electricians past, and would argue that electricians favourite screws are 3 1/2” 6’s which have been used in the vain hope of finding anything at all to screw into ! Now I think about it I have never seen such screws anywhere on sale in the normal building emporia that I frequent, so there must be places down alleys that sparks go to purchase the materials of their bizarre trade,which must be full of the longest thinnest screws ever made.
My old company issued us the DeWalt XR 20V 1/4 impacts, and I never really heard of anyone having issues with them. I bought myself one this summer, and so far it's been great. Both same model, DCF887.
I have "fixed" more computer devices and electric tools simply by taking apart and reassembling. The latest was a $19 Warrior mouse sander. Left for dead and then resurrected. No rhyme or reason. Great vid!
World known to be the best you mean. It was released in 2014 or so I think and it's still the one every new impact is benchmarked against. Been using them for years in roofing and can't remember having a problem except for the random ones that got broke when they were dropped 😛
When I was working in the trades full time all of the new guys including me showed up with a yellow drill/impact set. The second set they bought to replace them was always red or teal.
My milfu kee impact driver stopped and all I did was the same as this.. took it apart and put it back together and it works.. who knows.. Now my 3/4" impact just crapped out and that one did not come back after taking it apart. I too am an electchicken so I do not need a 3/4" impact that often but when I do... So the symptom is it just does not turn at all. The lights come on and it kinda bounces the fan a bit when you pull the trigger.. So I suspect some electronic contrivance is to blame..
Hate to say it but I stopped buying dealt a couple years ago. Went to the kollbalt 24v brushless series and I havent been able to kill one yet. Pretty damned decent tools I use and abuse daily in the shop(I replace trailer axles and bearings, and use the impact, and drill daily)
That's exactly what happened to the first one of those I had. Even the second one stuck a couple of times. After going to the store once I just powered through on the second one and it seems to be ok now. I'm happy with it.
I've had one of these tools for about three years now. It's fallen off of a roof, been dropped in metal dust in a fabrication shop, and generally just had the hell beat out of it and it's never given me trouble.
I met with a TTI Rep, business is really crap if they're calling me! But he was saying the Candy mountains hurting big time. The box stores aren't cutting it. Even with flooring and extended terms. No money flowing east. Ping made ultimatitice to HK mega merchants. Get on the right side of the party quick and bring in foreign Currancy now. He said HK's days are numbered as a free trade state.
Id like to send my millfawkee impact in a month or two. Shess fell off about 4 roofs, drills about 20-200,1/4" holes into studs a job then does the same number of 3/8? Lags and tbolts for securing aluminum rail to feet (solar terms for the racking system we use) basically does a lot and hasn't died yet. Id love to see how bad the internals got. Would like it back if possible. Def gonna upgrade and just hand that one to the ground guy if it comes back. Anyways love the channel, my buddy has your stickers in his rigid boxes. Great tool, just been dropped a total of like 100ft, sometimes in nice soft mud but a few rocks on those beautiful mountains jobs.
The DCF885 is hands down an indestructible impact. Ive replaced the anvil on mine once in 5 years and that was a refurbished unit to begin with! I bought a 2nd one when i refreshed the first to have at home since the old reliable gets used daily at work in a mechanics shop
@@lilpbass I use my milwaukee impact almost every day at work, my 1-yr old Hilti, is still in the case, never been used, its too nice to get dirty (true-story)
@@lilpbass hilti cordless line is overpriced china crap just like every other cordless brand except they only have like 12 tools on their cordless line where makita and milwaukee have 100's of tools on their cordless lines
Your videos are amazingly usefull. I am curious what happens to the angry pixie contrivances that arent put back into original form? I would glady become an impromptu recyclist of any tote coming out of this channel, if help is of course needed. Love the content and lingo, never quit Ave!
Interesting "fix it" video...refreshing in a way to see it being broke down & put back together since I own this Dewalt drill. Liked the video a lot & guy has a unique sense of humor especially with his odd vocabulary of words. Enjoyed the video even more cuz of the phrases & slang words he says. Most I didn't inderstsnd if was from Canada I'd know all aboot these words
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Everything is a hammer, unless it's a screwdriver, then it's a chisel!
The handle end can and will be used as a hammer.
@@JBSlickflyer to close the aforementioned paint tin
@@daic7274 exactly.
Especially the back of a Dewalt impact
A screwdriver is both a chisel AND a pry bar. And after your buddy has snapped the blade of your finest driver clean off, it makes a mighty fine hole punch if you don't mind the screaming.
It's impressive how proud the elec-chickens are of themselves. Whenever they're in the shitter stall they're always clapping vigorously. Both of 'em.
It’s a miracle when only one shows up
This channel changed my life and personality on a fundamental level. Thank you faceless man. Sorry I'm piss poor or I'd be delighted to send you off on a tropical vacation.
im with ya on that one. this guy is one of the best ''youtubers'' i have ever seen.
@@enigmab0x865 Why'd you put youtubers in quotes? I double-checked and this is actually RUclips.
When people ask if I can speak another language, I tell them I speak AvE, an endangered dialect of Canadian English.
It's a Hybrid of Acadian and Trailer Park Boys. Lol
With quite a few bits of Dutch and French thrown in for good measure, mind you
Tell them it's Acadian vernacular English.
Pardon, but it's Canuckistani.
And a mix of Mexican/American pocho
The only good thing about painted tools is to remind you where you borrowed them from 8 years ago.
“That switch is nice to see”
Would be good if you’d be so kind as to show us
Patented AvE framing technology.
Framing you fack
You new here, right? XD in the old days 1/3 of the video was off frame, and when you saw what you should, it was off focus to a blurry mess, still loved every second and didn't dare to blink. You could miss a sharp second there!
@@gaborkrammer He still hasn't managed to get his head in the frame!
Uncle bumblefuck up to his typical tricks.
First survivor of the healing bench?
Resurrection
no idea where its assembled, maybe ky? but the casting for the gears are made in the old porter cable plant in jackson tn. I work there :)
The measure of a good engineer is that he's never used whatever apparatus that he's engineering.
Nor will he ever use it.
Been watching this guy for years. It's been a trip for sure. Just a, mostly, regular Joe, doing man shit and famous for it. You're my hero
Dewclaw: "why are you calling me?" 🤣
@@jonathan4111 because they are teens, right?
Dew claw, thank you for bringing AvE to life again
Nothing like ripping on an elec chicken to bring the other trades together
Break something else quick.
representing the pixie chasers out there
What’s a dew claw??
When you take somthing apart and get attacked by angry pixies.
They get a bit territorial at times.
I have the 1/2 version of this impact, so far so good. It has taken an impressive amount of beating, I've run the thing so hard the hammer housing burned me, it's been exposed to , oil, coolant, power steering fluid, transmission fluid, brake cleaner, all the nasty stuff. The thing just keeps running, I'm pretty happy with it.
I still use my 9 year old impact driver. I used the hell out of it. Framing 12 guage metal studs, building fences , decks , hanging sheetrock, dropped dozen of times and still working like a champ.
Interesting!! Was that brushless motor an induction motor?? The rotor seemed to have iron core rather than magnets... Am I imagining things?
I think it would certainly be odd to have an induction motor in a hand tool.
AvE zapped himself in this video, and here you are ElectroBOOM..
I bet my nuggets you are behind it!
Can you please zap him with higher voltage next time?!
4:53
I wondered the same thing, but Googling for some photos on permanent magnet motors it looks like the magnets are buried inside steel laminations, so the magnets wouldn't have been visible, but the steel laminations were.
Nope it's a regular permanent magnet motor. No induction magic going on here :)
AvE called out the only problem I've had with my 6-year-old 887...
No bellows on the trigger switch. Micro metal shavings migrate into the trigger swith and eventually cause it's variable speed control to go demonic. Flushing the switch out with electrical contact cleaner removes the demons.
Related complaint... If the trigger switch ever does go down, it is potted together with the brainbox. Replacement part cost for the potted assembly is $20 shy of an entirely new driver. Makes repair pointless.
Heck yeah! Welcome back uncle BF!
Good even-tide
As a business owner can confirm:
Returning a product for warranty costs more in lost time than just buying another.
Personally I have doubles of everything so when one breaks I can chooch on until the next one arrives.
You can chooch on until the 2nd breaks. Which means in todays times before the new thingy arrives.
yep
Then you need to find a new supplier. Ours keeps track of the serial numbers for us. Tool breaks, we drop it off and it gets fixed. No worrying about receipts or invoices.
Some manufacturers are more onerous than others for processing warranty claims. I've been pleasantly surprised a couple of times.
You need a better rep. I just call and they bring a new one and take the old
The way you make me laugh while sharing your extensive knowledge and experience is why I love this channel. I always learn something, whether it be about a tool or some funny saying. I appreciate you sharing the information you've obtained over the years with all of us on RUclips land. Thanks again, Jason St. Louis, Mo
If they didnt want us to "position" things with the back of the tool they wouldn't have made it the perfect shape for tapping.
Username checks out
One of the reasons they dont made the back of the case out of metal for tappy-tappy is in the warranty info. "Accidental/incidental damage"
i think this is why it broke
Wait wait What ??
So your like saying We Shouldn't be going Tap Tap on the back , well F&CK
Just use the lithium battery for the percussive maintenance
When you shocked yourself I literally laughed out loud. 🤣
AvElectroBoom
I damn near died myself from laughing
My girlfriend asked from the other room “what happened” I said he pulled an electroboom
@Albert Einstein Just watch the fucking video. Learn to deal with damn delayed gratification.
@Albert Einstein @12:21
I had a brand new one, didn't work out of the box. Took it apart and boom, big blob of friggin solder pops out. Still working so far today.
Your videos have been more valuable than I expected.
"The guys who design these things never use them". As it goes with everything else on earth, except airplanes. Come to think of it, even airplanes are done that way lately.
If I had the community college PhD in aeronautical engineering I would refuse to fly in my planes too.
Not really. The 2 designers have 8 managers who ask( er demand) crap that no one wants.
I Was just about to mention 737max...
@@kwhp1507 can’t get a PhD in aeronautical engineering from a community college. You can only get engineering degrees from abet accredited schools which standardize curriculum across the country. That’s why engineers from MIT learn the same stuff as guys from Ohio state etc.
@@briansimons2703 It was a joke.
I found one of them brushed dewilts at a pull apart, same as the one you’ve yet to dig into and that thing has seen some hot suppers and I’ve put it through plenty more and that thing still kicks ass love them dewilts and your channel
I've had this same model for about 3 years now in an automotive shop, so far still chooches just fine. I've had the impact section so hot it could burn you and have even set a car down on it on accident and somehow it didn't break, just bent (not permanently) and flung itself across the shop. Even the overmolding is still fine after being covered in oil and brake cleaner for its whole life.
Oh boy do I love when you zoom in to show these little parts that are completly out of frame. 😃
Some times the confuser in the brushless controller gets locked up. Yanking the battery and shorting the tool contacts will discharge the capacitor and force the confuser to reboot
so... you are saying that little shock he gave himself fixed it?
Aha
I'll try this for my impact, its brusless and i know it has that capacitor embedded in the motor controller because i saw it, never came to mind to discharge the fukin thing
I felt a disturbance in the force around lunch, I thought, “AvE must have posted something”
He gets me everytime he says, "Tappy tap tap"
Always good to wake up to a new AvE video in the inbox. Piè ce de résistance was the Robertson square bit, never seen one in the wild, go Canada 🇨🇦
they are slowly becoming more common in certain areas of American life, check your local gettin hub you probably find some
@@phanto4 always fun when they use them to secure crates and then ship it to the UK where no-one has seen them before or has any way of getting a driver bit easily
"Why are you calling me?" That's weird, I thought I was the only one who answered the phone like that lol
"Look hotshot, when you gave it to me it didn't work, now it half-works."
I've broken 8 or 9 of those DCF887s some on the first day. The brushed ones have less power but always last longer
-soo... what was the problem?
-i don't know, i take it apart and put back together and now it works.
if you could just sign this invoice...
Welcume unkle BF. We missed your melodic melodies. Your cursing too!!!
I've been a Dewalt guy for some twenty plus years. Even the 14.4 tools work fine after getting new batteries
Car painter are ya?
How is this comment from 3 days ago if this video was uploaded 2 hours ago?
@@YesImhymn He must have found TOTs time travel lathe.
@@YesImhymn ave has early access for patrons
Had one of them older brushed dewalt impact drivers for about 7yrs used in an automotive shop. Damn good tool. The over mold obviously fell off immediately of course but still worked great.
As always stupendous work. One of the best channels on this youtube thingy.
Still, my entire crew runs absolutely full time on dewalt. Dewalt works better, colder, longer and all at way below normal temps. I'm from Northern Montana.
The second "motor" got me
Dewclaw De-Briefing... Has he even tried boxers?
Us elec-chickens prefer diapers.
@Nicholas White peak?
Briefs are better at keeping everything in place.
I mean he does do de-boxings every time there's a BOLTR, so maybe he switches every so orften.
@@sourbrothers73 keeps the schmoo in place when the homeowner flips the breaker on for the master suite closet because the wife didn't tell the husband you were putting the new light fixture in today...not that this has happened or anything
Dewalt only needs the date code of of the bottom of the tool. If it's under warranty they just send you a new one.
That would require Dewalt spend more on warranty. Not gonna happen, unfortunately. Profits over happy customers... every time.
I've warrantied three different things with Dewalt. All they ask for is the date code off the tool and basic info, it's not like milwakee where they want you to send it in to get repaired.
@@marksmith6104 someone at Dewalt seems to have calculated that just sending a new one is cheaper. Says something about how expensive their labour is vs the tool itself in terms of costs that cannot be earned back easily. Training people in repairing tools? Pfff. Too expensive.
I said the same thing they will generally just send a new tool no questions asked like stated above. I have two 12v xtreme 3/8 impacts because I asked them in the oil seal is supposed to leak to be fair she just had a steaming hot supper 🤣
When the reverse button fell out, I knew it was going to be forgotten.
I've been using the 20volt brushless for the past four years. I like them. I've got 6 drills and three Dewclaw specials. All working in the field by everyone. NO FAILURES TO REPORT. WE TRASHED THE BLUE/GREEN colored ones. The new ones fail ed after three months. That's why we have so many yellow handles tools. Assemboled in USA from world sources. (where labors c h e a p.
Yeah I've got a DW brush(ed) impact going on 5 years of daily use. Picked up one of the teal handle ones on the cheap and that's exactly how it performed. Failed on the third day.
Just bought one of these about a month back. You had me worried when this video popped up
I have been tainted: I now refer to a particular place in my home as the "healing bench"
Hope they washed that taint first.
love watching the vidjayos man, the way you talk reminds me of my ND friends. You teach so much practicality and always have interesting shit to say. From plastics, milling, electronics, plumbing, I know its simple to you but your breakdown videos help people see and identify how stuff is good or bad. hope to see more milling videos if possible!
Dewclaw sounds exactly like The Mandalorian. I bet you've never seen them in the same room at the same time.
mr ave its great to watch u every post am a lic plumber in ct and i love your ch ed bon jovi aka leak master plumbing
Wait the battery isn't the hammer on these impacts? Fooled me
They sure work good as a hammer
at this point, i'm just going to cut some 18g templates and settle this.
off topic, but something sparked a memory of my childhood...
i remember reading out of an old farmer's almanac (i believe it was late 60's), that my father had given me, mentioned something about sharpening or refurbishing old metal files using ferric chloride.
could have been another chemical, but the basis was that after you had treated your files in the solution, it would "refine" the little cutting teeth or gullets by eating away the curled over edges...
Interesting lil fact I was on site and my dewalt drill died (a new drill for this job) I pulled a fast one and got the cheapest ruching ryobi drill just for the sakes of it and it’s still going 3 years later
The only Dewalt cordless stuff that lasts our company over a year is that which sits on a shelf 364 days of it.
Meanwhile, company issued Cryobi stuff, what the newbies get so you know it's extra abused, handily outlasts it. Newest impact is 3 years old, and the one it replaced was dropped 20ft more often than a crack mom drops her crack baby.
This is, hands down, the best RUclips channel
Just like all the gift cards , What’s the percentage of them that never get redeemed?
Glad to see it works again. I have one of these and I love it. It has survived many drops from an 8 ft ladder, and the motor speed control lets me use it on all kinds of stuff I'd be worried about trashing otherwise.
Watch your videos so much we had sparky boy contractors come on site and I muttered “damn elechickens are here”
And not a broom to be found among them..
@@tech4pros1 every day for lunch they’d leave and come back with McDonald’s from right down the road.
I have one of the 20v brushless drills. I've had it about 5 years, my only issue is the trigger doesn't always give full speed. I can move the trigger around and it will speed up and slow down slightly.
Mmmmm, Molykote 55, my favorite flavor of dessert topping!
So glad I found this channel lmao. No punches pulled with this guy.
I've got 3 Dewalt brushed impacts, had them 3 or 4 years, no real problems other than the bit holder letting loose (easy fix btw). Just picked up a set with a brushless impact and hammer drill, no complaints so far
I had the dcf886 impact and it was awesome. Used it and beat it up full time on all types of fasteners big and small, lags etc, dropped it off a second story and it was fine. Had it for almost 5 yrs before the trigger developed a dead spot- still works though. I think the 887 is just not as good a machine though, I keep hearing about them burning up and dying
@@mastermetalshredder pretty sure those are the same basic tool but with 2 different anvils. 1/4 hex and 3/8 square.
@@jeffnorbert1871 3/8 square? They're both just standard 1/4 hex impact drivers. I do think there is a 3/8 for impact sockets but it's a different number altogether as far as I know
AvE could you please be able to do a boltr on the new Kobalt XTR line of 24v power tools?
"Hey carnal, como esta usted?" epic :-)
Had exactly them same issue with a bosch impact... one of the two balls that are between the shaft from the gearbox and the hammer were jammed and prevented the hammer moving back...
The near miss incident papers are located in the lavatory mounted on a roll on the wall you can just tear off copies and fill them out at your leisure.
Instant thumbs up for the "Angry Pixies", love your vids, always having to pause and finish laughing in order to continue watching!
In the phone business that constitues "came clear while testing" or (more frequently) "NTF*, Sub is a crank".
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"Trouble dried out". Happens a lot when you try to do a resistive fault locate in PIC cable. "ETIR". Sorry, ma'am - it's not currently raining...
@@wes11bravo one of my CPE clients started losing CO lines, one at a time - about one an hour. My techs were booked up with installs, so I went. I found that the painters had taken a rain day but they had showed initiative and had taken a six-pair of protector off the wall to paint under it. But, they left it open, in the rain catch position but slightly inclined. Three pair or underwater and the creek was rising. I tried it out as best I could, put the cover back on and called the trouble in to the LEC. I followed up at the premises a little later and found New England Telephone's tech on the phone with either his foreman or the test board. "I had enough one pair of protectors to get their pots lines back in service. But, the police department says the alarm line still shows 'trouble'.
He had ignored me up till that point, but I made a horizontal peace sign in his direction, and then flipped it over like a pancake. He gave his brain a high five. "You're not going to believe this. But, a guy just walked in off the street and told me how to fix it. I'm going to flip the polarity and call them back."
I didn't spoil his moment by telling him who I was.
Why do technicians have hunched shoulders and flat foreheads?
Ask them a question and they go 🤷♂️
Tell them the answer and they go 🤦♂️
@@williamdegnan4718 man, did ya disappear into the woods or something, I surely would've come spoken to you later or yelled out a cheers mate at least. To each their own though, I ain't telling that tech how to operate socially.
I’ve got two of those brushless impacts, ones 5 1/2 and the other about 3 or so years old, ive beat the crap out of them, Use them as a dead blow all the time and even dropped one off a roof (by accident of course) down 3 stories onto concrete, just popped the battery back on and back about my business. I love these things. That spring loaded chuck is awesome for those one handed ladder top already holding the work piece bit changes 😁
Should make a second channel: "EvA"
In which you fix tools instead of obliterating them.
Can you tear down the Milwaukee right angle impact, would be a pretty neat tool to see on the healing bench
I use the back of my hammer drill to tap plastic anchors into stucco/concrete. It takes such a light tap I doubt it hurts the tool. I won’t bother adding a hammer to my belt just for that...
A hardened case back meant for tapping would be nice. But you can bet some fool would use it on nails and ruin the fun.
If it was built to tap, it’d get heavy quick.
Thanks for keeping us aware of this crap out there. Really looks good inside.
I shouted potentiometer twice before he got his teeth back in lol
Hey AvE, I'm curious if you could reckon the production and logisitcal costs of tools sometimes in BOLTR, I'm wondering what the profit margins are if there is any good reason for brushless to be more expensive than brushed. Enjoyed this one, thanks!
11:25 “what do you mean? It works?”
Then i look at the screen.....(sorry, pal, the operation is successful, but the patient die of complications)
Yup, on that crappy molex connector. I’ve had problems with the speed selection.
I often come across the tracks of electricians past, and would argue that electricians favourite screws are 3 1/2” 6’s which have been used in the vain hope of finding anything at all to screw into ! Now I think about it I have never seen such screws anywhere on sale in the normal building emporia that I frequent, so there must be places down alleys that sparks go to purchase the materials of their bizarre trade,which must be full of the longest thinnest screws ever made.
have you seen one pierce the meter yet?
it's pretty glorious...
I think the ideal electricians screw would allow the spark to fix ceiling roses to the back of the floorboard above !
My old company issued us the DeWalt XR 20V 1/4 impacts, and I never really heard of anyone having issues with them. I bought myself one this summer, and so far it's been great. Both same model, DCF887.
I never trusted prefamulated amulite for the housing on a spurving bearing.
Should be reasonably skookum as long as it's surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing.
I have "fixed" more computer devices and electric tools simply by taking apart and reassembling. The latest was a $19 Warrior mouse sander. Left for dead and then resurrected. No rhyme or reason. Great vid!
This particular impact is world known for letting the smoke out. I would bet a beer it’s still the number one selling driver regardless.
World known to be the best you mean. It was released in 2014 or so I think and it's still the one every new impact is benchmarked against. Been using them for years in roofing and can't remember having a problem except for the random ones that got broke when they were dropped 😛
When I was working in the trades full time all of the new guys including me showed up with a yellow drill/impact set. The second set they bought to replace them was always red or teal.
@@xxbryan715xx truth.
out of a dozen reds, only one m12 has ever not withstood my perpetual abuse.
My milfu kee impact driver stopped and all I did was the same as this.. took it apart and put it back together and it works.. who knows.. Now my 3/4" impact just crapped out and that one did not come back after taking it apart. I too am an electchicken so I do not need a 3/4" impact that often but when I do... So the symptom is it just does not turn at all. The lights come on and it kinda bounces the fan a bit when you pull the trigger.. So I suspect some electronic contrivance is to blame..
It's too bad dewalt stuff has gone to shit. I had a brand new charger not work. Took it back. I am sick of junk .
Hate to say it but I stopped buying dealt a couple years ago. Went to the kollbalt 24v brushless series and I havent been able to kill one yet. Pretty damned decent tools I use and abuse daily in the shop(I replace trailer axles and bearings, and use the impact, and drill daily)
That's exactly what happened to the first one of those I had. Even the second one stuck a couple of times. After going to the store once I just powered through on the second one and it seems to be ok now. I'm happy with it.
"This is secured with glue.....welp no glue"
I've had one of these tools for about three years now. It's fallen off of a roof, been dropped in metal dust in a fabrication shop, and generally just had the hell beat out of it and it's never given me trouble.
I met with a TTI Rep, business is really crap if they're calling me! But he was saying the Candy mountains hurting big time. The box stores aren't cutting it. Even with flooring and extended terms. No money flowing east. Ping made ultimatitice to HK mega merchants. Get on the right side of the party quick and bring in foreign Currancy now. He said HK's days are numbered as a free trade state.
Candy mountain, is China?
Id like to send my millfawkee impact in a month or two. Shess fell off about 4 roofs, drills about 20-200,1/4" holes into studs a job then does the same number of 3/8? Lags and tbolts for securing aluminum rail to feet (solar terms for the racking system we use) basically does a lot and hasn't died yet. Id love to see how bad the internals got. Would like it back if possible. Def gonna upgrade and just hand that one to the ground guy if it comes back. Anyways love the channel, my buddy has your stickers in his rigid boxes. Great tool, just been dropped a total of like 100ft, sometimes in nice soft mud but a few rocks on those beautiful mountains jobs.
Being a brush liking feller... I been a tappy tap tappin on the side of me ole 3/8's girl and she's still hammering on my commercial supper.
You got it back together and it works, wasn't expecting that.
The 887 has a bit of a reputation for being both a skookum choocher and for letting the smoke out at random times.
The DCF885 is hands down an indestructible impact. Ive replaced the anvil on mine once in 5 years and that was a refurbished unit to begin with! I bought a 2nd one when i refreshed the first to have at home since the old reliable gets used daily at work in a mechanics shop
The dirty old used brushed one he showcased first. Brushless stuff is good too but always keep a brushed tool in the box for when the fancy one quits
my masterforce cordless 1/2 impact just died after 5 years of hard abuse, im looking into a milwaukee m18 possibly fuel. not sure though.
Hilti
@@lilpbass I use my milwaukee impact almost every day at work, my 1-yr old Hilti, is still in the case, never been used, its too nice to get dirty (true-story)
@@lilpbass hilti cordless line is overpriced china crap just like every other cordless brand except they only have like 12 tools on their cordless line where makita and milwaukee have 100's of tools on their cordless lines
I love mine but it's almost too powerful. I probably should have gotten the mid torque. The hi torque will round off junkyard lug nuts!
40v Makita
Wish you would take apart my cordless Bosch. Would love to hear and see you look at it.
I wish we had Robertson in Australia. The phillips self stripping screw suck.
Your videos are amazingly usefull. I am curious what happens to the angry pixie contrivances that arent put back into original form? I would glady become an impromptu recyclist of any tote coming out of this channel, if help is of course needed. Love the content and lingo, never quit Ave!
AvE has got old man glasses with the side safety bits.
Better "old man glasses" and two working eyes than a young man with an eyepatch.
Officially known as the Jeffrey Dommer's. Gotta be desperate to steal those from work...
I've never sees auto generated subtitles this accurate before, meaning that the Canadian accent is the best
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Interesting "fix it" video...refreshing in a way to see it being broke down & put back together since I own this Dewalt drill. Liked the video a lot & guy has a unique sense of humor especially with his odd vocabulary of words. Enjoyed the video even more cuz of the phrases & slang words he says. Most I didn't inderstsnd if was from Canada I'd know all aboot these words