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I'm Steve Maxwell and in this video I'm going to give you a little tour of a few
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new things from Milwaukee. In the course of my work I get lots of tools from all
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different companies. I try them out, keep some for myself. I've actually given away
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more tools than I have in my own shop and I just want to show you some
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exceptional tools here. I'm not showing you every new thing from Milwaukee but
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I want to show you some things that I do find useful and the first one is this
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cut-off saw here. It's cordless so it takes their 18-volt battery. It can
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take the largest one that they offer and it's for just generally cutting of metal
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and masonry when you don't need a whole lot of horsepower. Like this is
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a fairly small tool. It does have a water connection so that when you're cutting
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masonry it keeps the dust down. Well it completely eliminates dust actually
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What I use this tool more for though is metalworking. It has gotten me out
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of some some serious jams with metalworking projects that I've made and it's essentially got a nice thin abrasive wheel. This is the wheel that
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came with it but of course you'll soon wear this out and you'll need to get
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others so this is the supply that I have on hand. It's very important that
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you have supplies on hand for these tools because most tools are useless
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without some kind of supply but this is terrific for cutting metal and also if
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you've welded something up and the weld isn't quite right and you need to take
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it apart again it's very easy to grind through with this. One interesting thing
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that the Milwaukee people have included is this little light here. Now normally
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when you turn on the tool the light doesn't illuminate but when you're
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cutting it can tell you when you're overloading the tool. Now in years
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past when people overloaded an electric tool all that happened was the thing
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burned out. I mean a corded tool the windings would burn out, cordless tool
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the motor could fry, the battery could could get toasted. So nowadays they've
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gotten smarter with designs and in fact if you try to overload any Milwaukee
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cordless tool eventually it'll shut itself off and it'll just stop you from
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working altogether. So that's one level of protection. Another level is this
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light here. When you're working the tool too hard it will go yellow so that means
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just back off, ease off on the tool a little bit, give it a little more time
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to do what it wants to do and you won't have any trouble. So cordless tools in
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general have gotten a lot smarter, a lot more resilient, a lot more durable but
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I've never seen a company take it further than Milwaukee. They've really
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incorporated a lot of these safety features into their tools. Here's another
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thing that that I find useful. This is cordless ratchet wrenches. This is a
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half-inch and this is a 3 8th inch drive. Now the real, this is not going to take
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the place of a regular ratchet wrench, at least not in my experience. It can't
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tighten enough, it can't tighten as firmly as you might like, not under
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motor power anyway. However, tools like these are great for undoing fasteners
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that you've already broken free maybe with a regular wrench and reapplying
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those fasteners as well. So putting them on, especially in tight quarters. So
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instead of just, you know, doing it with your fingers and slowly getting in, if you
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can get this tool in with a socket on it you can make awfully good progress. So
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Milwaukee's one of the companies that's taken this whole cordless mechanics tools thing to another level and this is an example of what they're up to and
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it's something to consider if you do a lot of mechanical work. Now also further
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on the metalworking side of things, this is a cordless die grinder it's called. So
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it gets its name from the fact that, you know, in the production of dies for
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molding things like plastic, the metal has to be shaped and that's kind of what
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a die grinder is used for. But I would doubt very much that that these die
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grinders actually grind commercial dies very often. Where they do shine and where
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they're very useful is grinding in close quarters. So high rpm and it takes
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abrasive stones with a quarter inch diameter shank. That's what I have here
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You're gonna go through these a lot with a tool like this so I keep a bunch of
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them in here. You need a wrench of course to change the abrasive but
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that's how that works and you know you're not going to use this, you're not
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likely to use this tool very often. I don't, but when I need it it's absolutely
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indispensable. It has saved me from a lot of trouble. So I have owned a die
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grinder that was a plug-in model before but when I need to do some precision
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grinding I grab the cordless because it just works so well. And really I consider
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it an essential part of my metalworking work and machine repair, things like that
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So the last tool I want to talk to you about now is just this little cordless
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light. The whole light thing has gotten much more advanced, portable lights. So
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this is rechargeable. It recharges with a USB cable and it's swivelable so you can
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direct the beam and then also this is pretty important too, magnet. Magnet on
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the back so you know if you want to stick it somewhere you can. So Milwaukee
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tools, Milwaukee is certainly one of the leading brands in terms of innovation. I
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can only think of one other power tool company that's kind of going head-to-head
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with Milwaukee for innovation. So newish sorts of tools, many of which that have
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never been made before and their focus has been and probably still is to a
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large extent the industrial side. So professionals, it's for professional users but the fact is that if you're a serious DIY or either home improvements
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mechanical stuff, metal fabrication, you have every bit as much of a need for
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high-quality tools as a professional if you take your work seriously and I take
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mine seriously. I often make full use of professional grade tools for the work
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that I do around my house and country property here. So other than pointing out
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these tools and what they're useful for and and the fact that I like them, I
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would I would urge you to buy higher quality than you think you need. There is
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a tendency amongst non-professionals to say well you know I don't really need
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this I'm not a professional. All that does is it sows the seed for, sows the
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seeds for frustration in the future. Frustration and it also holds down your
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progress in terms of acquiring skills because it won't be very long before
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that tool that you thought was enough is actually the limiting factor in what you
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can do, how much you can accomplish, the quality of your work of the work you do
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So here's a little Milwaukee showcase for you
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