18V Cordless Comb Kit

[imported_WoodSmellsGood]

I sold my Ryobi cordless drill and Skillsaw days after I bought my new X2 series 18V 3-piece combo kit. It's great quality and design. The power of the 18V batteries is just fine for what I work on.

I bought my set on New Year's Eve at HD. Just in time to get the lifetime warranty. Wow! I'm very impressed so far with Ridgid and recommend them.

My Dad has always bought Craftsman and other tool brands, but he really likes the quality of my new Ridgid set.

[shonnie-michael]

My only complaint about these tool combo kits is that they come in purses. I am a plumber, my truck is loaded from time to time with heavy boxes (toilets, water heaters etc.) I want and need a hard case to protect my tools. Of course my decision to buy was influenced by the warranty but It took several trips to convince myself to buy this kit. The ridgid kit has not seen field work because of this case problem. It does work great at home am impressed by the design and weight.

[imported_The Borg]

My DeWalt friend just called me over to help him out because his batteries were dead. The twin 30 min charge is excellent. The tools perform the way that cordless is suppose to. Go and buy a set. tongue.gif

[imported_wbrooks]

If anyone is interested I will email them instruction for making a hard case with plywood and expanding foam. The only drawback is your tools will be out of service for a few days while the foam fully cures to ensure that the tool shape is maintained while it expands. The file is 3.5 Meg and prints nicely, scanned at 150 DPI

[imported_Andrew Sroczynski]

Originally posted by WoodSmellsGood:
I sold my Ryobi cordless drill and Skillsaw days after I bought my new X2 series 18V 3-piece combo kit. It's great quality and design. The power of the 18V batteries is just fine for what I work on.

I bought my set on New Year's Eve at HD. Just in time to get the lifetime warranty. Wow! I'm very impressed so far with Ridgid and recommend them.

My Dad has always bought Craftsman and other tool brands, but he really likes the quality of my new Ridgid set.

[imported_Andrew Sroczynski]

Originally posted by WoodSmellsGood:
I sold my Ryobi cordless drill and Skillsaw days after I bought my new X2 series 18V 3-piece combo kit. It's great quality and design. The power of the 18V batteries is just fine for what I work on.

I bought my set on New Year's Eve at HD. Just in time to get the lifetime warranty. Wow! I'm very impressed so far with Ridgid and recommend them.

My Dad has always bought Craftsman and other tool brands, but he really likes the quality of my new Ridgid set. 18 VOLT BATTERY"S ARE JUNK.period.

[bob bridgewater]

what?I like my 18 V

[ 10-06-2005, 11:22 PM: Message edited by: bob bridgewater ]

[imported_wbrooks]

Free speech is a wonderful thing but you will get far more respect if you back up your statement with a few facts

edit: not you Bob, thought this was a current post - should have checked the date

[ 01-15-2005, 10:21 AM: Message edited by: wbrooks ]

[ridgidnut]

Just a note guys. If you are looking for a case for the individual tools that came with the 4Pc, ebay has tons of them all the time. You can pick them up for 20 to 30 dollars. Pawn shops on ebay get ridgid stuff pawned and the piece them out and sell them.

Hope this helps.

[bob bridgewater]

Don't like to own stolen tools, pawn shops are full of them,also I don't like the thought of profiting from another man's hard times.

Bob B.

[Polar Sparky 1224]

I agree with that some drywaller walked off with my whole tool belt one day and even with my name melted in it didn't matter. Either he has them or some pawn shop made $300 to $400 off my $600 lose!

[bob bridgewater]

I was just in a pawn shop fryday when my friend neaded some snips and I saw one of my tools I aint seen for 1 1/2 year, I got took for a pasload, 18 V Dewalt drill, tool belt and my bag of trcks.I don't cotton to good with some folks south of 8 mile. I spot my tools with abit of my spray paint. I think now I am gona stamp last of my SS numbers on my tools, Dad did his union # on his. That wernt the first time for me, but next time it may be, his time to meet his maker...

[Polar Sparky 1224]

Speaking of stuff vanishing....

At work today i had to carry all our self tapping screws in my tool belt since the "mexicans", that were framing the walls, were always using them. I'll let you use a tool for a bit but stealing our parts everytime our backs are turned?!!!!!

[SPARKETTE]

I AM A UNION ELECTRICIAN AND DIE HARD MILWALKIE USER BUT MY BOYFRIEND, WHO IS A GENERAL CONTRACTOR, WANTED THE RIDGID TOOL COMBO KIT FOR X-MAS SO I GOT IT FOR HIM AND IT IS CRAP! THE WHOLE THING! RIDGID NEEDS TO STICK TO WHAT THEY KNOW BEST(THREADERS AND SUCH) AND GET OUT OF THE POWER TOOL BUSINESS! HE IS NOW GOING TO BOSCH AND I WILL STICK WITH MILWALKIE MYSELF.

[Quescodeplumb]

Bob B, I think marking you're tools is an excellent idea. Although you're last four in you're social might have been great in the military when I was in, I think trying to convince a cop or a pawn shop owner that that's you're tool because of four numbers, is far fetched. Ive found that you're state driver's liscense number works a lot better with the police and deters pawn shop's from even wanting them. Hope this help's and to this day I think the best marking I ever saw was a guy who had "NOT YOUR'S" marked on everyone of his tools.

[bob bridgewater]

To evry theaf out there, I aint no spring chichin but am still good to give some one, a second thought to take from me agian, if he is still up and running !!!

[ 10-04-2005, 12:04 AM: Message edited by: bob bridgewater ]

[Polar Sparky 1224]

Sparkette Why would my coowrkers that have an 18v Milwaukee drill want to use my Ridgid drill. I'll admit the v28 would be nice since if would have more power, but how about the batteries, my co-workers don't like how it is hard to get them off your tool. I like Ridgid better than Dewalt because of the batteries. Dewalt, Ryobi, Makita, Hitachi, and Bosch all have that battery style I dislike. My old droped his dewalt battery through a sink. The battery had been used so much one of the clips came off. The battery charge was fine but he had to use tape to keep the battery in. ridgid batteries are better since you can change the battery with one hand.

As a general Contractor you should know enough about tools to know that tool is for what job. If i had to drill through metal a lot then i used a corded drill. But if i only do a few I'll use my Ridgid. A cordless tool should never be used to do the work of a corded tool.

Take care of you tools and some save money.

[King Air Driver]

I'm just a weekend hack, but the Pro's that rebuilt the second floor of my house after Katrina fell in love with my 4 pc combo & impact driver.

They had the 18V Dewalt tools and still used mine. I took them away after a week and they went to Home Depot & bought TWO combo kits (right after cashing my check). The whole job took almost 6 weeks, but they were still using the RIDGID stuff when they finished...

[L&S Construction]

OKAY, it is 2 months into owning the 18v 922 kit (with the impact by mail-in) and I have just gotten my approval for lifetime warranty. I have whipped these tools and am ready to write a contractor review. I am a homebuilder/GC/remodeler/deckbuilder/you pay me, ill work. I BEAT my tools. I just got rid of my yellow 18v XRP drill because it ate 2 gearsets this summer building decks (lag bolts on 6x6 posts-lagging the corner cripples in). I have broken just about EVERYTHING except my Milwaukee sawzall, so I am well qualified to let you know about the abuse these tools will take. The package was nice, and despite coming in a purse that you have to be a jigsaw master to fit everything in to it it okay.

The batteries and charger-the batteries IMO are the worst part of this package. Although better than ryobi (I had an employee show up with that dogcrap) are no match for any other contractor NiCD powered line. The need a 3 port charger and 5 batteries to keep up with DeWalt w/ 1 charge port and 2 batteries. The charger is okay, and does only take about 30 MIN, IF your battery is cool. It can take up to 30 mins to cool then down-factor this in with the quick discharge and you have the makings for a headache.

Drill-I am VERY impressed with this. Although, I have the impact and no longer need to drive lags with this, I still mixed thinset up with a 8" paddle to make sure this drill gets its full trial. I have still thrown a few lags in when I had the bag in the truck and just used the drill instead of the impact too. This drill performs as it should-100% It does not have the 3 speed settings that my XRP had, but its 1st gear has the power to mix up a 5 gallon bucket 1/4 full of mortar to be used on a wall with mosiac tile, so this stuff was peanut butter. 2nd gear has the spped to drill holes. Again, it went through batteries, but we already talked about that.

Impact-Well, this thing seems to work just fine, I can drill a 1/4" pilot hole and send a 10" lag bolt thru 2 6X6 posts and no groans, complains, just work. Battery seems to last a good amount of time with this tool.

Recip saw-okay, my old 10 year old milwaukee has been off the truck 1 time in the two months I have owned this kit. I ran out of batteries, and needed to finish my demo. This tool does not bog, complain, smoke or do anything bad. I have done some pretty good demo work with this and never had any problems with the tool except that it goes thru batteries.

circular saw-WOW, I laughed when I first saw this, but it works really, really well. I had a situation where I had 3 pieces of hardwood plywood that were nailed together to a floor and I had to cut down along the floor joists (bathroom-somebody put the plywood there where there used to be a mortar bed), and no problems. Went through a battery about every 20 feet, but it actually was able to do it-I was impressed. For doing light work, like framing a wall, or cutting a couple of sheets of plywood, this saw is fine-100%

light-nice to have on the truck-I lost about 45 flashlights in the last year it seems. This has a specific place, and it comes back into the bag after every job.

Honestly, I hope that as time goes on, these guys will improve their batteries, and this set will be a set as good as any other on the market at any price. I will probably buy a 2nd drill off ebay to have a backup for when I break this drill-hopefully, it will come with 2 batteries!

[m60rok]

If anyone is interested I will email them instruction for making a hard case with plywood and expanding foam. The only drawback is your tools will be out of service for a few days while the foam fully cures to ensure that the tool shape is maintained while it expands. The file is 3.5 Meg and prints nicely, scanned at 150 DPI

Please email me the instructions at m60rok@yahoo.com. Thanks!