Jon Page wrote: > Soap Box: > Let's go for quality first and not just price. Absolutely - once you KNOW what you WANT. If, that is, you can determine a functional definition for "quality" other than by high price. Case in point: when I had used a cheap drill motor long enough to understand what I wanted from a good one, I bought two Milwaukees, a 3/8 VSR, and a 1/2" hole shooter that has the power to spin pianos if you can hold on. But when I wanted a drill press, I didn't get the most expensive one on the market. I got the one that had the capabilities and versatility I was looking for in a drill press. So I paid less for my old Rockwell radial drill press than I did for the 1/2" hole shooter. Both have proven to have been good choices for 30 years of shop use, and the drill press gets ten times the use of the hole shooter. Oh yea, I also have a 1/2" VSR hammer drill from Milwaukee, because it does what I need better, and for more years, than the cheaper options. So you see a tool that makes you warm all under, but you aren't sure if it's a real perceived need, or passing glandular effects. You either plunk down your $333.99 and take the chance on whether you'll actually get that use out of it, or you buy a $40 knock off as a means of finding out what you SHOULD have done. If the $40 knock off never wears out, or you don't find the uses for it you imagined, it was the right choice. If you break it right away, or find plenty of uses for it, if it only had more power, weight, or whatever, it's a cheaper education than buying the wrong $300 tool first. My perspective, Ron N
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