Over at Amazon, they have some end of the year tool deals, with most ending 12/31/2018.
Some of the deals are great, such as Makita’s 18V sub-compact reciprocating saw kit that’s priced at $143, which is lower than the bare tool!
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The Dewalt DCH293R2DH brushless SDS Plus rotary hammer kit is another notable deal.
There are some surprising deals tool, like one on a USA-made PepeTools wire roller (used for jewelry making). Looking at Otto Frei, the price is a lot higher. They also say that this is “The First American Made Rolling Mill For The Jewelry Industry In Over 75 Years.”
Other deals are forgettable, and some aren’t so good. Why pay $80 for a Makita 3Ah battery when you can still get 2 for $99?
It’s worth looking through some of the deals, with some other notable items being an Ingersoll Rand impact wrench, Graco paint sprayer, Dewalt mid-range impact wrench, a Dewalt impact socket set, and some nailers.
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Evadman
The link to the SDS hammer doesn’t work. I think it’s this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GLCBJT9/?tag=toolguyd-20
Stuart
Thanks, fixed!
Julian Tracy
There can’t be a 1 1/8” sds plus drill out there worth $500, dust collection or not. Seems Makita makes a few that can be had for between $160-225 bare tool , and they have quite a few that accept a built in dust collection accessory as well.
Aside from being ridiculous in size, how is that Dewalt such a great deal?
Stuart
Well, it’s $749 at other authorized dealers. $599 is a lot less than $749. So, for anyone who was looking at this model/bundle, that’s a very good deal. Saving money is good.
“This unit includes an OSHA 1926.Compliant dust box assembly.”
The bare tool is $399. So for $200 more, you get a 6Ah battery, charger, and the dust collection unit.
Wayne R.
Okay, why is that rotary hammer like that? My corded Hilti doesn’t have that extra box on it. What’s going on there?
Stuart
Dust collection.
Greg
As Stuart said, it’s for dust control. There are new Osha regulations about silica dust standards, so you’ll be seeing more companies putting out products with ways do deal with the dust. Since you mentioned Hilti… https://www.hilti.com/content/hilti/W1/US/en/services/power-tools/osha-silica-dust-regulations.html
David Zeller
It looks like a five piece DeWalt starter set photographed with all the tools placed too close together! I had to go read the article to figure out what it was!
Happy holidays, everyone!
Joe
It comes off if you choose not to use the dust collection..it’s a regulation for construction use. It works incredibly well.
Joe
The 293 is one of the best sds plus tools available only Hilti makes one better in that range but at more then twice the price but not twice the performance.
Bill
After watching my grandsons play in their sandbox, with the sand I provided, I became concerned with the clouds of sand dust they often create in their play. I wondered if these inescapable little sand dust clouds posed the same risk discussed here and now acted upon by OSHA in the work place.
Big Adam
I’d be more concerned by the potential for sand in their eyes.
John d
Wet the sand… easier to build sand castles to boot.
Doresoom
Those Uvex blue light blocking glasses on the first page work great for sleep shifting, by the way! I wear them an hour before my pre-shift nap when I’m working overnight.
Julian Tracy
Some very good deals at CPO now with their 30% clearance.
Very notable: the Bosch 2 1/4hp router kit that includes the router table base for about $137 plus tax shipped. That kit hasn’t been seen for less than around $370-389 for some time if ever.
Also worth a look is a Leica line laser and laser measurer kit that includes a tripod for about $202. The laser has a pendulum lock that allows it to be used for an angle reference for tile or other work. It’s alao a pulsing laser and the detector can be had for about $100. Considering just the laser measurer is about $158, it’s a nice kit for $200.
A couple of decent Dewalt blades there as well – one of their industrial quality 50tooth combination blades for about $35. They used to be made in the UK – this one probably still is I’d bet. As well, one of their premium yellow colored 12” 80 tooth blade is a bit under $45 as I recall.
Matt
Julian > link to that Bosch CPO router deal you mentioned? TIA.
Julian Tracy
How about a editing function!!! Curses Apple auto correct…. that router kit’s regular price is between $175-229 and is the two base kit that includes a plunge base. Beware – some of the Bosch two base kits don’t include the special standard base that allows adjustment from above the router table.
Stuart
Sorry, an editing function isn’t possible.
Yadda
I was happy to see the JH Williams set of tools for $20K also offered free shipping.
Blair c.
Free shipping! I’m ordering one now.
Todd
I posted a deal on that same Dewalt rotary hammer without the vacuum a week or so ago in the forums, and the deal is still available. $275 for the kit, I guess if the vacuum is worth $375 to you then this is a good deal (it’s not)
Mattyice
Not the same model, the bare tool of this one is $397
Todd
Its the exact same model, minus the vacuum attachment., unless Dewalt has multiple DCH293 1-1/8″ SDS+ rotary hammers.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M2D3D5P/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 it’s out of stock, but you can still order it.
Mattyice
So it is! I stand corrected, if you search for it, the price shown is $596, so I didn’t see it. I ordered on, we will see if it comes! I’ve had amazon cancel orders before when they were priced crazy low like that!
Todd
It’s been that price for at least 2 weeks now . I know of one person for sure who received theirs for that price so its legitimate. I actually canceled my order I had made for a number of reasons. Mainly, because I don’t use a rotary hammer often, and when I do its almost always for Tapcons or sub 1/2″ wedge anchors and the Makita subcompact I have excels at that size of anchor and for chipping or breaking I have some larger corded hammers. As much as I hate to pass on a really good deal I had to… well that and I ordered a thickness planer immediately afterwards.
Todd
..and the link I posted must just take you to the last page viewed or to the defailt page if you haven’t yet viewed it. When I click it, it goes straight to the $275 version. Either way, if anyone is in the market for a cordless SDS+ this is the best deal you are ever going to find and that particular Dewalt hammer is way up on the podium in its class, if not at the top.
Craig
Seems like a good price on some Eklind hex keyshttps://www.amazon.com/Eklind-Tool-Company-10222-Combination/dp/B000189PRU/ref=lp_12198447011_1_1?srs=12198447011&ie=UTF8&qid=1545937652&sr=8-1
Paul
Any time that a sand particle (really any quartz) is broken it has a chemically active surface. The silica will eventually absorb oxygen again but until it does, it is called “free silica”. Any operation that grinds, crushes, or heats sand such as drilling into concrete, drilling and blasting, running sand through a dryer, crushing it to get angular sand for foundries, etc., creates free silica surfaces. Water washed natural gravel type deposits as long as they aren’t crushed that have been out in the elements for a while don’t have free silica. So in construction when you drill into concrete for instance, you create free silica. Play sand is water washed deposits…no free silica at least from reputable manufacturers. The two big sand companies in the U.S. are U.S. Silica and Unimin.
If the sand/dust has the right particle size it goes into your lungs and reaches the avioli…the air sacks where the whole blood/oxygen transfer takes place. Free silica chemically bonds with the lung tissue and basically shuts down the avioli. It is permanent because the body doesn’t recognize quartz so it just stays there forever. Also it can start to migrate over time creating scar tissue and slowly eating up your lungs. That’s the danger. It’s called silicosis or miner’s lung and it is positively a horrible way to slowly suffocate and die over time.
There is a second “problem”. There is a group called the IARC. They don’t do any research themselves but read reports by others and put out a list of definite carcinogens (e.g. carbon tetrachloride), probably carcinogens, probably not carcinogens, and definitely not carcinogens. This is like trying to prove a negative so there is only one item on the definitely not list. On the probably list they include among other things, sand, red meat, cell phones, and apples among other things. In the case of sand, the underlying study found that people who are already terminally ill with silicosis AND heavy smokers have a higher chance of getting lung cancer than just heavy smoking alone so they concluded that sand probably causes cancer and has nothing to do with extensive tissue damage increasing exposure. Go figure…so the the Californians (you know the state with the highest high school dropout rate) made it necessary to put a cancer label on play sand.
i used to work for Unimin. I’m a registered miner with the federal government. I’ve worked in places where I had to wear a respirator because the silicosis threat was very real, I was surrounded by free silica. So I have a healthy respect for the stuff, but my kids also had a sand box when they were little and I worked for Unimin before they were born. So unless you’re from California or breaking down concrete, I wouldn’t worry. But if you are on a regular basis, OSHA has a very real and valid concern and I’d take the dust boxes seriously.
Paul
By the way in the mining business we just use water sprays to control the dust. When the pneumatic rock drill first came out it was the highest paid job in the mine because the drillers only lived about 6 months. Within a year or two later when the water cooled rock drill came out which saved a bunch of money and drilled even faster all non-water cooled drill bits were quickly obsolete, and the driller pay rate plummeted when the mine owners found that the drillers weren’t dying off. That was what first sparked the research and eventually led to regulations and scientific understanding of what caused miner’s lung (silicosis) and how to deal with it. OSHA is kind of late to the party but it’s one of the few times they are doing something very rational and responsible about it. You can just use water cooled drilling and cutting equipment but that’s a lot of extra cost and equipment in the construction industry so the dust vacuums are a much simpler and cheaper approach if you don’t have a full time drilling crew or a support trailer that goes with the conrete saws that you see highway crews using. Or limit exposure but OSHA is really strict about that option.