Power Tools Reviews

I absolutely LOVE this vacuum. It's not to heavy and picks up so nicely. It is clear so you can see your parts moving and know they are working properly. It gets the edges well and it's easy for the kids to use as well!!!

Pretty impressive cordless vac. Have had several through the years and this is by far the best. The suction is great for cleaning up the small messes we make. We use the small crevice tool a lot for corners and edges. Haven't used the other attachment, so have no comment on that. So far, we highly recommend it.

Service and helpful info was very good as was the shipping and delivery, it arrived before they said it would.

My first project was cutting molding around porch posts using plastic molding. The Shopmaster made extremely accurate 45 degree cuts in both directions (I swung the miter saw from one side to the other to make cuts). All cuts were great! Easy to use, fast to set-up, accurate miters, safe saw guards, and just a joy to use.

I purchased this drill for 67 dollars. I have pretty short fingers so holding this drill was much easier for me than Dewalt. Rubberized grip compared to just plastic one (Dewalt) provides more friction between your palm & fingers and drill. This drill just "sticks" to your hand.

Gotta love power of 9 AMP motor. It is still quiet. Cord is pretty long (8 feet?). Additional grip would be recommended because this drill is pretty powerfull and a bit heavy. Extra grip handle can be screwed into aluminum part of body (grip handle from my cheap angle grinder happens to perfectly fit this drill). Keyed chuck holds bits very well and it is made in Japan.

I use this drill to drive 4 inch screws easily in wood (I drilled pilot holes to prevent wood spliting). RPM is pretty high so when I press trigger harder screw can go through the 1 inch board pretty easily. Case provides enough storage for extras (although I have not used it to store additional stuff). I used to have Hitachi 6 AMP drill (keyless chuck) but I returned it to Lowe's because chuck did not hold bits well and I still needed more power.

Too bad that Hitachi had to remind me that I purchased Refurbished drill by putting R mark on upper part of body (looks kinda cheesy). This R mark will probably decrease resell value of this drill. However, I don't plan to sell it. It is just too good to be sold.

Warranty is one year, in case if anybody wanted to know.

Overall, I am very pleased with this drill and can whole heartly recommend it.

I have bought many good reconditioned power tools from Amazon, and this one almost $60 less than I could have purchased locally. This gun is great and I know I'll get a lot of good use out of it.

I'm not so sure about the recondintioned combo kit, but the new version is superior to other cordless kits I've owned in the past. I've used many different cordless kits and Ridgid has to be the best.

� Very powerful Hammer Drill runs for hours and hours with a single battery's life.
� Circular saw is strong enough to rip boards and not choke.
� Recipricating Saw (Sawzall) is also really powerful for a cordless tool - will run down battery life much quicker than the other tools.
� Even the goofy little flashlight does it's job and has a few convenient features so you can position right where you need it.
� Finish charging 2 batteries at an impressive 30 minutes - well surpassing the charge time of DeWalt, Milwaulkee, Craftsman - you name it.

The saws in this combo definitely eat up a lot of juice at once, but as long as you have a place to charge your batteries, you shouldn't have to sit around waiting for things to charge at you jobsite.

This was the second dustbuster I had purchased and it has done very well. I have had no problems with it. I am having some trouble finding a new filter, but otherwise I have vacumed up water, wood dust, wallboard dust and much more. It never seems to fail to do a good job. With the 3.6 volt I am surprised it workes as well as my regular vacume, on small jobs, like the bottom of walls and round the floor in my kitchen and my stairs.
Good value and good choice.

I bought one of these well over a year ago, and it is my favorite router in the shop. Plenty of power. Easy to change bits, alter height(depth).
Mine arrived in greeat shape. The main body was some tarnished, or discolored, but it has not effected function one ounce. The quick change guide feature is the best. The base and motor unit separate easily now - takes a little patience to learn. I'd say my Bosch is in the router table about 80% of the time. Also like the big wooden knobs when doing hand hold. I'd have ZERO reservations about refurb catagory.

I am a man that just likes tools. I don't even uses them much, but love to have them. My bills are tough, so for this price I can't go wrong. Now convincing my wife to let me have it is another story. You know guy's "honey, you don't need this" Well birthday is coming up. I think and hope it is in the making.