Please help me find

[jediwill83]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

Yes, I bought a Makita to Ryobi converter.
But I only have two Ryobus flashlights and one old blue Ryobus Sawzall. Which gets hotter than Satan’s living room when its in use.

I dunno...my mother in law kept things pretty comfy temperature wise... 😂

[Evang.Benincasa]

Thank you Brother Jedi for sending me the DeWalt 20 volt to Makita eBay web link. But you can find those all over the net. I’m strictly looking for a Makita battery converter to replace the older 18v Ni-Cad DeWalt battery. Thank you for looking.

[loran adkins]

It sounds like you just need to switch over all of your battery tools to one brand and be done with it. I have used Makita before my old boss had Makita, but I was not impressed with anything but the battery powered impact driver. My self I have used Ryobi for years and have not had a problem with them. I used to use all corded tools except my impact driver, until last year my son in law bought me a batterie operated pin nailer, for my birthday, and I upgraded to the large lithium batteries. I now use only battery operated Ryobi for most everything. I have the circular saw. multi saw, two impact drivers, drill, 18 gage pin nailer, Two of the large lithium batteries, two of the small lithium batteries and two older lithium batteries, and two chargers, so I always have a charged battery back up.

[Nicodemus1968]

Originally Posted by loran adkins

It sounds like you just need to switch over all of your battery tools to one brand and be done with it. I have used Makita before my old boss had Makita, but I was not impressed with anything but the battery powered impact driver. My self I have used Ryobi for years and have not had a problem with them. I used to use all corded tools except my impact driver, until last year my son in law bought me a batterie operated pin nailer, for my birthday, and I upgraded to the large lithium batteries. I now use only battery operated Ryobi for most everything. I have the circular saw. multi saw, two impact drivers, drill, 18 gage pin nailer, Two of the large lithium batteries, two of the small lithium batteries and two older lithium batteries, and two chargers, so I always have a charged battery back up.

I never considered Ryobi.

[loran adkins]

Originally Posted by Nicodemus1968

I never considered Ryobi.

I have used Ryobi for at least 10 years, My first set were the old blue ones.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Nicodemus1968

I never considered Ryobi.

One company makes all three. Ryobi (low level) Rigid (mid level) Milwaukee (top level). I wouldn’t ever consider having a full line of Ryobi because they can’t handle what I put them through. Plus the Ryobi service center here in South Florida is a joke. Makita always takes care of ANY issue I may have. I have guns and batteries which are years old, and Ryobus that are the same age and have failed. The One+ battery on Ryobus gets hot. While the Makita doesn’t. DeWalt is made by Black and Deader as their high end tool collection. I like some DeWalt tools, some Bosch, some Milwaukee, some Ryobus, some Hatachi ( now Metabo) and some Porta Cable. But my main collection is Makita.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by loran adkins

I have used Ryobi for at least 10 years, My first set were the old blue ones.

The blue ones that catch on fire.

I have a blue cordless Sawzall Ryobus.

[loran adkins]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

The blue ones that catch on fire.

I have a blue cordless Sawzall Ryobus.

Now when it comes to the old blue ones the only thing I really used were the impact driver and drill. Partly because the battery did not last very long for something live the Sawzall. I admit the older Ryobi were not as good. but back then I used corded tools for most of my work. The only thing I used battery operated tools were for driving screws and occasionally to drill a hole. All the rest of the time I used corded. A year ago I had just bought a new set of Ryobi when my truck was broken in to and a lot of my tools stolen.

The first thing I bought to replace things was my Ryobi impact driver, as that is my go to tool. Then for my birthday my son in law bought me the 18 gage battery operated pin nailer. But because of the way things went down he ended up getting me a set with the nailer, drill, small saw, battery, and charger.

I have since added two of the larger 18 volt lithium batterys and the larger battery's go and go. Now I hardly every bring out my skill saw or my corded tools because I can do it all with battery operated. And all my battery operated tools are Ryobi

[good samaritan]

Had a Milwaukee saw zaw once. Motor burnt up in the first few months. I took it back to Lowe’s and got dewalt recip saw. Been like 10yrs later and cut an access into my attic today with it. Dewalt has always done me good.

[Evang.Benincasa]

I have a Green Ryobus ONE+. I bought it at a garage sale for five dollars years ago. I popped a battery in it and a new Freud saw blade and it ran like a champion. The story of a Milwaukee sawzall burning up is an odd one and I would say rare. Because we wouldn't even call other brands of reciprocating saws SAWZALL if it wasn't for the Milwaukee brand. Jerome Schnettler or Edward Ristow in 1951 created the Sawzall reciprocating saw, and it was such a hit we now call EVERY reciprocating saw a SAWZALL, no matter what manufacturer produced it. Same goes for the circular saw, while (I think) Porter Cable was the first to place a circular saw in the hands of carpenters. It was Skil who made them popular all across the world. When you are on the job men who have DeWalt, Makita, Milwaukee, or Hitachi will call their saw a Skil saw.
I used my father's Milwaukee sawzall for years, it was from the 1960s, but changed it out for Mikita because of the weight issue. No reason to use a 20 lb saw opposed to the new light 7 lbs saws of today.