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lurkingdirk_sl said:
They'll have templates so all your holes go in the right spots. Measure carefully, hold the drill level, and take your time. It's easy enough.
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Also, for the love of God drill pilot holes unless you are going to use a drill press.
 
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Drill from the front, obviously, but hold, or better yet, clamp a small piece of wood to the back of the door/drawer where you expect the drill to exit and drill into it. This will keep you from blowing out the back and splintering your nice cabinets. If you don't clamp but just hold the wood block, try not to drill into your hand. It hurts.
 
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Barraco Bisi_sl said:
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Here's a project that I'll be starting in the next 12 months.

I have a fairly small house, so we try to use every possible space as effectively as possible. You'll see the picture above of a landing between the main floor and the basement, just a few steps down from the kitchen area. What I'd like to do is build a pantry on that ledge where the pictures are currently sitting. The challenge is whatever cabinets I install there will have to be removable, since that foot of space is needed when you move things like couches down to the basement.

Any tips for installing cabinets? Can you buy cabinet kits?
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How does this look now that it's completed?
 
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lurker_sl said:
Oscillating Multi-Tool. Everybody makes one and the blades are interchangeable between manufacturers. I have a Harbor Freight version because it was cheap and works as well as a several hundred dollar Fein I used, but it doesn't feel as nice and won't last as long.

It's one of those tools of last resort. When you're in some tight place on your back in some cabinet and need to cut a nail or a screw or a piece of wood or sheetrock but have no room to move a saw blade, if you can touch it with this tool, you can cut it. It will also sand or grind just about any material. Mine is cordless which makes it even handier.

Here's a link to HomeDepot, but lots of places sell themOscillating Tools
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Ended up picking up the cordless Ryobi oscillating multi-tool! I've heard good things about Ryobi's cordless stuff, so it'd be nice to just stick with 1 battery sets. I assume they are interchangeable amongst their cordless tools?
 
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Crone_sl said:
Ended up picking up the cordless Ryobi oscillating multi-tool! I've heard good things about Ryobi's cordless stuff, so it'd be nice to just stick with 1 battery sets. I assume they are interchangeable amongst their cordless tools?
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Sorry, this post was written so borderline generically it sounded like you got her a vibrator. Which, you should, btw. Those Hitachi magic wands or whatever. It qualifies as a power tool because it's supposed to be a back massager, but no one uses it that way.
 
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I've got a drill and saw that look like they use the same battery, but they're slightly different sizes and require different $150 chargers. It's bullshit.
 
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Noodlemod_sl said:
I've got a drill and saw that look like they use the same battery, but they're slightly different sizes and require different $150 chargers. It's bullshit.
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Well that's unfortunate. Will have to see what battery this takes and see if I can match it to other tools.

And Deathwing, we already have one of those!
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That is one thing that makes me want to buy my hand tools by brand, regardless of reviews. In most things, I choose Craftsman, but for drills I chose DeWalt. The new 20A lithium batteries are awesome, and I have a circular saw that uses the same battery, and a flashlight, and a sander, and another sander, and so forth. I have four batteries. Have them all charged at the start of a day, virtually impossible to kill them all, regardless of which tool you're using. They also charge quickly.
 
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lurkingdirk_sl said:
That is one thing that makes me want to buy my hand tools by brand, regardless of reviews. In most things, I choose Craftsman, but for drills I chose DeWalt. The new 20A lithium batteries are awesome, and I have a circular saw that uses the same battery, and a flashlight, and a sander, and another sander, and so forth. I have four batteries. Have them all charged at the start of a day, virtually impossible to kill them all, regardless of which tool you're using. They also charge quickly.
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I'm hoping it's this way with the Ryobi's, but I'm starting to get a feeling that it's not the case.
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Edit: Actually, looks like I'm in luck. Uses the 18v One+ system, and over 50 tools use the same battery platform it looks like.
 
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Honestly, I think Craftsman and DeWalt do the best job with this, but I can't speak with any authority on that other than that's my own experience with the tools I have chosen to buy.
 
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Did you know there's a dildo attachment made for reciprocating saws?

My wife was not as interested as I was. Someone else will have to let us know how it is.
 
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Ok first you have to get her really really drunk. But not so drunk that she can't sign her own name. Wait, scratch that, first what you have to do is write up a contract.
 
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I use Milwaukee m18 lithium ion for ALL my power hand tools with exception of mixing drill and zip tool and skill saw.
Most of the people I work with use Dewalt.
Dewalt is good but heavier and bulkier than my Milwaukee's and the Milwaukee beats out Dewalt in every way I've seen, especially abuse and wear and tear. I literally cook my drills doing shit to the point of smoking and burning you to the touch ( such as putting in screws in concrete board ) and they cool down and work fine and keep on going. I did have to rebuild my hammer drill once in 4 hours that cost $65 at the local repair shop for a whole new transmission assembly, but that was prior to getting a impact driver which after using those everyone should have I don't care how much you use it. Really except for bits/hammer function I use my impact on everything.

Ryobi I only own one thing from and that is their top end version of a skill saw. It isn't bad but it is so light it scares me sometimes as it wants to kick back if you twitch at all using it.

I know I missed half the discussion here but that is what I use everyday for my tools.
 
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I agree with you about the Milwaukee vs. Dewalt weight thing until they introduced their 20v lithium batteries. Shit got a lot lighter, and that was a huge sell for me when I went to buy a new drill. I had overhead drywall to do, drill weight was relevant.
 
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