Milwaukee Tools Buying Guide

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[WatchWesWork]

I'm behind the times I guess, but I love my air tools.

[HowtoAutomotive]

Awesome video Michael👍 thank you for the shout out!

[alastairmartin]

I agree I have the high torque big gun. I just knew if I didn’t spend the extra money and only got the mid torque the first bolt it wouldn’t undo I’d be ordering the big one anyway. For the other stuff I just stuck with 3/8 ratchet and 3/8 impact and bought every type of socket or bit I could all in 3/8 to start off with to keep costs down

[RKMechanics]

My daily is the stubby 1/2 inch. It replaced my harbor freight air gun. With a full battery, it takes off almost all the lug nuts I've come across. I will say, it doesn't want to take off some strut nuts and caliper bracket bolts but I just grab a breaker bar, and break them loose, then just use the stubby for the rest of the job.

[baddecisionsoff-roading]

Gotta say. Snap on doesn’t have shit. I dared my snap on guys 3/4 electric to tackle my Milwaukee 3/4 impact. He declined lmfao. I intend to buy MORE without a shadow of a doubt. Most 15/16 nuts holding brake chambers on for heavy truck, it’ll brake it out with my heavy 3/8 drive. Love it. Love the products.

[hmong]

Great at video! I'm exactly in the sitaution of only being able to buy 1 or 2. Thanks to your video, it helped me decide which is best for me. Probably gonna go for the 1/2" stubby and maybe a 3/8" extended ratchet. I do a lot of suspension and brake work so those I feel will work for me. Cheers!

[Toyotas_n__Tools]

To shoot it strait, go to home depot's website they usually have a m12 deal for around $180-220 and includes the fuel 1/2" drill, fuel 1/4" impact driver, a 3/8" 1st gen ratchet, charger, 2amp, and 4amp hour batterys. You get 3 tools and 2 batteries for the price of one of the tools in the video. I'd get the 1/2" stubby next and use a adapter if you want 3/8".

[Nate_Dogg]

Bought a 3/8" stubby milwaukee impact while in school then just got a 1/2" milwaukee high torque impact when started at a dealership. Love em. Worth it. And less expensive than tool truck tools. Next is a milwaukee rachet. Glad to see to different ones and wht u think. I'd take milwaukee over snap-on any day

[cardo]

Good vid as always, a nice overview of Milwaukee's cordless auto repair tools. The M12 Stubby 1/2" (with its larger/heavier anvil) is hitting harder than the 3/8" Stubby.

[ZERONEINNOVATIONS]

+1 for impact driver!
If someone not mechanic is trying to buy his/her first powertool, I highly recommend to get the impact driver too. I'm a hobby mechanic. I have a makita impact driver and I use it for everything. Building a dog house, clean bath tub with attachment, work on interior parts, remove lug nuts after breaking with breaker bar, etcetc.
I bought electric ratchet wrench too but most of the time I use impact driver. It's faster and easy to control. My next buy will be 18v 1/2 impact wrench. I already have electric corded harbor freight impact wrench. It works good enough but, it takes time to plug in extension cord every time I use it and I'm LAZY.

[rstar]

I recommend the 1/4 hex impact and the old smaller head 1/4 ratchet. Both of those help alot for speed on interior trim, body trim and engine trim.

The smaller head on the old style 1/4 ratchet has helped so much for limited space.

[TheBudgetTechnician]

So there is some merit to thinking the 1/2" hits harder, but it's likely not the tool itself, but rather the weight of the socket. 1/2" sockets inherently weigh more than their 3/8" counterparts, and will have more momentum when it impacts, which translates to more force. I noticed this a while back when using my old matco impact driver with the adapters to use sockets. Using the 3/8" 21mm Sunex impact socket would struggle to remove lugnuts (and sometimes wouldn't), but if I swapped to the 1/2" adapter and used the 1/2" 21mm Sunex impact socket, it would take them off with little to no issue. There are actually weighted sockets made too, Ingersoll Rand actually makes some, that help remove over torqued fasteners, I haven't used them, but have been thinking about getting them, IR calls them their PowerSocket

[GYPSY]

I'm an underground "beat" mechanic.. basically I do service calls in the mine all day. I use the 3/8 stubby impact and 3/8 ratchet.. both are worth their weight in gold when needed.. and I rarely need the 1/2 gun I have on the truck. The ratchet really speeds up a job ( rarely use a manual ratchet anymore) and the stubby impact is insanely strong.. I zip off toyota lug nuts ( 154lbft) without breaking a sweat.

[weduhpeople]

I ordered the Kolbolt 24v right angle impact over the Milwaukee because it’s torque rating is way underrated and seems to have a smaller head than the Milwaulkee. It maxed out at 320 ft lbs if nut busting break away force on some YouTube reviews/ tests plus it’s $99 tool only from Lowe’s rn.

[harold]

From the factory trained 44 years BMW UK Master this is probably the best video you have done. I am their biggest fan. My mates and myself are in a race to buy the lot 🤣 I m on three so far but love my job so much I won’t be happy until I can buy all of them.

Please can you do some tool truck videos?

Best Wishes

Harold (BMW) From England👍

[Diagnosedan]

You have got a Nice collection of Milwaukee tools!

[niteninja]

That Milwaukee stubby 1/2" couldn't take off caliper brackets bolts here in Wisconsin. You need a actual 1/2". So people should also consider where you live too on what your going to buy

[nomercyinc]

the right angle impact is perfect for installing tow hooks hitches . exhaust tips exhaust in general. ratchets have their manual torque rating as well. the right angle is rated up above the manual torque of the entire lineup of ratchets

[kevinlamarr]

I have 3/8 and 1/2 inch stubby, 1/2 inch high torque, M-12 1/4 inch ratchet, 3/8 round head m-18 impact in Milwaukee. I got the 3/4 inch impact from Makita just to make it interesting. Also got the M-18 circular saw. Works great if you do flat bed trucking and have to cut blocking wood and bracing.

[JohnSRosamond]

The first battery operated power tool I got was a Bosch impact driver. Now that I have a bunch of Milwaukee tools, my number 1 would be the half inch 18v impact. For around the house, I think my No. 1 is actually the drill.