re: Favorite Power Tools Brand?

Add to the foregoing:

I like my Bosch sliding, compound miter more than my Dewalt, but the late gives me consistently good results.

I like my Pansonic 14v driver and drill better than my Makita’s or my Dewalt, but I won’t give the latter ones up either.

My Delta X5 eats wood, but the Bosch table saw follows one to the job site much better.

My PM band saw makes me wonder why I ever owned two or three Craftman band saws. My buddy’s Grizzley, though far cheaper, looks like it’d be a good alternative, if lower cost had been an issue.

My spendy little floor model Ridgid Drill press DOES NOT have a Jacobs chuck and seems no better than the HF one I gave away, which did have a Jacobs chuck.

On dust collection, everything you can do is fair game. However, the micron blocking capability is key, to avoid having what is best described as a dust pump. So, my Jet four bagger came with dust pumps on the top and bottom. As such, can they still be drug into this discussion, as favorites, if you consider I had to install canisters or finer micron bags and lower cans or plastic bags?

Of course, many of us have hundreds of tools (which includes equipment). Many of them cannot be compared, since they don’t have competition. For example, there is only one Domino and that used to be the case with my Bosch jig saw, or my Twin Cutter, and so on. Too, I know of nothing close to my Porter Cable Saw Boss circular saw, aside from a cordless, but none of which can compete for power.