Propper Shop Attire? I weld in a Codpiece.. and Crocs..

The reason good shop clothes are worn and shabby is that the crap stuff that isn't comfortable, warm or binds in the arm pits and such, never makes it to the worn stage. The crap stuff gets binned. So when you have a good one, you wear it forever! This shows that it is well made and fit for purpose. Same with tools. Old stuff rocks!

I used to think "If it ain't broke, take it apart and find out why" was a joke. Then I started watching AvE vijayos.

The dust cover over the rear bushing was nice attention to detail, I’m surprised that wasn’t value engineered away.

Let's get this Snap-On out onto a tray. Nice.

Imagine caring about what a man wears in the comfort of his own Car Hole.

5:38 “shaves whole pennies off of the cost of the bill of material” ... of a $540 tool. It’s what you’d expect from a knockoff Chinese brand for less than $50.

Thanks for the mention of my channel at 9:00, hard to believe someone with as big of a channel as you would even notice a channel as small as mine.

I'm guessing the HF version will be damn near the same as the Milwaukee, with a few corners cut. Probably still better than that POS that snapoff is charging so much for. I'm convinced the price hike for them is just because it's almost always financed.

Twisted steel and sex appeal might be the smoothest line nobody's ever had a use for 😂

Every time I watch these videos I realise how much I don’t know.

Been watching these for a couple weeks now and decided today after work to take apart my old Milwaukee 12v screwdriver that hasn't worked in years but served me well. I mean what the worst that could happen? What happened was she's got another lease on life! Full chooch!

“He ain’t one to quit on a garment just cause it’s got a little age” Augustus Mccrae, Lonesome Dove.

Outstanding video. So disappointing of SnapOn - highway robbery of them. Hat's off to Milwaukee.

Never met a guy who is obviously so adept at working with his hands and a master of the English language like yourself. Kudos to you for being the man that you are.

My grandad had a mule, to plow the fields so he could plant corn and feed the mule.... wait.. wha?!?

“I think I had it in manual so it didn’t listen to my audibles” 😂 4:13

A true Canadian, "you've got the real bum's eye for clothes."

7:08 In the business we call those "freewheeling diodes". Just in case anyone wanted to know.

"grandma polishing knobs", grandpa appreciated it

I really enjoy you taking apart tools that are brand new, keep the videos coming

But do you have the mullet to go with that carhartt jacket?

Been watching your videos for about a month and now I’m starting to use your words lol. It’s quite skookum. It’s a blast when I slip these words and sayings into normal conversations and watch them try to comprehend what I just said 😂

One of my favourite coats is a 1960 British Army flak jacket, the inspiration for Brandit's Brittania coat and it is super good condition for its age, not a button missing or a tear anywhere and I am lying on the dirt and mud in it fixing my car up. The other jacket I wear often is an old black Alpha Industries MA1 flight jacket, OK the pocket linings have given up but the thing is tougher than a coffin nail and just keeps on going despite it getting a lot of rough wear. Favourite leg wear is my old lined 68 issue camo trousers I forgot to give back to HM Gov and still going strong after 30 years of hard wear, it has been patched countless times but the lining thermal inner is still good and its like wearing a pair of centrally heated trousers.

I'm just happy you choose to wear clothes.

Didn't realize they made those mag loaders in purple!

some of these power tools with circuit boards you should send to bigclivegotcom.. his teardowns and circuit board schematics are easy to follow. he tell ya if its crap!

The diode conducts the motor current during the PWM off time so it won't chooch as well without that, putting a synchronous rectumfriar MOSFET in there reduces the power dissipation but not much advantage other than that, and it increases the complexity.

Love the purple mag-lula on the table!

Gloves reminiscent of Albert Steptoe...... Love your work.

Ave is like the most technical man I know! In every video I learn something new

Just discovered this channel and LOVE IT! Thanks for the great videos! Its great to watch someone so entertaining while also learning which tools are right shite and which ones may have a chance at crossing the finish line. Cheers!

Thanks for the reviews, I'm still getting the cheapest HF rt angle grinder they make, throw away the handle and use it as a hand sander/ polisher.

@2:03 “that is the treadmill I’m on...” aka the human hamster wheel. Love the vjayo’s (sp?), keep’em coming!

@AvE I came here from wranglestars channel cause he mentioned you in a old video. you really does make my days better with your videos. I miss the bosch nano chain saw tho :-( I really enjoy the videos with "lower quality" tools just for the posibility of a hidden gem. Thanks AvE and have a nice weekend.

As long as your warm, that is all that matters buddy.

I just figured out another way of watching these VJOs and saving myself some time. Just turn the sound off before hitting the play button and imagine an endless loop of Dave Jones voice saying "Crikey! That's a bit how-ya-doin innit!?" 😄

I’ve had one of these for a year, use it for compounding clear coat and plastic car headlights. Run time decent, feels good in the hand, no complaints :)

Hey I just started at a hydraulic shop, making hoses, testing and tearing down cylinders mainly right now, but your videos on pumps and motors are friggin awesome so I don’t look like a complete idiot when one of the old guys plays the make the new kid look like an idiot by handing him a big lump of steel and ask him what the fuck it is. Brings a smile to my face every time I can tell him not only what it is, but what it should look like inside and if it’s a skooum choocher or not.

The single Snap On LED is actually a 3 color light it go’s from Green, yellow and then red depending on the battery charge level.

Out-fucking-standing. Thanks for sharing. Guys at work will love this one. Can't wait till the next one.

I like the well broke in look, especially when its earned.

I have the Mill Wackie and I use that thing every day. Damn handy tool

3:34 lol "What happened? Where am I? I've been over-served"

I have a 25 year old Carhartt jacket, previously owned by a machinist, and now owned by a shade tree mechanic. I washed it a dozen times over, and it still smells like cigarettes, rotten coffee, and burnt cutting oil. The stains are gone, but the stench remains.

Snap on website shows $225 for the tool $456 for the tool with 2 batteries and a charger. If you have a good relationship with your dealer and/or wait for sales, you can probably get the tool alone for $180. It’s still expensive for what’s inside. I’d like to see the two get used side by side. For me, the Milwaukee 3/8 ratchet wasn’t good enough to keep me from buying snap on. For all those saying everything snap on makes is a ripoff, they still dominate the hand tool market. Their electric and pneumatic has always been spotty.

"The AvE guy" Chris or whomever calls you whatever, you should design and market your own tools. My toolchests and closet are full of your stickers and t-shirts. Been a fan of the channel for several years. Particularly enjoy the Arduino stuff. Please keep doing what you do and don't change a thing. You have many patrons in the Deplorable States of America... Thank you.

Never trust a guy with clean shop gloves.

Now that’s a TV dinner tray!

I would like to see the comparison from the Milwaukee to the earthquake XT.

Just when I was thinking of selling my snap-on 14.4 stuff and getting some Milwaukee m12.... think this has made my mind up

Ave can you start putting the exact tool part number so that we know which ones not to buy

I started buying Milwaukee power tools when I wanted a cordless ratchet. at the time i was a dewalt koolaid swiller now I have quite a few Milwaukee tools and like them .

Too bad Snap-On has big contracts including the US military so their consumer end is probably low on the list.

Just wanted to take the time and thank you AvE for not using KZfaq face (pallsy face) on your thumbnails. Thankfully they’re still a few of you guys not using that gimmick to get an extra view or two

A freewheel diode works just fine for a one-quadrant drive with PWM. A half bridge (totem pole) is two-quadrant, but that's overkill for this application (no need for controlled braking). You could run a MOSFET in place of the diode for a tiny improvement in efficiency as the RDSon causes less energy dissipation than the diode forward voltage drop. Done right you might also see a reduction in electrical noise due to elimination of the diode reverse recovery. Neither of these would be worth the cost or effort to implement when the output is going to a brushed DC motor.

I’m a mechanic in Massachusetts Transit. Five or six years ago, most of the top brands were fairly equal, with snap on maybe being a little bit better than most. Since then, Milwaukee has gone all in on cordless. The M 18 line has had a few duds, but overall between performance and variety it’s out in front now. With the five-year tool warranty it’s a solid bet too.

Gotta check out the Milwaukee M12 right angle does grinder tho

You can find vintage Carhartt on ebay just have to keep an eye out. I stocked up on a lifetime worth of J149's when I realized they haven't made them since i was a little girl. Got my first when I was 15 and it didnt start to show its age until I was 29. And this is Michigan partner, she may not have gotten ridden as hard or put away quite as wet as they do in Canukistan but close.

i have the same carrhart barn coat for a welding jacket, the sleeves look about like those... had it sience 2000... been on a dozen or so millwright road gigs... good coat

The diode thing AvE mentions is called by several names, but the most common term is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_diode . It's good engineering and I'm happy to see it there. But I admit I'm a bit puzzled as to why such a *big* diode. I guess they were designing for the situation where someone is repeatedly pulling the trigger all the way and then letting go of it quickly. Like putting up fence boards or something? The repeated, fast, on-off cycling will cause the diode to heat up. So it needs to be skookum to absorb (and dissipate) all that heat. That's my best guess, anyway.

"If'n you want your grandma to polish knobs" Ave, there are no words! lol

I'd like to see a collaboration video with AvE and zip ties and bias pliers, in fact I'd pay to see that

The only thing I don't like about Milwaukee is that I've only been able to find the switches as part of the whole "electronics assembly" kind of annoying when your impact driver falls off of your belt and the trigger breaks off. I ended up gluing it back onto the post with some methacrylate adhesive. It's been working fine for a month now.

been wearing my Carhartt for years as well. best jacket ever and skookum as frig

I owned one of those French cuff carhartt coats for years. Served me well in the bakken, the us side of course.

The shop attire and the quality of the damage to your hands is the primary reason I feel I can trust this channel?

I got the same coat. Nice and used. Warn, warm and tattered. Full of coffee stains and welding pin whole burns. Just like the new cloths that they sell in the fancy malls to the teenie boppers. Oh and by the way, nice prison pan.

The freewheel diode will protect the MOSFET just fine from the motor's back EMF. The voltage drop of the diode will waste a bit of energy, but using the diode saves all the extra circuitry that would be needed to drive a high-side transistor.

Should take apart the ingersoll rand version too while yer at it.

My cordless snap on drill is over 20 years old never a problem and used daily for work

I have owned the polisher, impact and light since the well they came out. So far there not to bad. The batteries are great, and they do indicate charge level. The one light on the tool changes colors as the battery discharges.

I own both and honestly don't care for the Milwaukee. It sits in my toolbox and my snap on is usually on top of my tool cart. Maybe it's made better, but to me it feels like it just works better. I even went and got the ratchet too and have no complaints about either. I just truly don't don't enjoy using my Milwaukee stuff. I haven't even used my heated Milwaukee jacket this year.

I have both the Milwaukee polisher as well as the earthquake xt and they both have been good tools put the earthquake xt through a ton of abuse and it's still going @AVE

The diode protects the regulator output from reverse voltage, as the motor turns generator, and provides a near short heavy load that brings the motor to a fast stop.

Don't listen to them, Carhartt's are like wine, they get better as they age.

When it comes to shop attire, AvE, I'm loving what you wear. Isn't that Derelicte? ;)

The holes in crocs are to let your dignity out.

It does matter what is the motor control output stage if you consider higher power motors. In every PWM cycle, motor current flows through one MOSFET and a motor, and in the turn-off time the same current flows through the freewheeling diode. It is usually a Schottky diode which has lower voltage drop. But when the current gets higher, the diode losses are just too much and it gets replaced by a synchronous MOSFET that decreases the voltage drop - saving the energy and reducing the heat dissipation.

Ironically I found out about the Milwaukee while wandering the smelly halls of my local Horror Freight - I noticed they had a crappy red knockoff version which prompted a Google search that turned up the Milwaukee. I purchased the Milwaukee and couldn't be happier.

Carhartt. The jacket that is so durable, its the base of a diy flak jacket for doomsday preppers.

When I saw the video title thumbnail on PAtreon - I said "OMG! his hands have gotten _REALLY_ hairy since the last VJO or so! Whoa! Some commitment!" It is not nearly as entertaining to see that they're dirty cut off gloves, but I still laughed.

Used to love my wrist breaking Milwaukee's. The look cheap now. Chinesium.. but your review has made me rethink them now.

"Let's get this BOLTR out onto a tray... nice!"

Some of the petticoat wearing amongst us will notice the mag loader and warn you that sharp-eyed scoundrels up to no good will visit you shortly. To be safe, if you can, deal with them with a hand tool (no excessive force); perhaps the Ti prybar/screwdriver (which I'm having made since I can't wait forever for you do it) would be a good choice.

I love when he throws in the corporate insights, someone got a bonus for cutting corners on the switch. If it's the truth you seek in tool reviews, this is your channel.

I was hoping you'd also test continuity from the positive terminal to the motor housing. The FETs have 2 leads (TO-252 package) which means the heatsink is the 3rd terminal. I can't see the part number, looks like "IRF3xx" which would suggest N-type (IRF usually uses 9xxx for P-type, i.e. a complementary pair would be IRF510 and IRF9510) and the Drain would be tied to the ground plane. That configuration could also be a half-bridge, IRF is pretty good about putting a free-wheeling diode inside their FETs so an external diode isn't needed.

Love that steel tray...it has that vintage Oakalla chic!

You bastard, had to launder all the blankets on my bed because they got sprayed by Redbull after the grandma comment. Well done!

I have learned more from a few of your shows then from me dad or from me shop classes, not sure if that's a compliment or not but its meant to be, and learning some canuck,and I love the 2 tools side by each so we can see what's the skinny,Ok I need to go throw the horse over the fence some hay,,

I think criticsm of the shop attire is unfounded - however there could be critical attention paid to the cleanliness of the fingernails here... Referring back to a long-forgotten Monty Python sketch. "How do we know he's a king?" "Because he's not covered in shit!" Leaving that aside you are obviously a very knowledgable individual of the engineering persuasion, and for that I thank you!

The 1st thing I thought when AvE pulled out that Snap-On was this has turned into a Steve1989MREInfo video..."Let's get this out on a tray.......NICE"

Heaps skookum video there mate. A joy to beer hold!! Loves ya bro from Brisbane Qld Australia. Rippa bewdy bottla!!

Let’s get this out on a tray... nice!

1:05 Hey we're finally getting it out on a tray. NICE!

I've used the same 12v Milwaukee drill, same body style as this sander, for 12 years no. Its on its 3rd battery now and minus the rubber coating that has been in a state of failure for probably 11 years the drill is still kicking just fine. I work with plenty of people that swear by the smaller snapon power tools but I've never cared for the rocker type switch they came with in the past. 500$ sounds like you got cheated but maybe thats just the currency conversion. IMO the 12v milwaukee line is a very good investment. I am however a Dwilt fan boy i guess and stick to the 20v dwalt stuff where i can

Real men where dirty worn out carharts!

A tear down of a professional dual action/random orbital polisher/buffer would likely make for a REALLY interesting BOLT - especially something like a Rupes Bigfoot series or the LHR 15ES for a more affordable example(still ain't cheap though!), or a FLEX 3401. A much more affordable option would be Griots Garage 6" buffer though. The 'usual scumbags' have their own versions too, but the 'cottage industry' brands would be more interesting.

Pleasantly surprised by the Willfackya. Skook'em

Let's get this out on a tray. Nice