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[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Festool and Metabo are both German, Wadkin is British.

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Festool is great if you're literally made of money.

[โ€“] Gilles_D@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or if you have to use that thing to make you money.

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I considered adding that originally but felt it was detrimental to the impact of the joke.

[โ€“] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hoping one day we get a consumer grade domino, but that's probably a pipe dream.

[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Decided to get the metabo battery powered tools because they're the only ones that offer an adapter to plug the tools directly (useful for stuff that stays in the shop most of the time)

Zero ragrets! They're very good!