Nah, Hilti does fine, I'm sure if they sold one that advertised it was made with more durable parts everyone would buy it. But they'd make less sales because many people wouldn't buy new replacement upgraded tools every 3-6 years (depending on use) my dad who's now retired did carpentry electrical and plumbing 65 years and he's had makita tools that lasted 40 years before but they were made of only the highest quality parts. If Makita went back to that type of quality they'd have to charge more for the batteries. They could make really fast chargers which would degrade the battery faster but would be impressive then they'd get you there.
Lets just take a second to recognize the 40A automotive fuse. Its widely available so you dont need to order a replacement and wait for it to arrive. Simple, cheap and brilliant.
I hate this line of reasoning. The workers in a factory have to make what has been engineered for them to make. Blame the damn engineers and paper pushers not the workers.
Translations + Notes below: The characters on the board with the Hall sensors are 紫赤青黄白黒, which makes sense both in Japanese and Chinese. It means “Purple, Red, Blue, Yellow, White, Black.” I believe it’s referring to the order in which the colored wires should be connected (to avoid errors during assembly, I suppose). Note that there is no purple wire, but there is a blank spot next to the red. In the manual, the small switch is called 手元ボタン, which means something like “close at hand button” or “at-hand button”- basically, a button in convenient reach of the trigger finger. The panel at the bottom is as follows: The left hand box has a white button with 打撃, “impact” in this case, with a series of light indicators above: 弱 中 強 最速, respectively, “Weak, Medium, Strong, Fastest.” Underneath the box, to the immediate right of the white button, there is a black button ライト, meaning “light.” To the right of it, there is an indicator light (still on the black field) with the inscription 設定, which can mean either “settings” or “set” (I would have to see the manual, but it indicates setting some sort of preference, likely- perhaps the default?). On the blue field, the drill has Makita’s proprietary 楽らく4モード “Super Easy 4 Modes” [rough translation] selected by the button with 楽らく (“Super easy”). These are modes in which the drill will automatically change the torque and speed based on the type of material you select and the resistance the screw is giving. The modes are: 木材 “Wood materials” (top left indicator light), where the drill will start at a lower torque while a wood screw is going in then automatically jump to the highest torque when the head is almost flush to give it a nice tight fit ボルト “Bolts” (top right indicator light), which will only use the top speed/torque but stop as soon as the bolt tightens (to avoid over-torquing) And two modes under テクス用 for driving self-tapping metal screws into pilot holes (literally translated “Tekusu-use,” referring to a widespread brand of self-tapping metal screw called “Tekusu,” made by JPF Manufacturing). The two modes are 薄 “thin” (bottom left) and 厚 “thick” (bottom right), for use in thin metal sheets and thicker metal sheets/beams, respectively. The former tests the resistance of the screw to find an appropriate level of torque to avoid stripping and automatically stops when the screw is fully tightened, while the latter does the same on higher torques, but focuses on avoiding breaking off the screw head or otherwise damaging the screw. This is explained in detail on the following site, with videos (Japanese only): www.bildy.jp/mag/makita-td171drgx-mode/#i-5 Your final comment is correct- Japan often makes different products for the domestic market, sometimes better produced than the international market counterparts. Oftentimes, this has to do with the very specific requests of the Japanese market (see the “Galápagos Syndrome [ガラパゴス化]” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome ). This also has to do with a sad tendency of Japanese companies to forget that there is a world outside of Japan. It can be hard to get these products in the West, but there often are really good deals on the used markets (eg. Yahoo Auctions)- you should be able to purchase on websites that ship only within Japan or only accept Japanese credit cards by using a proxy buyer. These are several companies that will charge a commission, but will buy the product and pay for you at domestic rates, then handle shipping it to an international address (they often charge 10% or so- not the cheapest, but with the deals on the auction sites you can save TONS of money over Amazon.co.jp If that’s too sketchy for you, though, Amazon JP has a halfway decent selection as well) Hope this helps!
More likely Japanese. 青 is more of a light green in Chinese, and you'd actually use 藍. Also 赤, even though Chinese use that for red, that's more used in old literature, modern Chinese will use 紅. Also, they didn't use simplified Chinese, which Hong Kong and Taiwan uses
@@egonsung Thank you for the comment! That’s fascinating- in Japanese, 藍 and 紅 are used, but more for the specific colors of indigo and crimson, respectively. I did not know that they were used for the more general blue and red colors in Chinese!
@@egonsung The character for black is a clear indication that it's Japanese. 青 is used for blue in Chinese too. Hong Kong and Taiwan use traditional Chinese.
Having lived in Japan for a while I can attest to their domestic market having very different price/quality inclinations from ours. Everything is generally more expensive over there (except for food, which is delicious AND cheap, and other random exceptions) so generally people have much fewer possessions than us, but the quality and the service you get for each item or transaction is another level. Even the dollar store (Daiso) is a marvel of quality and service.
Not many people in the US are willing to shell out $300 for a BL impact driver. In addition and while he didn’t mention it, the chuck is actually 1/4” (or so) deeper which allows for flip-able bits; very nice to have different bit heads and not have to go retrieve one. I was in Japan for a long time and ran an industrial shop (which included 6 carpenters) and was amazed at the quality of some of the Japanese domestic tools.
What makes the application of Viton so great for tools like these isn't just the high temp rating. Viton exhibits nearly as wide of a chemical resistance as PTFE AND has an unlimited shelf life! Environmental deterioration in rubber compounds is what causes the "drying out" that typically causes failure in old or particularly cheap tools.
Japan’s manufacturing industry operates in a very different way than many other countries. Young ppl start to work early as apprentices in workshops and usually stay in the same job for the rest of their lives. Superior craftsmanship is highly appreciated and infused into their traditions. Japan is powered by hundreds of thousand such small companies which usually just have less than a hundred to a few hundreds of workers.
Same happening in Germany (for older companies more than the new ones), and when in economic difficulties, they tend to keep their employees (economic unemployment) rather than firing them.
Notice the jump cut while the riff-raff was figuring out the reverse thread. Appears to be a little distress to the housing that went along with the discovery.
Yeah gets me every time when you are work in auto mode. Every 5th time you take something apart and think s&%t they have done this up tight, and then you sit back and look at it and engage your brain. Hopefully you haven't screwed it up too much before you figure it out.
3:38 - That's just the wiring order for that board. It's got 紫赤青黄白黒 which is "Purple Red Blue Yellow White Black". While Chinese and Japanese share some parts of writing I'd guess that for something that already has domestically sourced parts (Nichia, Omron) they wouldn't skimp out and outsource a simple board. Bonus fact - The "happy little backwards e" is の and you see it a lot on stuff from Japan because it's the "Possessive Particle". It indicates possession between two words. Think of it like ('s) in English. The "Healing Bench's Shmoo" becomes "Healing BenchのShmoo”.
But have you seen the Makita storage cooler that goes from -18C to 60C and runs for hours off two batteries? Perfect for when you need to bring frozen soup to the beach and then heat it up to an insufficient temperature.
You're actually not meant to bring most soups up to boiling temp. Bringing them to boiling you risk overcook your proteins and turning any veg in it from green to brownish mush.
.I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of your videos.. My husband is a huge fan and watches all of your videos and while I don't watch them all, I truly enjoy the ones I do and I learn from them. Just wanted you to know that I truly appreciate the hard work and effort you put into making them .
Eh, they maybe indeed "LOOK" the same inside. But that does not guarantee that the same quality and attention to detail. I know Japanese stuff is better. If I have a choice, and I usually don't, I buy American. But if there's a choice between Chinese and Japanese, I'll take Japanese. Fuller tools comes to mind. My Dad had a Fuller socket set when I was a kid. We lost some sockets, but never broke anything. Good stuff.
@@dads8253 They're identical. Every last component and spec is identical. They can't not be identical, as power tools only have one oem replacement part for every component. Unlike automotive, there is no aftermarket for power tool parts.
Last time I was stationed in Japan, the unit I was with had a Japanese worker who build shipping crates to ship ordnance in. He insisted on Japanese tools purchased out in town, not American tools purchased via the regular supply system, or from the local exchanges. He said they were junk. When he wanted a tool I would hop in a van with him to go out and buy it from a local shop using my government purchase card. He points, I paid. I didn't argue, I knew better. I am kicking myself now that I did not get any tools for myself while I was doing that. I wish I had. :)
I'm Chinese and I really appreciate your knowledge in different cultures. The smiley face explanation of the Japanese character had me dying. Love your videos, thanks for making my day!
His game was next level on this vid, the Number Four is an ominous number in many Asian cultures. The number Four LITERALLY means death in Chinese and 49 means pain until dealth in Japan. High rise buildings in many Asian countries omit the level Four for that very reason.
Can you review the Ryobi-Kyocera tools from Japan?! The good Ryobi from a parallel universe, that not many North American know the existence of... By the way, letters on the PCB board is in Japanese, it's a color designation for wires. The tool appears to be 100% Japanese made, like the ones from 1970/80s. Thanks for reviewing-
Where do you get this info Ryoby is part off tti it a Chinese compagny They own Milwaukee ridgid and ryobi and many more And ridgid plumbing tool are not made by tti but the logo is not the same color as well
@@banusbaby a quick search show kyocera bought 80% of ryobi in 2018 And tti is licensed to make them for the rest of the world Thank you was not aware of this
Alas, I still have my Kyocera made camera from the '90s and the thing is a work of black magic devilry, talk about making things well, she's made of titanium. Wish they still did 'em.
I have a Japanese made Hitachi sander bought in 1982. Works like a charm and I still use it to this day. Bought a Hitachi Reciprocating saw and drill made in China. Didn't get two years out of either one
That little switch is the "quick shift" programmable button for the different settings so you can switch between the ones you want faster and without looking. I've had that impact since early 2019. It's awesome.
Had my good wife look at the censor board she being from the land of the rising sun and it turns out the kanji symbols refer to colours of the wires going into the board. These are old words and Japanese use kanji for those so quite possible it is a product of Japan.
i have a few late 70s and early 80s made in japan ibanez guitar and they put ALL of the newer 1990-2000s made in china ones to shame... if you can get anything made in japan, i highly reccomend
Same thing happened to fender, they were better quality so fender moved their operations to China instead of actually improving their product. In fact Japanese fenders are quite collectable now.
Both the green and the "red" Makita versions are available here in Japan, the green being aimed at consumers and the red aimed more at contractors, with very different pricing that reflects the quality difference.
I own one like that - dtd171, made in a different country. The button is programmable. You can select one program and apply it to use when this button is pressed. When pressed again, the tool will revert to previously used program. Great for repeating certain actions without using both hands for program changing while on a ladder.
It has the exact same internals as the DTD171 sold here in Australia. The older DTD170 also had the 40A fuse and nice Omron switch. This model is the top tier in their 18V impact driver range and is sold as the XDT16 in the US.
In about 1985 as a young apprentice motorcycle mechanic, i purchased a starter tool set that honda themselves used to sell, all of $80 aussie dollarydoos at the time. Vessel hammers, kowa spanners and t bar sockets. I still have everything bar the wooden handled screwdrivers and its all still perfectly serviceable.
I have this Impact, bought it a few years ago. Still a beast, hasn't slowed down, and everyone is jealous of the colour. Well worth the $300 for it tool only
Just picked up the updated 172 on fleabay in purple! Would be fun to watch people try to decipher the settings. Not like I'll let anyone use it anyway! Side note, if you're a makita nerd like me, there's a fella from New Zealand I think who reviews all their newest stuff including 40v. He's often the only guy reviewing them in english. His name's Tools & Stuff.
I've got the same impact driver and it's a beast. That little button below the trigger simply changes the mode. It's the same as the buttons down by the battery.
I have just looked inside my Makita DTD171 (Made in China) which looks the same as in this video except it was made for EU market. It also has Omron switch, Nichicon capacitor silastic allover connectors. It doesn't look lower quality tool. Everything is identical.
And this video perfectly illustrates confirmation bias in action and how it distorts thinking. Later he's gonna compare a Nissan Skyline against an inexpensive family car and use that comparison to tell you how much superior all Japanese cars are.
I know a fellow who teaches English in China. He said " they keep the good stuff and ship the smoo ( junk ) to the states ". The old Bonnie wrenches were a joy to hold in this old gals hands. Highest quality. Still going strong. Lighter and more springy than common snapon. MAC had a few with these qualities. Super handy working on equipment with little access / working room.
That's mostly a myth, especially if you start comparing tools at the same price point, rather than compare a high end tool against an inexpensive one, like AvE is doing in this video. Of course the most expensive tool wins. It has better parts in it.
You continue to entertain with your impressive repertoire of language AvE. Your use of the term Gwai Luo brought a good laugh and a raised brow as I hadn't heard that term since I walked through the old neighborhood streets in Hangzhou on a business trip.
@@gruanger It means an electronically controlled variable speed, because in the old old times, the speed was crudely regulated with a rheostat... The atomic symbol means "electrons", thus "electronic". On METABO German tools, it means an electronic feedback circuit that lessens the bog-down when under load, and they call it "Vario-Constamatic"...
Just like their cars. They get the better motors with better interior, Exterior, and performance packages, also better factory wheels and suspension setups.
When you look at their past. When tourists started coming, they made stuff for them to look like genuine antiques. So they build tools for themselves and sell knock off to us. So it hasn't changed what we think is the real tool. Ha ha very clever.
@@radry100 That's why you get harbor freight tools cheap or go for better quality. So I would gladly pay 30% more if my daily tools lasted longer. Not cook off because of cheap part inside.
When I was looking for a good belt sander, I noticed an odd Makita model 9924. Made in Japan. Strange rectangle vacuum connector. Overall old school feel. So I investigated and discovered that they are producing it since 1980s. The same one. You can find out comments on amazon of people who bought it 30 years ago and after it finally stopped working, they discovered that they can buy the same one 3 decades later. I never looked on any other belt sander brand again. I worked in one of those big tool companies in product development team and I know that if something is being produced for that long, it must be nothing but perfection ;)
Yes. I have one Yanmar inboard diesel. My 2 outboard motors are Made In Japan...........Tohatsu! Many other Japanese outboards are made outside Japan now.
Yea i have a small tractor from the 70s fully restored (bodywork that is) 2cyl yanmar fires evrytime on its first stroke no matter what and without glowing
My 2013 mazda 3 has been assembled in japan and im at 100K and nothing broke on it at all yet! They put in more effort then most in their work its great!
@@saberxzero 03' Mazda 6 here, 272.000Km and the only problem it has ever had was becuase my brother (somehow) shorted it and screwed up the charging board but other than that it has been loyal as frig.
I called Makita once because I ordered 2 identical machines, one was made in romania, and one in the UK, I suspected one was counterfeit... but they assured me it was normal and guaranteed both were exactly the same quality wise... they both still work fine
Those Omron switches are incredible. Not sure of that model, but it looks like ones I find in medical equipment. Life cycles in the 100,000-1,000,000, bulletproof construction. Resistive elements are beautiful, thick hot molded carbon, cermet or quality conductive plastic depending on application. Not a cheap part, but incredibly well made
I got in so much trouble doing this growing up to my mother's appliances. Im so glad im not the only one who still does it...with better results now...lol
Nookler powered! I have always loved Makita tools. I have a Makita circular saw that must be 40 years old. I work this tool hard and it's still choochin' like she was brand new.
I've got the almost same model in anti theft teal. The little button above the switch trigger is a quick mode-switching button which you can program. Out of the box it will change the level of impact every time you press it, the front lamps will flash once if you press this button as an indication. This is very handy if you got a stubborn bolt that needs a little extra persuasion and you don't want to take the tool off the job to change the setting on the switches on the base above the battery. You can change what the button does by pressing it simultaneously with the hammer button on the base switches so it activates this function by pressing it, or you could do the same and press the lamp button if you want the switch to activate the lamps and you can disable it's function or resume the quick mode switching by pressing the button and the switch with the A and cyling arrow on the base of the tool. Every time you change the application the customize lamp on the base and the selected mode blinks. Hope this helps.
If you get a chance you should check out some of the audio equipment designed and built by Micro Seiki in Japan. They started as a aircraft metal works shop and went on to do all of the high end engineering and consulting for all of the top manufacturers highest end products in the 70s and 80s. I have a BL-91 and the precision on this thing is incredible.
I buy and use almost exclusively Japanese tools. My Nepros and Koken ratchets and socketry items are literally a pleasure to use and their quality is amazing. I have a lot of respect for the Japanese and they have some really good people over there. They possess in general wonderful cultural characteristics (an emphasis on quality and trying their best being two of them) which I appreciate and admire. “Made in Japan” almost always means true quality.
i have had the black TD171 from japan for a year now and she just loves a good hot supper. not as much pure power as the M18 GEN 3 impact driver but soo much more control and less bit wobble. important if you work deep in control cabinets but still need the power of 18v. Thankyou Ave for steering me to makita.
1) Tools are more expensive in Japan, so you expect them to last much longer. 2) I expected a direct comparison to the non-domestic version of this exact model/tool. So what exactly is better?
@@DirceuCorsetti I've converted my 18v NI-MH makitas to lipo batteries with an adapter so it accepts the batteries from newer tools that had gone to heavens allready.
@@goodiezgrigis wait wut, there are tools that use lipo batteries? I was under the impression all tool makers used either 18650 or 21700 li-ion cells? 🤔
Thanks for making me so impatient, gotta wait for damned customs to let my drill make it to me now. Ordered myself the TD172D in the purple color. Excited for the upgrade from a crummy(but surprisingly useful/useable) Hyper Tough from walmart.
As a chef who buys his carbon steel straight from Japan I am not surprised. My favorite came out of the box able to push cut a ripe heirloom tomato paper thin. F***ing beautiful!!
Yeah, it's well known amongst the MD player and watch community that for the same models, the ones for the Japanese domestic market are better built. I have always wondered why that is but then I realised that maybe they don't have "built-in obsolescence" because they don't have enough space for landfills. They have Home Appliance Recycling Law since 2001 that forces the consumers and businesses to return their used goods to the producers at a fee. Being the law biding citizens they are, they would naturally gravitate towards longer lasting brands. Maybe that's one reason.It's probably not a cultural thing to make things last for the sake of it because their houses are not built to last as long compare to European houses.Anyway, I will need to talk more with my Japanese friend about this.
I'd love to see a comparison between that and the best Milwaukee driver. I just got a Zojirushi rice cooker and can't believe the quality of everything compared to ANYTHING here in America lol
I’ve had one for over a year now. Ordered direct from Japan 🇯🇵. I still haven’t worked out how to use the buttons. Keep snapping driver bits the thing is so fast and powerful.
I bought some nepros tools after seeing your reviews on them. Just got an email from their head of overseas operations asking me how I heard about them as they suddenly got tons of overseas orders! Good work.
Fun fact: Superior Ni-MH were pretty common in Japan - and at the time Li-Ion were in the range of becoming available, no one in Japan wanted to manufacture them, since there were pretty confident, that Ni-MH were way better than those newcomer Li-Ion-crap. But Sony wanted to transition to Li-Ion especially for there camearas and did not find a company to produce them - so in 1975 they did a joint venture and formed what is Sony Energy Devices Corporation nowadays
@@MattOGormanSmith Yes, but not all NiCads were higher current capable. Cells can be optimized for either more storage capacity or more peak current, but not both. On average, you are right: the majority of the NiMH cells are not known as high current, and some NiCads surpass them in that aspect.
Amazon Japan sells these. The site has a translation feature built in and they ship to the USA. I have this tool. The hand button is a quick toggle between modes (same controls and the equivalent US model.)
Saw this with the red brand tools when I was in the repair business about 15 years ago. The tools available at the big orange store were made in China and not nearly the quality of the ones we were able to sell which were made in the USA and far more expensive. The sales reps would flat out deny it and the customers weren't interested in learning why the ones we had cost a lot more.
The kanji before "red" is "purple" it doesn't really have enough context to tell whether or not it is Japanese or Chinese as all the kanji present are used in both languages
@@FrankieG13 It's Japanese, but Traditional Chinese uses the same symbols, so it could technically also be Chinese. But because China doesn't use traditional characters any more, I doubt it.
Japanese and German made products will likely always reign supreme, both in the history books and into the future. Now, regarding British made products, well, I think we all know how long a Jaguar will run ;)
German will reign supreme with their products that are overengineered in the wrong places and cost two to three times more for something that primarily a myth.
Button above trigger on that model engages a pre selected "favourite" mode, so you can change modes on the main board for an odd screw, and press the favourite button to revert back to your main use mode.
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take apart some ghost hunting equipment and see if its bs or not
I used my calibrated standard Magic 8-ball. "Without a doubt" it's bullshit.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 id actually really like to see you reverse engineer a weegee bored :o
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@@arduinoversusevil2025 You need balls to be so conclusive. One, it seems.
Theres an app called pokemon go....
"What are they thinking?" They're thinking we're too cheap to pay for quality. And they're right!
Westerners prefer loud marketing and low prices.
@@UhOhUmm not all of us
@@Giovanni_Litterini We are the few. The proud.
Nah, Hilti does fine, I'm sure if they sold one that advertised it was made with more durable parts everyone would buy it. But they'd make less sales because many people wouldn't buy new replacement upgraded tools every 3-6 years (depending on use) my dad who's now retired did carpentry electrical and plumbing 65 years and he's had makita tools that lasted 40 years before but they were made of only the highest quality parts. If Makita went back to that type of quality they'd have to charge more for the batteries. They could make really fast chargers which would degrade the battery faster but would be impressive then they'd get you there.
nah just for cheap azzezz
Lets just take a second to recognize the 40A automotive fuse. Its widely available so you dont need to order a replacement and wait for it to arrive. Simple, cheap and brilliant.
And that omron switch is found on Honda’s :)
I'm surprised they didn't use a mini fuse for it, to save on space.
@@bstrickler can't get 40A in the minis
@@mattmanyam True 30A is the max
They don't need to reinvent the wheel, but it seems that in western countries we try to do that.
its almost like the people making things in japan actually take pride in their work
If theres anyone who take pride in what they do its the Japanese
It's that "Pursuit of Perfection" craftsmanship oath they take as Japanese.
I hate this line of reasoning. The workers in a factory have to make what has been engineered for them to make. Blame the damn engineers and paper pushers not the workers.
fighterx Nobody mentioned workers or engineers. Designing a product is still 'work' that they take pride in.
They always did.
Translations + Notes below:
The characters on the board with the Hall sensors are 紫赤青黄白黒, which makes sense both in Japanese and Chinese. It means “Purple, Red, Blue, Yellow, White, Black.” I believe it’s referring to the order in which the colored wires should be connected (to avoid errors during assembly, I suppose). Note that there is no purple wire, but there is a blank spot next to the red.
In the manual, the small switch is called 手元ボタン, which means something like “close at hand button” or “at-hand button”- basically, a button in convenient reach of the trigger finger.
The panel at the bottom is as follows:
The left hand box has a white button with 打撃, “impact” in this case, with a series of light indicators above: 弱 中 強 最速, respectively, “Weak, Medium, Strong, Fastest.” Underneath the box, to the immediate right of the white button, there is a black button ライト, meaning “light.” To the right of it, there is an indicator light (still on the black field) with the inscription 設定, which can mean either “settings” or “set” (I would have to see the manual, but it indicates setting some sort of preference, likely- perhaps the default?).
On the blue field, the drill has Makita’s proprietary 楽らく4モード “Super Easy 4 Modes” [rough translation] selected by the button with 楽らく (“Super easy”). These are modes in which the drill will automatically change the torque and speed based on the type of material you select and the resistance the screw is giving. The modes are:
木材 “Wood materials” (top left indicator light), where the drill will start at a lower torque while a wood screw is going in then automatically jump to the highest torque when the head is almost flush to give it a nice tight fit
ボルト “Bolts” (top right indicator light), which will only use the top speed/torque but stop as soon as the bolt tightens (to avoid over-torquing)
And two modes under テクス用 for driving self-tapping metal screws into pilot holes (literally translated “Tekusu-use,” referring to a widespread brand of self-tapping metal screw called “Tekusu,” made by JPF Manufacturing). The two modes are 薄 “thin” (bottom left) and 厚 “thick” (bottom right), for use in thin metal sheets and thicker metal sheets/beams, respectively. The former tests the resistance of the screw to find an appropriate level of torque to avoid stripping and automatically stops when the screw is fully tightened, while the latter does the same on higher torques, but focuses on avoiding breaking off the screw head or otherwise damaging the screw.
This is explained in detail on the following site, with videos (Japanese only):
www.bildy.jp/mag/makita-td171drgx-mode/#i-5
Your final comment is correct- Japan often makes different products for the domestic market, sometimes better produced than the international market counterparts. Oftentimes, this has to do with the very specific requests of the Japanese market (see the “Galápagos Syndrome [ガラパゴス化]”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome
). This also has to do with a sad tendency of Japanese companies to forget that there is a world outside of Japan. It can be hard to get these products in the West, but there often are really good deals on the used markets (eg. Yahoo Auctions)- you should be able to purchase on websites that ship only within Japan or only accept Japanese credit cards by using a proxy buyer. These are several companies that will charge a commission, but will buy the product and pay for you at domestic rates, then handle shipping it to an international address (they often charge 10% or so- not the cheapest, but with the deals on the auction sites you can save TONS of money over Amazon.co.jp
If that’s too sketchy for you, though, Amazon JP has a halfway decent selection as well)
Hope this helps!
More likely Japanese. 青 is more of a light green in Chinese, and you'd actually use 藍. Also 赤, even though Chinese use that for red, that's more used in old literature, modern Chinese will use 紅. Also, they didn't use simplified Chinese, which Hong Kong and Taiwan uses
@@egonsung Thank you for the comment! That’s fascinating- in Japanese, 藍 and 紅 are used, but more for the specific colors of indigo and crimson, respectively. I did not know that they were used for the more general blue and red colors in Chinese!
@@egonsung The character for black is a clear indication that it's Japanese. 青 is used for blue in Chinese too. Hong Kong and Taiwan use traditional Chinese.
青 means Bluey-green or Cyan, either one is ok, but in electronic, printing…, Cyan is better. In printing, CMYK, Cyan青, Magenta 品红, Yellow 黄, Black 黑.
Thank you so much for this comment!
What did the powder metallurgist say at Confession?
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sintered.”
Outfuckinstanding
great dad joke
preach it, hand on ASM vol 7.
You are forgiven my son.....you must do the Stations of the Flux, contemplate your failings, then go forth and sinter no more....
Fantastic.
Must be good - the innards weren't thrown across the bench haphazardly and he didn't lose any screws.
you know he intends to keep it
‘put that over there to lose later’
Or how expensive it must be.
He just spent $194 usd on that bad bastard, no idea what that is in cannuck money, but he definitely intends to keep it.
o he has lost some screws
Having lived in Japan for a while I can attest to their domestic market having very different price/quality inclinations from ours. Everything is generally more expensive over there (except for food, which is delicious AND cheap, and other random exceptions) so generally people have much fewer possessions than us, but the quality and the service you get for each item or transaction is another level. Even the dollar store (Daiso) is a marvel of quality and service.
I work for Toyota at one of their assembly plants and it’s the best job I’ve ever had. I like how they implement Kaizen.
@@bluegrassman3040 the US Lexus plant is near the levels of Japanese built Lexus.
@@smirage22 we are getting a Lexus line soon at the plant I work at.
Not many people in the US are willing to shell out $300 for a BL impact driver. In addition and while he didn’t mention it, the chuck is actually 1/4” (or so) deeper which allows for flip-able bits; very nice to have different bit heads and not have to go retrieve one. I was in Japan for a long time and ran an industrial shop (which included 6 carpenters) and was amazed at the quality of some of the Japanese domestic tools.
I would buy it in a heartbeat if it meant I wasn't replacing power tools every 5 to 10 years. I'm sick of the throwaway culture
Anybody else notice how he opened the box! That's how you know it's a damn good tool!
Yeah, ...no mini-chainsaw box opening sequence, with an enthusiastic exclamation of "TIME!". I'm so disappointed!!! 😜
10!
Just gorilla it open with your meat hangers
@@mendonesiac Yet, there is a miter saw, a plasma cutter, the end mill or even the old trusty hammer... nah. He has gone soft.
Yup, he's confident that he won't be sending it back
I guess their exports only have to compete with Chinese and American goods. Not a very high bar there.
When your competition is crapnisium and crapnisium at a 500% mark up even mediocre tools seem high quality
Exactly. Why their cars and guitars are so well received as well.
@The Metalshop
The term *"CRAPitalism"* would seem most apt,
in my *bumble* opinion.
Wow video was posted 3 hours ago and you edited your comment 6 days ago? Nice commitment
@@tyranneous And socialism gives you... nothing. So it's not such a clear cut answer.
What makes the application of Viton so great for tools like these isn't just the high temp rating. Viton exhibits nearly as wide of a chemical resistance as PTFE AND has an unlimited shelf life! Environmental deterioration in rubber compounds is what causes the "drying out" that typically causes failure in old or particularly cheap tools.
Isn't at high temperatures or in a fire, fluoroelastomers decompose and may release hydrogen fluoride?
Japan’s manufacturing industry operates in a very different way than many other countries. Young ppl start to work early as apprentices in workshops and usually stay in the same job for the rest of their lives. Superior craftsmanship is highly appreciated and infused into their traditions. Japan is powered by hundreds of thousand such small companies which usually just have less than a hundred to a few hundreds of workers.
Same happening in Germany (for older companies more than the new ones), and when in economic difficulties, they tend to keep their employees (economic unemployment) rather than firing them.
Notice the jump cut while the riff-raff was figuring out the reverse thread. Appears to be a little distress to the housing that went along with the discovery.
He was just making sure it wouldn't gall if he tried to overtighten it. All part of the procedure
Shhh... I have been using oxy-acetylene torch for years and I still duck up the acetylene reverse thread fittings😅
Yeah gets me every time when you are work in auto mode. Every 5th time you take something apart and think s&%t they have done this up tight, and then you sit back and look at it and engage your brain. Hopefully you haven't screwed it up too much before you figure it out.
That was an alloy hardness test.
The little grooves cut into the acetylene "nut" is a handy reminder thats shes a lefty-tightey. guessin' thats true for all manner of gas fittings.
3:38 - That's just the wiring order for that board. It's got 紫赤青黄白黒 which is "Purple Red Blue Yellow White Black". While Chinese and Japanese share some parts of writing I'd guess that for something that already has domestically sourced parts (Nichia, Omron) they wouldn't skimp out and outsource a simple board.
Bonus fact - The "happy little backwards e" is の and you see it a lot on stuff from Japan because it's the "Possessive Particle". It indicates possession between two words. Think of it like ('s) in English. The "Healing Bench's Shmoo" becomes "Healing BenchのShmoo”.
A good word for that is of as in soup of porkbelly
@@jetaddict420 Yes, but ('s) means the same thing *and* the order of the words is the same. With "of", the order is reversed compared to の.
Nice
赤could mean red in Chinese too but it's not often. Chinese will say 紅. So it's most likely Japanese.
@@JW77 aah, nice info there bud. Always thought both of them use 赤 regularly.
But have you seen the Makita storage cooler that goes from -18C to 60C and runs for hours off two batteries? Perfect for when you need to bring frozen soup to the beach and then heat it up to an insufficient temperature.
Wow thats neat! I am more of a sweets guy. Like lubricant out of a Nutella jar sweet
lol
@@WildDisaster I like to feel pain when eating soup. That’s too low
60C is more than enough for Soup IMO
You're actually not meant to bring most soups up to boiling temp. Bringing them to boiling you risk overcook your proteins and turning any veg in it from green to brownish mush.
.I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of your videos.. My husband is a huge fan and watches all of your videos and while I don't watch them all, I truly enjoy the ones I do and I learn from them. Just wanted you to know that I truly appreciate the hard work and effort you put into making them .
you're a good person
I think someone in Japan was watching ave tear apart a tool made in China and said hold my Sake’, we can do better.
"Hold my Sake'"
😂😂👍
Eh, they maybe indeed "LOOK" the same inside. But that does not guarantee that the same quality and attention to detail. I know Japanese stuff is better. If I have a choice, and I usually don't, I buy American. But if there's a choice between Chinese and Japanese, I'll take Japanese. Fuller tools comes to mind. My Dad had a Fuller socket set when I was a kid. We lost some sockets, but never broke anything. Good stuff.
@@dads8253 They're identical. Every last component and spec is identical. They can't not be identical, as power tools only have one oem replacement part for every component. Unlike automotive, there is no aftermarket for power tool parts.
Last time I was stationed in Japan, the unit I was with had a Japanese worker who build shipping crates to ship ordnance in. He insisted on Japanese tools purchased out in town, not American tools purchased via the regular supply system, or from the local exchanges. He said they were junk. When he wanted a tool I would hop in a van with him to go out and buy it from a local shop using my government purchase card. He points, I paid. I didn't argue, I knew better. I am kicking myself now that I did not get any tools for myself while I was doing that. I wish I had. :)
My time in Japan was mostly before I developed multiple fetishes for cameras, lenses, watches and tools… 😢
I'm Chinese and I really appreciate your knowledge in different cultures. The smiley face explanation of the Japanese character had me dying. Love your videos, thanks for making my day!
"Got to pixelate that one"
Had me rolling 🤣 I swear some of the funniest shit I hear comes from this man.
His game was next level on this vid, the Number Four is an ominous number in many Asian cultures.
The number Four LITERALLY means death in Chinese and 49 means pain until dealth in Japan. High rise buildings in many Asian countries omit the level Four for that very reason.
Can you review the Ryobi-Kyocera tools from Japan?! The good Ryobi from a parallel universe, that not many North American know the existence of... By the way, letters on the PCB board is in Japanese, it's a color designation for wires. The tool appears to be 100% Japanese made, like the ones from 1970/80s. Thanks for reviewing-
Where do you get this info
Ryoby is part off tti it a Chinese compagny
They own Milwaukee ridgid and ryobi and many more
And ridgid plumbing tool are not made by tti but the logo is not the same color as well
@@legros731 kyocera have the ryobi brand in Japan, completely different that line of tools we get in the west
@@banusbaby a quick search show kyocera bought 80% of ryobi in 2018
And tti is licensed to make them for the rest of the world
Thank you was not aware of this
Wow, I knew Ryobi used to be a decent company, but I didn't know they still existed in any capacity!
Alas, I still have my Kyocera made camera from the '90s and the thing is a work of black magic devilry, talk about making things well, she's made of titanium. Wish they still did 'em.
Chinese: They say "We make so many things."
Americans and Europeans: They say "We proudly make things "
Japanese: They proudly make things .
Exactly, actions speak louder than words.
That's the end result of forced labor camps. Why do we continue to patronize the CCP ???
@@randallsemrau7845 the only correct question.
@@randallsemrau7845 maybe you can tell me who adrian zenz is?
I have a Japanese made Hitachi sander bought in 1982. Works like a charm and I still use it to this day. Bought a Hitachi Reciprocating saw and drill made in China. Didn't get two years out of either one
That little switch is the "quick shift" programmable button for the different settings so you can switch between the ones you want faster and without looking.
I've had that impact since early 2019. It's awesome.
Had my good wife look at the censor board she being from the land of the rising sun and it turns out the kanji symbols refer to colours of the wires going into the board.
These are old words and Japanese use kanji for those so quite possible it is a product of Japan.
Agreed and confirmed - Japanese characters for the colors of the wires.
@RogerWilco99 Agreed, censor board probably would have been made in China, hell, maybe even USA.
@@emeltea33 censor board are 100% made In usa
Only usa censor people so this make sense the censor board come from some angry pc leftist factory LOL
I would not say "old words".
The first character is the Japanese variant, so definitely Japanese.😉👍
Jackson guitars had a Japanese factory manufacturing their “lower end” guitars and they ended up making them better than the Jackson USA factory.
i have a few late 70s and early 80s made in japan ibanez guitar and they put ALL of the newer 1990-2000s made in china ones to shame... if you can get anything made in japan, i highly reccomend
Try Yamaha electric guitars,fine playing instruments.Well crafted.
Same thing happened to fender, they were better quality so fender moved their operations to China instead of actually improving their product.
In fact Japanese fenders are quite collectable now.
Yep, was gonna mention the MIJ strats too
For sure, you'll never know what you've been missing until you let a Japanese craftsperson get their hands on your wood.
I am a simple man, easily pleased and have been missing the injunction, "Focus you faack!". I was not disappointed.
Both the green and the "red" Makita versions are available here in Japan, the green being aimed at consumers and the red aimed more at contractors, with very different pricing that reflects the quality difference.
The bill of materials on that contain too many parts to even consider branding it a USA product.
@@martialme84 Made (10%) in USA (90% in China)
But mark it up for patriotism or something.
@@martialme84 Ok... just remember who landed on the moon first.
@@kilometer3853 how long will you rest on those laurels?
@@kilometer3853 that has what to do with anything?
Proudly sold in America 🇺🇸
The “hand button” is actually to change speeds while using it so you don’t have to use the speed control at the bottom of the impact
nice
I own one like that - dtd171, made in a different country. The button is programmable. You can select one program and apply it to use when this button is pressed. When pressed again, the tool will revert to previously used program. Great for repeating certain actions without using both hands for program changing while on a ladder.
It has the exact same internals as the DTD171 sold here in Australia. The older DTD170 also had the 40A fuse and nice Omron switch. This model is the top tier in their 18V impact driver range and is sold as the XDT16 in the US.
In about 1985 as a young apprentice motorcycle mechanic, i purchased a starter tool set that honda themselves used to sell, all of $80 aussie dollarydoos at the time. Vessel hammers, kowa spanners and t bar sockets. I still have everything bar the wooden handled screwdrivers and its all still perfectly serviceable.
I have this Impact, bought it a few years ago. Still a beast, hasn't slowed down, and everyone is jealous of the colour. Well worth the $300 for it tool only
Just picked up the updated 172 on fleabay in purple! Would be fun to watch people try to decipher the settings. Not like I'll let anyone use it anyway!
Side note, if you're a makita nerd like me, there's a fella from New Zealand I think who reviews all their newest stuff including 40v. He's often the only guy reviewing them in english. His name's Tools & Stuff.
Will they work with North American batteries?
@@TKettle oh cool, I'll see how long this one lasts, but always looking for the new new makita. People are shocked to see the Japanese on the buttons
@@Aramis444 Yeah I rock any of my 4-5 AH batteries with it
Where do you buy these "JA Pan" version tools? Is there a known part#'s for the Japanese version tools?
“It’s easy when you’re big in Japan.”
I don’t think many in Japan can make that claim.
wonder if anyone else recognised this....
I’m 53...good one. 80’s all the way!
@@orixa2122 yes
Yes
I've got the same impact driver and it's a beast. That little button below the trigger simply changes the mode. It's the same as the buttons down by the battery.
I have just looked inside my Makita DTD171 (Made in China) which looks the same as in this video except it was made for EU market. It also has Omron switch, Nichicon capacitor silastic allover connectors. It doesn't look lower quality tool. Everything is identical.
That’s because it’s not what country it’s made in, but quality control, that counts.
And this video perfectly illustrates confirmation bias in action and how it distorts thinking. Later he's gonna compare a Nissan Skyline against an inexpensive family car and use that comparison to tell you how much superior all Japanese cars are.
I know a fellow who teaches English in China. He said " they keep the good stuff and ship the smoo ( junk ) to the states ". The old Bonnie wrenches were a joy to hold in this old gals hands. Highest quality. Still going strong. Lighter and more springy than common snapon. MAC had a few with these qualities. Super handy working on equipment with little access / working room.
I have access to some Chines market products, which are great and not cheap in anyway. Better than anything I can buy here.
That's mostly a myth, especially if you start comparing tools at the same price point, rather than compare a high end tool against an inexpensive one, like AvE is doing in this video. Of course the most expensive tool wins. It has better parts in it.
You continue to entertain with your impressive repertoire of language AvE. Your use of the term Gwai Luo brought a good laugh and a raised brow as I hadn't heard that term since I walked through the old neighborhood streets in Hangzhou on a business trip.
Hang on to your lug nuts everyone, here comes the JDM crowd.
Rb27dettlickme
"Let's put a symbol that everyone thinks mean nuclear powered"
however the sign says "variable speed" :P
Did I hear anyone say 'Fuk U'
Also, 'Shima'.
@@IsaAnsharullah Yeah, made me laugh, I can't understand how that symbol means variable speed, lol
@@Senkino5o It was literally: "Focus U Fuck! (the legendary stubborn autofocus lens of AvE!)
@@gruanger It means an electronically controlled variable speed, because in the old old times, the speed was crudely regulated with a rheostat... The atomic symbol means "electrons", thus "electronic". On METABO German tools, it means an electronic feedback circuit that lessens the bog-down when under load, and they call it "Vario-Constamatic"...
Just like their cars. They get the better motors with better interior, Exterior, and performance packages, also better factory wheels and suspension setups.
When you look at their past. When tourists started coming, they made stuff for them to look like genuine antiques.
So they build tools for themselves and sell knock off to us. So it hasn't changed what we think is the real tool. Ha ha very clever.
That's why when you buy a Japanese car, you don't want one made in Wisconsin, you want one made in Japan.
They also cost 30% more
@@radry100
That's why you get harbor freight tools cheap or go for better quality.
So I would gladly pay 30% more if my daily tools lasted longer. Not cook off because of cheap part inside.
@@scjohnk And you want your Mercedes to be made in Germany, not South Africa...as many have found to their peril.
When I was looking for a good belt sander, I noticed an odd Makita model 9924. Made in Japan. Strange rectangle vacuum connector. Overall old school feel. So I investigated and discovered that they are producing it since 1980s. The same one. You can find out comments on amazon of people who bought it 30 years ago and after it finally stopped working, they discovered that they can buy the same one 3 decades later. I never looked on any other belt sander brand again. I worked in one of those big tool companies in product development team and I know that if something is being produced for that long, it must be nothing but perfection ;)
Thanks for this story. If I ever need a belt sander, I'm buying the 9924.
Right when I saw that omron switch My Brain went "Oh That's Nice"
Japan makes some good stuff. Especially engines such as Yanmar.
Yes. I have one Yanmar inboard diesel. My 2 outboard motors are Made In Japan...........Tohatsu! Many other Japanese outboards are made outside Japan now.
Yea i have a small tractor from the 70s fully restored (bodywork that is) 2cyl yanmar fires evrytime on its first stroke no matter what and without glowing
My 2013 mazda 3 has been assembled in japan and im at 100K and nothing broke on it at all yet! They put in more effort then most in their work its great!
@@saberxzero 03' Mazda 6 here, 272.000Km and the only problem it has ever had was becuase my brother (somehow) shorted it and screwed up the charging board but other than that it has been loyal as frig.
@@takafumiarisawa70 Miiiiint, although i wont make it to 300k winter salts here fuckup the structure of the car itself sadly!
I never get bored of the vocabulary used.❤️
I called Makita once because I ordered 2 identical machines, one was made in romania, and one in the UK, I suspected one was counterfeit... but they assured me it was normal and guaranteed both were exactly the same quality wise... they both still work fine
"Hard as a wedding prick" .... OMG you effortlessly drop these comedy bombs like you're breathing. Gold! 7:40
Beautiful, got to love Japanese attention to detail.
I've been to several "establishments" and I can say for certain they do it better in Japan.
"Establishments" huh?
Tell us more... 😈
How happy are those endings?
I don't follow you.
@@wes11bravo I hope not, I don't double team.
You can't fool me. Those establishments don't service non-Japanese.
Those Omron switches are incredible. Not sure of that model, but it looks like ones I find in medical equipment. Life cycles in the 100,000-1,000,000, bulletproof construction. Resistive elements are beautiful, thick hot molded carbon, cermet or quality conductive plastic depending on application.
Not a cheap part, but incredibly well made
Beautiful. Omron switches: *Chef's Kiss*.
Big Clive is not how I remember him, that Island life has clearly taken it's toll.
Clive lives in the Isle of Man.
@Fred Bloggs Edited, you're absolutely right, his Manx accent definitly has hints of Scotland to it though!
@@MattGamesYT well, he is Scottish - regardless where he lives presently.
And he uploaded simultaneously to his channel, coincidence? I think not
For some reason it just didn't click for me the first while, I kept wondering "what does big-c-live mean?"
I got in so much trouble doing this growing up to my mother's appliances. Im so glad im not the only one who still does it...with better results now...lol
You're hilarious. I'm an old time Industrial Arts teacher and I learned a heck of a lo about Japanese quality in manufacturing.
Having issues with people using your tools? Buy the pink Japanese Makita. Problem solved.
I rattle can all my Dewilts and lots of hand tools close to this color, its krylon "matte sweet fig" 😄
The pink and white Japanese Makita with Hello Kitty stickers
Pink? Do I need get me eyes tested lol. Looks maroon to me
@@lyonscultivars Makita Japan sells their tools in all sorts of colors. Including pink.
@@erat91 nice to know. Thanks 😊
The little push button is for changing the mode setting just by moving a finger off of the trigger.
I WANT THAT
@@truthsmiles different btorque settings
@@AvariceAu Little know fact but that button actually makes it go to 11
What's even funnier is you were trying to read "the Chinese characters" upside down
That was my favorite part.
Nookler powered! I have always loved Makita tools. I have a Makita circular saw that must be 40 years old. I work this tool hard and it's still choochin' like she was brand new.
Here in Argentina, Toyota plant assembling corollas and hiluxes use makita tools. Japanese industry grade makita tools.
See if you can borrow a few and I’ll buy them from ya
you guys have hilux there? dang i dont like how tacoma looks
@@kng5318 Oh, and we've never had a Tacoma, or a Toyota pickup truck of a bigger size than the Hilux.
@@phrodendekia 🤣 let's swap places
I work at the Princeton, IN plant and we use the made in Japan Panasonic impacts in my process.
Watched this when I woke up. Thought I was going blind from the focus. I need to stop drinking moonshine mixed with antifreeze.
🤣 I only drank beer last night and thought it was my eyes too.
Try moonshine with meths. Way better anti wobble vision characteristics.
Test your moonshine for lead. Sometimes old lead soldered radiators are used for condensers.
Try adding Lysol I heard from a bird that it cures corona.
No need to stop, just tinker your ratios a little.
I've lived in J-a-pan for 30+ years.
Came for the gals, stayed for the tools.
I've lived in Thai land for 10+ years
Came for the gals, stayed for the headaches.
Was in Japan 1990, should have gone back, loved it!
@@cactusmalone Talking from experience are you!
Thank you very much for your channel you have no idea what you helped me with so g'day mate from down under and please don't stop what you are doing
Chinese: gwai-low
Japanese: gai-jin
"Professional": gai-blow
@@Vapourwear カナダ人 or kanadajin
@@Ratcher. Nice. AVE can you tell us if the locals call you Gussuck? (spelling?)
👻🧍🏻
I’d watch out, the TH-cam overlords might flag the video for using phrases Wikipedia claims are offensive. 😆
Banana. Asian born and raised in the west.
@@ncot_tech The Japanese name Oharu (common female name) is considered offensive in Korea, odd that, tried to use it in a Korean MMG game.
Not a whiff of "差不多" anywhere on it! How refreshing.
That's gotta be the most used sentence in all of Chinese manufacturing. To be fair, nobody pays attention at anything else then the price tag anyways.
@@dai2dai246 The price tag is a consideration but quality is what makes one decide.
I've got the almost same model in anti theft teal. The little button above the switch trigger is a quick mode-switching button which you can program. Out of the box it will change the level of impact every time you press it, the front lamps will flash once if you press this button as an indication. This is very handy if you got a stubborn bolt that needs a little extra persuasion and you don't want to take the tool off the job to change the setting on the switches on the base above the battery.
You can change what the button does by pressing it simultaneously with the hammer button on the base switches so it activates this function by pressing it, or you could do the same and press the lamp button if you want the switch to activate the lamps and you can disable it's function or resume the quick mode switching by pressing the button and the switch with the A and cyling arrow on the base of the tool. Every time you change the application the customize lamp on the base and the selected mode blinks.
Hope this helps.
If you get a chance you should check out some of the audio equipment designed and built by Micro Seiki in Japan. They started as a aircraft metal works shop and went on to do all of the high end engineering and consulting for all of the top manufacturers highest end products in the 70s and 80s. I have a BL-91 and the precision on this thing is incredible.
Rofl “hard as a wedding prick” I was immedietly transfered 14 yrs ago to my honeymoon haha
man that magic translating mirror is epic!
I thought couples were too tired to bang on the wedding night?...
@@TurinTuramber FALSE
@@TurinTuramber It is the last time for many of those poor b.... so they make it count.
@@StoneysWorkshop Still banging after 14 years? I bet everyone else's wife would sure look good by then!
I buy and use almost exclusively Japanese tools. My Nepros and Koken ratchets and socketry items are literally a pleasure to use and their quality is amazing. I have a lot of respect for the Japanese and they have some really good people over there. They possess in general wonderful cultural characteristics (an emphasis on quality and trying their best being two of them) which I appreciate and admire. “Made in Japan” almost always means true quality.
Stfu weeb.
I still have my made in Switzerland Bosch jig saw that I bought in 1986, its done mountains of work and still works perfectly.
i have had the black TD171 from japan for a year now and she just loves a good hot supper. not as much pure power as the M18 GEN 3 impact driver but soo much more control and less bit wobble. important if you work deep in control cabinets but still need the power of 18v. Thankyou Ave for steering me to makita.
1) Tools are more expensive in Japan, so you expect them to last much longer.
2) I expected a direct comparison to the non-domestic version of this exact model/tool. So what exactly is better?
Steak is terrifyingly expensive in Japan, but it doesn't spend any more time in your guts than a hot dog...
@@lordphullautosear well Japan doesn't have that much land to cultivate livestock in the first place.
So it make sense for it to be more expensive
Nothing is better
This looks really similar to the ones we got at work. Sold in Germany.
Man you crack me up with your PeterBilt Stuff, Keep on cracking brother I won't stop watching...
This is my first time watching one of your videos. I subscribed! Well done!
You can even get Makita tools in DeWalt-esque "Fresh-Yellow" or "Gold", good for confusing people
Yup. DeWalt has come a long way to be a glorified Stanley. Tough to beat, and all I use all day long.
@@mikeism1 we in germany have blueish makita tools
@@mikeism1 I've always held Stanley products in high esteem, even before they started calling them dewalt
Next: Hilti vs J.A. Pan, a head to head.
Hold your trousers buddy, Hilti has good warranty but quality of the tools is nothing to write home about nowdays.
@@goodiezgrigis Just dreaming. For the price, I'm still replacing worn bearings and switches on my Makitas.
@@DirceuCorsetti I've converted my 18v NI-MH makitas to lipo batteries with an adapter so it accepts the batteries from newer tools that had gone to heavens allready.
@@goodiezgrigis wait wut, there are tools that use lipo batteries? I was under the impression all tool makers used either 18650 or 21700 li-ion cells? 🤔
"J. A. PAN" literal cringe dude. leave that cringy dad jokes to AvE
Thanks for making me so impatient, gotta wait for damned customs to let my drill make it to me now. Ordered myself the TD172D in the purple color. Excited for the upgrade from a crummy(but surprisingly useful/useable) Hyper Tough from walmart.
As a chef who buys his carbon steel straight from Japan I am not surprised. My favorite came out of the box able to push cut a ripe heirloom tomato paper thin. F***ing beautiful!!
Yeah, it's well known amongst the MD player and watch community that for the same models, the ones for the Japanese domestic market are better built.
I have always wondered why that is but then I realised that maybe they don't have "built-in obsolescence" because they don't have enough space for landfills. They have Home Appliance Recycling Law since 2001 that forces the consumers and businesses to return their used goods to the producers at a fee. Being the law biding citizens they are, they would naturally gravitate towards longer lasting brands. Maybe that's one reason.It's probably not a cultural thing to make things last for the sake of it because their houses are not built to last as long compare to European houses.Anyway, I will need to talk more with my Japanese friend about this.
No, they're identical.
I'd love to see a comparison between that and the best Milwaukee driver. I just got a Zojirushi rice cooker and can't believe the quality of everything compared to ANYTHING here in America lol
Gotta say, this was WAAAY more entertaining than I was expecting!!
Build quality that hits you right in the feels.
6:37 Yeah, well, that's just, like, your pinion, man.
Oh, how I’ve missed “Focus you fack”
First time I ever bought a T-shirt.
I’ve had one for over a year now.
Ordered direct from Japan 🇯🇵. I still haven’t worked out how to use the buttons. Keep snapping driver bits the thing is so fast and powerful.
I bought some nepros tools after seeing your reviews on them.
Just got an email from their head of overseas operations asking me how I heard about them as they suddenly got tons of overseas orders!
Good work.
“Gwei Lao”.....OMFG! You are truly a man of the world: English, French, German & know a word of Cantonese 🤣🤣🤣👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤️
Literally 'ghost person'.
Spehro Pefhany yes; but, slang is foreigner or white guy
@@peterxyz3541 Better than da bi zi.
Before Lithium batteries were common, Makita was using superior Ni-MH batteries for years while all the other brands were still using Ni-Cd batteries.
You can/could draw more current from NiCd than NiMH
Fun fact: Superior Ni-MH were pretty common in Japan - and at the time Li-Ion were in the range of becoming available, no one in Japan wanted to manufacture them, since there were pretty confident, that Ni-MH were way better than those newcomer Li-Ion-crap.
But Sony wanted to transition to Li-Ion especially for there camearas and did not find a company to produce them - so in 1975 they did a joint venture and formed what is Sony Energy Devices Corporation nowadays
@@MattOGormanSmith Yes, but not all NiCads were higher current capable. Cells can be optimized for either more storage capacity or more peak current, but not both. On average, you are right: the majority of the NiMH cells are not known as high current, and some NiCads surpass them in that aspect.
And all those superior NiMH batteries were never on high torque tools because the cells didn't have enough juice to last.
Amazon Japan sells these. The site has a translation feature built in and they ship to the USA. I have this tool. The hand button is a quick toggle between modes (same controls and the equivalent US model.)
Saw this with the red brand tools when I was in the repair business about 15 years ago. The tools available at the big orange store were made in China and not nearly the quality of the ones we were able to sell which were made in the USA and far more expensive. The sales reps would flat out deny it and the customers weren't interested in learning why the ones we had cost a lot more.
When phototranslate makes AvE shy :) "Blow... if you need it:"
No lie, that drill has better switches than my keyboard.
Really interested to see the restorations!
First video I was notified for and showed up in my feed in over a month even though I am subscribed...
Board has Japanese markings its saying "Red Blue Yellow black white"
Technically it says "Purple Red Blue Yellow White Black", aligning with the wire colours below.
The kanji before "red" is "purple" it doesn't really have enough context to tell whether or not it is Japanese or Chinese as all the kanji present are used in both languages
You are correct. But not in that order lol. it could also be Chinese, I guess... But I doubt it.
Google said Chinese, for whatever its worth
@@FrankieG13 It's Japanese, but Traditional Chinese uses the same symbols, so it could technically also be Chinese. But because China doesn't use traditional characters any more, I doubt it.
Japanese and German made products will likely always reign supreme, both in the history books and into the future. Now, regarding British made products, well, I think we all know how long a Jaguar will run ;)
Grrr, bet my Landy is older than you :P
Well... Jag is now an Indian company and well.... uhh... never mind.
I'd be careful mentioning German and "reign supreme" in the same sentence, wouldn't want youtube to think we're here for a different reason /s
German will reign supreme with their products that are overengineered in the wrong places and cost two to three times more for something that primarily a myth.
Button above trigger on that model engages a pre selected "favourite" mode, so you can change modes on the main board for an odd screw, and press the favourite button to revert back to your main use mode.
Thank you for making me laugh so hard I almost shit myself, sharted really. Love the vijayos, keep on tearin' it up.
I was watching a live spacewalk the other day and someone mentioned AVE in the comments. It must be great to be famous.
Probably much better to be both famous and anonymous at the same time!
@@domg7359 until he starts having a casual convo nearby and your ears prick up, then its game over eh.