Milwaukee Electric Tools

I bought a pot of Milwaukee PZ2 bits for $9.99. They are meant to be suitable for impact drivers but are just as weak as normal PZ2 bit, which I can buy for half the price. Each PZ2 bit lasts for an average of 20 screws. I think that this is totally unacceptable as I am a full time carpenter and am using my impact driver for most of the day. I am getting through 3 bits per day, so at the end of the week I have nearly used the whole pot of bits, which were not cheap to buy. I would like a full refund and an explanation as to why these bits are so weak.

I was drilling a hole overhead in a beam for a 1/2" bolt. While removing the drill after drilling the hole, the trigger lock was accidentally activated and the trigger stuck. The reason the lock was was accidentally activated is because of the location of the lock. It is on the side of the grip underneath your thumb. When squeezing the trigger and grip, the lock gets pushed in without wanting it on. You cannot help it. The bit caught my shirt sleeve and twisted it so tight around my upper arm (short sleeve shirt) that it ripped my shirt sleeve off.

I have ripped skin as it was caught in the sleeve as it was twisted and have a very bad hematoma from my arm pit to my elbow and swelling as far as half way down my forearm. I can barely use my arm and the pain keeps me up at night. If the trigger hadn't stuck the bit, it would have only wrinkled my shirt. The drill has a very dangerous and faulty design. It is a Milwaukee 1/2" hammer drill.

On October 28th I was using the Portaband Saw cutting aluminum extrusion and I made 2 vertical cuts and had to make a horizontal cut when I attempted to turn the saw sideways I had to let go of the foreward handle to make the cuts. Because there is no handle on the side of the saw, the saw started to fall. I had to increase my grip with the left hand and when I did the saw started up because there isn't a safety on the saw to prevent premature starting of the saw.

On Friday 5/22/2009 I was installing my toolbox in the bed of my truck using a milwaukee 1/2 in Magnum drill,0-850 RPM 0300-20 electric pistol drill,when I was drilling a hole to mount my toolbox for my truck the drill bound on me in which normaly is'nt a problem,but what the problem was is that the drill wouldn't stop, shut off the switch on the drill stuck and the drill continued to still run in the on position,in which the drill was going around and around tangling the cord of the drill into a knot in which then the cord tryed to get my whole hand,but I pulled back and the cord still got the tip of my finger to my nuckle on my right ring finger breaking my bone by twisting it,then proceeding to liturly twisting off my finger with liturly just about a hair holding on my finger.

I was rushed to the hospital by my wife almost bleeding to death for it cut my two arties in my finger.The hospital stiched my finger back on,then sending me later to a specialist with me not knowing if I was going to loose my finger or not the doctors said,it would depend on if my finger would mend or not I had a 50/50 chance on my finger living or not,my finger lived and is healing.I did some reseach on the net to see if this happened to anyone else and this is how I found you consumer affairs,and on your site I found that milwaukee and dewalt drills on 5/10/2001 are having to recall about 58,000 drills due to the (same reasons) the switches sticking on the on position and posing injury to consumers like me,and milwaukee back then had four reports of switches sticking in the on position and one report of a hand injury on their drills.

i bought this 14.4 milwaukee cordless drill brand new at home depot...this was about 6 or 8 years ago. first one battery almost came apart shortlly after that the other one lost power and had a crack on it.this drill is still like new i think i used it 2 or 3 times , after seeing the cost of new batteries i just forgot about it, i just now heard u could rebuild them so i checked but milwaukke doesn't offer the rebuild kit any more. my batteries have the same code number but they were made in japan. i just wish i could have found this recall sooner...this is my last milwaukee product.....

I charged mine only 3 times and it will not take a charge.