Just a heads up on Rigid tools, I've had them for years, they also state specific places for you to use them, as in carpentry and limited mechanics uses. If you have too many claims, they will in fact cancel you out of their system, this I know for a fact, any new tool you buy, you can't register it for warranty once you've been cancelled.
This must have been five years or so ago by now I was cancelled. The other thing you have to have in order to get warranty is every tool included in the package including the bag it came in, if you don't have the complete kit, you either have to buy to missing pieces or they can refuse to service any of them, again, been there done that when some of the turned up missing as in stolen or lost, not sure which.
I believe Rigid and Milwaukee are owned by the same company or were at one time anyhow.
I've had Rigid, Milwaukee, Dewalt and some others over the years, Rigid caused the most trouble of any of them it seemed, Milwaukee was a close second and for me anyhow, Dewalt proved the best in terms of not much trouble. But quality changes all the time with the invent of new voltages, new options for tools and how they are used and or abused and stored.
It also makes a big difference in where you can buy them, for me I always buy them locally as needed and Dewalt seems to be the most plentiful around me.
