New Makita Brushless Hammer Drill, Impact Driver, and Rotary ...
if you need to control speed, ease up on the trigger, or get a real drill. This happens to some corded tools as well – some fell off because they were no longer OSHA compliant – but I can point to dozens of ’60′s and 70′s vintage corded prtable tools – and even older stationary machinery that I still have in productive use. We are probably thinking that Makita and others will continue to support their LiIon battery platforms ad-infinitum – or if not then 3rd party refurbishers will take over — but experience with says that ultimately we will probably reach a point... In response to the first statement, of this probably not replacing the 3-speed model, i wanted to point out that the 3-speed is just one of the versions of this impact gun that they still produce. Most equipment I’ve owned (considering tools using electric motors in general are brush/stator) do not include a replacement set of brushes. im pretty sure based on the wording Makita is implying that the battery life is improved 50% over the traditional (probably 3Ah) impact life. I have a few that do, but you need the replacement parts readily available in the field for the tool to be field serviceable anyway. also, the belt hook looks fixed (older ones were more like a wire frame, and would get hooked into a belt loop…). The plastic in a lot of these tools is primarily to make them more powerful or in general add heavier/beefier internal components while still maintaining the same overall weight or in some cases reducing the weight. With brush/stator motors, the failure point is usually more predictable and as mentioned can be field serviceable.