How times have changed in the past ten years with regards to discount power tools.
In decades past, discount power tools tended to be somewhat of a joke and quickly broke down on the user.
Another problem that they had was accuracy when they were being used.
They just tended to make less precise cuts and any other job they performed tended to be less accurate as well.
Now discount tools are made of high quality metals and plastics and also have far more precise adjustment mechanisms, so getting precision results from them is no problem at all.
With the cost of a high end name brand tools shooting through the roof discount tools are a smart way to go.
For larger tools such as compressors or compound miter saws that spend a lot of time out in the open in the back of a truck, going the discount tool route means that you don't have to leave thousands of dollars worth of tools sitting out in the open every time you stop to get a bite to eat or have to run in a store.
Expensive name brand tools are going to catch a crack-heads eye like a hungry dog to a hamburger and they are far easier to unload as well, so using discount tools is cheap and sensible theft insurance.
If you are in any type of construction or building improvement business then you know that you are going to have tools that are used on a daily basis and you are going to have some tools that you only break out now and then for special tasks that pop up from time to time.
Going the discount tool route for the tools that are rarely used means that your tool investment money can be better spent elsewhere.
Why pay top dollar for an expensive name brand concrete drill when you are only going to use the thing maybe once a month to drill a few holes and then back it goes in the tool box.