Does anyone remember when the word MILWAUKEE made you think of this ?
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BDinPutnam
.475 A&M Magnum
Makes me think of beer.
But most anything does.
But most anything does.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Thats where my mind went when I saw Milwaukee,not some screw gun
Milwaukee screamers.......been there, done that.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
Schlitz was the first beer we drank when we were young.......it was the cheapest back then.Except for Canadian Ace which was 99 cents for a half gallon bottle.That was the winter choice,would get too warm in the summer.
2WheelGnnr
6.5 Creedmoor
I thought it was gonna be a laverne and shirley meme?!
Jsmegs77
.308 Win
As a 4th generation plumber's kid, this is what I think of when someone says "Milwaukee".... The Sawzall and the Hole Hawg.
I've got a vintage Sawzall like the one pictured, just like Granddad's...still haven't added a Hole Hawg to my collection but used one plenty in my HVAC days. Cautionary note...be careful using this bugger when on a ladder. If the bit binds hard enough, it's got enough torque to take you off the ladder. Well, maybe not you, but skinny 21-year old me
I've got a vintage Sawzall like the one pictured, just like Granddad's...still haven't added a Hole Hawg to my collection but used one plenty in my HVAC days. Cautionary note...be careful using this bugger when on a ladder. If the bit binds hard enough, it's got enough torque to take you off the ladder. Well, maybe not you, but skinny 21-year old me
Joe Blow
.45 acp
How sad.
Milwaukee will never be the same.
Detroit collasped in 1958, and shows no signs of recovery.
1958 The 3,500,000-square-foot Packard Motor Car Co. factory in Detroit, opened in 1903, is shuttered. It still stands today, a symbol of Detroit's long, slow decline.
Mr. terzmo
.308 Win
The only beer I could get in SEA in a bottle. 16oz draft. I still stock it in My refrigerator after almost 50 years. Only one bar in the area that I know of stocks it and that's My other home.
"It doesn't get any better than this."
timboy
.44 mag
I think of the tool brand as I have around 9 Milwaukee battery operated tools in my toolbox at work,also because I dislike the wretched beer that shares the name.
Don't forget Goebel's beer either!
C3D
.338 Win Mag
Dating myself, but this is what I think of:
LMS
.357 mag
But do you remember the baseball joke with the groaner punch line "The beer that made Mil Famey walk us"?
Don't ask me to tell it because I forgot. And, um, I just gave away the punch line....
Celt
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Same here
tony
6.5 Creedmoor
wasn't the rest of the saying "simply because it tastes so good"...
tony
6.5 Creedmoor
As a 4th generation plumber's kid, this is what I think of when someone says "Milwaukee".... The Sawzall and the Hole Hawg.
I've got a vintage Sawzall like the one pictured, just like Granddad's...still haven't added a Hole Hawg to my collection but used one plenty in my HVAC days. Cautionary note...be careful using this bugger when on a ladder. If the bit binds hard enough, it's got enough torque to take you off the ladder. Well, maybe not you, but skinny 21-year old me
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Now those were USA made tools that could be rebuilt and would last forever. Now Milwaukee is made in China like everything else. We're screwed unless we can start up manufacturing in this country again.
Depick
.308 Win
As a 4th generation plumber's kid, this is what I think of when someone says "Milwaukee".... The Sawzall and the Hole Hawg.
I've got a vintage Sawzall like the one pictured, just like Granddad's...still haven't added a Hole Hawg to my collection but used one plenty in my HVAC days. Cautionary note...be careful using this bugger when on a ladder. If the bit binds hard enough, it's got enough torque to take you off the ladder. Well, maybe not you, but skinny 21-year old me
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Holy crap I used those as an apprentice electrician. Damn good memories!
Depick
.308 Win
I strictly use Milwaukee’s M18 lineup on the job. Best cordless tools and batteries available.
Bigfoot
.475 A&M Magnum
Curmudgeon
.308 Win
Since the industrial revolution, our world has changed significantly. Unfortunately for Detroit, and many other places they failed to keep up with the changing times.
Don't have a ton of data to support, but I suspect unions were a part of the problem.
Don't have a ton of data to support, but I suspect unions were a part of the problem.
Twogunwilly
6.5 Creedmoor
I use this almost every day
meketrefe
.450/400 Nitro Ex
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It could be.
I hear the word MILWAUKEE, and think of the tools.
But Beer, Laverne & Shirley, anything else is valid.
But NOT the Drew Carey Show. That was Cleveland.
I definitely think of the tools actually one of the only Made in China tools I go out of my way to buy. Have a lot of Milwaukee tools battery operated 3 drills, 2 1/4 drive impacts,a 3/8 and 1/2 impact, drywall gun, sawsall,flash light, Rocket work light, 2 circular saws, infrared temperature tool, and scope. Mostly FUEL. Have a few others on my wish list. Corded tools a hole hawg, 1/2 and 3/8 right angle drills. The corded tools may actually be made in USA.
TEOTWAWKI inc.
.338 Win Mag
I'm pretty sure the Milwaukee cordless stuff is alien technology.
Living where I do, we drank either Utica Club beer in the short Pilsner bottles sold in loose cases......or Genny Red Eyes........dang im old.