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>15 years old
>grandpa gifts me an old (20 years +) Fein drill his company wanted to trash because it only had one speed
>dad recently bought a brand new Bosch
>my Fein is way nicer to work with
>two years later, the Bosch is broken (the chuck kept seizing up) while the Röhm chuck on my Fein keeps chucking along
>Meanwhile, bought a Black&Decker angle grinder second hand bcs it was cheap, realized the bearings were wonky
>Can't repair it because the bearing is pressed into a dead-end hole and impossible to remove, would need to replace the entire head assembly
>spare parts are as expensive as a new grinder
>decide to buy something better instead
>compare spare-parts catalogues of any "good" company I'm aware of
>Fein is the only one that not only sells the bearings separately, but also provides Blueprints that clearly show that the bearings are removable
>End up buying a Fein angle grinder
Since then I've been pretty much set on buying Fein for any tool I'm going to use more than once. Sure, it's expensive, but if you've ever planned on working on a project over a prolonged holiday like christmas, only for your shitty Bosch drill to break on the first day, you know why getting good tools is worth it.

Also kinda funny when I'm helping out aquaintances and they assume I'm using some sort of chink brand ("Fein" means "good" in my native language, so it sounds like those amazon brand names the chinese use) and tell me to just go get Bosch / Makita / Hilti / whatever brand their favourite diy youtuber shills.

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