My recip saw was a hand me down from my father. I'm not one to look a gift tool in the blade. I used and took care of it. It made hundreds and hundreds of feet of cuts for me after my father used it for years. Unfortunately it died this weekend. Surgery was attempted to revive it but it was to no avail. The autopsy showed several points of failure, all broken metal parts that are just not repairable. Unfortunately we have no paperwork and the labels are long worn away, so I have no idea what the model number is to attempt to locate replacement parts.
I'm now in the market for a new recip saw. I stopped at HD this morning to check out what they had. The standard Milwalkee and the Dewalt on display caught my attention. I found the Milwalkee very heavy, but it looks like it has a metal case compared to the Dewalt's plastic one. This is as far as my research has gone so far.
Which recip saw do you have and why don't you like it?