Ridgid
RIDGID is the popular name of the Ridge Tool Company of Elyria, OH. Founded as a manufacturer of professional plumbing tools, they have relatively recently branched out into more general-purpose hand tools and power tools. They are now a division of Emerson Electric.
Smaller and more common tools are readily available at Home Depot, while other RIDGID products are available by special order at Home Depot or local plumbing and HVAC wholesalers.
All Home Depot stores with a pipe threader use a RIDGID auto-chuck machine, usually either the RIDGID 535 or 1822 series. Most Home Depots also use RIDGID wet/dry vacuum cleaners ("shop vacs", to use a genericized trademark) to clean up sawdust in their lumber departments.
The vast majority of RIDGID products, notably including power tools, carry a lifetime warranty which covers everything except normal consumables (oil, drain cables and cutters, filters, cutting dies). Notably, RIDGID's lifetime warranty covers wet/dry vacuum cleaners unless they have been used to vacuum drywall dust.
Specialties
- automatic-chuck pipe threading machines.
- RIDGID SeeSnake video sewer and drain inspection systems.
- RIDGID SeekTech utilities locators.
Hand Tools
- manual pipe threaders.
- manual tubing cutters.
- basin wrenches and other plumbing speciality tools.
- broad range of hand tools (recent).