![]() ![]() I also have my grandfathers hand and breast drills that don't need electricity at all and were state of the art in the 1920's! and both work great after many years of tough service!) I replaced the switch inexpensively so now I have a beat up one and a nice one. A single replacement battery $90.Īnd yet the cheap black and decker 1/4 inch drill I bought when I was young still works! I don't use it much, as I have two dewalt corded drills now and long heavy duty extension cords.(had to buy a spare drill in the middle of a job when a switch went bad. New cordless tool and two batteries= $100. Just last week I was at the hardware store, and it's still the same. Replacement batteries cost more than the unit did new! I said never again! It never had enough power and two batteries couldn't get through a days work. I bought a porter-cable cordless drill once. There's so many different things in them, I wonder how anyone can tell for sure, though. The electronics & motors for them rely on a lot of rare earths that are strip mined in China & other places, so I can't see how or why folks say they're better for the environment than a gas motor. They're very hard on the environment, bulky, heavy, & expensive. I think the current trend of making everything into electricity for batteries is horrible. I'm not a big fan of cordless power tools, if you can't tell. KLOCKIT CATALOG FREE CATALOGS GENERATORI have a little generator for power outages & it's easy to toss into the truck if I need power elsewhere, but more often I'll grab a hand tool. ![]() Corded tools are a lot cheaper, smaller, & lighter for the speed & power they develop. Otherwise I rely on hand or corded tools, depending on what I need. I keep one cheap, cordless drill in the shop. ![]() The cheap Harbor Freight one I have now seems to survive it, though. The cheap Kawasaki drill I had may have died from that. I can NEVER remember to unplug something after a few hours. They supposedly don't stop charging automatically. My biggest gripe now with them now is the cheaper drills say the battery can only be charged for a few hours. I was glad when that went away as the technology got better. Otherwise, it wouldn't accept as much of a charge - it had a memory. The first rechargeable drill we got was an expensive Makita & had to have its charge fully run down before recharging according to the instructions. my environmentallly oriented fanatical recycler reuser re-purposer negative carbon footprint personna is coming through!) what would people do if they had to crank their cell phones. perhaps we then wouldn't buy MORE fast enough to satisfy the need for corporations to keep making more profits (and toxic waste).Īnd how inconvenient. why haven't they created useful dynamo/ capacitor devices in this consumption driven society. Yet companies make capacitor driven toys that charge with batteries. not cell) lasted six years.īatteries lose a percentage of charge just sitting, and for rechargables a percentage of capacity as well. My ni-cad phone batteries, which are automatically charged when I hang up the phone (think old style. (I never heard of a lead acid battery freezing, even when it hit 42 below zero here)) I always make sure the tractor batteries are fully charged before I shut the units down, and for the Ferguson which sits all Winter I run a charger on it every few weeks. My understanding from researching e-bike batteries is most types do better if they are charged regularly and always recharged after use. Sounds like a cool Winter project in the making! It wouldn't run as long, but then, capacitors would never go bad so I could throw it in a drawer for years and if indeed there was an emergency it would still operate. While the radio works directly by cranking, I've been thinking that if I ever got my hands on a dynamo operated device I'd see if I could substitute capacitors instead. While the batteries work it could be cranked quite a while and hold a much longer charge, yet like old solar calculators, after a while the ni-cad batteries die. I had hoped it would use a capacitor, but it's got two AAA ni-cad batteries inside. It plays about the equivalent of an old transistor radio. One and a half minutes= 30 minutes of play. One minute of cranking= about 20 minutes of play. They sent it through the postal service so it took four days longer than needed (The pony express would be much faster here in Northern Maine!). ![]()
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