Why does someone make a tool /radio with a cord that will not stand up to cold weather,I mean it gets so stiff you can not roll it up.
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Cheaper. Wonder what else they cheap up?
The switch on their 1617 router. My tool guy said that it's the one fatal flaw on that router, it's a cheap POS from overseas. He gave me a second switch so that I wouldn't have any down time each time it gets clogged with dust and stops working. I have to pop it out, put in the new one, and then take the old one apart and clean it out before the other one clogs again. So they save $.10 cents a switch and I curse their name for being a quality company that again cuts corners so they can to make a fast buck. Way of the world I guess.That cord on the radio is really stiff all year round on mine. I usually don't bother unraveling it any more. I just leave it clipped to itself and plug an extension cord into it if I can.Paul
That drives me CRAZY!! Need to run a simple piece of trim and it takes 15 min cause I gotta clean the switch, rock it back and forth threee hundred times, and blow as much dust out as I can.
Love the router, hate the switch.
I've been through the same thing with tools. One thing I've done is with tools that I use a lot is to put my own cords on them.
Go find a cold weather extension cord or just get some off a reel and change it out.
If you use it alot it's one less extension cord you will just use for the radio anyways.
I still have to use extension cords for tools, but alot less.