I have a friend who refused to buy more batteries for his makita 12v. drill – he took apart a battery, cut the alligator clips off the leads on a cheep car battery charger, soldered them to the ends of the cut apart battery. Then plugged it into the makita and voila – he could run for hours and 🙂 it weighed way less.
Hows that for a neat trick?
gerretw
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I can see where this is going. Soon you'll be able to buy a drill that has no battery, but just a cord that plugs into holes in the wall and it can run for days, weeks, months, even years.
Any day now.
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That went over my head.
I found out your appt. after posting earlier in this thread.
If this is what it takes to get your sorry #### back on the board, I'm all for it.
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Dam now I have to go change my pants.
Change your pants?So much I don't understand.
Sorry bout that I was replying to your second post ( pluging things into walls) it hit my as so funny. I replyed before realizing if would show up at the end and make NO sense at all. Typing before thinking
Back in the day when B&D made decent industrial tools, they had the Scru-Drill. It was a corded drill with a clutch. I break it out once in awhile for big screw off jobs"Shawdow boxing the appoclipse and wandering the land"
Wier/BarlowEdited 7/19/2009 11:31 am ET by dedhed6b
Edited 7/19/2009 11:33 am ET by dedhed6b
Don't hold your breath. Sounds pretty far out to me.AitchKay
>>I can see where this is going. Soon you'll be able to buy a drill....
Jules? Is that you?
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I've always hated those cordless batteries. Too easy to tip[ them over and spill the portable electrons on the carpet. What a mess that makes! you get shocks from walking on th e carpet then, and makes the babies hair stand on end when she crawls across it.
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Oh, scoff if you want - but it is really handy when you want to screw off a large deck, and you run down batteries faster than you can keep them charged. It is really too bad they don't make a corded impact driver since there are times I am stuck on waiting for chargers. I have a stack of rebuilt batteries sitting on my desk that have failed and are for all practical purposes wasted money.
I admit for occasional use the car battery charger is a pain in the ####, but for volume work it has it's uses. And yes I have the long screw gun that uses strip screws but in this particular deck it was useless.
G
I seem to recall that DW came out with a 'cordless' that had the heavy battery pak worn on your belt and a cute little coily telephone ccord running to the screw gun. It never went far either
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Didn't Dewalt offer an adapter for their 24 volt system? It was basically a cord that ran to a false battery that contained a transformer. I wasn't going to buy the 24 volt stuff, but was hoping that the idea would catch on and end up available for everything. Something like this would eliminate having duplicate corded and battery equipment.
>>It is really too bad they don't make a corded impact driver <<
Agreed.
JimNever underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.
too bad they don't make a corded impact driver
Dont things like the ol' skil 599 count?
There are also neat devices that take electrons and convert their movement to electric fields that drive a belt that pushes a piston back and forth making air molecules closer together. Then you can move those packed togeher molecules thru a little pipe to a device that spins when the molecules move apart -- all kinds of impact tools with that kind of cord.
They do make a corded impact driver. Never used it, it should be great for decks.
http://www.amazon.com/Makita-6952-2-3-Impact-Driver/dp/B000140B4A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1247927084&sr=1-1
Webby
Edited 7/18/2009 10:26 am ET by webby
I have a hilti corded driver that is designed for sheet metal screws. It is
variable speed with an adjustable clutch and disengages when you back off.
Great for tough materials. larry b
Corded impact:Here you go....http://makita.com/en-us/Modules/Tools/ToolDetails.aspx?ID=455This is on my wish list.Scott.Oops... didn't notice that Webby had already pointed this out.
Edited 7/19/2009 1:53 pm by Scott
Hi gerretw,
In response to the lament about the corded impact driver. I am just wondering if anyone noticed my post that that they do make a corded impact driver. 122471.10
http://www.amazon.com/Makita-6952-2-3-Impact-Driver/dp/B000140B4A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1247927084&sr=1-1
Webby
Well, I did - I looked at your link and I found the Hilti one as well, though it is much more expensive. The other one, the Skill 599 I could not find a single working link for it.
Now if I can find one for a discount, I'll buy it. My 12V one has lasted quite a while and I've only replaced it's guts only once.
But what I didn't find was loads of cheep 12v batteries on Ebay that I saw mentioned on another post /thread.
G
No problem just wanted to help. I was afraid my original reply got lost in the discussion, or overlooked because corded impact drivers aren't that common.Webby
You said that you had tried rebuilt batteries. Was it from a a company like primecell? I have never used them but surely there is some company out there rebuilding batteries well.
http://www.primecell.com
Webby
I took mine to "Batteries Plus" so far so good $43 for 18v
I sent mine to some place in the midwest I found on the net. They worked for a while then..... now they hide dust bunnies. I still have an old Rockwell drill with a clutch like the one dedhed6b has but it lacks the impact feature which make those drivers so efficient. So it doesn't get much use.
Well, my birthday is only a few months away - maybe I should splurge. G
Oh man !I have GOT to get me one of those !!..I'm not worried, I'm curious...You are always welcome at Quittintime
I thought you meant one of these:
http://www.georgesbasement.com/mfno2typestudy/mfno2types.html
or these:
http://oldtoolheaven.com/brace/brace.htm
Edited 7/19/2009 9:20 pm ET by Houghton123