Am I the only one that can’t understand why electric hand tools have a hold button, i.e. it stays on. Other any a drag race with a belt sander what good are they. I sometimes accidently flip it on which is never what I want at the time.
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Tho I don't use it on the belt sander (30 yrs old) I can understand it being there I guess. Still, your hand is on the handle containing the trigger, and the location of the trigger makes it convenient to keep it depressed while you hang on for dear life.
Drills, that I don't understand, damn dangerous I think.
There are some with positive on/off switches like a router and angle grinder. These make sense also as I find myself moving my hands all around the tool for gription.
I'm not sure about alot of tools as most of mine are old as the hills. Hell, no prepress button on all but the newest like the comp mitre saw.
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If you ever do something like clamp a drill to the workbench and use it for a grinder you'll find the lock handy. But I'll agree that for the most part they're more of a bother/hazard.
And theree used to be all kinds of adapters for drill.Holders that would make them into bench grinder and drill press are two that come to mind where the lock would be needed.
I disabled the one one my Hilti/metabo hammer drill.
Whenever ith drill would bind or I was socking down a fastener, I would grip tight and ALWAYS end up hit the damned thing.
Then I would have a high torque drill on full power trying to rip my arms off....
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I use the lock button on my drywall driver quite a bit.
And there's no way you could use a router in a router table without one.
I agree that a locking button on a drill could be dangerous. But only a really BIG drill with a pretty serious bit in it.
I use an arbor mounted stone to grind machine drills in the field. The button comes in handy for that.
mike
If you think that is wierd, try figuring out why Echo Chainsaws DO have a hold button. I cant figure it ou. Friend of mine bought one. I told him to never use it.
I cannot imagine doing prep work to paint the farm house without the lock on the drill and the angle grinder.
i do miss the hold button on my new sawzall sometimes you need them for more that a small cut.
tyke
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A few years ago I heard of a guy lying down in the hull of a small boat, drilling a hole with the hold button on and, of course, the bit stuck...before he could shut things down he was being spun around. Tumbling like a pig on a spit, but really fast. He had about a 50' extension cord that wrapped him up like a mummy--finally he ran out of cord and the drill unplugged itself. He was so tangeled up in the cord that he couldn't move.
My Brother-in-law, says he knows the guy...so it's gotta be a true story, well maybe?
I don't own many coring bits (too expensive unless it's your main business), but if you've got to drill through thick concrete (install dryer vent), man your hand can get tired of holding the button down....I guess it's dangerous if it gets stuck accidentally on...
Can`t speak to the chainsaw, so I suppose there are other tools that have them that ought not.....but the vast majority of tools I own with them...I couldn`t live without.
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The "cruise control" on my new Festool router is more convienent than I'd like, but I'm getting used to it.
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Its not the fact of the hold button, its the location. Numerous times my Makita Sawzall locks into on position at the worst possible time! Why put it right where you're going to accidently bump it during normal usage?