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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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Subject: Re: Quality is not a feature
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 13:27:25 -0800
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On 21 Dec 2024 21:19:21 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:

>cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> While IO was still under the effects of the untreated epilpsy, I bought
>> new battery drills. None of them lasted more than a year.
>> 
>Sounds unlikely if it was just diy? If one was building a house ie using
>the drill all day and every day maybe just if it was consumer grade.

Bad news.  Today's battery powered consumer grade power tools are
easily destroyed.  For example, this is a Milwaukee 9 inch angle
grinder:
<https://youtu.be/p7FP7fQGFfg?t=1770>
<https://www.milwaukeetool.com/Products/2785-20>
The problem is that it's powered by an 18V battery pack instead of the
more appropriate 54V battery pack.  The 18V pack will draw 3 times the
current of the 54V pack.  That causes excessive heating and a tendency
to turn wires and switches into a smoking "fuses".  Bad design.  Even
used normally, something will blow.  The problem is being handled by a
liberal warranty policy.  

I could on forever on what's wrong with today's consumer grade power
tools, but that's a bit too far off topic.  Suffice to say that
today's power tools are very different from what I had become
accustomed to using.


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