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"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

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At this point the replacements
have crapped out (lasted longer than the originals) but it's time for a
whole new drill this time.


I usually wear out a drill in about two sets of batteries. I'm not
"careful" with tools. If they can't take it, they can't take it.
Nothing "ginger" ever is done with mine. Even $300 every two years isn't
a lot if you use the thing several times a day.

For the 12V Bosch, that's exactly the point - there's now enough wear on
the geartrain/clutch that fresh batteries are a dubious investment.
Since it _is_ a 12V, I will probably convert one pack into a 12V fused
power cord for "short-range corded" use with cars or car batteries,
until it gives up the ghost for good. Mind you, what to buy next is a
fraught question, which is part of what has kept it limping along as
long as it has - but up to last summer the two newer batteries were
still pretty usable, though not for as long as when they were new.

I'll get less than one "battery" from my brace and bit, but that's
because I'm the battery and won't be around to use it. Is handy when all
the electric batteries are dead, and lighter to carry into the woods,
too. I've yanked it out when people were doofing about waiting for their
18-24V batteries to charge and kept right on driving things. Probably
all of them (I have a few, in different sweeps, or "gear ratios" as well
as several of the standard 10" so multiple bits can be swapped between
without waiting to swap bits) are older than I am already, so they are
fine for many sets of "batteries".

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