On 14 Apr 2014 13:07:53 GMT, Jasen Betts wrote:

On 2014-04-10, wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:07:38 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:50:31 GMT, Jan Panteltje
wrote:

On a sunny day (Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:16:12 -0700) it happened John Larkin
wrote in
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I avoid battery-powered tools. They are wimpy, and the batteries will die in a
year or two.

You have a cellphone?

Sure, a simple one. I charge it about every other week, and I've
replaced the battery once. But it's not a power tool.

You're not going to get a horsepower or so out of a battery for long,
especially when the battery is two years old.

You're not going to get a "horsepower or so" out of a hand tool.
You're in the stationary tool realm at a HP (Craftsman HPs don't
count).

Can you buy a 9" angle grinder with less?
(would anyone want to?)

granted these tools need both hands, but they are hand tools.

Hell, a Dremel is close to 1/4 HP!


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