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Bill Wright wrote:
On 23/03/2016 09:57, Robin wrote:

Well there is already a subset of them who are keen to promote the
"sharing economy" for tools - something I find hard to argue with if
it's true the average electric drill is used for less than 20 minutes in
its life[1]. Streetclub, Streetbank etc

[1] I suspect that should be "the median total use is less than 20
minutes" given a long tail of well-used drills will increase the mean,
even if trade use is excluded, but can't find the source of the claim.

A B & D rep once told me that the DIY drills are expected to run for 8
hours.

A great many years ago, my brother in law was fitting battens to a concrete
walled cellar, so he bought a new B&D hammer drill. (this was before the
days of SDS). In the morning he took it back to the shop complaining the
motor had burnt out. He took the replacement back the following day with
the same complaint - but he'd finished the job and ended up with new drill.

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