I've always been amazed at the length of charge on the little Skil
9.6v drill my folks gave me a decade ago. It runs for months at a time
doing light-duty service
Did the skil have an overnight charger? mebbe the slow charge along with
the slow charge batteries(they have nicads that are meant to be slow charged
and can be killed by a vigorous charger) means long life. I had some nicads
that went back to the 70's when I first used them and finally retired the
last one a month ago- thats a long life. Perhaps the QC was better then .
Pat