On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:20:34 -0500, "Norman D. Crow"
wrote:


IMHO corded drills lag way behind cordless when it comes to finessing a
screw into wood.

unless you're building a fence...
my neighbor has a corded screw gun that kicks ass... when we did my
fence, he did all the screws on 130' of fence in about 7 hours...
we figured later that between the stringers and pickets, he drove
about 1,300 2 1/2" screws that day..

Yabbut, now you're talking apples and oranges. I have a corded DW
deck/drywall screwgun that as you say, "kicks ass". That nose piece for
adjusting the head depth is there for a reason. I took mine off once for
some reason, and sunk a 3 1/2" screw most of the way through a tubafor
before I could pull away or get off the trigger. Used it for the drywall
during recent remodel at Daughter's house, and it was great. Consistent head
placement, where the cordless with a torque clutch would do just OK,
sometimes not setting the head, sometimes setting it too deep.

I've seen a few nice cordless screw guns, but can't imagine how many
batteries you'd need charged to do a fence..
sometimes it's better to just run an old fashioned extension cord..



mac

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