For my 40th birthday a friend gave me a hammer with a power cord. That
thing never did work right. In fact, it never ran at all. I changed the
fuses,
tried grounded outlets, everything. It's been sitting there for more than 20
years now. Do you think it might be 220v?

You can convert this to a cordless model. Lee Valley sells the conversion
kit:

http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...ren cy=2&SID=

Lee
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