Tom Watson wrote:

Had a simple enough job to do today. Wanted to run the base, chair
rail and bed molding in our 5' x 8' bath.

I've a Paslode finish nailer but, since I don't make my living doing
this sort of thing anymore, when the extra battery fried, I didn't
replace it. I just used this sucker about two weeks ago and set the
battery in the charger when I was done, as is my habit. I took it out
the next day and put it in the box.

Today I go to fire the bad boy up and got this weak assed response
from the battery.

Batteries Suck.

I was an early adopter of battery driven drills, starting with a
troika of Makita's and currently housing a similar group of Dewalts.

In every instance I bought extra batteries, treated them according to
specs, and cursed them as they quickly degraded into too short useful
run times.

Batteries Suck.

Blought myself a nice Dell laptop about eighteen months ago and only
got one battery because, with a runtime of about four hours, I didn't
figure on needing more. Now the battery runs for about two hours -
and that ain't enough. Yes, I followed all of the instructions and
advice about how to maintain battery life.

Batteries Suck.

I'm looking into a new car, with the express intent of reducing the
cost per mile, so that my sixty miles of commuting a day will not
continue to eat my wallet.

I'd be interested in some of this current drop of hybrids, which use
batteries - except for one thing...

Batteries Suck.


watson - who is thinking about oiling up the old Yankee, cleaning the
rust off the trim hammer, and looking for a good mileage car that
doesn't rely on batteries - because...


Batteries Suck.


Tom Watson - WoodDorker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/ (website)

My makita 9.6v batteries lasted 8 years.
My dell laptop battery still has the full 4 hours after 3 years
What are you doing to yours.
Years and years ago you needed fully discharge and recharge batteries to
prevent the memory effect, but modern batteries you cause more wear buy
doing that and I still see a lot of people that still think you have to and
wear out their batteries early.