everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 8:32:57 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

look for a Milwaukee Magnum. Make sure you get the side handle. Enough torque to do some serious damage if/when it catches.

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:46:07 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:

look for a Milwaukee Magnum. Make sure you get the side handle.
Enough torque to do some serious damage if/when it catches.


yeah i learned how much torque they have once when drilling thru multiple
studs

definitely did not use the trigger lock after that

On 7/15/2016 8:46 PM, wrote:
On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 8:32:57 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

look for a Milwaukee Magnum. Make sure you get the side handle. Enough torque to do some serious damage if/when it catches.


I can vouch for the Milwaukee. Mine nearly tore my arm off at one time
with the torque it kicks out.

Electric Comet wrote in news:nmbvbn$s1c$4
@dont-email.me:

everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

Ode to a Corded Drill by Tom Watson. Copied from:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...s27ldM/mrqvyv-
QrkIJ

Ode to a Corded Drill

Of cordless drills I've got a few
'Bout five they are in number
They've chased their corded brethren out
To rusted dusty slumber

But came this morn I had a task
'Twas not within their compass
I'd fifty two inch holes to drill
This called for much more whoopass

So to their box I guilty stole
Flung up the shrieking lid
They lay inside though long denied
And in their coffin hid

Their tails were coiled 'round them tight
Their copper windings glistened
I saw they hungered for the light
Like babes just newly christened

I held one high against the sky
To read the ancient runes
'Milwaukee' read the word inscribed
Not seen for many moons

His tail was cracked and poorly patched
His body caked in grime
But 'twas a smile on his chuck
He knew it was his time

The old dog didn't ask for much
A dusting and some oil
He sighed at my familiar touch
He'd never known but toil

The shank of that great two inch bit
He took into his maw
I plugged him in and saw him grin
Those cordless watched in awe

As Old Milwaukee cut his holes
With wild electric glee
On and on with guts and brawn
So happy to be free

He never asked for quarter nay
Nor quarter was he givin'
He sang in that great light of day
Till all the holes he'd riven

And all too soon his task was done
His body warmed with labor
I laid him soft upon the bench
A moment one should savor

He'd labored well and I won't dwell
Upon his cordless brothers
Who hid their heads while he did work
T'would make them call their mothers

I won't give up my cordless drills
They've got their time and place
But so do drills with tails my friend
And so they need a space

Not locked away from light of day
In never ending darkness
But out in God's good working light
And ready for the harness

So now my ode is done my friends
I'll tell you what I've learned
Not soon again will that old drill
Have cause to feel he's spurned


Regards, Tom
Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker
Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
www.tjwcabinetmaker.com

Nicely done Tom, and quite apropos
Re the Milwaukee, learned the hard way not to wrap my thumb around the handle, but keep it parallel to my fingers. When the drill does kick out, it won't try to take my thumb with it (again).

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 4:35:04 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Electric Comet wrote in news:nmbvbn$s1c$4
@dont-email.me:

everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

Ode to a Corded Drill by Tom Watson. Copied from:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...s27ldM/mrqvyv-
QrkIJ

Ode to a Corded Drill

Of cordless drills I've got a few
'Bout five they are in number
They've chased their corded brethren out
To rusted dusty slumber

But came this morn I had a task
'Twas not within their compass
I'd fifty two inch holes to drill
This called for much more whoopass

So to their box I guilty stole
Flung up the shrieking lid
They lay inside though long denied
And in their coffin hid

Their tails were coiled 'round them tight
Their copper windings glistened
I saw they hungered for the light
Like babes just newly christened

I held one high against the sky
To read the ancient runes
'Milwaukee' read the word inscribed
Not seen for many moons

His tail was cracked and poorly patched
His body caked in grime
But 'twas a smile on his chuck
He knew it was his time

The old dog didn't ask for much
A dusting and some oil
He sighed at my familiar touch
He'd never known but toil

The shank of that great two inch bit
He took into his maw
I plugged him in and saw him grin
Those cordless watched in awe

As Old Milwaukee cut his holes
With wild electric glee
On and on with guts and brawn
So happy to be free

He never asked for quarter nay
Nor quarter was he givin'
He sang in that great light of day
Till all the holes he'd riven

And all too soon his task was done
His body warmed with labor
I laid him soft upon the bench
A moment one should savor

He'd labored well and I won't dwell
Upon his cordless brothers
Who hid their heads while he did work
T'would make them call their mothers

I won't give up my cordless drills
They've got their time and place
But so do drills with tails my friend
And so they need a space

Not locked away from light of day
In never ending darkness
But out in God's good working light
And ready for the harness

So now my ode is done my friends
I'll tell you what I've learned
Not soon again will that old drill
Have cause to feel he's spurned


Regards, Tom
Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker
Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
www.tjwcabinetmaker.com

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says...

On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 8:32:57 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

look for a Milwaukee Magnum. Make sure you get the side handle. Enough torque to do some serious damage if/when it catches.

FWIW, I needed to set some anchor ties a while back. I'd drilled that
slab before with a half-inch cordless hammer drill and it was slow
going. So this time I took a chance on a Harbor Fright SDS hammer and
it went through the concrete like a drill press through balsa. Probably
won't last too long but I doubt I'm going to drill a hundred more holes
in concrete in the rest of my life and it was cheaper than renting one,
so I'm happy.

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:30:09 -0700, Electric Comet
wrote:

everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch




The big Makiita is hard to beat for the $.

Meanie wrote in :

On 7/15/2016 8:46 PM, wrote:
On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 8:32:57 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are
good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held
drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

look for a Milwaukee Magnum. Make sure you get the side handle.
Enough torque to do some serious damage if/when it catches.


I can vouch for the Milwaukee. Mine nearly tore my arm off at one time
with the torque it kicks out.

Pfaugh. If you really want a drill with power, forget the
Magnum and get one of Milwaukee's compact drills, like the
1660.

(you _do not_ hand-hold those drills when doing serious work.
You thread a length of 3/4 pipe (*) into the hole provided on
the drill body, and make sure it's securely braced against
some convenient structure before you start.)


(* on the railroad, we always called a length of pipe used
for leverage a "swedish extension". No idea why.)

John

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 9:17:56 AM UTC-5, John McCoy wrote:
Meanie wrote in :

On 7/15/2016 8:46 PM, wrote:
On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 8:32:57 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are
good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held
drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

look for a Milwaukee Magnum. Make sure you get the side handle.
Enough torque to do some serious damage if/when it catches.


I can vouch for the Milwaukee. Mine nearly tore my arm off at one time
with the torque it kicks out.

Pfaugh. If you really want a drill with power, forget the
Magnum and get one of Milwaukee's compact drills, like the
1660.

(you _do not_ hand-hold those drills when doing serious work.
You thread a length of 3/4 pipe (*) into the hole provided on
the drill body, and make sure it's securely braced against
some convenient structure before you start.)


(* on the railroad, we always called a length of pipe used
for leverage a "swedish extension". No idea why.)

John

When I was a kid and noticed something was out-of-square, my gramps would say it was probably a Swedish carpenter. Not sure why they got a bad rap?

wrote in
:

Nicely done Tom, and quite apropos
Re the Milwaukee, learned the hard way not to wrap my thumb around the
handle, but keep it parallel to my fingers. When the drill does kick
out, it won't try to take my thumb with it (again).

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 4:35:04 AM UTC-4,
wrote:
Electric Comet wrote in
news:nmbvbn$s1c$4 @dont-email.me:

everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are
good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held
drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

Ode to a Corded Drill by Tom Watson. Copied from:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...LMes27ldM/mrqv
yv- QrkIJ

Ode to a Corded Drill

Of cordless drills I've got a few
'Bout five they are in number
They've chased their corded brethren out
To rusted dusty slumber

But came this morn I had a task
'Twas not within their compass
I'd fifty two inch holes to drill
This called for much more whoopass

So to their box I guilty stole
Flung up the shrieking lid
They lay inside though long denied
And in their coffin hid

Their tails were coiled 'round them tight
Their copper windings glistened
I saw they hungered for the light
Like babes just newly christened

I held one high against the sky
To read the ancient runes
'Milwaukee' read the word inscribed
Not seen for many moons

His tail was cracked and poorly patched
His body caked in grime
But 'twas a smile on his chuck
He knew it was his time

The old dog didn't ask for much
A dusting and some oil
He sighed at my familiar touch
He'd never known but toil

The shank of that great two inch bit
He took into his maw
I plugged him in and saw him grin
Those cordless watched in awe

As Old Milwaukee cut his holes
With wild electric glee
On and on with guts and brawn
So happy to be free

He never asked for quarter nay
Nor quarter was he givin'
He sang in that great light of day
Till all the holes he'd riven

And all too soon his task was done
His body warmed with labor
I laid him soft upon the bench
A moment one should savor

He'd labored well and I won't dwell
Upon his cordless brothers
Who hid their heads while he did work
T'would make them call their mothers

I won't give up my cordless drills
They've got their time and place
But so do drills with tails my friend
And so they need a space

Not locked away from light of day
In never ending darkness
But out in God's good working light
And ready for the harness

So now my ode is done my friends
I'll tell you what I've learned
Not soon again will that old drill
Have cause to feel he's spurned


Regards, Tom
Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker
Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
www.tjwcabinetmaker.com



Just wanted to make sure proper credit goes where it belongs. Tom Watson
wrote "Ode to a Corded Drill" and I just reposted it.

Puckdropper

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:52:44 -0700 (PDT), Bob Villa
wrote:

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 9:17:56 AM UTC-5, John McCoy wrote:
Meanie wrote in :

On 7/15/2016 8:46 PM, wrote:
On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 8:32:57 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are
good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held
drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

look for a Milwaukee Magnum. Make sure you get the side handle.
Enough torque to do some serious damage if/when it catches.


I can vouch for the Milwaukee. Mine nearly tore my arm off at one time
with the torque it kicks out.

Pfaugh. If you really want a drill with power, forget the
Magnum and get one of Milwaukee's compact drills, like the
1660.

(you _do not_ hand-hold those drills when doing serious work.
You thread a length of 3/4 pipe (*) into the hole provided on
the drill body, and make sure it's securely braced against
some convenient structure before you start.)


(* on the railroad, we always called a length of pipe used
for leverage a "swedish extension". No idea why.)

John

When I was a kid and noticed something was out-of-square, my gramps would say it was probably a Swedish carpenter. Not sure why they got a bad rap?

My parents grew up in the UP of Michigan and Minnesota. Swedes were
to that area what Polacks were to Chicago. The Poles bad rap lasted a
bit longer.

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:36:11 +0000, Puckdropper wrote:

Just wanted to make sure proper credit goes where it belongs. Tom
Watson wrote "Ode to a Corded Drill" and I just reposted it.

And a good job he did!


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carrying a cross.

On 7/16/2016 10:36 AM, Puckdropper wrote:
Just wanted to make sure proper credit goes where it belongs. Tom Watson
wrote "Ode to a Corded Drill" and I just reposted it.

Tom is still occasionally writing those pithy gems on his FaceBook page,
for those who want to get back in contact via that particular venue.

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"Electric Comet" wrote in message
...
everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

I have mostly Milwaukee corded and cordless drills.

Milwakee
Hole Hawg
1" Spline Drive
D-handle right angle
D-handle long reach (same as right angle)
Several pistol grips
2 18V Cordless drill/screw/hammer

I do have a few other corded drills for in between stuff.
SDS plus drive Makita
Pistol Grip Makita
Pistol Grip Rigid


They are all decent, and none of them were on the discount shelf.

For a drill I'd probably go Milwaukee as my first choice, just like Skill is
my first choice for a worm drive saw.

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:52:44 -0700 (PDT), Bob Villa
wrote:

On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 9:17:56 AM UTC-5, John McCoy wrote:
Meanie wrote in :

On 7/15/2016 8:46 PM, wrote:
On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 8:32:57 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are
good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held
drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

look for a Milwaukee Magnum. Make sure you get the side handle.
Enough torque to do some serious damage if/when it catches.


I can vouch for the Milwaukee. Mine nearly tore my arm off at one time
with the torque it kicks out.

Pfaugh. If you really want a drill with power, forget the
Magnum and get one of Milwaukee's compact drills, like the
1660.

(you _do not_ hand-hold those drills when doing serious work.
You thread a length of 3/4 pipe (*) into the hole provided on
the drill body, and make sure it's securely braced against
some convenient structure before you start.)


(* on the railroad, we always called a length of pipe used
for leverage a "swedish extension". No idea why.)

John

When I was a kid and noticed something was out-of-square, my gramps would say it was probably a Swedish carpenter. Not sure why they got a bad rap?
Up here it was a "dutchman"

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 16:34:49 -0700
"Bob La Londe" wrote:

I have mostly Milwaukee corded and cordless drills.

Milwakee
Hole Hawg
1" Spline Drive
D-handle right angle
D-handle long reach (same as right angle)
Several pistol grips
2 18V Cordless drill/screw/hammer

I do have a few other corded drills for in between stuff.
SDS plus drive Makita
Pistol Grip Makita
Pistol Grip Rigid


They are all decent, and none of them were on the discount shelf.

For a drill I'd probably go Milwaukee as my first choice, just like
Skill is my first choice for a worm drive saw.

will keep my eyes open for one milwaukee or makita

Electric Comet was heard to mutter:

everyone by now probably has a battery powered drill and they are good

but i need some more power so i am looking for a corded hand held drill

what is the creme of the current crop

i think i should go half inch

I have learned to always keep one corded drill around. That said, I
couple years ago I was looking for a decent no-frills corded drill but
wasn't finding anything in my cheap price range. A friend found a
'going-out-of-business' sale and picked up a DeWalt D21002 that he
gifted me for xmas. It's a nice drill but I cannot use it for what I
had intended as it does not have a trigger lock. It still sits new in
the box. My friend was sorry. He just assumed they all had trigger
locks these days and didn't think to look.

Anyway, I have a fair amount of DeWalt stuff (and other brands) and
they seem to work really well for me.

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:32:17 -0400
Casper wrote:

Anyway, I have a fair amount of DeWalt stuff (and other brands) and
they seem to work really well for me.

my dewalt experience has been limited but not impressed with it

maybe they are better now but once burned twice shy or something like
that

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:56:49 -0700, Electric Comet
wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:32:17 -0400
Casper wrote:

Anyway, I have a fair amount of DeWalt stuff (and other brands) and
they seem to work really well for me.

my dewalt experience has been limited but not impressed with it

maybe they are better now but once burned twice shy or something like
that



Likely worse now than previously.