Team Rigid for the warranty and frequent clearance at HD. They're good tools for someone like me this isn't CONSTANTLY using them probably.
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Or like me and you're not a brand-whore you're a "I'm too goddamn broke which one is the cheap"
I'm a never-dad, but thanks to a generous gift from my SO's dad and proprietary battery systems, I'm now on team red.
Where is House Worx
Team no battery. Won't get sucked into that mild convenience crack. The batteries cost a boatload and die after one or two years. You know it is a scam if the batteries are all proprietary.
Okay so weird battery story. Long story short tools were stolen and replaced all my shit with the cheapest garbage I could get away with until I could reinvest peicemeal...
Got a shitty Black and Decker drill. Drill of course was not great but was mostly for drywall and wood at the time so it was enough... That thing's battery was god tier. Like I know it wasn't under super heavy load but I used the shit out of that thing and maybe charged it once every 2 months when most batteries in a drill might last me a week if it's not a heavy use situation. Never seen anything like it.
Eventually the actual drill died like 5 years on the job but right up til the end that battery never quit. I almost miss the thing now even though I caught flack for having such a shit brand. But knowing what is possible made me wonder what the hell was in that thing. Magic? Uranium? Was it the shit drill just ran on damn near nothing? All of the above?
Maybe planned obsolescence is a truth in power tool batteries...
With venture capitalists on driving the main brands, it absolutely is.
It's such a bullshit though. It's all 18650's on the inside, and there's no reason you shouldn't be able to just swap them out. It's just they are dangerous if shorted (but not as dangerous as powertools), and the actual cell manufacturers just want to shift liability on the end-user device manufacturers, so they won't officially sell them to you. And the latter of course love this because it makes it easy to vendor-lock you in.
Solution - buy batteries off aliexpress and the likes. I'm pretty sure the Chinese folk have it all figured out a long time ago, probably even have the adapters for every brand. Alternative, take dead batteries to your local electronics repair shop, they are likely to be able to perform the swap. Disclaimer: I'm not a handyman, this is not a legal advice or whatever, just chiming in from a field with similar issues.
I used to be that way, then there was a holiday sale for my brand (one drill, one screwdriver with ratcheting). The big trick to batteries is storing them indoors. Yes, it's a bigger PITA, but I've been thoroughly converted. 3 years running and my batteries and tools are still going strong.
Don't get me wrong, I still buy corded for saws-all and stuff like that, but on drill/screw driver, battery works for 98% of all applications (hammer drilling cement being the rare exception).
Yeah I stored them indoors. Not for me.
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