🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:52:57 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
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>"krw" <krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message 
>news:m3f845t4q6m0otottpp8fph33kbo3egsak@4ax.com...
>> But it's ugly orange.  ;-)  I think I'll spring for the Bosch.
>
>The cordless one?  Or do they have a plug-in one now?

Cordless.  12V Li-Ion, that matches three of my drivers and drills.
;-)

>> I
>> just bought a little Bosch 12V Li-Ion to match the impact driver.  100
>> years ago a cordless drill was a brace and bit.  ;-)
>
>We still used those back in industrial arts class in the mid-'80s since they 
>didn't have enough electric drills to go around.  (I imagine they'd had them 
>for decades!)

We didn't have electric drills in shop.  I *hated* shop.  

>We had pretty good instructors... of the many demos they gave, I remember one 
>where the guy said, "You want to know the difference between this cheap Black 
>& Decker power drill here and this much-more-expensive Milwaukee?  Watch 
>this?" -- Guy wraps his hand around the chuck on the B&D, hits the trigger 
>with his other hand and... chuck doesn't turn, the drill just sitting them 
>humming a bit.  "Don't try this with the Milwaukee!"

I've sprained a wrist driving screws.  A good driver has a *lot* of
torque.  OTOH, I have a 3/8" air wrench that I think I could stop.  I
bought a 1/2" impact wrench that I could stop by hand with a 1" socket
installed.  It went back.