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Posted by Dave Plowman (News) on April 2, 2007, 4:35 am
> > Didn't know B&D mad ANY good appliance or tool.
> >
> > Mike D.
> >
> You're just not old enough. Was a fine company years ago.
My very first electric drill is a B&D and still works fine - dated 1963.
It did have a factory overhaul in the '70s, though.
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Posted by DaveM on April 2, 2007, 5:37 pm
>> > Didn't know B&D mad ANY good appliance or tool.
>> >
>> > Mike D.
>> >
>
>> You're just not old enough. Was a fine company years ago.
>
> My very first electric drill is a B&D and still works fine - dated 1963.
> It did have a factory overhaul in the '70s, though.
>
> --
> *No hand signals. Driver on Viagra*
>
> Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
> To e-mail, change noise into sound.
My first electric drill was a Skil 3/8" single speed model that I bought in the
Navy Exchange in Norfolk VA just before ending my enlistment in 1967. I built
an SCR speed controller for it a few months later from a construction article in
Popular Electronics magazine. Both still work flawlessly.
It has outlasted four B&D variable speed drills.
You're absolutely right, though, in that B&D is no longer the manufacturer they
once were, but for that matter, neither is Skil. Hang onto your old tools...
they don't make 'em like they used to.
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Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just substitute the appropriate characters in the
address)
Life is like a roll of toilet paper; the closer to the end, the faster it goes.
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Posted by Dave Plowman (News) on April 2, 2007, 6:20 pm
> You're absolutely right, though, in that B&D is no longer the
> manufacturer they once were, but for that matter, neither is Skil.
> Hang onto your old tools... they don't make 'em like they used to.
But ISTR that first drill costing a week's wages. You can buy one for less
than an hour's now.
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Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
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Posted by mm on April 3, 2007, 2:16 am
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:20:39 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
>> You're absolutely right, though, in that B&D is no longer the
>> manufacturer they once were, but for that matter, neither is Skil.
>> Hang onto your old tools... they don't make 'em like they used to.
>
>But ISTR that first drill costing a week's wages. You can buy one for less
>than an hour's now.
You're right.
10 or 20 years ago, I heard that the most sold power tool in the US
was a sabre saw. Why not a drill? Because everyone had a drill.
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Posted by Dave Plowman (News) on April 3, 2007, 5:28 am
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:20:39 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
> >> You're absolutely right, though, in that B&D is no longer the
> >> manufacturer they once were, but for that matter, neither is Skil.
> >> Hang onto your old tools... they don't make 'em like they used to.
> >
> >But ISTR that first drill costing a week's wages. You can buy one for
> >less than an hour's now.
> You're right.
> 10 or 20 years ago, I heard that the most sold power tool in the US
> was a sabre saw. Why not a drill? Because everyone had a drill.
Heh heh. Now that's a poor B&D product by all reports - their sabre saw.
The last B&D thing I bought was a fairly expensive router. Not top of the
range, price wise, but not cheap either. Previously a Tradesman drill and
circular saw which are still excellent.
The router packed up with a seized bearing after not that much use but out
of warrenty. The plastic cooling fan had melted. The fan is part of the
armature...
No more B&D for me.
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Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
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