I have a DW 12v drill. I bought it at HD on a summer "special" and it was $99 comes with the drill, two battery packs and a 1 hour charger.
Now two years later the batteries are about to die. One will work for may be 15 minutes after fully charged the other would not even charge just blinks real fast.
I have looked into getting these rebuilt. Looking at the prices the average price to get one rebuilt is about $45-50. Getting two rebuilt will be $100 plus shipping in some cases, which is about the price of a brand new drill set that I may be able to get from $99 to $139...
So question is whether it's better to rebuild them or just get new drill/batteries.
Then I ran into one article that briefly talked about 12V Dewalt batteries and B&D batteries are interchangeable. Not the same, but interchangeable? and the B&D ones are much cheaper?
Is this true? and if so, can you charge the B&D batteries with a Dewalt 1 hour charger?
Anyone know for sure?
Thanks,
MC