Why is it most power tools have a stupidly short wire?
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12 years ago
Cord length on power tools
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12 years ago
Because they are cheap, and its a way for the maker to save money.
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12 years ago
When I spend =A360 on a power tool, a saving of 10p on the cable is sill= y. All it does is put off potential customers. And possibly cause peop= le to yank the wire and damage it!
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12 years ago
So you can reach the plug easily to disconnect when changing bits, etc.
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Or put the plug back in when you stretched the cable a bit too far to reach the other end of the thing you're working on.
And who unplugs to change bits anyway?
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The people who have been bitten by not unplugging.
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12 years ago
Common complaint when I worked for Karcher. We were told it was an EU regulation. Hmmmm.
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12 years ago
Anabolic Steroids?
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12 years ago
Seems unlikely. My SDS drill has a cable around 5 metres long - it's a pity my normal mains drill doesn't.
SteveW
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12 years ago
The clumsy folk. Power tools have a switch. You turn that off before changing the bit. You don't need to turn it off twice. Even if you want to, most sockets have a switch beside them.
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12 years ago
Like the regulation that forces me to reverse my car into the petrol station to get the LPG?
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12 years ago
I got a soldering iron with a cable 2 foot long! It's not safe at all, very easy to melt the wire that keeps getting caught on the bit!
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12 years ago
That almost made me laugh....
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12 years ago
Dunno, but many have. The exception in my collection is the Fein Multimaster - which has a cable about 5m long.
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12 years ago
My blue Bosch drill has a nice long rubber super flexible cable.
Seems to be the real tools are properly equipped - it's the low end consumer stuff that is often ill equipped.
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12 years ago
Mine don't. Ah, actually the few cheapy ones I own, have leads that are a bit short, but not all that short. The others; Makita, DeWalt, even Bosch, have quite long leads.
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12 years ago
My permanently-affixed angle drill has a new power lead of ~5m - much better that way, I found.
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12 years ago
If you look at the price of flex, especially in the bulk they will buy it in , it seems pointless.
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12 years ago
I gave up buying expensive makes, as the cheap ones are just as good.
Especially if it's something you only need once or twice, it's silly to spend a fortune on one!
And if you lend it to someone and the bust it, it's not so costly....
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12 years ago
Stuff the length, the detachability is the issue. Have something akin to the good old kettle lead, but designed for the specific job, and common to all manufacturers, and you can easily switch leads according to need.
Sometimes I want a nice short lead, other times a long one. Sometimes a super-flexible lead would be a huge advantage. And the biggest single issue - if it gets damaged it is likely to get replaced rather than ignored because it is too difficult to do or too expensive to replace the entire tool.
Did someone mention Fein?