I have about a half a small closet full of cordless tools waiting to be transported to the dump if battery prices don't get reasonable. Looking at the tool section in Amazom.com, I see the number of cordless drills far if excess of the corded models. Doesn't seem like much effort is placed in research and development on corded drills. Except for the big brutes, will we see corded drills anymore in ten years? It would nice to incorporate some of the cordless features like keyless chuck, adjustable clutch, articulated head, compact design, built-in work light, level, storage for bits, multi speed and so on. A good corded drill last 20 or more years while the cordless perhaps 2 to 5 years before you decide to purchase a new set of batteries of just buy the next new cordless innovation so there is little profit in corded drills in particular and other corded tools in general. So will we be buried in exhausted batteries and discarded cordless tools?
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17 years ago