|> What power tool do you regret buying/receiving? |>
|> David | |For my 40th birthday a friend gave me a hammer with a power cord. That thing |never did work right. In fact, it never ran at all. I changed the fuses, |tried grounded outlets, everything. It's been sitting there for more than 20 |years now. Do you think it might be 220v?
Maybe. The heavy-duty ones were. To meet current code, you need to replace that old cord with a new four-wire one and a dedicated 30A circuit.
I was given something similar, but it was an electric screwdriver. Nice screwdriver... with a 120V cord coming out of the handle. Worked okay on short screws, but longer ones caused the cord to twist so much that you had to keep backing up toward the outlet as you drove the screw. The other problem was that the handle was PVC and if you turned it too fast, static charge built up on it and caused the sawdust on the shop floor to explode. I glued on a piece of aluminum foil and grounded it to a cold water pipe and that fixed that.
You can never be too careful around power tools.