Qualcast electric hedge trimmer clutch

Ihave found that sort of behaviors in many later electric triummers. They are built to a price and a quality that just takes them through warranty.

A cast mezak crown wheel is pence. To machine a decent one out of hard steel is pounds.

Go figure.

I inherited a B & D electric drill from my father - he got it around

I have had three sinec then, all scrapped.

The Natural Philosopher used his keyboard to write :

Me too, it was still in GWO when I took it to the dump.

Hmm, Funny that somebody told me that the same company, probably badge engineers a petrol Strimmer but that has drive and feed problems where it gets stuck with no drive due to plastic engineering. Maybe they need a better buyer or designer over there. Do Qualcast still really exist, or are they just a badge used by somebody for el cheapo imported crap? Brian

I still have my old 1970s b/d mains drill as good as the day it was made. Over engineered but then if everyone made things this way they would never get another sale would they? grin. Brian

Brian Gaff pretended :

They are just badge engineered, cheap imports.

Such a shame as they used to make great lawn mowers at one time. Brian

Brian Gaff formulated the question :

That is what the purchasers of the brand name rely upon..

Bosch took over Qualcast 23 years ago.

Unless they made a range of products, or thought people would give recommendations ...

Unlikely that many would buy too many and the same consideration would apply with those, and their kids would get the long lived product when they die too.

or thought people would give

It has always been one real problem that prevents the best designs from being what is sold, particularly when the stuff that lasts forever will be more expensive to make.

The other weird thing is that cars now last much longer, but you don?t see too many keep them much longer.

I wonder why that is?

They are relatively much cheaper to buy, people have more more and less inclination to get involved, less of the needed skills for repairing them themselves. Labour costs and parts to repair them are relatively so much more expensive. Then the MOT filters many out now.