Originally Posted by Dave9
Originally Posted by skyactiv
The OP mentioned corded. There is nothing wrong with corded drills. I don't own cordless as I want it to work the minute I need to use it and I'm not keeping a battery in a charger 24/7 when I might use a drill 8 months from now.
That was more true back in the Ni-Cd era. Today, you can charge a Li-Ion battery and still have a useful amount of charge in it for 6+ months later, won't need to recharge it before each use because they have low self-discharge, unless you have a big job ahead and even then since the battery hasn't discharged much, it wouldn't need to charge long to top it off, and of course you might have more than one battery.
I have corded and cordless and hardly ever use the corded these days. Why drag out an extension cord and fight with it if you don't have to, especially if it's cold and stiff.
Well I use my corded drill press often but not a corded hand drill except hammer drilling into brick/concrete/etc. Since I don't use my corded tools often, they will last a long time as backups should I ever need them which is great because they're old, well made tools (most made in USA) that would cost a lot to replace these days for something equivalent.
I remember buying my first battery drill when I needed to drill out some screws holding in my license plate on the street. No way a corded drill would work because it was several hundred feet from an outlet on the street. Haven't had any need for a corded drill since. I used to buy those $40 black friday specials at homedepot every year or so just to get the battery that came with the drill as the nicads would only last a couple years before dying. Now I kinda stopped doing that as the lithium ones haven't died on me yet. I still have several drills left, I'd probably have 5+ if it weren't for drills that disappeared when I loaned them to people or got stolen. Still having a few drills makes it handy, I leave one in the car and have a few at home. Also handy when doing screws, one can have a drill bit, the other the Philips bit so you don't have to switch back and forth.