Power Tools
Mar. 23rd, 2009 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revchrisI discovered last week that it was getting to be time for a new cordless drill. The casing on mine is starting to crack around the trigger, probably from old age and being dropped too many times.
I bought it about the time the 18V drills were brand new (the date code inside the handle is 1996!), so I have no problem with it not lasting long enough. I bought a DeWalt DC920A kit (two batteries, case, charger), so now I have four batteries and two chargers. So far the two biggest improvements are that it now comes with a side handle and the case holds three batteries (two in the box, one in the drill) plus the charger and space for odds and ends.
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teeka told me that now that I had a new drill, I had to make her something, so I built a new frit rack for the studio, which didn't really need the drill, as it's mostly dadoed and nailed together.
When I bought the table saw, my father in law gave me a box of blades and stuff he'd had for a while but never used. I finally really looked through it. There's two dado blades (one adjustable, on stacking), a shaper blade with 5 sets of cutters, and a dado insert that doesn't fit my saw.
I'll play with the shaper kit one of these days, but the stacked dado worked well for the frit rack: the top and bottom are rabetted into the sides, and the five shelves are dadoed, with everything going a lot faster than trying to do it with the miter saw or a router.
I bought it about the time the 18V drills were brand new (the date code inside the handle is 1996!), so I have no problem with it not lasting long enough. I bought a DeWalt DC920A kit (two batteries, case, charger), so now I have four batteries and two chargers. So far the two biggest improvements are that it now comes with a side handle and the case holds three batteries (two in the box, one in the drill) plus the charger and space for odds and ends.
teeka told me that now that I had a new drill, I had to make her something, so I built a new frit rack for the studio, which didn't really need the drill, as it's mostly dadoed and nailed together.When I bought the table saw, my father in law gave me a box of blades and stuff he'd had for a while but never used. I finally really looked through it. There's two dado blades (one adjustable, on stacking), a shaper blade with 5 sets of cutters, and a dado insert that doesn't fit my saw.
I'll play with the shaper kit one of these days, but the stacked dado worked well for the frit rack: the top and bottom are rabetted into the sides, and the five shelves are dadoed, with everything going a lot faster than trying to do it with the miter saw or a router.
