01-08-2024, 08:05 AM
(01-07-2024, 04:39 PM)Stwood_ Wrote: I'm heavily invested in air guns and as long as I can get repair parts for them I'll stay the course.
I can see the advantage of not having a hose to deal with but I've dealt with cords and hoses all my life, so not a big deal to me.
I haven't gotten the cordless bug like you younger guys.....yet. Drills, yes, but I still have my corded drills and shear.
I can understand why you would not go cordless, I remember several of the first attempts at cordless tools 20 plus years ago.
There was a black and decker outlet store in Kansas City and they had a cordless battery operated weed eater for a song. I only had a very small yard, so I went for it. It had a heavy lead acid battery. It was way under powered and very heavy, also took a long time to charge and wouldn’t hold a charge very well. Didn’t even have interchangeable batteries.
Since then, I have slowly bought into cordless for some things, Drills and impact drivers were the first and I wouldn’t want to go back.
I did try a dewalt cordless track saw in the ill fated 36v (that they quit supporting). I am not going to go cordless for all of my circular saw needs anytime soon, but I do now have a 20v dewalt circular saw that is nice for cutting 2x4s to length when doing construction.
I also haven’t gone cordless on nailers, mainly because I don’t use them away from the shop other than my framing nailer. I’m also like you in that I’m fairly invested in a bunch of air nailers already.
I can certainly see how someone just getting into this might go that direction rather than go with a big compressor for the shop, and a portable for work away from shop.
I had all but forgotten that at one point many years ago I tried an electric version of the upholstery stapler, and it didn’t even work as well as the hand operated version.