Aren’t You Glad They Were Invented
Aren't you glad that some brilliant individual came up with the idea of fitting a battery to a screwdriver so that all you have to do is to press a trigger and hang on while all the hard yacka is done for you?
If you are a building tradesman working in the contracting business, then it is a cinch that in your line of work you will be required to use a cordless electric drill/driver. Most likely you are going to be using this tool every day and probably for long periods at a stretch, so if this is the case, you obviously will want to get a good quality, commercial cordless drill model.
Say for instance you are a gyprocker. You want to put up a gyprock ceiling. Before the invention of the cordless drill, I’m going back a few years now, 25 to 30 millimeter clouts were mainly used.
That means you had to hammer these little blighters, more often than not, clasped between your bruised and bleeding fingers, through the gyprock and into your support beams; usually the joists, which, without adequate bracing would vibrate every time you swung your hammer. This effect would make your hammer bounce off the clout's head instead of driving it in to the joist. At the same time, as likely as not, you would have the weight of a 1200 x 2400 sheet of gyprock balanced on your nut as you are forced to use both your hands to deal with the positioning and hopefully the eventual banging in of the clout.
If this scenario brings back a few bad memories for you, and you are not related to Houdini, then you must have been in raptures with the invention of the cordless screwdriver drill.
Before the appearance of the cordless drill, I used various methods to get my screws tightened. Just previous to the cordless we had the ratchet screwdriver. These tools are still being used today in certain circumstances. This screwdriver works on a sliding spiral ratchet system with a spiral groove machined into the screwdriver shaft so that when you pushed the handle over the shaft towards the screw to be driven the action of the handle sliding over the spiral screwdriver shaft caused to shaft, and so too, the screw, to rotate.
One of the beauties of the cordless drill is the non-existence of a long and dangling cord to get wound around your ankles; a major hazard when in conjunction with having a functioning power tool occupying your mits at the same time. And of course you will have unrestricted use while working in the great outdoors, and not encumbered to the limitations afforded by the powered model that only work in the vicinity of a power point.
A very handy aperture for the persons who are working in home improvement work. ! Nice invention. This will alleviate the discomfiture of using the same in their predecessor model.