Whats Your Favourite Tool to Use
What's The Most Useful Tool in Your Toolbox?
The cordless drill is a must for every home Handy Andy. They will provide the user with hours and hours of pleasure and enjoyment. They will make your rotten old boring weekend chores and odd jobs around the house a delight to tackle. You won't be able to get enough.
When comes down to picking the most prized tool that's used in most households by the home handyman, and women too for that matter, the choice must lay at the feet of the common old cordless drill.
What is it about this popular tool that gives them that edge and makes them a must have for every amateur do it yourselfer and professional alike? Well, they're tough, they’re powerful, they’re sexy, and they have a variety of useful built in features.
They're a dead set walk in the park to use and they're as safe as houses. You'd even have trouble electrocuting yourself while using them.
I don’t advise you to stick your wet tongue on the battery terminals to test this theory out, but you probably could do so without too many ill effects, but don't try this at home. As with any power tool, you can’t be too careful and it always pays to follow all of the suggested safety rules that are described in the manual that came with your selected power tool.
Your cordless drill will also tighten screws a lot faster than with the old manual screwdriver method. You could be driving half a dozen screws with your cordless friend in the same time it would take you to rifle through your toolbox in search of one of your old antique hand tightenerupers.
Not only that, they are an absolute pleasure to use and as soon as you get through one job you'll be searching around the house seeking out another, just for the joy of drilling a hole somewhere, sticking a white, red, green or blue plug into it and tightening up on that screw with a simple squeeze of the trigger.
A variable speed control is generally built around the trigger function so that the tighter you squeeze the trigger the faster the drill will work. This feature allows you to start slow to give your screw a little depth before applying full throttle and driving that baby home; if for any reason you want to take your screw out again then this feature will also work in reverse to undo your work.
If your unsure as to what voltage to go for, well, were only talking “work around the house” tool here, so you’d be looking for something in the range of say 9-volt to 12-volt, which will cope quite happily with most of the household drilling and screwing chores that you can chuck at it.
If you’re into doing this kind of thing for a living then it’s going to be a whole new ball game.