<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Bruce Dornfeld <<a href="mailto:bdornfeld@earthlink.net">bdornfeld@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <p> <div>I have been using a Milwaukee electric screwdriver (looks identical to a Panasonic one) for maybe ten years now.  The batteries take fifteen to twenty minutes to recharge.  I use two batteries: one in the driver and one spare in my main tool kit.  When the one dies, it takes about thirty seconds to replace it.  The dead one gets recharged that night and put back in as a spare.  These are cylindrical batteries about the size of a combination tool handle. </div> <div> </div><font color="#888888"> <div> </div> <div>Bruce Dornfeld, RPT</div> <div><a href="mailto:bdornfeld@earthlink.net" target="_blank">bdornfeld@earthlink.net</a></div> <div>North Shore Chapter</div> <div> </div> <p></p></font> <p></p></p></div></blockquote></div> <div><br>I've seen the one you're talking about Bruce, my niece owned a print & copy shop. She did all of my printing and I got to visit her a lot more. I was there one day when her office machine tech came in and he was using one of those Milwaukee inline, right?</div> <div>I have the Black and Decker version, it has rechargable batteries which I charge overnight at home and always have a spare with me, I like it's self-locking collet for breaking loose those really tight screws before I let it do the rest of the turning out. It's my 3rd power screwdriver, the first 2 were like this Coleman and had no removable batteries so when the batteries died so did they! I started using them when I was diagnosed with carpal tunnel 13 years ago, I had the surgery 3 years ago but now it's a habit and IMHO a real timesaver!</div> <div>I used to carry a whole set of screwdrivers, now I have a few small ones, a good one for tightening/removal of hammer flanges, whippen flange screws etc. and of course the big flatblade and phillips for plate screws. The rest stay in the truck and I run and get them if I need them. Instead I carry an assortment of blades and nutdrivers to fit the B&D, a 1/4" for Dampp-Chaser installs and a 3/8' or 5/16" can't remember which, for those Baldwin action machine screws.</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.<br>Charles M.Schulz<br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br> email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>