Would you do this to a $600 drill?
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Frank The Plumber
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This guy is an idiot. Let the manufacturer do this.
volpster31
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yeah, hes an idiot and he drives screws like a newbie
Frank The Plumber
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Did it ever occur to this guy that putting your hands in water with a cordless battery is an excellent way to crack all of your teeth from the shock jolt of the battery. Never mind the tool surviving. Can this JackAss kill himself with this drill?
jesko10
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Hey Boss, can I get the new drill over the weekend? I have some stuff to do.
He should be employee of the month.
He should be employee of the month.
bobcatdan
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If he is that stupid, he can just send me $600 instead of wasteing it on a drill he thinks is over hyped.
clutch93
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When the drill started making the warning sound, i thought, man this drill is smarter than the guy using it! 
nate379
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He's an idiot for paying $600 for a drill!
davesnothere
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Haha right?!
Daddy_Rabbit
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not a big deal ... it is a very common practice in the RC racing circles to break in the DC motors underwater.
neonnblack
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So what, its his money, his tool let him do whatever. He wanted to see if it would still work. That's his choice, he took and knew the risks(kinda). But yeah kind of bad at screwing though. lol
jesko10
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????
Daddy_Rabbit
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he submerged a DC motor that happens to be in a drill ... what is it you don't understand?
I completely agree!
I'd like him to slide it off the edge of a multi-family home's roof, say from 45 feet onto cement like I did with my cheap-o Ryobi. I duct taped the battery and finished the day's work.
I hardly think that ten minutes of abuse is going to kill the drill or most drills for that matter. Doing that every day... or maybe all work day, that's a different story. This isn't an empirical study by a long shot.
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jesko10
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This: it is a very common practice in the RC racing circles to break in the DC motors underwater
Maybee it is may lack of english, but what means breaking in?
84scrambler
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There is no real risk of shock from that drill. Its not even considered high voltage that and being less then 20 volts DC with no real capacitors on it makes it that much less dangerous from a shock point of view. Now dipping it mud and making it slick as hell can make it dangerous, I was waiting for that thing to come out and smack him again.
greasemonkey44
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when it ******* beeps, at least know why it is beeping
im pretty impressed with that drill tho it still works with a quick beat down
he does drive screws like a weanie
im pretty impressed with that drill tho it still works with a quick beat down
he does drive screws like a weanie
Givl Reggin
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My brother belongs to "The Church of Festool" - hook, line and sinker! He has their drills, saws, routers, storage bins, work tables, you name it he has it. And frankly, I'm not that impressed with their stuff... the first time I saw one of their drills, after hearing about them for ages, I was expecting to see metal housings and gears inside, but it's all plastic... I thought the Germans would have built it like a tank, but it's not.... it's cheap plastic like you find on a Black-&-Decker drill. Like the video shows, when you need to get a job done it can't be relied on... okay, so it's overheating, I get that... but, let me be the judge and take the responsibility of damaging the tool, maybe permanently... I don't like tools that 'think' they're smarter then me.
american lockpicker
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Its a Festool not a Glock.
danski0224
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I have a Festool C12.
Beyond a doubt, the best cordless drill I have used.
Beyond a doubt, the best cordless drill I have used.
Wrenches of Death
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I had a neighbor like that. Fortunately, the consulting company he worked for transferred him, and he moved away.
He reminded me of a cult member or something the way he was always preaching the advantages of Festool. Festool this, Festool that. I though about choking the **** out of him a couple of times, but other than his obsession with Festool, he didn't seem to be a too bad of a guy.
No tool that I owned was worth a damn, unless it was something he wanted to borrow or needed me to use to get his *** out of a jam on something. And this was from a guy driving a Saab.
The Festool stuff he had seemed OK quality but was really really over priced.
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Frank The Plumber
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Here is the test I would like to see him pass.
You put that drill on the side walk in a very rough neighbor hood, walk about a foot from it and a track star will scoop that drill up and do the 100 in about 6.8 seconds.
I would like to see that fat guy chase that track star for that drill over about 6 fences.
At the 7th fence he hops about 9 guys will be waiting for him with bats and blades and take his wallet credit cards and maybe his posteriors sanctity.
This is why I have a $75 drill. I am not a track star. Let the sucker have it that 7th yard is not for me.
You put that drill on the side walk in a very rough neighbor hood, walk about a foot from it and a track star will scoop that drill up and do the 100 in about 6.8 seconds.
I would like to see that fat guy chase that track star for that drill over about 6 fences.
At the 7th fence he hops about 9 guys will be waiting for him with bats and blades and take his wallet credit cards and maybe his posteriors sanctity.
This is why I have a $75 drill. I am not a track star. Let the sucker have it that 7th yard is not for me.
John316
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I don't know the current rating on these batteries or the configuration of these drills, but I do know 15 volts can DEFINITELY kill a person if there is enough current flow. It's the current that kills, the voltage is just a factor within the "circuit".
If you have ever been static "shocked" by touching something metal after walking across the carpet with socks on you have been hit with hundreds of thousands of volts, but with an extremely small amount of current there is no harm in this.
Current as small as 50 mA can be fatal under the right conditions.
If you have ever been static "shocked" by touching something metal after walking across the carpet with socks on you have been hit with hundreds of thousands of volts, but with an extremely small amount of current there is no harm in this.
Current as small as 50 mA can be fatal under the right conditions.
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BReaking in was what you do to your car, where you condition the motor by driving slow, or fast, to make it best at what you want it to do. It is similar to working tires to get the new part off of them, so that they stick better. Or when you have something is stiff, moving it back and forth until it moves easier.
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the water allows for faster transfer of the radius of the commutator on the rotor to the graphite brushes due to the water softening the graphite and the lubricity properties it adds.
TOOL MASTER
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Fuel pumps run in gas.......enough said
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Okay, okay, those tests are all fine and dandy. But now I want to see him cover it in shake 'n bake and bake it at 350 for 15 minutes. Tell me, will it still be delicious?
ibedayank
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You just can't fix stupid
Exactly , it's an electric drill not a pair of shoes.
I don't see any reason to 'break it in' for that kind of equipment.
aroncornell
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What do you guys expect from an Ohio State fan? lol im sorry I couldn't resist.
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You're half right. It is the current that generally determines the severity of the shock. However, at 15 volts your body represents enough impedance that you will not suffer a fatal (or generally even noticeable shock). Now, if I jabbed a couple of electrodes into your pericardium and applied 15 volts than would probably be a bad thing, but what are the chances of anything like that happening in this situation.
I'm a EE and a hardware designer and I've had numerous products submitted to U.L. for compliance approval. As far as U.L. is concerned, anything under 40V is considered non-hazardous (at least I think it's still 40V, most of my products are either much lower voltage or they have 120VAC in them, I rarely have anything near the threshold).
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Hoss356
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I'm glad that guy doesn't have a glock, he couldn't keep his finger off the trigger of a drill while changing the bit! He'd surely shoot himself in the leg and it'd probably be on camera while he's trying to show off.
Wrenches of Death
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I just remembered a quote from a rather clumsy DEA agent a few years back in a classroom full of little kids:
"I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to carry this Glock 40......"
BANG! Oh oh, an accidental discharge! Into my thigh...
Not the brightest bulb in the room, but still, a pretty tough sob to go ahead and finish the lecture with a slug in him. The video of it went viral. I'd guess that it's still around.
Here's the link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4322659058549628092#
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woody 73
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I had no idea that the drill cost that much money! Still I would have thought the company that made this drill would have made their own tests.
If anything I suppose that man in the clip is doing a nice pr job for Festool. Not my cup of tea to try and damage any tool...
If anything I suppose that man in the clip is doing a nice pr job for Festool. Not my cup of tea to try and damage any tool...