Black & Decker Professional Power Tools

[BDFan1981]

That inline reciprocating saw is rare! I know Sears Craftsman sold the same thing as their 27120, but it also had variable speed control.

~Ben

 

[joshmodelskidoo]

I inherited a b and d professional drill. I believe its a 1/2in. I only used it a couple times till i went cordless but it seemed pretty nice to me. I still have it laying around

 

[tyyost]

In high school in the 90’s we had several B&D industrial drills that were rebadged by snap on before Snappy bough Sioux. I think we had a few angle grinders that were snap on as well that were rebadged B&D.

I have a killer 7” angle grinder that was sold as craftsman industrial that was rebadged B&D. It was quality stuff, including the elu routers they folded into the lineup.

The first iteration of DeWalt was a solid lineup of good tools.

 

[monkeyspanners]

Had a B&D SDS drill at work when I started back in the mid 90's, thing ran like a champ.
B&D then became branded as Elu here, still grey but the buttons etc were a light blue, quality seemed to drop off a cliff when they then became Dewalt, had three faulty tools from new and so switched to Makita.

 

[captain14]

I’ll play this round. Here is my Saw Cat circular saw and a screwgun

I have a drill in the garage and I will add to the thread the next time I am out there.

The saw and drill are late 80-early 90’s. I won those in a complete shop giveaway B&D used to run in the local stores that carries their products. I’m not sure of the date of the screwgun since I acquired that at another time.

 

[jgromada]

My uncle had B&D professional saw from the 50s, it was a beast yet only 6 1/2 blade.

I have that Sawcat circular saw as well. Didn't know that was considered Pro level.

 

[dutchgray]

Looks pretty good except for the cord having a missing plug.

~Ben

Was pretty common for tools to be supplied without plugs back then and you fitted your own, at least here in the UK.
That drill cord showed no evidence it had ever had a plug fitted.

 

[BDFan1981]

Was pretty common for tools to be supplied without plugs back then and you fitted your own, at least here in the UK.
That drill cord showed no evidence it had ever had a plug fitted.

I never knew that about some of the UK/European tools!

~Ben

 

[wafrederick]

Black and Decker did make some of Snap On's power tools at one time.Looked like the Professional tools made as Snap On put on them.My dad has the 4 1/2 grinder,a 1/2 corded drill and a 9.6 volt cordless drill this way

 

[onemore]

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2007-12-27-0712270155-story.html

Ok this has brought back many memories... I worked at Sears in the early 1990’s and they had B&D professional, Craftsman and some dewalt.... blindfolded couldn’t tell the difference but the color made people think DeWalt was better... fast forward I worked for B&D and DeWalt and Joe Galli was the president and he had this crush the competition mentality..

Well Galli goes to TTI (Milwaukee) and the drive to crunch DeWalt is there... no coincidence that Milwaukee starts to dominate Depot once Galli takes the helm.


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[seber]

By the time they came up with the professional line it was too late to save the Black and Decker name. They just couldn't sell a B&D for the price of a professional grade tool. When that effort failed they bought the DeWalt radial arm saw company and used the name for the new line of tools.

 

[StillTooManyHobbies]

Here are a couple not mentioned yet. A 3272 Trim Router and a Quantum BD5100 random orbit sander. I got the router at a woodworking show in Baltimore when they were clearing out black tools and replacing them with yellow. I think the offset base came as part of the deal. Still use it regularly. I put the kit in an unused Dewalt cordless drill box. The sander I don't remember the history, other than I bought it new and it still works fine, but the pad has a little runout after I accidentally dropped it on the floor and bent it.

 

[ScottTheSculptor]

U-320 3/8" roller bearing drill. Have it set up on a mini drill press. Beat up, but still runs perfectly. Searched for one in International Tool Catalog, but could not find it. Late 50s, early 60s style. Does not show up in the price lists... but I did not look at *every* catalog.

 

[SRSemenza]

I have a B&D Industrial 4 (1/2") angle grinder from the 1980s.

Around 1990 - 1992 ish.I was in a Dewalt service center during the branding change over. They had the same tools in both colors on the same shelves.

Seth