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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by winrid on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:50AM (#32466279)
Your drills have plastic gears simply as a cost saving measure. Spend a bit more and you get powdered metal gears.
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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by justinlloyd on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:53AM (#32467327)
Okay, I'll bite, tell me which drills I should be spending a bit more on?
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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by winrid on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:58PM (#32474608)
Not sure. I don't think drill manufacturers advertise these details often because they don't want to confuse consumers.

You can try to watch teardowns, like this DeWalt by Ave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHCS7JXfuv0

Gears at 16:40

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by justinlloyd on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:45PM (#32475830)
Yeah, okay, you got nothing.
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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by winrid on Monday August 15, 2022 @06:34PM (#32476371)
What are you talking about? You claimed the plastic gears were used as a failsafe. That's not true, higher quality equipment uses metal gears. Drills already have fuses and overload detectors built in.

Go watch some teardowns of cheap stuff vs expensive stuff and stop being a jerk.

I'm not your mom. I'm not gonna explain everything AND shop for you.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by winrid on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:26PM (#32477625)
Too long to read. Some gears are nylon, yes, which is strong. I didn't get juvenile. I told you to watch teardowns. I don't keep a back catalog of every device with metal gearboxes, sorry.
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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by winrid on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:31PM (#32477673)
Also! Way to completely flip the responsibility to on me. Very un-juvenile of you! I wasn't addressing "what tool should I buy", I was addressing "plastic gears are there to protect my drill/impact".

The shopping aspect was uninteresting to me to begin with and was not what I was joining the discussion for. :)

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