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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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