toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
That must really suck to have a tool still with 95% of its life left in it that you can't use because of an unavailable battery. They call it designed obsolescence. They got you by the balls and now force you into a new sale.Don't want either one of them, I am only buying corded tools from now on. De Walt ripped me off with their battery scam.
I'm going the opposite way.
The older I get the less I like dragging a cord around. And my projects tend to be a little less intense.
Hell,I bought an electric log splitter and an electric chainsaw...something I swore I'd never do.
Oh,ya gotta plug in the log splitter but the chainsaw is battery powered.
And I use cooking oil for the bar lube because I only cut BBQ wood with it.
They quit making batteries for them at a certain point; my De Walt is still in practically mint condition, but the batteries wore out and they don't make replacements for my model any more, and it isn't that old.
If you are clever, you might be able to take the old battery case apart and retrofit new power cells into it. The battery cells inside are not unique, just the outer case.