2 Battery Screw Guns in one person shop

[imported_Glenn]

Just bought another power tool for the shop and now I am burdened with what to do over the rebate. I have the option of $50 cash or receiving a 9.6V DeWalt screw gun valued at $100. Since I already own one, I am trying to justify whether or not my one man boat shop needs a second. I have just started my first boat and I may be wrong but I think having a second screw gun would be an advantage since I could have one gun with a tapered drill bit while the other gun had a phillips screw head thereby eliminating the need to keep changing what is loaded in the chuck. Yes, a second screw gun could never hurt but would it be truly helpful in speeding up construction or am I just being lazy?

[jlapratt]

There are some things a man cannot have too much of:

Love
Money
Happiness
Friends

and

TOOLS

Go for it!!!! :D

[skuthorp]

I always thought a screw gun was mule transported, dismountable, light artilliery beloved of the British army in India. (reference Kipling)

[Mrleft8]

Get the screw gun. If for no other reason that you'll then have 2 chargers, and 4 batteries, for when the damn things start to die, and you need to change batteries every 15 minutes.... Plus, when you drop the first screw gun into big puddle of something sticky, you can get gun #2, and use that while gun #1 dries out....

[cs]

Glenn go ahead and get the second screw gun for just the reason you mention. Every time I've got to drive screws I end up with a corded drill with a bit for the pilot hole and a cordless drill for driving the screws. Keep meaning to buy another cordless.

Chad

[Concordia..41]

Yes. Next question?

[Donn]

If the second drill is a matching tool battery-wise, to any of your other cordless tools, take it...if not, take the cash.

[rbgarr]

What a deal.

I'd get the gun, ESPECIALLY if it's the artillery piece and INCLUDES the mule, just to see the look on the neighbors' and UPS delivery guy's faces!

And post pics!

[TomRobb]

While a second drill is nice, 9.6v is a consumer tool not a professional model. Not much power.
I'd take the money toward something more useful - perhaps jewelry for SWMBO :D

[cs]

I still say get the screw gun. It will always drive screws even though it is only 9.6 volts.

Chad

[WFK]

What Donn said....

[Alan Peck]

I just got a new Black and Decker 12V. It has a great feature in that it has a chuck that snaps on and off. It is set up so that you can put your drill in the chuck and when you snap of the chuck, there is a socket that accepts driver bits.

It works great, since you always have both the drill and driver mounted on your drill.

[Jeff Evans]

get the gun. wish i had a second. would be useful

[Mrleft8]

I use the 9.6 Volt DeWalt cordless drill, and I'm a professional furniture builder/cabinet maker.
The 9.6 is much more comfortable than the larger ones, and the balance is better too.
Just because you can GET a bigger battery doesn't mean you NEED a bigger battery.

[Donn]

I tried one of the new cordless hammer drill/drivers the other day...big difference in screw driving ability, but holy cow what a price!

[TomMcKinney]

Take the screw gun- I have a home/repair power screw driver and I like it much more than my over power drill--it neve strips out phillips screwss and still gets the job done- it turns slower, but by not stripping, the job goes faster. On can never have enough drills

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Glenn, what are you doing fooling around with philips bits? Get with the 21st century and go with square drive! :D (robertson for you canuckians)

Steven

Oh yeah, take the screw gun, I bought another one to keep in the house so my wife wasn't always borrowing mine to fool around with curtin rods and stuff.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Well I for one would get the screw gun, and hell... go buy yourself another tool for saving that fiddy bucks. (that made tool sense to me!) :D

[Bob Aberton]

Don't know that I'm very qualified to answer this question, BUT...

2 screw guns is far, far better than one.

Take, for example, my own boat, when I have to drill a whole bunch of holes then put screws in them.

Just put a drill bit on one screw gun, and a screw driver bit on the other.

Drill with your left hand, screw with your right (or whatever). Saves you the trouble of changing fiddly little bits.

[Paul Scheuer]

At the height of my screw shooting, I learned to hate chucking, after about the first dozen. I ended up with two power drills, two hand drills and a screw driver bit in one of my braces.
It's up to you, but I'd take the tool.

[B. Darrah Thomas]

Not to be redundant, but, Get the gun! I often chuck 2 drills at once. Unfortunately, 2 of my 3 drills are 1/2" pigs so I end up with 2 different size/ weight tools working the same project. By the way, SWMBO bought my 9.6 De***** used at a pawn shop when we were not so affluent. Over 4 years & no new batteries or down time at all. Quality tool.

[Jamie Hascall]

I've got two of the 9.6 Dewalts in constant use and am thinking of a third one. I've rarely met a job that it didn't do just fine on. Take it!

[ion barnes]

Yeah, get the gun, it will be worth it for the batteries alone (replacement cost). Lord knows, you will need them.

[John Blazy]

Dewalt batteries have a horrible track record of longevity. Get the gun & Batts just for that reason. - JB

[Mike Field]

Jeff, I don't think too many Yanks have read Kipling,,,,

Surprisingly though, I discovered that one of our respected contributors happens to have Danny Deever (resurrected?) living next door to him.

Oh, and get the second one, Glenn. If nothing else, you'll probably be able to sell it for more than $50 anyway.

[ 01-16-2003, 05:39 AM: Message edited by: Mike Field ]

[skuthorp]

Screw Guns by Rudyard Kipling
www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/kipling_ind.html (http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/kipling_ind.html)
Here's what I was referring to,
Screw-Guns

Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,
With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets
It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets -- 'Tss! 'Tss!
For you all love the screw-guns -- the screw-guns they all love you!
So when we call round with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do -- hoo! hoo!
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender -- it's worse if you fights or you runs:
You can go where you please, you can skid up the trees, but you don't get away from the guns!

They sends us along where the roads are, but mostly we goes where they ain't:
We'd climb up the side of a sign-board an' trust to the stick o' the paint:
We've chivied the Naga an' Looshai, we've give the Afreedeeman fits,
For we fancies ourselves at two thousand, we guns that are built in two bits -- 'Tss! 'Tss!
For you all love the screw-guns . . .

If a man doesn't work, why, we drills 'im an' teaches 'im 'ow to behave;
If a beggar can't march, why, we kills 'im an' rattles 'im into 'is grave.
You've got to stand up to our business an' spring without snatchin' or fuss.
D'you say that you sweat with the field-guns? By God, you must lather with us -- 'Tss! 'Tss!
For you all love the screw-guns . . .

The eagles is screamin' around us, the river's a-moanin' below,
We're clear o' the pine an' the oak-scrub, we're out on the rocks an' the snow,
An' the wind is as thin as a whip-lash what carries away to the plains
The rattle an' stamp o' the lead-mules -- the jinglety-jink o' the chains -- 'Tss! 'Tss!
For you all love the screw-guns . . .

There's a wheel on the Horns o' the Mornin', an' a wheel on the edge o' the Pit,
An' a drop into nothin' beneath you as straight as a beggar can spit:
With the sweat runnin' out o' your shirt-sleeves, an' the sun off the snow in your face,
An' 'arf o' the men on the drag-ropes to hold the old gun in 'er place -- 'Tss! 'Tss!
For you all love the screw-guns . . .

Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,
I climbs in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule.
The monkey can say what our road was -- the wild-goat 'e knows where we passed.
Stand easy, you long-eared old darlin's! Out drag-ropes! With shrapnel! Hold fast -- 'Tss! 'Tss!
For you all love the screw-guns -- the screw-guns they all love you!
So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do -- hoo! hoo!
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender -- it's worse if you fights or you runs:
You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!

and sorry to hijack the stream!

[ 01-16-2003, 05:50 AM: Message edited by: skuthorp ]