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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Hi Don;very good to hear from you and that your mother and family are doing 
well.  When you have a bit if time to reply, I have a "tools" question".  I 
want to buy some battery pack tools.  Like maybe a bttery powered drill, 
skillsaw, sawzall, things like that.  You wrote about these once, but I can't 
find the post.  

1) Is there a certain 'brand' that is the best for the money with these type 
tools?  Sears and home depot have multi brands of multi strngths and battery 
types.  I imagines other retailers do, also.

2)  I want them all to run off the same battery packs, if possible.  What is 
the best strength and type of battery?  Also, Does the type/brand of 
recharger matter / and does the type/brand of batteries?

3) Other than the ones I mentioned, what are the other very good tools to 
have as battery powered; and are there other factors I should consider with 
battery powered power tools.

Thank you for your time..............................




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--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Random thoughts about the day
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 7:29 AM
> I have not had much to say but I have been busy.  A couple
> of days after
> xmas we drove up to my mother's place in the Bay Area
> with my son and his
> wife.  We had an early 90th birthday celebration with my
> mother.
> 
> Then last week I drove up here again.  My brother flew in
> from Saipan and we
> had a real 90th for her.  She did not know he was coming in
> so it was a
> surprise.  My other son is flying in from North Carolina
> tomorrow so there
> gets to be another slightly delayed celebration.
> 
> She had a heart attack last fall so we all decided to
> spring this on her.
> She is looking better all the time and could well outlive
> me.
> 
> Other than that we have been visiting, went to an aircraft
> museum, and
> visited Common Ground Garden supply.  Today we are headed
> for the maritime
> museum in San Francisco.
> 
> I will be back in Southern California by the weekend and
> will start planting
> the garden there.
> 
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
> 
> 
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