Battery-powered tools are the bread-and-butter of many homeowners and craftsman, and these six brands stand out among the ...

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Tool brands each have their own closed battery systems. You don't have to put up with that.

Harbor Freight's Hercules line of power tools is a value brand that balances price against performance. The trick is knowing ...

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Early generation battery-powered tools relied on nickel-cadmium (NiCad or Nicd) or nickel metal hydride (NIMH) batteries. Because of the relatively low power density of these batteries and the fact ...

Milwaukee Tool just introduced a few big breakthroughs in their venerable M18 lineup of cordless tools. Playing catchup after Dewalt made a splash with their Flexvolt platform two years ago, Milwaukee ...

It is the unspoken law of cordless tools – eventually you will have extra batteries lying around from dead tools that are incompatible with your new ones. Some people let them sit in lonesome corners ...

We’ve all come to rely on the convenience of cordless power tools. However, a cordless tool is only as reliable as its rechargeable battery. Once the battery can no longer hold a charge, it’s dead and ...