When to Use What: Cordless Drill/Driver vs. Impact Driver

A few weeks back, an apprentice of a contractor doing some work at our soon-to-be house (which is undergoing extensive renovations) asked to borrow the “drill” I was using in an adjacent room on another project because the battery on his had just died. When he returned the tool a few minutes later, he said … Read more

New Brushless EDGE Drivers from Porter Cable

Hangin’ out at my local Lowes the other day while the wife shopped for new shoes or something, I noticed them really pushing the Porter Cable line with end-cap displays all over the place. Naturally, I just had to play with some of the new tools, so after some cooperation from the Lowes tool guy (thanks, … Read more

Hands-On: WORX WX254L SD Semi-Automatic Power Screw Driver

You read that headline right: a semi-automatic screwdriver. It’s the WORX WX254L SD Semi-Automatic Power Screw Driver and it’s pretty cool. Given its name and that it sort of resembles a handgun, it’s only fitting that the WORX WX254L SD uses a slide-action lever to quickly advance one of six bits, stored in an interchangeable cartridge … Read more