{"id":948,"date":"2011-04-25T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2011-04-25T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:43:00","slug":"a-reason-why-theyre-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"A reason why they&#8217;re cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found another couple of battery drills being thrown out last week. One Power Devil and one McKeller.<\/p>\n<p>The Power Devil is the usual bottom-rung battery drill, though looks like it&#8217;s been fitted with a replacement chuck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Scavenging\/Drill%201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Scavenging\/slides\/Drill%201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I opened up the battery pack, and it was pretty much what I expected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Scavenging\/Drill%202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/galleries\/Entry%20Pics\/Scavenging\/slides\/Drill%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mostly empty.<\/p>\n<p>The McKeller on the other hand was much nicer and more powerful. However neither drill had a charger unit, so they&#8217;ve both been stripped down to motor and gearbox. I&#8217;m thinking they could be good for making a reasonably powerful robot arm.<\/p>\n<p>The chucks on all of them attach with a 24tpi UNF thread. I might have to belt-gear them down, but then again PWM control would probably be fine and simpler to attach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found another couple of battery drills being thrown out last week. One Power Devil and one McKeller. The Power Devil is the usual bottom-rung battery drill, though looks like it&#8217;s been fitted with a replacement chuck. I opened up the battery pack, and it was pretty much what I expected. Mostly empty. The McKeller &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A reason why they&#8217;re cheap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[28,56],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scavenging-2","tag-scavenging","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}