Dirty or Loose Contacts – If the battery contacts are dirty or corroded, the drill may not get a solid connection and ...

Cordless power tool battery replacements are expensive: you can easily spend $100 for a NiCd pack. [henal] decided to skip nickle-based cells and cut out the middleman by converting his old ...

But let’s say you have a cordless tool, and its battery is failing. Can you fix the battery? Of course you can. You are Hackaday readers, you’ll all be aware that inside almost all cordless ...

A cordless drill is one of the most useful ... replacing it might be the easiest fix. Before buying a new one, try swapping in a spare battery (if you have one) to see if the problem goes away.

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