Buying a Cordless DrillBuying your first cordless tool should be a carefully thought out process. Not only are you purchasing a specific tool, you are also buy into a specific battery type system. Unless you plan on having multiple expensive batteries around your shop, you need to consider all the offering from a manufacture at the voltage level you might be purchasing.

Cordless Drill Basics

Over time cordless tools have and will continue to replace corded power tools.  Most top of the line cordless tools  work just as well as there corded counterpart, as battery technology improves corded power tools will become more obsolete. 

Dust Collection Systems

A good dust collection system is of import for any shop that is cutting material often enough to be call a wood shop.  In another words, if you have a wood shop you need to look into a dust collection system.

Dust Collection at the Tool Level

Collecting dust at the individual tool level rather than the shop level is often a good idea. Although dust collection of tools is often difficult to do well, and can be more trouble than it worth. But a combination of a good shop-wide dust collection system, coupled with tool level dust collection is often the best option available.

Importance of Dust Collection

Toxic wood dust and small particle dust in your lungs, piles of unsafe sawdust at your feet, and dust on your work product.  There are a lot of reason to want to keep dust out of your shop.

Technical Aspects of Dust Collection

A dust collection system includes a number of components to be able to properly manage the system throughout a shop. Maintaining and keeping the full system under power is important to keep you shop clean.

Wood Dust and Dangers

Understanding the dangers, short-term and long-term from dust in a wood shop is important to know why and what type of dust collection system is needed in your shop.