[Gaffer]

I agree. I still have a commercial Black Maxx Right Angle drill that has more than off torque to throw you off a ladder if you hit a nail or something.

I was wiring a house once where there was a flitch plate sandwiched between two 2X12s and it caught the edge of the flitch plate. It threw me off the ladder about 10 ft away.

I still have it. I consider it the best right angle heavy borer ever made.

[Red Badger]

I hate it when that happens....................

[mountn man]

I’ve never understood the fact that companies make right angle drills, but NOT ONE makes a left angle drill. Like everyone else, I’ve figured out how to turn the right angle drill around and use it, but I’ve always been told and tell others, to use the proper tool for the job.

[minnesota_bound]

#7 Be careful if you are asked the following:
On them second floor lintels between the lally columns, do you want we should rabbet them or not? … From the blueprints you can’t tell. You want they should be rabbeted?

Do not say yes.

[foreverfree]

For years B&D had a plant in Easton, MD. It closed a few years ago and as of Nov. 2015 the building stood empty and for sale per Google Street View.

As for B&D's sister, I bought a Stanley Fatmax (combo jumper cables [for jumpstarting a car without needing a second car] and air compressor). The jumper cables didn't work. The air compressor worked on my tires for several applications over the better part of a year, but then the meter froze on one number and I couldn't tell if air was going in the tires or not. I returned the Fatmax to QVC and got a partial refund.