Corded & Cordless Power Tools

This goes against the grain of most pros here but as a hobbyist, I prefer corded power tools when they make sense. I&#;ve had to use my reciprocating saw exactly twice in the last year. My hammer drill about 6 times. Each use was for a few minutes total.

I bought a nice Bosch hammer drill and a us-made Milwaukee sawzall. Maybe I&#;m naive but at my current use rate I expect they&#;ll still work in 50 years.

If I bought them as cordless, there is no chance they&#;ll last even half as long. The batteries will die, even without use, and they&#;ll be new and better batteries that won&#;t retrofit in the old cordless tools.

The one cordless tool I do have and prefer cordless is a regular drill. The one I have now is a makita that cost me $100 and if I have to replace it every ten years it&#;s cheap enough, but I don&#;t want to replace ALL of my power tools, especially the ones I don&#;t use often.

What prompted this thread is I was reading up on corded impact wrenches and how they suck compared to cordless. 1/3 the torque for corded. So for that, it makes no sense to have a corded impact wrench. And since I don&#;t need one enough to justify a cordless or a compressor and an air tool, I just go by hand.

It seems like corded tools are going the way if the Dinosaur and I&#;m convinced st least some of it is to force hobbyists and homeowners into replacing their tools every decade with forced obscelence.
So I want to get a few more corded power tools over the next few years before it&#;s impossible to get a good one with a cord.

Any suggestions? For one, I think I want a regular corded drill. At least as a backup to my cordless drill if the battery dies. And maybe when my makita eventually dies completely, if I am still a hobbyist corded I buy now becomes my primary drill alongside a future drill press.

Second, what corded tools are just crap like the impact wrench.

Third, what corded tools are gradually getting worse and I need to buy sooner rather than later?

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