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While strolling thru HD’s Christmas Clearance section I stumbled upon a cardboard display with two packs of the newer high capacity 4Ah (72Wh) P108 (?). Over on the tool aisle they sell these individually for around $100 each. This two pack was marketed as a “Special Buy” and originally sold for $99. Last night they were marked down to $84 for clearance! At $42 per power pack it’s a pretty incredible buy. Maybe I should have snagged two packages?
Welcome aboard Fibber! If your a ryobi user and have the cash I would definitely buy 🙂
I don’t know if Home Depot will do the cheap Ryobi batteries on Fathers Day. It seems like they bought too many this year. I wish I could get Milwaukee 5.0ah battery 2 packs for $99 let alone $84.
they are since weeks at $84 and welcome to the forum 😛
Thanks for the welcome, gentlemen!
While we have more ‘upscale’ brands in the lab at work, I found that the Ryobi cordless line offered pretty decent performance for a paltry sum. Perfect for the handy homeowner and occasional “Rebuilding Together” charity project or the like. I think my oldest is an SA1802 drill that came with the original P100 packs – 10+ years ago? Been slowly adding Li packs, but this deal really made me happy.
Kudo’s to Ryobi for not just abandoning us ‘old blue tool guys’, and offering an economical upgrade path!
Welcome aboard fiber. I have an old set of the blues, have not used in a few years, that’s not a bad deal though. I have the set they came in the rolling cart.
While there are some ‘clean sheet designs’ in the green series, a number of them are only mild upgrades to the older blue. It’s pretty amazing how the constant voltage attributes of the Li-Ion batteries really seems to step up performance of the older tools. Plugging in a new style battery (they last longer and run hard pretty much until the discharge sense ckt kicks in) makes the old feel like new. Catch a battery or battery/charger deal (especially those included with a new tool that you want) breaths new life into everything else you already own.
Thanks again for the welcome. I was on both the old Dewalt tool and Ryobi 1+ forums years ago. I actually found that my old Dewalt account got me in the door here without having to register.
There is a big recall on older Ryobi drills just in case people didn’t know. http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2011/Ryobi-Recalls-Cordless-Drills-Due-to-Fire-Hazard/
That’s what bought a lot of us here.
DR99: Thanks! That’s exactly what my oldest drill looks like. I know it’s an 1802, so have to check the exact series tonight. It does smell a bit – figured it was just aged brushes. Maybe it’s worse that that!
Chadlanthier: Nice GSD. I use a pix of me and my old boy on other forums also. Probably should amend my profile to show him.