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Not sure. I don't think drill manufacturers advertise these details often because they don't want to confuse consumers.

You can try to watch teardowns, like this DeWalt by Ave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHCS7JXfuv0

Gears at 16:40



Yeah, okay, you got nothing.


What are you talking about? You claimed the plastic gears were used as a failsafe. That's not true, higher quality equipment uses metal gears. Drills already have fuses and overload detectors built in.

Go watch some teardowns of cheap stuff vs expensive stuff and stop being a jerk.

I'm not your mom. I'm not gonna explain everything AND shop for you.


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Too long to read. Some gears are nylon, yes, which is strong. I didn't get juvenile. I told you to watch teardowns. I don't keep a back catalog of every device with metal gearboxes, sorry.


Also! Way to completely flip the responsibility to on me. Very un-juvenile of you! I wasn't addressing "what tool should I buy", I was addressing "plastic gears are there to protect my drill/impact".

The shopping aspect was uninteresting to me to begin with and was not what I was joining the discussion for. :)




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