When comes to drills the battery powered Dewalt I had in the past was very good. But the charger finally gave up the ghost. And cheaper B&D drill fail rather quickly but it wasn't the batteries but was the motor brushes that failed. Not even sure I go with another Dewalt now as things are a lot cheaply made.
I think you have mentioned a common problem with products in general. Quality was once first and foremost for any product manufactured in the US of A and a few overseas countries. I can't speak for products made overseas that aren't imported to the US of A, but quality of products in the US of A has really taken a hit. Here is such an example.
On July 9th, 2022, my wife and I purchased a new freezer, cook stove, and freezer from Lowe's. The freezer was placed in the garage and was never a problem. The delivery company that Lowe's uses sent two delivery guys that refused to remove the foam and plastic protection from the stove. They literally left our home and the stove was sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor, still wrapped in the plastic and foam. They told us that only a licensed plumber could connect a gas line. Hey, I can't make stuff like this up. That was a bare faced lie. They also refused to push the refrigerator into the cubby hole where it was supposed to sit. They did plug the electric cord in, but refused to connect the water supply line for the ice maker. When I got the water connected I pushed it back into it's proper place and proceeded to level it. This was a brand new, Frigidaire fridge. There were NO leveling devices of any kind on this thing. NOTHING. And this is where we began a horrible journey.
We ended up having two different Frigidaire refrigerators delivered and neither one had any type of leveling devices on them at all. We finally agreed to pay additional money to get a Whirlpool that SUPPOSEDLY had leveling legs. The first Whirlpool showed up and it did NOT have leveling legs. What it had were two very small and very weak "anti-tip legs". We found out later that pretty much all manufacturers of refrigerators have decide to remove the leveling legs or leveling wheels from standard sized refrigerators. I wonder what idiot thought that crap up.
That wasn't the real problem. The day after the first Whirlpool showed up, we noticed ice forming in the top of the freezer compartment. The seal on the freezer door had been wrinkled somehow. I called Lowe's and they refused to deal with the problem saying that this problem was to be referred to Whirlpool. It took about a dozen calls to Whilrpool to finally get a "certified" repairman to come take a look. It took three different visits by this clod before I finally called Whirlpool and raised the devil over the clod not being able to fix the problem. They sent a different repairman and what happened next blew my mind.
This guy was a top notch repairman., He really did know his stuff, and I'm not being sarcastic. He was good. It took him less than 5 minutes to tell me we needed a whole new refrigerator. I told him that was fine. Whatever it took to get a fridge in my kitchen that could be kind of leveled and didn't leak was great. He went out to his truck to call Whirlpool and I sat down in my recliner. He wasn't gone 2 minutes and came right back in. He had a tape measure in his hand and said, "I might as well get these measurements because they are going to want to know." I was a little confused. He measured the depth of the box, not including the doors, on the top and on the bottom for both sides. I asked what he was doing and he told me what the measurements were. The fridge was 3/4" deeper on the top right than on the top left. It was 1 1/4" deeper on the bottom right than on the bottom left. No kidding! Since he said he knew they would want those measurements, I asked him just how often this kind of crap happened. He told me that he spends about half his time doing nothing more than measuring these refrigerators and ordering new ones.
Now, THINK about that for just a minute. This wasn't a fluke. This repairman and Whirlpool BOTH were aware that a whole mess of Whirlpool refrigerators were that far out of whack. It happened so often that it took one phone call and within 5 or 6 minutes of this guy calling the company they had a whole new fridge scheduled for delivery. Now, recall I said we bought the new appliances on July 9th of last year. The new fridge, with the weak little "anti-tip legs", that actually worked as it should, was delivered on January 12th. Yep, it took just over 6 months to get a refrigerator that worked in my house.
And the icing on the cake? The dip stick delivery guys that delivered the second fridge really screwed up. They parked the truck out on the street instead of backing into my drive. I'm guessing the driver had problems backing up. Then, in their infinite wisdom, they decided to roll the fridge onto the lift gate, lower it to the street, roll it out on the street, jockey it around, and THEN put it on a dolly. I didn't see them doing that or I would have stopped them. The street we live on is more like a country road. It's more of an oil and chip or cheapseal road. It was August. It was hot. The tar was bubbling up. Yep, they rolled that fridge around in the tar, then brought it into our kitchen, took it off the dolly, and began scooting and twisting it to get it over near where it could be plugged in. Just about the time they were getting close to having it where they could plug it in, I heard one of them say, "Oh, shit!" I went in the kitchen and they had covered my floor with tar. When they got done plugging the fridge in, they just left. I tried getting the tar up using Dawn, but it wasn't working. I switched to Goof Off and it worked. It took me an hour and 45 minutes to get it all up. When I was done, I sat down on the couch in the living room. The way our house is laid out, from the living room you look directly into the kitchen through a wide opening between the two rooms. When I looked across the kitchen floor, I could see every place I had used the Goof Off. I had taken photos of the tar all over the floor and I then took photos of what happened when I used the Goof Off. I ended up having to file a claim with the company that delivers for Lowe's. We ended up having to have a whole new kitchen floor put down.
So, the whole fridge thing was one, huge nightmare. 6 months, 4 refrigerators, and one kitchen floor later, everything is finally the way it SHOULD have been the first week of July, last year. Whirlpool's quality control? Completely nonexistent.
