We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ryobi has been making battery-powered tools for a long time. The company has produced several generations of cordless products, with a marked ...

Readers had a variety of suggestions for the best way to upgrade/replace/recycle the old NiCd battery pack from a still-usable Makita drill. I asked the folks at battery pack designer Nexergy to read ...

Batteries are expensive, and as the proud owner of at least a dozen dead AA NiCD batteries I'm too cheap to discard, Indestructibles' latest hack will be the first I am certain to implement: reviving ...

A few years ago I bought several Black & Decker garden tools which run off the same 18v NiCd batteries - see photos in this post. I thought I was doing an intelligent thing when I acquired these tools ...

Owing to the fact that we no longer have horses (thank God), we no longer have a need for a hay shed. In the spirit of recycling and good neighborlineness, I offered the shed to our neighbors, ...