Battery operated tools from mid 1970s?

[Holmz]

Does anyone recall some junior battery tools from the 70s?
They may have been dremel, but were half way towards full sized, but still have a Cub Scout look about them?

 

[tjbnwi]

I recall a Skill drill 9 volts(?), white with the battery build into the handle. Charged via a wall charger, drill connection was a 5mm plug.

Tom

 

[Rip Van Winkle]

The drill would have been from before I was around, let alone using tools, but you may be talking about the Skil model 2002 3/8" drill. Here's a blurb from Popular Mechanics from 1975.
https://books.google.com/books?id=e-IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=skil+2002+cordless+drill&source=bl&ots=mGrUeffBUT&sig=GkZJsJ1IAwyQ0kb40Gf2_QKHBGM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRl963ms_LAhWFdT4KHWaiDtUQ6AEIJzAE#v=onepage&q=skil%202002%20cordless%20drill&f=false

And another from Popular Science.
https://books.google.com/books?id=AQEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=skil+2002+cordless+drill&source=bl&ots=FRNNwLozDP&sig=GncDq0mu2I3wKkEFttCo7waTRPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjeudHQm8_LAhXF2T4KHTBNBtoQ6AEIKjAG#v=onepage&q=skil%202002%20cordless%20drill&f=false

 

[Rip Van Winkle]

Sorry, this is the first part of the article from Popular Science.
https://books.google.com/books?id=AQEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=skil+2002+cordless+drill&source=bl&ots=FRNNwLozDP&sig=GncDq0mu2I3wKkEFttCo7waTRPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjeudHQm8_LAhXF2T4KHTBNBtoQ6AEIKjAG#v=onepage&q=skil%202002%20cordless%20drill&f=false

 

[tjbnwi]

That's the drill.

I was a couple of years away from being a father in 1975.

Tom

 

[ewils91]

I had an Ingersoll Rand 3/8 drive aluminum body ratchet from that time period. It had a rechargeable battery in the body of the tool. I used this until 1994 every day as a motorcycle technician. It still works today and holds a charge...

 

[Holmz]

I vaguely recall that they were used on balsa for model airplanes...

 

[monstrol]

I remember an early Panasonic cordless that has a lot of torque but kinda slow. Wasn't too bad at the time.

 

[GregBradley]

My first cordless drill was a Makita, which had the battery permanently built into the drill and a small socket for the charger. I upgraded it to the 9.6v removable battery drill shortly after.

Later I added the 9.6v circular saw, which I used until fairly recently. Worked very well for very light work like trimming thin plywood.

 

[DB10]

According to that article those early cordless drills had a charge time of 16 hours with no way of swapping out batteries, and some people call them the good old days!