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My county seat is a 2500 or so population. We have Harbor Freight Rural King Tractor Supply Ace Hardware ,and Lowe's and two plumbing supply houses and electrical supply as well. All I needed was a simple chuck key and to preferably also have the Milwaukee rubber key retainer. Rural King had none and does not stock them. Great prices on my two batteries I needed for the Mighty Cummins as I paid less than one Toyota battery. Off to Ace I went, but they didn't have a key big enough for a half inch Jacobs.. Tractor Supply only had a 4 way at twelve dollars. In fact, the out of stock at Ace was ten just for a single key. Weren't these keys like three bucks a few years ago? I guess these days all they have is battery drills with keyless chucks.Rural King and Ace are Milwaukee dealers and neither stocked corded drills. I suppose the electrical and plumbing supply houses would still have corded Milwaukee drills simply because of the mighty Hole Hawg used in the trades, but who knows as they are closed when I was shopping. The bigger question is where are all the men? Big men with big tools with the strength to handle them. Those wimpy keyless chucks really don't tighten enough for some of the stuff I use. So I finally did buy a four way from Harbor Freight. At least they still sell about any corded drill at any strength an average guy might need ...Hole Hawg being the exception. Now I do own the Milwaukee 18 volt drill and driver with 5 amp batteries. Nice for a lot of stuff. But when it comes to serious use I use the continuous charging models
