[ChuckDickerson]

Good luck with Horror Fright. I have bought lots of stuff from them over the years both online and at the local store about an hour away. If you need cheap tools they are great. Don't expect them to ship anything anytime soon. I bought a display model mill once for $90 that was missing a couple of small parts (handles, etc.). It only took HF a year and a half to ship me the parts. I was in the store last weekend and could have sworn I saw some 9.6V drills. If you want I could run by this weekend and see if they have them in stock. I'll be over that way anyway. If you want me to pick you up some and send them to you just let me know.

You can't use anything higher voltage than 9.6V? You can get 12V drills from HF and Homier for $10. I have heard the Homier one have all metal gears. I have a couple of the HF ones (47155) that I got just to mess with. The first stage has plastic planets but the rest is all metal sun, planets, and ring. If you want me to check anything like measurements or tooth count, etc. on the HF 47155 gearboxes just let me know. I have been thinking about ordering a couple of the $10 12V drills and $13 18V drills from Homier just to see how the gear boxes are built. I suspect that all these cheap Chinese drills are about the same.

As an interesting side note the motor mounts and dimensions in the HF drills I have looked at all have the same 25mm mounting holes as the KoP Fisher Price drills and the weak little Mabushi motor we got in the KoP this year. They are a ready made direct fit if you just pull the pinion off of the motor that comes with the drill and swap it on to the FP/Mabushi motors from the KoP. The gear reduction in the HF 47155 drill is 36:1 IIRC.