Drilling rsj

[Revs1972]

Think I paid about a grand for it a couple of years ago as a full kits with 2 5ah batteries. It's done some work, and the convenience of no cables has paid for itself several times.

 

[brightspark]

Think I paid about a grand for it a couple of years ago as a full kits with 2 5ah batteries. It's done some work, and the convenience of no cables has paid for itself several times.

tax deductible as well

 

[123hotchef]

i can imagine mate much quicker and easier with no cord

 

[brightspark]

chordless tools have come on a long way in the last 2 years and are very powerful they were pretty expensive and crap when they 1st came out

 

[Pete.]

i can imagine mate much quicker and easier with no cord

Plus they don't fall on your toes when some bleeder un-plugs your 110v lead...

 

[123hotchef]

Plus they don't fall on your toes when some bleeder un-plugs your 110v lead...

ha ha thats true too who does that! i can imagine it happens on site

 

[roofman]

chordless tools have come on a long way in the last 2 years and are very powerful they were pretty expensive and crap when they 1st came out

They have kinda made site 110V stuff pretty worthless...few years ago you could sell anything 110v but not anymore

 

[fizzy]

I love cordless tools but when you have a tough job nothing beats a nuclear power station on the end of the wire!

 

[brightspark]

I use a lot of 110 stuff if being used all day I mainly use battery drills for drilling 6mm holes on outside lights on walls or just the metal boxes for switches or sockets inside and hole saws for downlighters in plaster ceilings

 

[Revs1972]

ha ha thats true too who does that! i can imagine it happens on site

Seen one fall from first floor to the ground , when the idiot using it to drill holes in the underside of a beam didn't strap it on. He was trying to have a conversation with someone on the ground , who consequently turned off the genset so he could hear him.......you can guess the rest. Luckily there was no one directly underneath

 

[DAPPH]

chordless tools have come on a long way in the last 2 years and are very powerful they were pretty expensive and crap when they 1st came out

Don't knock the early ones .....I have a genuine Japanese Makita reversible , soft start variable speed hammer or not cordless drill .
It's on it ninth battery set of two batteries & second chuck key … (lost the first one in 1999 Nov ) .. I was given to me in place of money , was worth approx. £130 in May 1987 .

It's drilled thousands of 6 mm holes in brick & concrete till I retired , then it only got used a couple of times a month . The chuck is as good as the day I got it , it can still take a 0. 2 mm drill .

 

[henry Kadzielski]

^^^ I had early Panasonic Nicad 9.6v, drilled thousands of holes. Could only take max 3/8" drills so I machined down the shanks of up to 24mm drills and was good to go. The chuck would not slip on the drill and would not wear out when using the drill as a tapping chuck. These days the chucks slip much more easily when holding taps. Still got that drill but no more batteries, even the the Nicad replacements nickle metal hydride that proved to not be as good as predicted.

 

[brightspark]

grinders and circular saws were abysmal along with the batteries

 

[Brad93]

Always clamp or strap when using a mag drill vertical or overhead!

 

[Revs1972]

^^^ I had early Panasonic Nicad 9.6v, drilled thousands of holes. Could only take max 3/8" drills so I machined down the shanks of up to 24mm drills and was good to go. The chuck would not slip on the drill and would not wear out when using the drill as a tapping chuck. These days the chucks slip much more easily when holding taps. Still got that drill but no more batteries, even the the Nicad replacements nickle metal hydride that proved to not be as good as predicted.

The taps go in the impact wrench nowadays
M16 takes about 3 seconds in the 3/4 Milwaukee

 

[brightspark]

Always clamp or strap when using a mag drill vertical or overhead!

yup ive seen one drop when it had an earth fault on it and tripped the electric needless to say broke the casing

 

[henry Kadzielski]

The taps go in the impact wrench nowadays
M16 takes about 3 seconds in the 3/4 Milwaukee
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Metabo now make a tapping drill (well for a while now). As long as press down or onto the tap, it turns clockwise, release the pressure and it automatically reverses. It's a GB 18 LTX BL Q1. Wouldn't do a 3/4" tap though. Just another toy, quite OK for it's intended purpose

 

[Spark plug]

I love cordless tools, would love a cordless mag drill, I didn’t think I needed a cordless grinder untill I splashed out on one, but it seems that they have gone past their prime.

I had a 18v XRP Dewalt cordless drill nicad era and it was faultless, would drive a 200mm concrete fixing without any complaints (as long as you had strong wrists). So when it was ready for retirement I bought a 18v lithium type XRP Dewalt corless. Totally useless in comparison and Dewalt have stoped useing ROHM chucks on the XRP drills