Battery SDS

[Doctor Drivel]

Snip.

[Doctor Drivel]

Knowing and using the poor products.

[Andy Dingley]

Well if Drivel hates them, that's good enough for me!

[Andy Dingley]

But an SDS drill needs _less_ power.

Assuming the problem is "makes holes in bricks with a battery", then you've obviously got limitations that you're just going to have to live with. But you'll get further with SDS than without it.

My two corded "hammer" drills are plated at about 1hp and 2hp (sic). The SDS is the less powerful one, yet drills far better.

[Doctor Drivel]

Bosch. About 4 or 5 of them.

[Doctor Drivel]

There you go. Proof enough.

[Doctor Drivel]

This is obvious, but he doesn't know that. sad but true.

[Andy Hall]

Which?

[Andy Hall]

Well yes, because you insist on buying cheap crap from the bin ends.

[Doctor Drivel]

Bosch. Cor.

[Doctor Drivel]

Bosch bin ends? I would like to throw them in the bin. Overpriced tat.

[Michael Mcneil]

I was initially impressed with the 32 responses garnered in my absence. Then I discovered it was flame war drivvel perpetrated by people who have the mental clarity of geese.

Kindly snip your replies to the germaine, so that interested parties, not engaged in petty tribalism, can read the message appended to the otherwise long list of "which turkey posted what" gobblers; allowing those of us who wish to know better, to click quickly past such low melodrama.

I'm after a machine that I don't have to climb down several sets of ladders to replace a battery every half hour. Should the drill with the longest useful battery life fail to perform as intended it will go back to the supplier for a refund, no hastle.

Now, grow up, or shut up.

Perhaps I aught to ask for a link to a trade discussion?

[Michael Mcneil]

cough 4! both of you.

[Michael Mcneil]

I'd gathered I was going to have to get something from the top. I dare say it will boil down to weight and price, I will have to look for something with 3 batteries.

It's just that with a 110, dragging a wire around modern scaffolding is a right pain.

[Doctor Drivel]

I totally agree with you.

[David Lang]

Glad it's not just me you gets peed off with the constant bickering.

Dave

[Doctor Drivel]

Same here. The know-it-all loonies just come out the woodwork.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

What a fool. *Some* Bosch products have come out best of all in tests. DIY store s**te is usually just s**te.

[ARWadsworth]

I rate my second hand (and still going strong) Hitachi as a far better performer for both battery life and available power than my new Blue Bosch.

Adam

[Dave Plowman (News)]

It might as an average, but I'm not convinced about the peak requirement to function properly.

Most bricks aren't a challenge.

Corded or cordless? And how many cordless drills are 'plated' at one or two HP?