Screwfix DeWalt SDS drill £50 off

[ARW]

It's a bloody good drill for light use. Looks like no carrycase is included.

[The Medway Handyman]

Three function as well. Good deal that.

[Vir Campestris]

No low-speed gear? Are modern controls _that_ good?

Andy

[Scott M]

IME, the gearing on SDS drills is so low that there'd be no advantage to a lower gear. And the speed controls, esp bearing in mind their ridiculous simplicity, are very good.

[John Rumm]

Most SDS drills top out at about 900 - 1k rpm - which equates to the slow gear on a "normal" drill anyway.

If you get a good one, then yes the speed controls are very good. Particularly noticeable in hammer only mode, where you can go right down to a delicate "just chip through the plaster skim" tap.

[Gazz]

yup, think my aldidl sds tops out at about 600 rpms, but i never use it that fast,

Quite often i have the speed control dial jobbie on the lowest it will go (just locks out how far the trigger can be pressed to allow a semi fixed speed)

i say semi fixed speed, as i notice as the drill warms up in use, it gets faster, to start with if i select lowest speed, it wont quite begin turning, so i have to turn the speed up a little, then it slowly goes faster, so i turn the speed back down, and if i am doing repetative things it'll be fine, but if i put the drill down for a bit, when i come to use it again, it'll do the 'not quite going to start' thing again,

but that was mainly when i was using it as a paddle to mix concrete in a wheelbarrow, made up a diy paddle from a length of threaded rod and some bits of metal bar, i know you shouldnt use a normal drill as a paddle mixer, but i figured the heavy sds was better than a normal hand drill, and it's still going strong,

[js.b1]

Another one...

HR2470 Makita SDS+ Hammer Drill (Chiselling Action) + Cap inside £101.99 including VAT

2.4 Joules v 1.8 Joules of the DeWalt.

The Makita's extra Joules come in handy if you meet hard stuff from experie nce. The Dewalt is however 0.3kg lighter, which is noticeable after 20mins-1hour .

[Andy Burns]

I have one of those, mine came with (but I assume you can buy separately) a standard chuck as well as the SDS chuck.

I wish they made a right angle chuck to fit it too, I don't need it frequently enough to buy a dedicated right angle drill, and the reviews of bolt-on right angle chucks never seems encouraging ...

[ARW]

Another one...

HR2470 Makita SDS+ Hammer Drill (Chiselling Action) + Cap inside £101.99 including VAT

2.4 Joules v 1.8 Joules of the DeWalt.

The Makita's extra Joules come in handy if you meet hard stuff from experience. The Dewalt is however 0.3kg lighter, which is noticeable after 20mins-1hour.

Sure about that Joules bit

Looks like Screwfix have it wrong

[dennis]

Speed controls have worked well for years. Its just that if you run the motor slow you don't get any cooling from the fan. They are fine for a short while and then get really hot.

Some tools have a separate fan motor so run cooler even on slow.

[Vir Campestris]

No-load speed 1500RPM. ISTR ordinary ones are usually about 2500 in top and 900 in low...

Andy

[js.b1]

I actually wrote and deleted a query re 1.8 Joules - that was a B&D SDS 3-mode from a while back and "a bit slow". Under the DeWalt brand that would be odd - easy enough to open the manual in the store and hand back if not happy.

[meow2222]

thanks for the tip. Got one, but no job for it yet. No carrycase or accessories, and a flimsy plastic depth stop, but it does all 3 functions.

NT