Hi All
Bought myself a Wickes 'Very High Torque Drill' today. I have 3 big decking jobs to do so, I thought I'd make the investment & spread the cost. I can use it as a mixer and with a core drill for plumbing as well.
Drives in those 10mm x 100mm coach screws so fast you wouldn't believe it. Treats them with utter contempt.
Torque quoted as 85 Nm. Jeez this thing is powerful.
It's you littering the landscape with decking then is it? :-) My neighbour has just had what looks like a concert platform built outside her back door, and that's to save removing the pebbles, which are just soooo 2005!
Glad to hear you've got it sorted, and no more trying to drive wheel nuts with 3.6V screwdrivers either.
I understood decking was so last century!
Peter Crosland
Is this the one with the angle attachment?
No.
Wrong move then. You should have bought a Ryobi Impact Driver. Take it back.
We will be having a FAQ on the virtues of buying a Crap Wickes/Kress high torque driver now with all your new found expertise.
"I tried with my 14.4v driver (loads of torque)" so this statement was based on what a Lidl special
Maybe this FAQ should state what makes are crap. If it does you will find that Kress will not be in the list. Kress are a quality German maker.
If I find a solution to a problem I like to post it - someone else may want to know.
Alas no - it was a Wickes/Kress 14.4v 2a/h grey jobbie with gears - it does have loads of torque!
Can't use an Impact Driver for mixing plaster or driving a core bit.
Yon use a cheapo tool for that sort of crap.
Mixing plaster will burn out a cheap drill faster than anything
There are dedicated plaster mixing drills. Made for the high torque low speed. I have seen some around that are now on the cheap side. A cheapo SDS drill with chuck would do (power a low speed).
My point is horses for courses. The OP is on about large wood screws. An Impact Driver is the ideal tool for that job, and in the past year have come down to affordable prices, and you can also drill wood with it. Many are so small they can get between joists to drill holes for cable and pipes. No chuck, just slot in driver heads or drill bits.
If I was a handyman I would not be without an Impact Driver. It is like an SDS drill, once you have used one you never go back.
The best general purpose drill is the Wickes (Kress) drill with the angle converter, which slots in, in seconds. The chuck can be removes within seconds and hex bits and drivers inserted. The angle attachment gets in real close and also has a hex slot, so you don't even need the chuck on that either, but can have it on. 3 yr guarantee too.
Price up a good quality angle drill and general purpose battery drill, then the Kress makes lots of sense. Top quality tool too.
Not bad. 12v impact drivers are in the 100-120 Nm range. And are light, compact, have no (or little) torque reaction and are better than drill/drivers for normal screwdriving as well as things like this. No cam-out is another advantage (although they explode bits instead).
I know the 'wrong' person is championing them on here, but he's dead right on this.
If this person wrong, then how come he is right?
Random chance on the chimp/typewriter principle?
Or that, just as no-one can be right about everything, so no-one can be wrong about everything.
Or you are just a local folk-devil.
I don't know and don't care - but you are right about impact drivers, although I'm not smitten with Ryobi at all (bar the price I suppose).
Agreed, but my line of work is extreemly varied, so a High Torque Drill is more versatile; It will put in large coach screws, drive a core bit or mix mortar. If I were a chippy using it all day every day the impact driver would make more sense.
Dribble is occassionally dead right, alas anything he says is treated as dross.
Do you mean you just randomly just typed things? Wow. What part of Little Middle England are you from?
Do you have them in Little Middle England
I know I am. I am right about everything.
I am.
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