Cordless Drills

[Zen83237]

How much do I need to spend to get a decent cordless drill. One where the battery isn't completely f***ed after a year or two. I just want it to drill holes, I can use a screw driver. I happened to be in Costco and they were anything from £150 to £250. Surely they are good ones for less than that.

Kevin

[Tabby]

Titan. But better to spring the extra for makita etc

NT

[The Medway Handyman]

Loads of good deals around. SF and BQ have Hitachi for £90, Makita, DeWalt & Blue Bosch for under £100

[John Stumbles]

£100-ish

[D.M.Chapman]

If I was buying now, I'd go for

've got Makita stuff which is brilliant - but that price for a blue bosch with Li-Ion is pretty good IMO.

Darren

[deano]

Hi Kevin,

Certainly not the 'cheaper' end, but I absolutely swear by (not at) my Panasonic combi drill/driver. I made the switch from Makita gear about 2 years ago and have absolutely no problem with it, and I have tested it to the max! I was sold on it when I went into TooledUp in Enfield and the guy told me to drill into the concrete floor of their warehouse with a 25mm x 500mm long masonry SDS bit- how about that for an acid test :)

I got the kit with 2 batteries, charger and case and he did me a great deal and matched a price I'd seen on tinternet, also threw some other bits in, so my advice would be to go to a decent professional tool store, with pound notes in your pocket and wave your wad in their face ;)

'm saving up for the smaller dedicated driver now :)

Enjoy... Deano

[nimbusjunk]

I just bought this

replaced my old one which lasted 5 years before the battteries went

HTH

[The Medway Handyman]

They had one on display in SF yesterday. Lovely piece of kit.

[GB]

"Drilling & Impact Drilling Functions" Does that mean it's a hammer drill?

[The Medway Handyman]

Yup. A combi.

[Mark]

The batteries on my Bosch died after less than two years. I would not recommend. All rechargeables die after a while but I would go for a Hitachi, DeWalt or Makita, preferably not with NiCd batteries.