Lidl right angle drill

[Dave Plowman (News]

Lidl has a right angle cordless drill on offer today. £17.99 body only and the same for the charger and 2 amp.hr battery. 4 amp.hr battery £20.

Somewhat of a bargain compared to 'better' makes.

[Harry Bloomfield Esq]

Dave Plowman (News) formulated on Sunday :

and very acceptable quality as well.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Yes - it seems OK. Direction change button on mine is very stiff, though.

[Animal]

I only bought one lidl power tool. Never again. As much use as barbie.

[newshound]

IME the proper Parkside-branded 20V ones are all pretty good.

[PeterC]

I bought a right-angle attachment from Aldidl; it works OK and is useful. When I got it, it made a horrible noise and slowed the drill. Stripped, cleaned out (swarf, set grease nowhere near anything useful), repacked with a suitable grease and now it's a good'un. Lot cheaper than a dedicated drill, although perhaps more bulky.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Yes. And the 12v one useful too as the smaller chuck allows smaller drills. As well as being less bulky overall than the 20v one. At the low price more easy to afford something that may not be used as often.

[Dave Plowman (News]

That is really the point. You're likely to need a right angle drill where space is limited. Maybe not often, which is why I never bought a 'brand' one at over 100 quid.

[Steve Walker]

With a normal (pistol) battery drill, where space is less important. I bought a small, 1/4" hex-drive chuck. Putting that chuck in the drill's own chuck allows me to use 0.5mm and even 0.3mm drills, when doing railway modelling.

[Dave Plowman (News]

What was it? Got lots here. All excellent value.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Trouble with that is the extra distance from the bearings increases 'slop' And for working on small things a smaller body is generally more useful.

Could be the sorts of work I do, but if I could only have one or the other, I'd have the small one. And use the mains drill where I needed the largest drills.

[newshound]

Picked one up today, plus charger and 2AH battery. Seems nicely made and finished as usual, with a weighty head end suggesting all metal gears. Apart from 90 degrees it swivels with detents at zero, 30, 45, and 60 so potentially more useful than fixed angle ones. Reasonably controllable variable speed too, so should also be OK as a driver.

[Animal]

Lidl parkside cordless impact driver. Not sure the voltage but less than 20v. A standard non-impact cordless gets further than than gutless thing.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Do you actually mean an impact drill? They also do an impact driver - designed for removing tight nuts.

Can you clarify? If you switch the impact off, it is worse than a similar non impact drill?

Having discovered it was useless, did you get your money back?

[Fredxx]

The drill plus the 2Ah battery and charger would out at £36. The £20 4Ah battery doesn't come with a charger. All in all it isn't as cheap as it first looks.

[Dave Plowman (News]

At £36 including charger and 2 ah battery it is still way cheaper than any alternative I've found. And a 2 amp.hr battery is likely to be OK for the limited use it will get here. The 2 ah battery also gives it a smaller footprint which could make all the difference in confined spaces.

I've already got the 12v ordinary drill. Not found battery life a problem for the use I make of it.

For heavy pro use, I've no doubt many will already have a higher priced version with a large battery.

[Animal]

It's a cordless drill with impact function. I forget which term they called it. 14.4v or 18v, too long ago to remember which.

I don't remember, probably. My standard budget cordless drill at the time was far more effective anyway. It was basicaly useless.

[newshound]

Then it was an impact *drill* not an impact *driver*.

14.4 and 18v are NiCad / NiMH, not Li-Ion.

[newshound]

+1. Already found it useful in "180 degree" mode when I needed to alternate between two sizes of pilot drill during some shed reconstruction. The impact driver has a quick-change chuck so quick to swap between Pozi 2 and 3.

[Animal]

yup