Screwfix Makita 'offer'

Given the state of the pound, you wonder how long these offers will be around. Prices seem to have gone up in the domestic appliance sector since last autumn

Depends what sort of work it's going to get but there is this as well made by the same company

I looked at that, but the batteries are very low capacity.

ISTR that the 14,4V one had a smaller battery, but that was from comparing pictures.

Looks like one we bought a couple of years ago at the school where I work part time as a handyman. That one came with 3 batteries and a 1 hr charger. So far the batteries are in good condition holding their charge well (we are rotating them in use so the all get a regular charge/discharge cycle) and the drill is itself well balanced and powerful (it has snapped more than one 4mm goldscrew in its time. Compared to the 24v Frem we had before it it is a much better buy.

Malcolm

I've run a similar, but 14.4v Makita for 3 years in almost daily trade use & only just replaced the batteries.

Most if not all of these tools will use the same cell format (Sub C), so lower voltage simply means fewer cells and a smaller battery.

That particular deal is pretty good. Its a way of offloading stocks of NiCds before their sale is prohibited I expect. There is notthing stopping you used better batteries when the supplied ones eventually need replacing.

(I just needed to replace the first of the three 2.6Ah NiMh cells that came with my 18V Makita combi - bought in 2004)

Thank you.