Cordless drill/driver. Which one should I get?

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As a brief distraction, here's the Hitachi veteran, a quite disgusting sight, smeared with Aerodux 500 phenol/formaldehyde glue from a long distant contract. A really great little tool. I won't be able to throw it away. We had a lot of fun together.

 

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As a brief distraction, here's the Hitachi veteran, a quite disgusting sight, smeared with Aerodux 500 phenol/formaldehyde glue from a long distant contract. A really great little tool. I won't be able to throw it away. We had a lot of fun together.
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Wow... looks like its been to the moon and back

 

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Wow... looks like its been to the moon and back

You should see my hands!

 

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I have a fifteen year old 9.6v Hitachi one. It has been used and abused quite shamelessly and still runs but the two batteries are on their last legs. I fancy an 18 volt one. I absolutely don't want or need a hammer/SDS action. I have a 5kg SDS jobbie for that stuff. Can you parishioners suggest a model other than anything by Makita? I've had bad experiences from them. I won't bore you to death with the details.

Thank you..

Edit: I forgot.....about £100 tops.

It all depends on how often your going to use it really to get the most life out of the batteries.
I had (dare i say it) a Makita drill and impact driver since 2007 i think it was with no problems
Don't know if it was this one you had probs with?
http://www.romfordtools.com/product.php/section/7002/sn/BHP458RFE

 

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I self-justified the track saw for cutting a gentle taper on kitchen plinth pieces. Taper of 8mm down to zero over a 2m lenght. My first ever cut with the thing and it was absolutely cock-on first time - and huge time saver compared to planing and would have been a mess with a jigsaw. One of the best bits of kit I've ever bought. I see makita, bosch etc have since brought out track saws too.

The really amazing thing about them is how silkily smoothly they run. Just wonderful!

 

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It all depends on how often your going to use it really to get the most life out of the batteries.
I had (dare i say it) a Makita drill and impact driver since 2007 i think it was with no problems
Don't know if it was this one you had probs with?
http://www.romfordtools.com/product.php/section/7002/sn/BHP458RFE

I can't bring myself to recount my problems with Makita. I'm low on statins at the moment.

 

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Metabo and Panasonic are good. I've admired both of them for a long time. My niggling doubt is that none of the Polish builders use them. They lean towards DeWalt and others.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've got a Milwaukee cordless drill, brilliant bit of kit.

 

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Not to many moons ago I was using one of theses ... God that takes me back
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stanley-Y...in-West-Germany-GWO-plus-7-bits-/171977513711

 

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Not to many moons ago I was using one of theses ... God that takes me back
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stanley-Y...in-West-Germany-GWO-plus-7-bits-/171977513711

I've got one of those (Stanley Yankee) too. Really rather good. Nor sure if they're still made - bought mine new not that long ago.

 

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Not to many moons ago I was using one of theses ... God that takes me back
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stanley-Y...in-West-Germany-GWO-plus-7-bits-/171977513711

I've still got a Yankee. Truly awful. They used to cam-out of the screw head when you applied some serious pressure and your knuckles would get fubared in the process. Alternatively some delicate piece of hand flesh would get squashed into the spirally-threaded drive section. Oh dear!

 

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I've still got a Yankee. Truly awful. They used to cam-out of the screw head when you applied some serious pressure and your knuckles would get fubared in the process. Alternatively some delicate piece of hand flesh would get squashed into the spirally-threaded drive section. Oh dear!

mmm, if a pozi driver "cams out" could it just be a knackered bit, or even phillips in a pozi?

 

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mmm, if a pozi driver "cams out" could it just be a knackered bit, or even phillips in a pozi?

It was almost certainly a reckless operator in a hurry. I'm not perfect.

 

[chriswoody]

Metabo and Panasonic are good. I've admired both of them for a long time. My niggling doubt is that none of the Polish builders use them. They lean towards DeWalt and others.

Over here in Germany though, a lot of 'handwerkers' swear by Metabo. A lot of the builders markets though only stock good old German brands! I rarely see DeWalt stuff here.

 

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It was almost certainly a reckless operator in a hurry. I'm not perfect.

happens to the best of us - but that said, screwdriver bits munging tends to be knackered kit (or the easily done phillips/pozi goof)