John wrote:
Talking to a mate in the pub last night and he reckoned that these
drill/drivers are excellent. Bit worse for wear when I got home but seem to
remember him saying that it comes with a lifetime parts and labour warranty
and a free service every year (note that I don't know if that's available
everywhere or is just a special offer local to the place he bought his
from - which is not from the place linked to).

Anyway, what do the panel think?

http://www.coopersdirect.com/pagevie...=4002395196074

or would this be preferable

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/68747/...rill?ts=19188#

Two quite different propositions. The AEG (IIRC a brand owned by TTI
along with Ryobi and Milwaukee). They are quite well respected for their
batter technology in general. I would expect it to be a good quality
small light weight machine. OK for screw driving and the occasional bit
of drilling. Small enough to get into tight corners etc. The max torque
is fairly limited, and the speed pretty low.

The mak is a more general purpose machine - much bigger and heavier, has
a hammer action so can drill masonry etc, and has a larger capacity
chuck. At the money it looks like much better value for an all rounder.
The only thing that would sway toward the AEG would be if you already
had a decent drill driver and were looking for a small light machine for
a specific purpose (e.g. flatpack assembly). Note the mak will come with
a charger that will also do NiMh cells - so when you replace the batts
you could go for much higher capacity ones. It won't do LiIon though
since that is a different charging technology and battery fitting etc.

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Cheers,

John.

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