On 13/12/2020 21:32, wrote:
On 13/12/2020 15:57, John Rumm wrote:
On 13/12/2020 15:14, wrote:

I'd decided to treat myself to a Mak 18V brushless drill (no hammer)
and ID,

Combi and ID would be the more typical paring, any particular reason
for wanting a DD only?

In this house only an SDS will make a dent on the walls, so why have a
(presumed) slight weight and cost penalty to get a hammer function that
I won't use? Once having used an SDS I would never revert to hammer action.

Armed with a Bosch multimaterial bit, I have found that the combi can be
surprisingly effective on masonry. Somewhat battery than on main
percussion drills I have used in the past.

In fact I quite often find cases where I can do the whole job easily
enough with the combi to not make it worth getting the SDS out. (there
are also times like when working on a ladder its easier)

I now understand why I was puzzled ;-)
More seriously, is this all documented somewhere (other than your
excellent response)?

There are various bits of it scattered about. Sometimes just a good
retailer's site using a suitably qualified search will drill down
(sorry!) through the model range. So for example on the lawson site I
linked before, searching makita drill driver 18v brushless will find
there are 5 products (ans some of those are the same machine in a
different package) that match the search, and its quite easy from there
to look at the specs.


The Makita UK site does have a compare function. So say you go to:

https://www.makitauk.com/products/18v-drill-drivers

You can click on compare for a number of tools. It does suffer a bit by
not having the same set of specs listed for all tools though - or the
naming not being consistent - say listing "Capacity in Steel" on one
drill and no value listed for others, but the others having "Max. in Steel"


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Cheers,

John.

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