"Grunff" wrote in message
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:

What are people'e opinions of De Walt tools? My right angle drill
packed up 1 day inside the 1 year warrenty period, thank god. I took
it to the service agents who suggested that DeWalt were rubbish and I
would have been better off buying something else.
For a drill to seriously overheat within a year of purchase seems to
suggest something amiss, especially as this was a right angle drill
and hardly got much use anyway.


Overheating a drill doesn't usually have much to do with age of it.
You could do that 5 minutes after you bought it, or never, depending
how you use it.


I did! I burnt my DW566 out. Entirely my fault.

Superb tool, and great spares availability/pricing. Will be buying many
more DeWalts.

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Grunff

Whilst I am a Makita man myself, I can't fault DeWalt products. Sure there
have been the occasional 'surprises' (my DeWalt heat gun is the same as
B&D's) - but if they were as crap as your service agent suggests why would
people go back to them again and again?

Tell you what though, I used a Milwaukee (sp?) the other day - looked crap,
but felt very solid in use, I was impressed.

Alex