I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

I really like my Titan 10.8 volt driver. I also have a big,
relatively expensive, Metabo but most of the time I use the Titan. The
Metabo only gets used when I need to drive big screws (like 6 x 120).

--
Chris Green
·

On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.

--
Dave - The Medway Handyman

David Lang wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.


I have never had trouble with the lithium battery version from Aldi

On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

It may be partly a function of the size and weight of the battery, but I
have always found my 18V Makita stuff to be very stable on its base
(unless you have something very heavy like a large hole saw in the
chuck). My 18.8V Makita kit however is not designed to stand on its base
at all - so you have to pout them down on their sides.


--
Cheers,

John.

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On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 07:32:03 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

- so you have to pout them down on their sides.

Anyone for Chinese?
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On 9/19/2016 12:23 AM, David Lang wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.

+1 for Makita (no personal experience of Hitachi)

On 19/09/2016 07:32, John Rumm wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

It may be partly a function of the size and weight of the battery, but I
have always found my 18V Makita stuff to be very stable on its base
(unless you have something very heavy like a large hole saw in the
chuck). My 18.8V Makita kit however is not designed to stand on its base
at all - so you have to pout them down on their sides.

Make that 10.8V


--
Cheers,

John.

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David Lang wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.

+1 for Hitachi
Ive had a pair for nearly two years now and very pleased with them.

On 19/09/2016 22:12, Huge wrote:
On 2016-09-19, Bob Minchin wrote:
David Lang wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.

+1 for Hitachi
Ive had a pair for nearly two years now and very pleased with them.

I have a Hitachi which is still working after several years, with the
exception of the battery, which died, so I replaced it with a Fluoreon
one (misspelled on the case as Floureon) which I suspect has outlived
the original. I must buy another.


I have a Hitachi 18v SDS & a 18v drill driver, both have the (sometimes
annoying) feature of stopping dead when the battery goes below a certain
level, and I mean dead - it makes you think something has broken :-)


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman

On 19/09/2016 22:53, David Lang wrote:
On 19/09/2016 22:12, Huge wrote:
On 2016-09-19, Bob Minchin wrote:
David Lang wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.

+1 for Hitachi
Ive had a pair for nearly two years now and very pleased with them.

I have a Hitachi which is still working after several years, with the
exception of the battery, which died, so I replaced it with a Fluoreon
one (misspelled on the case as Floureon) which I suspect has outlived
the original. I must buy another.


I have a Hitachi 18v SDS & a 18v drill driver, both have the (sometimes
annoying) feature of stopping dead when the battery goes below a certain
level, and I mean dead - it makes you think something has broken :-)

Most LiIon tools do that - once the battery monitoring logic decides
its time to stop, they do. My 10.8V Makita kit does the same.


--
Cheers,

John.

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On 9/19/2016 10:12 PM, Huge wrote:
On 2016-09-19, Bob Minchin wrote:
David Lang wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.

+1 for Hitachi
Ive had a pair for nearly two years now and very pleased with them.

I have a Hitachi which is still working after several years, with the
exception of the battery, which died, so I replaced it with a Fluoreon
one (misspelled on the case as Floureon) which I suspect has outlived
the original. I must buy another.


Just got a pair of Floureon 14.4 NiCads for Makita impact screwdriver,
they seem to be fine. I have had a couple of Floureon Li-Ion jump
starters for a year or more.

On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:00:17 +0100, newshound wrote:

On 9/19/2016 10:12 PM, Huge wrote:
On 2016-09-19, Bob Minchin wrote:
David Lang wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.

+1 for Hitachi
Ive had a pair for nearly two years now and very pleased with them.

I have a Hitachi which is still working after several years, with the
exception of the battery, which died, so I replaced it with a Fluoreon
one (misspelled on the case as Floureon) which I suspect has outlived
the original. I must buy another.


Just got a pair of Floureon 14.4 NiCads for Makita impact screwdriver,
they seem to be fine. I have had a couple of Floureon Li-Ion jump
starters for a year or more.

I've just ordered a Floureon 18V 3Ah NiMH battery for my Makita combi.
Reviews are a bit mixed so I'll just hope.
It was prompted by this thread and also by my useful green Bosch 7.2V drill
snuffing it at almost exactly 19 years old.
I get annoyed with some jobs with only 3 drills as there's too much swapping
of bits.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

PeterC Wrote in message:
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:00:17 +0100, newshound wrote:

On 9/19/2016 10:12 PM, Huge wrote:
On 2016-09-19, Bob Minchin wrote:
David Lang wrote:
On 18/09/2016 22:59, R D S wrote:
I'm about to buy another drill driver, save on messing about swapping
bits etc.

Currently have a Screwfix LiIon Titan, sub £50
I find it OK bar a few minor issues
It's not well balanced, put it down on the battery and it will often
topple, sick of leaving pozi shaped dints in stuff.
And where a lot of torque is required it will just give up and die.

Are the more expensive,branded stuff any/much better?

Yes, different world entirely.
Makita or Hitachi.

+1 for Hitachi
Ive had a pair for nearly two years now and very pleased with them.

I have a Hitachi which is still working after several years, with the
exception of the battery, which died, so I replaced it with a Fluoreon
one (misspelled on the case as Floureon) which I suspect has outlived
the original. I must buy another.


Just got a pair of Floureon 14.4 NiCads for Makita impact screwdriver,
they seem to be fine. I have had a couple of Floureon Li-Ion jump
starters for a year or more.

I've just ordered a Floureon 18V 3Ah NiMH battery for my Makita combi.
Reviews are a bit mixed so I'll just hope.
It was prompted by this thread and also by my useful green Bosch 7.2V drill
snuffing it at almost exactly 19 years old.
I get annoyed with some jobs with only 3 drills as there's too much swapping
of bits.

Time for a keyless chuck? Or hex ended drill bits?
--
Jim K


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On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:00:29 +0100 (GMT+01:00), jim wrote:

I've just ordered a Floureon 18V 3Ah NiMH battery for my Makita combi.
Reviews are a bit mixed so I'll just hope.
It was prompted by this thread and also by my useful green Bosch 7.2V drill
snuffing it at almost exactly 19 years old.
I get annoyed with some jobs with only 3 drills as there's too much swapping
of bits.

Time for a keyless chuck? Or hex ended drill bits?

They're all keyless chucks, but hex ends are OK for countersinks and drivers
but too wobbly for drill bits.
My good countersinks are round; the hex. ones hardly work - I've a set of
decent hex. ones being delivered soon.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway