help to buy new battery drill

aussie_paul · Guru

RE: help to buy new battery drill

Baz421 · Guru

Hako - I see your problem with Metabo chuck,,,,,ah the things we chase on the ground ehnd on the roof in your case,,lol.

As a passing note the Ozito two pack deal looks good,, seems the product has improved over the years.

Sparkster · Senior Member

Lance raises an interesting point there about nearly breaking his wrist using an electric dril.

I should have added to my previous posts that the battery drill I use has variable speed on the trigger, which any decent drill will have these days and can be slowed when approaching the end of the raising or lowering so the leg doesn't go up or down too tightly.

Also on the electric drill use with an inverter, I would be hesitant about using 240 volts in situations where we inevitably have dangerous earth situations like wet grass, puddles or rain etc.

Don't forget the 240 volt output of an inverter is a lethal voltage!

Keith.... cry

snapper49 · Senior Member

Forget the batteries for a battery drill
What I have done is solder some cable onto the drill contacts and a cig lighter plug on the end of a lead and run it off the van battery

Foz · Veteran Member

Thrifty Link have a special on Hitachi 18v with 2X 1.5 amp hr batts & torch for $178 at the moment. $168 at Home Hardware.

Its a good deal.

Hitachi still made in Nippon, Makita now Chinese or worse.

Have used one of these building for years.

Go the little extra & get a 3 a/hr batt from e bay, just bought one delivered for $68

This should run you for years to come.

Pete49 · Senior Member

I did the same as snapper with my old 12v Makita but also grabbed a 7a/h/ 12v alarm battery off eBay ($20 & free post) for the jobs away from van or car way better than the pissy supplied batteries

Pete

Cupie · Guru

Mine is the best solution of all.

My son is a Tradie & when he wants/needs a new latest & greatest (or he wants to do a tax thing) he passes the retired one on to me.

They are trade quality but maybe a kittle damage to the chuck or imagined? loss of battery capacity. Though these days the quality of the tools and batteries is such that the hand me downs are becoming rare.

He uses battery driven tools for almost everything these days.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

Sparkster wrote:
Also on the electric drill use with an inverter, I would be hesitant about using 240 volts in situations where we inevitably have dangerous earth situations like wet grass, puddles or rain etc.
Don't forget the 240 volt output of an inverter is a lethal voltage!
Keith....

Drills are double insulated and inverters are isolated (12V separated from the 240V), so there is absolutely no issue.

Cheers,

Peter

grae and deb · Senior Member

Interesting comments on drills everyone , must agree re ozito , a good no nonsense drill for fair price , had a ozito bigger type of drill when a tradie /concreter ,couldnt kill it
and a good warranty ,take it back , get a new one ,