New Drill

[dazwalsh]

zbc said:

Couldn't find this asked more recently so I thought I'd do a little thread resurrection. My old cordless still works fine although it's about 20 years old but it seems like the charger has given up. Replacement one if I can find it looks to be about €60 so I'm thinking I might as well get a new one. Any suggestions? Quite happy to have a corded one, most of the jobs I do are fairly standard household DIY but in a house with substantial stone walls so something powerful would be nice but it's not something I'll use more than once a month normally.

If it was a pathetic new build any standard combi cordless would do but I fear you need a mains sds for going through stone.

If it were me I would hsad down to screwfix and pick up a titan sds for cheap, they are surprisingly good value, then have a cordless 18v combi as well for the jobs that dont require drilling through your walls.

[Pheo]

I have a 10.8v screwfix erbaurer impact driver, and 18v hikoki drill / driver with hammer and then a Hikoki SDS+

I agree with the posters above the SDS makes life a lot easier with any thing remotely difficult, and will put a 150mm hole through a masonary wall. And it’s only the smaller 2kg kind.

I do use the hammer on the 18v for 5mm stuff and similar but the SDS makes things like butter.

Impact driver has been very good value for money. Will probably upgrade to 18v when it dies but not in a hurry for that.

[dazwalsh]

Pheo said:

I have a 10.8v screwfix erbaurer impact driver, and 18v hikoki drill / driver with hammer and then a Hikoki SDS+

I agree with the posters above the SDS makes life a lot easier with any thing remotely difficult, and will put a 150mm hole through a masonary wall. And it’s only the smaller 2kg kind.

I do use the hammer on the 18v for 5mm stuff and similar but the SDS makes things like butter.

Impact driver has been very good value for money. Will probably upgrade to 18v when it dies but not in a hurry for that.

Agreed on the impact driver. I didnt understand them until I was doing some decking and making a right old pigs ear of it trying to drive huge screws with my standard combi. I had an electrician working away on a rewire and he chucked me his impact driver to use. My god the difference was unreal. No stripping of the screw heads either. Noisy bds but effective.

[zbc]

Thanks all