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I agree with the geeking statement, well said. I have a Makita battery drill, both batteries are effectively gone west. Thus I found out about the cost of replacement batteries. The drill itself is easy to use, balances well, hand openable chuck with hammer action drilling capability. A great machine apart from the failed batteries. And I did follow the shops instructions on using and charging the batteries. I bought it three or four years ago. My Bosch mains drill is at least ten years going strong. It is more powerful than the Makita and has a better hammer action. Given the choice I would opt for the Makita if the batteries lasted much longer. For occasional infrequent use, a mains drill is the better choice as you do not have to think about or charge the batteries.
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They have taken five years of constant use in the Oil City workshop and have never missed a beat. They come with a fairly shitty selection of drill bits ... but I had hundreds of those anyway.
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No. I have better things to do with my time than go around DIY shops checking out drills. IMHO, for occasional use, a mains powered drill is the best buy as it will always work as there are no batteries to keep cycled and charged. I use those tools quite a bit and find my battery powered Makita to be very useful. The batteries are the problem right now. Interestingly, a shop suggested me buying a new Makita drill and using one of the two batteries in my old drill. Possibly a workable solution as I hate chucking the Makita into the recycling bin. Over the past two years, I have recycled two battery powered drills and a battery powered sprayer. All due to failed batteries. One of the drills was an SDS machine and extremely useful, I now hire one when needed. As for the sprayer, I bought a Knapsack model. Talk about downgrading....
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My point was (again) that mains drills are bigger and heavier than a battery drill that's perfectly up to this sort of work. Cordless has a significant advantage in that.
These supplies often have a lot of high frequency switching noise but I'd think the motor wouldn't care too much about it.
I was actually all set to buy a new drill - probably a Makita brushless. Are they not so good then? I see the ones they sell in B&Q for £150ish come with two batteries but reading the small print, they're only 1.5mAh, whereas the better Makita batteries look like they're up to 5 or 6 mAh now. Obviously the higher capacity batteries need recharging a lot less, so would presumably last longer for that reason. Supposedly the brushless drills use a lot less power too. Builders that did our extension used Makita drills all day and seemed to love them.
Anyway if I didn't have a drill and wanted to buy one I'd probably splash out on something decent and have done with it - it's just such a useful tool if you do a reasonable amount of DIY. One handy tip somebody told me was that you can tell if a cordless drill has a decent amount of torque by whether it comes with a side handle. I think you're talking £200 ish for something like that, though.
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