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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2020, 08:46:56 AM »
I have 2 18v Milaukee impacts, one 3/8 and one 1/2 drive. Use both at work. The 3/8 is brilliant. 4 preset speeds (loads of 40, 100, 220 and 284 nm) and you can adjust these values with a phone app. Both came with 2 batteries and 3 year warranties
Use the 3/8 for just about everything as it is small enough to get into tight spaces. Was not cheap, but I do use it a lot and claimed back some tax.
The 1/2 drive kicks out 130 and 950 nm. Not much says no to it.
Bought them both from FFX fixings online

Think its important to get a Li ion battery (assume the older types are still sold) as it reduces the memory effects.

Buy an impact, you will not regret it.

Some of the Aldi/Lidl tools are pretty good and also come with good warranties. Have an 18v drill that is mainly used to clean wheel rims with a wire brush. Brilliant and came with 2 batteries.

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Re: Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2020, 11:38:46 AM »

 I have a mains B&D drill that is over 40 years old and still in regular use. I am willing to bet no one has a battery drill that old still in use.  ;D ;D

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Re: Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2020, 01:07:40 PM »
A 40 yr old B&D has decades of life left, a 4 yr old B&D has minutes

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« Reply #18 on: December 27, 2020, 01:33:12 PM »
A 40 yr old B&D has decades of life left, a 4 yr old B&D has minutes
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« Reply #19 on: December 27, 2020, 02:01:36 PM »

 I have a mains B&D drill that is over 40 years old and still in regular use. I am willing to bet no one has a battery drill that old still in use.  ;D ;D

I was exclusively B&D drills back in the 1960's then they started building drills made of monkey metal with no proper bearing as such - what a shame.
I replaced my last B&D with a Hitachi unit in 1980 ish - I ended up giving the Hitachi away about 5 years ago as it was pre-hammer option era. The drill still worked like new when I parted with it.
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Re: Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
« Reply #20 on: December 27, 2020, 02:20:28 PM »
B&D is DeWalt, remarkable how powerful marketing can be isn't it  :)

B&D made a "professional" line some years ago,  it was genuinely very good but viewed in same light as their general low use "punter" offerings seemed very expensive.  Use of a more technical Germanic name and bob is indeed their uncle  ;D

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Re: Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
« Reply #21 on: December 27, 2020, 02:54:02 PM »
I have the small hex drive Ryobi-ONE version. Seems to rattle out JIS screws fine, as long as the the head isn't too nadgered (i.e can't be reformed into a decent cross head again). I really bought it because I already have a 5AH and a 4 AH Ryobi battery pack... so they kind of lock you into buying more of their tools once you have made the investment in their genuine battery packs (which are very expensive). Their angle grinder and chain-saw tools are pretty good, as I have both.

I wish you could get this item linked below  the other way round though (i.e Ryobi to Makita adapter) Maybe there is a technical reason why they don't appear to be available ... anyone know why or know if one indeed exists?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2386202.m570.l1313&_nkw=batadapter+ryobi+to+makita&_sacat=0

Perhaps there are safety issues:

https://www.protoolreviews.com/power-tool-battery-adapters/
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« Reply #22 on: December 27, 2020, 03:01:07 PM »
B&D  is Dewalt now but 40 yrs back wasnt

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« Reply #23 on: December 27, 2020, 03:12:20 PM »
B&D  is Dewalt now but 40 yrs back wasnt

I've a couple of B&D professional corded power tools that were just (when the name changed) cast in yellow plastic as Dewalt,  identical items then and still going.  They could make good stuff then but that's not what the mass market would stand in terms of cost.  But people are prepared to pay more for something when they percieve they are getting higher quality,  even though it was the same stuff.
The other scource was ELU power tools which they bought too. 

Obviously subsequent tools have been developed by them,  but within a higher profit margin market sector which the B&D name would not support.

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Re: Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
« Reply #24 on: December 27, 2020, 03:14:50 PM »
B&D  is Dewalt now but 40 yrs back wasnt

Anyone on here old enough to remember Stanley-Bridges power tools? Barry Bucknell?

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« Reply #25 on: December 27, 2020, 03:41:54 PM »
Yup,
My first handtools were Stanley, Gedore, Eclipse and Moore and Wright.
Used to work for a tool hire firm rebuilding hire fleet Kango hammers and good old metal bodied B&D 9 inch angle grinders, circular saws, routers and electric planes------still got some ber(unless you were on first name terms with the area big chief!!!) B&D stuff

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Re: Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2020, 08:41:20 AM »
Original box after the mice got to the label
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« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2020, 08:42:25 AM »
Contents of the box
Even have some of the attachments somewhere



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Re: Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
« Reply #28 on: December 28, 2020, 09:01:53 AM »
I used to have one of those.  Good old mechanical gearbox.  I'd still have it but my van was broken into.
Where's that 10mm socket got to?

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Re: Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
« Reply #29 on: December 28, 2020, 09:27:07 AM »
Wish id known, i bined a drill dtand for one of those 5 months ago

 

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