SquareCircle
Established Member
Looking to replace a couple of drills. A 240v SDS Atlas Capco that I has now gone off to my Dad, and a 5 year old cordless Black and Decker Firestorm (12v) whose two batteries are now quite shot. The Atlas was a great piece bit of kit (in my limited experience) and made light work of drilling 8 mm holes in concrete and masonry; however I don’t have call to do this very often anymore. The B&D cordless was adequate, but the battery performance was a bit disappointing. New batteries are so expensive…… maybe its time to invest in some new technology.
Choice of kit out there is bewildering and there does not seem to be any clear favorites. Myself, I an prejudiced towards Makita kit.
There appears to be a new range of cordless impact drills, with NIMH batteries and much higher no load speeds at about £220 mark for the 14.4 v version. If they are all that they appear to be, then they would be more than adequate for the workshop, plus the occasional hole into masonry. That would serve 99% of my needs and I would not bother replacing the Atlas for the time being
Any first hand advice on these drills would be much appreciated.
regards
SC
Choice of kit out there is bewildering and there does not seem to be any clear favorites. Myself, I an prejudiced towards Makita kit.
There appears to be a new range of cordless impact drills, with NIMH batteries and much higher no load speeds at about £220 mark for the 14.4 v version. If they are all that they appear to be, then they would be more than adequate for the workshop, plus the occasional hole into masonry. That would serve 99% of my needs and I would not bother replacing the Atlas for the time being
Any first hand advice on these drills would be much appreciated.
regards
SC