Stuart Ablett
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....... I bought a corded cheap impact driver a while back, a DIYer level Ryobi unit, I'd not had an impact driver before, I'm really impressed with it, even though it is a real cheap one, but it sure does a good job.
I was down at a local place buying bird seed for the kids bird, this place sells all sorts of things from socks to sockets, and DVD players to pots and pans, they have a limited quantity of tools, but sometimes there is something of value. I saw they had a cordless impact driver, imported by a Japanese company, made in China. Looks robust enough, but I have no illusions that it is a Makita or a Hitachi quality of tool. That being said, the Makita or Hitachi units all start around $300+ and are of the NiCad variety, to get into the Li-Ion batteries, well they are even more money.
Here is the unit..........
Nothing special really, 14.4V NiCads, two batteries, 30 minute charger and two driver bits, plus the toss in the garbage case, but......... I paid just over $60 for it.
I know, I know, you get what you pay for, yep, I do believe that, but this was on sale, it was 60% off, in a flier they had this week (I did not see the flier) so I hope to get some use out of it.
What really changed my mind is the really poor performance that the last two name brand cordless drills I've bought gave me, the Bosch drill has already had two batteries die, just about a month after the warranty expired and the Panasonic drill has had clutch problems, it slips even when on the "Drill" setting, this too happened just out of warranty
I may very well live to regret it, but for less than half the price of a name brand drill unit, I have this impact driver.
Time will tell!
Cheers!
I was down at a local place buying bird seed for the kids bird, this place sells all sorts of things from socks to sockets, and DVD players to pots and pans, they have a limited quantity of tools, but sometimes there is something of value. I saw they had a cordless impact driver, imported by a Japanese company, made in China. Looks robust enough, but I have no illusions that it is a Makita or a Hitachi quality of tool. That being said, the Makita or Hitachi units all start around $300+ and are of the NiCad variety, to get into the Li-Ion batteries, well they are even more money.
Here is the unit..........
Nothing special really, 14.4V NiCads, two batteries, 30 minute charger and two driver bits, plus the toss in the garbage case, but......... I paid just over $60 for it.
I know, I know, you get what you pay for, yep, I do believe that, but this was on sale, it was 60% off, in a flier they had this week (I did not see the flier) so I hope to get some use out of it.
What really changed my mind is the really poor performance that the last two name brand cordless drills I've bought gave me, the Bosch drill has already had two batteries die, just about a month after the warranty expired and the Panasonic drill has had clutch problems, it slips even when on the "Drill" setting, this too happened just out of warranty
I may very well live to regret it, but for less than half the price of a name brand drill unit, I have this impact driver.
Time will tell!
Cheers!