Cordless hammer drill, Li-Ion, ~£100..

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Hi all

Does the above exist anywhere? All the cordless drills I can see at the moment are either hammer with Ni-Cad batteries (no thanks) or normal with Li-Ion batteries.

I've looked on tooled up, Amazon, B&Q etc. so far. The Screwfix website isn't working for me at the moment.

Any recommendations?
 
not for £100

my Makita cost over £300

Why do you need a Hammer drill? I'd not use the Hammer action on a normal Drill for anything other that the Odd hole in Brick or Breeze blocks
try a google on Lawson HIS
 
Thanks. For some reason I haven't been able to get on the Screwfix website all day. I thought it was a DNS issue (I'm with VM so I wouldn't be surprised) but I'm using the open DSN settings on my router and it still isn't working.

I'll look there when it's working though.

ZX-10R said:
not for £100

my Makita cost over £300

Why do you need a Hammer drill? I'd not use the Hammer action on a normal Drill for anything other that the Odd hole in Brick or Breeze blocks
try a google on Lawson HIS
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Maybe I don't need a hammer drill, I just wanted a drill that would cover all manner of DIY I may or may not do in the next ten years.
 
I'm VERY suspicious about Screwfix at the moment, especially all these Makita and Dewalt sets for £100. They seem to be paired down versions of the top models with plastic chucks, plastic gears and only two speeds. Personally I wouldn't expect them to last very long or take daily duty.

If you want it to last 10 years I'd seriously think about spending £200 so you know you've got a good one. My Bosch 9V is coming up to its 12th birthday now and apart from the nicads not holding as much as they used to it's still running strong. Everyone else has got through a whole bundle of budget drills in that time and moan they don't last long.

Screwfix have an 18V 3AH Li-Ion Makita for £149. Price looks right but it's only got one battery and I'd get it out the box and have a go with it first. The other option is a £99.99 Makita set with 3 nicad batteries and a 30 min charger. Apparently it's a metal gearbox in that one, but with that many batteries you can just keep them topped up.
 
I'd go for the £149 Li-ion over the £99 Ni-Cd one

The Li-Ion battery is 3ah the 3x Ni-Cd are 1.3ah

The Li-Ion get a 70% charge in 20mins

I use the sameish Drill for work and on one battery it has no problem lasting all day drilling tech screws into steel posts.

Just got the SDS version as well and a battery will last 3/4 of a day drilling 10mm anchor bolt holes.

the batteries can be picked up for £50 on auctions sites and they fit a whole crop of other tools. Jigsaw, metal saw, angle grinder etc
 
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