14.4v drill ok for masonary drilling?

Captain_Flack.

londonTiger wrote: »

The £150 was just a ball park estimate for jobby cordless drills. I didn't think you were going to be so pedantic to call me out on that. If so I would have looked around for current sale prices.

you still have to charge it before your job and for masonry drilling you will need to recharge it in the middle of your job because masonry requires a lot more torque than wood or metal. With masonry you really need hammer action.

To be honest if I could go back I would not get the energer sds and settle for the bosch b&q one for £25 posted above^

I knew I made a mistake with the energer when I opened it and found jackhammer bit for braking rubble and chisel bits, the smallest included bit was 8mm (far to big for your house shelves). It's too big and heavy for small jobs.

Do you own li-ion combie?

I don't need to charge any of mine as often as you claim.

Stooby2

Same here, I have an 18v drill and it'll do a dozen holes in masonry without issue. I have just replaced the batteries after three years of fairly heavy use and the old ones had got to the state Mr Tiger mentioned.

However, unless it's 1 or 2 small holes, I'll use the corded drill, as it's a whole lot faster. The cordless just doesn't have the punch.

Captain_Flack.

Stooby2 wrote: »

Same here, I have an 18v drill and it'll do a dozen holes in masonry without issue. I have just replaced the batteries after three years of fairly heavy use and the old ones had got to the state Mr Tiger mentioned.

However, unless it's 1 or 2 small holes, I'll use the corded drill, as it's a whole lot faster. The cordless just doesn't have the punch.

I used an 18 volt the other day in block work, used drill all bits without hammer and no issues whatsoever.

leveller2911

Captain_Flack. wrote: »

Theres a man who's never heard of lithium
ion.

Lithium Ion batteries are not perfect by any means. I'm a joiner and I'm still using Nickel metal Hidride batteries that are 12 years old and still work well.

I also have 7 Makita 18v 3ah Li-ion batteries and 4 of them I have had to send back to Makita because they failed prematurely. I've never had that problem with Ni-mh batteries.

Would need more info on the types of jobs the OP is intending to do before I would give an opinion on corded or cordless.

Stooby2

Captain_Flack. wrote: »

I used an 18 volt the other day in block work, used drill all bits without hammer and no issues whatsoever.

Oh it'll do it no problem, just the corded does it in half the time and keeps going through the various crud that makes up the walls in this house, whereas the cordless would take forever at times.