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Mikita, great reliability plus the ability to use the same batteries on different tools,have a chat with your local tool dealer as Makita have several trade days when the prices are greatly reduced :thumb:
 
I've used dewalt for about five years but the batteries are slowly dying a death
anybody know best place / cheapest to get new batteries ?
regards pete
 
I have been in the building industry for 30 years plus running my own building firm and i can honestly say that makita and dewalt and many more have gone down the pan. I have 3no. makita 18volt cordless with three batteries each and all are dud after 12month and a 24 volt that the batteries gave up after 14 months and as with all of them the batteries are more expensive than replacing the whole item. The best cost cordless drills for life span and they are going as strong now as when purchased months before the makitas are Ryobi products and a lot cheaper. If you want to pay good money spend it on Hiltis
 
Brough said:
So what makes you so special
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I learnt from tradesmen who did quality work and I followed on doing the same, these crash bang wallop men who are rated by how fast they are not how good they are, they're like my arse, I am special as I have pride im my job unlike alot these days, atb swaro
 
Its not so much the quality of the drill IMO
battery life is the killer with new batteries costing the same as a new drill kit

Bosch blue is good so far apart from a easily seized and corroded chuck internals that took a stripping and greasing to get it back to life
de Walt historically have made some good stuff but they are slowly replacing many of the metal parts with plastic especially the metal chuck housings

awful lot of Milwaukee stuff for sale with dead batteries. Don't know if that is telling
 
Speed and quality , when you get good they come together as a package , but then being so special I'm sure you know that ,:doh:
 
Na, nobody ive seen can do both, there is some who like to think they can but they cant, I might be rough...... but I am slow :D
 
Something else I did recently has just sprung to mind. I bought some Bosch Blue kit 12 years ago and the second set of batteries died recently, I found a company in Chippenham that rebuilds them with new Cells and ups the to 3AH from the original 2.2AH, it was about £40 a battery and I met him in a pub carpark! 12 month warranty and a decent bloke, I think the firm was called battery rework, invoice is at my office.
 
With most makes you can use the same battery on different tools, as long as it's the same voltage and from the same range..... Would not touch dewalt(Disney, Mickey Mouse tools). All my kit is festool and mafell but I do have two makita 18v lion drill/drivers for heavier work and I think they are spot on.. Makita just brought out a brushless motor range, worth a look. Whatever you get I'd go for li-ion battery's....
 
swarovski said:
most of them are chancers or cowboys, arnt good enough to carry my tools
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swarovski said:
I learnt from tradesmen who did quality work and I followed on doing the same, these crash bang wallop men who are rated by how fast they are not how good they are, they're like my arse, I am special as I have pride im my job unlike alot these days, atb swaro
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I'm inclined to agree with you but it works both ways. There are plenty of chancers and cowboys about who call themselves "builders" but are winging it with no professional training or time served experience and who only trade with the unsuspecting public because they've never been near a professional site in their lives and if they tried to get on one would be found out before they made it through induction.
 
I'm using makita with the new type batteries, cannot fault the drills on power and longevity, but the grinder just eats em. You have two on charge to keep it going

having said that, far better than metabo and Bosch which are all in the scrap bin

phil
 
Finch said:
I'm inclined to agree with you but it works both ways. There are plenty of chancers and cowboys about who call themselves "builders" but are winging it with no professional training or time served experience and who only trade with the unsuspecting public because they've never been near a professional site in their lives and if they tried to get on one would be found out before they made it through induction.
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you dont have to do a legimate coarse to be a real tradesman, ive got all the modern type coarse passes doing civil engineering but its only a bit of paper, they give them nvq's to anybody, my skills are building etc, nvq stands for not very quick :D
 
Roedinator is a weight lifter, weight for someone else to lift it :D, he wasnt born lazy he was a quick learner :rofl:
 
I had dewalt then bought makita 18v but the battery's kept on failing and at £85 a pop They are not cheap so switched back to dewalt not had any problems touch wood
 
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