I've owned this inexpensive drill driver
for almost six years. It has a brush two speed motor. You can use it to drill or drive fasteners
with various torque settings. It has a built in light amp and a half 20 volt battery. Fantastic grip. It's well balanced. The only problem I'm having with it now is the truck is starting to slip,
so it's time to retire this. And thanks to the Home
Depot Seed's program, we're looking to replace it with this
rigid 18 volt subcompact,
brushless, half inch hammer drill.
Driver kit features 500 inch lbs of torque and is supposedly 25% lighter in weight. Let's take a look. Opening the box reveals a very nice carrying case. It's got a zipper on it. And inside we have a compartment for a manual and other paperwork. We have one drill,
and it's actually feels very light. Of course,
there's no battery attached to it. Forward. Reverse lock out. Nice feel here. That's not too bad. Smooth looking. Work on it. Then we have our charger. The adapter for the charger. And not one, but two, two amp batteries that are included. Let's throw these on the charger
and then we can test this unit out while the battery charger comes
with an annoying wall wart, you can be mounted on a wall or desk.
You can use it either
vertically or horizontally. The battery just slides into it and does not lock,
so you can just simply lift it out, which is great
if this is not secured to a surface, but when you attach it to your tool, it does lock in. There are these two wings on either side
you squeeze and that releases. Another thing to note
is that for a two amp battery, they do include a status indicator,
which is a really nice feature to have.
Two nice things about this
charging system is one, the labeling is very easy to follow. You don't need to break out the code book
to figure out what the colors mean. There's the symbols. It's either charging, flashing,
or if it's full green, it's fully charged. Then you get a temp delay
and you get an error if there's something wrong
with the battery. It couldn't be simpler with another brand. A blinking red light
means it's charging while a steady red light
means that it's fully charged.
How can that be confusing? We want to know what
the level of charge is. Well,
then simply look at the top of the battery where you get that status
indicated in real time. Two additional accessories
that are included are a belt clip that can be mounted either on the right
or left hand side, as well as this thing that looks like a fuze,
but it's actually a bit older. Now that's a great idea. Unfortunately, you can only mounted
on the right or left hand side. I actually prefer what my former drill
did, which was they put the bit holder at the front, but as you see, they've used that location for the light. Instead of mounting it somewhere
underneath the barrel. Here we have a close up
look of the belt clip mounted on the left hand
side of the drill. Over on the right hand side,
I've mounted the bit holder.
Note that there is a lip on the underside
and that aligns with the bottom so that it looks
like it has a nice fit to it. I'm a little leery just because this protrudes out quite a bit
and it might catch on things. So not too thrilled about that. Again, I wish it was up front. Features of the tool
include a half inch chunk and when it tightens you do get a click. You have a total of 20 to talk settings. It starts on one end. You go through them, they're nice. They click. They're not very stiff at all. And then when you get to 22,
your next one is for drilling. And then if you want to use it as a hammer drill, you go to the next. And then to get back
to any of the previous settings, you just go back clockwise to Speed Control. Can't really see the numbers on that. That would have been nice, but I don't think it's an issue
because with most most drills, one is the first is in
the front, two is in the back.
Small profile for the brushless motor. You have your controls for forward lock out and reverse, but you can see that
that torque kicking in on this one. We get a kick at the end with this brushless one. You get a kick
both at start up and at stop. Another interesting feature
is when you lock out the trigger, you can still use it
to operate the LED light. So the light will come on
if you squeeze the trigger and it'll stay on
for about 30 seconds and cycle off. And you also get a way of tethering
the unit should you decide that you need that here on the screen
is the total time to charge. Here are the three different drills
that I own a brushed motor drill driver, a brushless drill driver, a hammer, and then a brushless drill driver
with the chucks fully closed. We see
there are protrusions out the collar and this one is very loose and flimsy. The rigid, nice and smooth. This one a lot of very loose. Lots of play coming back on the collar
where you make adjustments for torque and setting it from driving fasteners
to drilling this one individual numbers for all settings, but very hard to turn on the rigid they put lines so they skip numbers but very easy to turn.
And on this one same thing they skip they just went with odd
numbers were as rigid went with even and this one's a harder snap
so this one's the easiest to do. I like the grip pattern on this. It's nice and big. This one's okay. Then when we come back to the speed this one's numbered, it's fairly easy
to move to the faster speed. This one is numbered,
but you can't really see it. And it's
pretty easy to do with one finger.
This one, they've numbered them. But it takes a lot more force
to get that to move over. Not saying
that anyone is better than the other, just that they're different
when placing a bet into the shot. You turn this locks, but you have to lock by holding this in position
and then twisting counter. So you got clockwise counterclockwise
to lock into position. From my point of view, we come over to the rigid, insert the bed and you feel a snap and that's it. It's engaged to release, bring it back and you feel another snap and it's out.
On this one, we turn and we hear that snap. But then we also hear those snaps. So let's see if the rigid also does that first snap and that's it. There's no four ringing out like you can with that. So again, not
that one is better than the other. It's just different. We have a piece of hickory wood, the rigid. We're just going to see how long it takes
for it to go through the wood with a brand new bit. Now, we tried another drill and these are all in speed. One, by the way. And finally, the one with the bad. Chuck, we have a fail. Chuck can't hold on to the bit,
so that's as far as we can go with it. Which is why this unit's been retired.
I've drilled into this mortar
with an SDC drill. Now we're going to try this one right about here. We're in the hammer mode. Let's see what it does. So I can tell you that the hammer mode really hasn't made that much difference. And maybe it's just because
of the limitations of this two versus an SD, which is a real hammering tool
and got that hold. Done. Very quickly with an SD s, whereas it seems to be taking a lot longer. Now I've made almost no impression into this mortar. I was finally able to drill the hole. It took a little putting a little back
pressure on the unit, but it finally did it.
I would say that
for the occasional hole in the mortar, this drill hammer is fine. If you're going to do a lots of these
going to spend the day doing them, then maybe an SDS would be a better tool. But this will suffice in a pinch. And of course, this has the vantage that you can swap out
the drill bit for a fastener, which you can't really do
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