Charging battery powered tools

[ducked]

Machine Mart have a wired 900W hammer drill (CH0900) carrying their Clarke brand for 30 quid in the 2024/25 catalogue. Dont think I've used their stuff before, but this MIGHT be ok for my light use, if still carried, since I can use library stuff for big jobs.

Now £35.98 on website. Inflation, eh? Still relatively cheap, though

However, the spec page table contains the line "Use with Core Bits:No"

Why not?

I've also inherited a no name light duty looking 14V (probably dead) battery drill with no charger, and an odd angle-grinder-with-a-chuck stylee 12V Ryobi with no battery, both of which might be suitable for the jump-lead conversion mentioned above.

 

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Angle grinder (Bosch) seems to be working quite well on the cast iron, though of course it leaves pits. Still cant really see anything much while I'm doing it though

Didnt get to try the SDS chisel since the borrowed library Makita didnt have a hammer-only mode, which I should of course have checked. Might get a chance to swap it later.

Turns out sunflower oil and aluminium, which dries in about a week in Taiwan temperatures (and perhaps as importantly, UV levels), may not do so at all on practical timescales in a Scottish winter. Has to go in the water April.

Ooer.

I'll try a heat gun on it but I suspect I may have to try and get it off, more haste less speed stylee. Looked good too.

Fortunately only on the outside of the bilge keels, but some offline testing would have been a good idea.

Now touch-dry, just took a while. Phew!
This of course does not mean it'll be ok underwater.

 

[penberth3]

.....At the other extreme...About 20 years ago, I bought a very cheap (£20ish) no-name Chinese SDS breaker, specifically to strip a lot of plaster/render off walls. So as to save my decent tools. Looks like this below.
To my shock, and some embarrassment, it's still going strong(ish)...
It even came with spare brushes, as yet unused.

Agreed, those £30 drill/breakers are excellent. The same basic tool appears under loads of brand names.

Not recommended for say 3mm holes, you still need a smaller 12 - 18V drill for that!

 

[Stemar]

Agreed, those £30 drill/breakers are excellent. The same basic tool appears under loads of brand names.

Not recommended for say 3mm holes, you still need a smaller 12 - 18V drill for that!

That depends on what you're drilling. Our house is build of engineering bricks. The battery drill struggles, even with small holes.

 

[Sea Change]

Machine Mart have a wired 900W hammer drill (CH0900) carrying their Clarke brand for 30 quid in the 2024/25 catalogue. Dont think I've used their stuff before, but this MIGHT be ok for my light use, if still carried, since I can use library stuff for big jobs.

Now £35.98 on website. Inflation, eh? Still relatively cheap, though

However, the spec page table contains the line "Use with Core Bits:No"

Why not?

I've also inherited a no name light duty looking 14V (probably dead) battery drill with no charger, and an odd angle-grinder-with-a-chuck stylee 12V Ryobi with no battery, both of which might be suitable for the jump-lead conversion mentioned above.

I've got a Clarke nail gun, it's pretty solid. I used it to install all of the timber cladding on my house and it never missed a beat.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

That depends on what you're drilling. Our house is build of engineering bricks. The battery drill struggles, even with small holes.

I’ve got a battery SDS that I guarantee will go through that as if it were butter.

 

[Stemar]

I’ve got a battery SDS that I guarantee will go through that as if it were butter.

I'd expect an SDS to do it, but mine is a plain vanilla battery hammer drill.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I'd expect an SDS to do it, but mine is a plain vanilla battery hammer drill.

You might as well use your head as an ordinary hammer drill on engineering bricks or concrete. Same effect. My battery SDS is pretty much as good as a mains version.

 

[michael_w]

For drilling core bits you need a drill with clutch. Otherwise it'll break your arm when the core bit snags.

 

[ducked]

For drilling core bits you need a drill with clutch. Otherwise it'll break your arm when the core bit snags.

Thanks. Useful information, limb-retention-wise

 

[ducked]

DP. see below

 

[ducked]

For drilling core bits you need a drill with clutch. Otherwise it'll break your arm when the core bit snags.

Thanks. Useful information, limb-retention-wise

I'd think, however, that one might be able to approximate clutch function by wrapping the shank (IF this is round, twist drill stylee) with some low friction/easily sheared material like PTFE thread tape, polythene, sweetie papers, aluminium foil, electrical tape , etc

 

[ducked]

Machine Mart have a wired 900W hammer drill (CH0900) carrying their Clarke brand for 30 quid in the 2024/25 catalogue. Dont think I've used their stuff before, but this MIGHT be ok for my light use, if still carried, since I can use library stuff for big jobs.

Now £35.98 on website. Inflation, eh? Still relatively cheap, though

However, the spec page table contains the line "Use with Core Bits:No"

Why not?

I've also inherited a no name light duty looking 14V (probably dead) battery drill with no charger, and an odd angle-grinder-with-a-chuck stylee 12V Ryobi with no battery, both of which might be suitable for the jump-lead conversion mentioned above.

Couple of minor corrections:

I was comparing the large print ex-VAT price with the small print plus VAT price, so it hasnt gone up at all (though it is apparently available for a couple of quid less from Power Tools Direct) and the Ryobi thing is/was actually 18V, so perhaps less suitable for the jump-lead conversion mentioned above.

 

[Refueler]

Couple of minor corrections:

I was comparing the large print ex-VAT price with the small print plus VAT price, so it hasnt gone up at all (though it is apparently available for a couple of quid less from Power Tools Direct) and the Ryobi thing is/was actually 18V, so perhaps less suitable for the jump-lead conversion mentioned above.

18V gear .... remermber that ther real factor is WATTS ..... and that 18V may be at a limited ampage.

It is not unusual to gind a tool rated for such voltage - work fine on direct 12V .. as long as the amps can be supplied.

 

[Sea Change]

18V gear .... remermber that ther real factor is WATTS ..... and that 18V may be at a limited ampage.

It is not unusual to gind a tool rated for such voltage - work fine on direct 12V .. as long as the amps can be supplied.

Interesting. I've got an 18v compressor that chews through batteries. I've been toying with hooking it up to my 60Ah LFP that is lying around doing nothing. I'm sure I'd reached the conclusion that it wasn't likely to work.

 

[lustyd]

Its an EU Mandated reqt for USB C ... for mobile phones sold in EU

Actually it’s portable electronic devices, not phones.

 

[DownWest]

Just noticed that Brico Depot have dropped the price of batteries. An 18v. 5 amp hr is now 29;50 euro. So grabbed one. Might help my angle grinder bite a bit more.

 

[Refueler]

Actually it’s portable electronic devices, not phones.

Fine ... but I was answering on subject.

 

[Refueler]

Interesting. I've got an 18v compressor that chews through batteries. I've been toying with hooking it up to my 60Ah LFP that is lying around doing nothing. I'm sure I'd reached the conclusion that it wasn't likely to work.

Try it - you may be surprised.

 

[lustyd]

Fine ... but I was answering on subject.

And I was correcting you, which was at least as on subject as your post in a power tool conversation. Your post was pointlessly correcting someone else who said mobile chargers...