18v Cordless drills at Asda

In my experience, the problem with cheap drills is that they often use VERY poor battery cells which hold very little charge and soon die.  Once the cells are replaced with decent ones (a bit fidly but easy enough) the drill is transformed and works for years.   The new cells do cost nearly as much as the drill though

In my experience, the problem with cheap drills is that they often use VERY poor battery cells which hold very little charge and soon die.  Once the cells are replaced with decent ones (a bit fidly but easy enough) the drill is transformed and works for years.   The new cells do cost nearly as much as the drill though

Write your comments here...I bought a cheap Draper drill years ago for the van.  Also ahve a Bosch for home use.  Using both on Sunday the Bosch died after a few minutes use, the Draper went on all day with much more torque.  The Draper is 12V teh Bosch 18 so I would say unless you buy a good top end one (DeWalt or similar) then for £20 its got to be worth a punt.

Agree about quality of cheaper brands. A few years ago we had a cheap brand - can't remember name but it lifted the four legs from storage, put them down again on site and needed recharging - current Hitachi runs and runs...

It'll do me until I can convince the boss that I really need that £130 Ryobi that I like 

Whilst Mrs One can still handcrank the steadies, don't think I'll bother

I bought an 18v cheapie at Aldi many years ago and it ran quite well. I do have a replacement battery bought via Ebay now and that is OK too. Conversely I bought a cheapie 12V one at my local spanish hypermarket for odd jobs in the apartment and the battery on that is pretty rubbish.

Not forgetting the Santa season is on its way, you can by-pass Your Boss

Not forgetting the Santa season is on its way, you can by-pass Your Boss

Write your comments here...exactly buy Mrs tiasdad a decent one for Christmas,  what could possibly go wrong!

Mine was bought as a retirement present. Work colleagues wanted to buy me a fountain pen with my name etched on it! As if that was going to happen!! Never looked back.

None at our Asda, unfortunately.