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This drill has amazed me time and time again. The drill got away from him, hit him in the jaw and knocked him off an 8' ladder. I have drilled through 8" of solid wood with a 1" naileater. One time one of my guys was drilling into a plaster ceiling with a 4" holesaw.
I more than have gotten my money's worth out of it. I told him not to ever make fun of my drill again lol. After two years of tearing this drill apart it has finally burnt out. This drill would last forever if you used it the way it was meant to be used. It is crazy that it has lasted this long. I am an electrician and have used and abused this drill in almost every way possible.
I don't use hammer drill bits designed for cordless drills because this drill can handle an SDS bit for a real hammer drill. This is the closest you will get to the performance of a corded drill with the convenience of no cord. I have used this drill to make high hat cut outs in plaster and wood lathe with a 6" carbide holesaw. He started telling me my drill had no balls so I told him to put it on low.
I had to drill six additional holes in 4" concrete around a foundation to pour termite treatment. No contest. The belt clip is ingenious and won't pull your pants down. Arriving late into these reveiws with professionals like "REMODELING-GUY" ahead of me, most everything has already mentioned about this amazing drill. With the DeWalt weighing nearly 10 pounds, the only way to carry it while working on a ladder is by wearing a horse collar and harness. Every couple of years I had to buy a new Nicad battery which costs the same as a 5-year Milwaukee 28V battery. If you've ever wondered what the exhilaration was like of a 10-year-old kid who got a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas back in the fifties, buy this Milwaukee 28v drill/driver.
The Milwaukee 28v easily won. without the bit. 13 oz. For years, I have used a 9 lb. The Milwaukee weighs 6 lbs.
Here's another angle: Being a try-to-do-everything-yourselfer, April is time for the exterminator. I am a NASCAR fan, but it is crazy to be paying big bucks to help pay for of a multi-million dollar advertising sponsorship when I could be putting those same bucks into the quality of my tools. Never happened. Attaching a new 18" carbide masonery bit to this brilliant tool right out of the box and starting to drill was like driving a new red Ferrai off the showroom floor onto a Baja off-road racing course. 8 oz.,24V DeWalt on such jobs struggling to finish before the battery died.
If you really need a hammer drill, buy one with a cord, but if you are driving screws and need to do it sometimes in masonry, buy this drill. It's no heavier than its 18-volt siblings, with twice the battery life. It's well worth the money. I've worked my way up from a 9.6 volt cordless drill to this one. This is far and away the best one I've used yet.
The batteries seem to last forever and they recharge very quickly. At 600 pounds of torque and 1800 RPM this baby makes quick work out of any project. No complaints at all. Unbelievabley better then the old Ni-Cad batteries. It is a heavy bugger, so you if you're a pansy don't even pick it up. You have to pay attention while your using it, I've seen people let it spin around on then and get jaw-jacked by the battery.
MOST OF THE TIME ITS NOT Since that point if i call back they deny they ever told me this and turned the blame on meif your using the drill and or sawzaw and the bit or blade binds for a split second it fries the battery.bottom line dont risk it and buy this tools , mine have been broke more then they have workedi have used a cheap 30$ walmart drill to finish the job that the milwaukee fried on,still currently fighting Milwaukee to fix my issue, this time they are CHARGING ME to mail my batteries back in for inspectionBOTTOM LINE IS IF THE DRILL CANT TAKE A SLIGHT STALL OF THE BIT THEN IT SHOULDNT HAVE A DIRECT DRIVE MODE.DONT GET ME WRONG WHEN IT WORKS ITS GREAT. I have had 8 of these batteries fail, all so far have been replaced under warrenty,i own the hammer drill, impact , sawzaw each has cooked batteries with small poof of smoke from battery and its deadi advised Milwaukee of what i believe the problem is and the batteries failing they advised that ITS me causing the tool to fail. but they have replaced batteries under warrantywhen i first phoned into their support they advised me of a issue with the batteries which caused them to fry under load.
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