Drill motors, from which speed controllers are better

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Originally Posted by harry hills

speaking of botbitz, just seen their new motors, looking quite good atm. bigger shaft would be good.

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Believe they're working on getting a 10mm shaft version. Little pricey for the same power (reliability aside) as a 12 quid drill...

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Originally Posted by Relentless

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Originally Posted by harry hills

speaking of botbitz, just seen their new motors, looking quite good atm. bigger shaft would be good.

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Believe they're working on getting a 10mm shaft version. Little pricey for the same power (reliability aside) as a 12 quid drill...

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Unfortunately the days of AUD$20 cordless drills has long gone over here in Aus, it's hard to find any 12v - 18v ones for under AUD$40 (~24Quid). And the ones you can find for cheap always have the plastic gears in them :(.Pretty jelly that you UK blokes can still pick up drills for cheap!

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Originally Posted by Anttazz

Tried to test the botbitz controllers today on 9.2v with 2 12v drill motors attached but one of them doesn't seem to be working:( . I'll have another look at my soldering and see if its that, but it looked ok when I did it. Don't really want to have to send them all the way back to Auz to get looked at:?

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Shoot an email to sales@botbitz.com , we'll work through troubleshooting it with you :)

I don't know what the cheapest all metal gearboxed drills are in the UK?
I think even some of the more expensive ones have a plastic stage amongst the metal gears!

We got one from Homebase for £15 that was all metal. :)

Oooh, that's interesting, worth paying the extra £3 on top of the Argos drills and getting some that will last.

Got a link?

Believe it was this one: http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st ... ber=289449

Don't know how they fair next to the trusted Argos versions in combat but I don't see why they wouldn't work just as well. It was surprisingly well made. Took some time to get into it!

the ryobi drill i use have metal gearboxes, they cost me £39 for the 4 drill and £7 for postage so they work out cheaper than Argos

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Originally Posted by PJ-27

I don't know what the cheapest all metal gearboxed drills are in the UK?

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I'm pretty sure the latest ones I bought from Argos (~2 months ago) were all-metal gears, although my memory might be fudged slightly on that. I do remember that the attached drill motor has a D-shaped shaft so that the pinion doesn't break loose, an issue which I have had happen on other drill motors on several occasions (cost me a good battle once too :( )

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Originally Posted by Plargen

the ryobi drill i use have metal gearboxes, they cost me £39 for the 4 drill and £7 for postage so they work out cheaper than Argos

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Where's that?

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Originally Posted by Plargen

the ryobi drill i use have metal gearboxes, they cost me £39 for the 4 drill and £7 for postage so they work out cheaper than Argos

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Where's that?

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I think he might be referring to these? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRAND-NEW-GEN ... 540wt_1163

Bargain!

yeh there the ones

more like £15 with postage.
there is only 2 left anyway

What happened to this thread?!

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Originally Posted by archie2000

more like £15 with postage.
there is only 2 left anyway

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they will list more when there sold, well that's what they did last time

Have emailed BotBitz with my findings and will report back here soon :)

A little off topic but i have an Argos catalogue for winter and it says the Argos value cordless drills are £15.
poo that will be £60:(