Drill motors, from which speed controllers are better

**Ellis** · 11th July 2012, 21:01

Originally Posted by harry hills

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

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

**knightrous** · 12th July 2012, 05:13

Originally Posted by Relentless

Originally Posted by harry hills

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

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

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!

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

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

**PJ-27** · 12th July 2012, 09:50

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!

**Ellis** · 12th July 2012, 11:29

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

**PJ-27** · 12th July 2012, 11:38

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

Got a link?

**Ellis** · 12th July 2012, 11:48

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!

**plargen** · 12th July 2012, 16:30

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

**RogueTwoRobots** · 17th July 2012, 12:15

Originally Posted by PJ-27

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

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

)