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Makita 18-Volt Lithium-Ion Drill Kit for $99
- Thread starter hallboyone
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c615586
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No reviews on Amazon, yet. Does anyone here have experience with this drill?
B18c_tuner
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Anything Makita white you should pass on it. The Makita green/ blue/ turquoise tools are the ones to buy. For $100 more you can get the lxt211 set which has the upgraded version of this drill and also comes with an impact and two 3.0 Ah batteries+ one 15min charger. Check your local CL listings.
Several times in the past when working with a contractor, when a battery or charger was dying we'd get a $99 special drill combo like this. Drill was usually a throwaway but we got 2 batts & a working charger for less than the cost of buying 2 batts & a charger. We used to call these battery kits with a free drill, and usually the batts were last generation or whatever. These are mostly designed for tradesmen to get for new hired help or apprentices with limited budgets.
Didn't matter the capacity as much (or in this case the speed of the charger) since we were replacing them as they started dying, when we could. I've done it myself a few times since when either I needed more batteries for the amount of tools used at a time, or when I found myself waiting for one to finish charging before I could keep working.
Didn't matter the capacity as much (or in this case the speed of the charger) since we were replacing them as they started dying, when we could. I've done it myself a few times since when either I needed more batteries for the amount of tools used at a time, or when I found myself waiting for one to finish charging before I could keep working.
Rezeppa
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I really like that drill driver combo! The drill is an amazing compact drill driver. I own a LXT hammer drill, 1/2" impact, impact driver and right angle drill and I am satisfied fully with all of it. It is not true that the white Makita is any different than the greenish teal versions. They are all the same just different battery sizes (Ah1.5 vs Ah3)There are many different web sites showing the impacts cut in half side by side and the only difference is the color. I really want to buy one of the white drills because of the compact size and few features I think it would be better than my big hammer drill for the work I do.
BlindViper
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I really like that drill driver combo! The drill is an amazing compact drill driver. I own a LXT hammer drill, 1/2" impact, impact driver and right angle drill and I am satisfied fully with all of it. It is not true that the white Makita is any different than the greenish teal versions. They are all the same just different battery sizes (Ah1.5 vs Ah3)There are many different web sites showing the impacts cut in half side by side and the only difference is the color. I really want to buy one of the white drills because of the compact size and few features I think it would be better than my big hammer drill for the work I do.
+the white tools accept the larger batteries