I was considering this for next thursday at £20 with two 18 Volt batteries. I looked at the brochure & it says the batteries are "1.3 mAH NiCd batteries" Perhaps I don't talk brochure talk right but this seems to me to be incredibly small. If I am right in reading this as milli-ampere-hours? TIA
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I had a laugh at that as well. Lidl had some similar ones, but with a 1.5mAhr capacity :-)
Annoyingly, The Lidl ones looked to be the same as the one that I got from them a year or two ago but didn't seem to be showing spare batteries, I could have done with some new batteries for mine, since all three sets are at the end of their life. I'll probably pay Aldi a visit instead
Mark Rand RTFM
Considering that the NiMH "AA" cells I use for camera flashguns are rated 2400 mAH, I suspect that they have put the decimal point in the wrong place. 1.3 AH sounds nearer the mark.
Regards, Tony
Looks like there are a couple of other interesting items there - the "combi tool" with flexible drive for 15 quid sounds interesting. Not sure about the 15 piece stone drill set "...made from high quality, sandblasted carbide steel..." can't say I have come across that particular exotic material before...
Regards, Tony
Last time round, this Forum brought out notices of these tools. I bought the drill drill, the smaller bits and bobs and wirring sanders and accessories. With fading memmmmm(?) I spent about =A380( tite arsed git) and apart from one of the small drills which was really weak, I felt more than delighted- until my son buggered off with most of them to decorate his flat. He's a snotty nosed so and so and I thought that my ropey tools would be beneath him. Full of praises!
Regarding Aldi, five years ago I bought a battery drill in from them in Garmish Partenkirchen. It is still in use.
My considered opinion is that the Aldi, Lidl and Netto sources are excellent. No one is going to get top top quality but there is no doubt that if you are short of a tool and work off the principle of a tool which will do the job- perhaps end of tool. Buy it and be surprised.
Digressing- it's Christmas. Lidl flogs excellent French wines. I have a house in France and the locals flock their. Nuff said?
Cheers
Norm
I bought the same drill but mine was in Blue Plastic
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Yes; it's definitely a mistake, 1.3mAh batteries would power a drill for about a second before running flat. These types of battery pack are made of 'Sub-C' sized cells from 1Ah to 2.4Ah, even up to 3.8Ah for RC models. Buying tagged cells & soldering them is a lot cheaper than getting new battery packs...
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