Ozito 18v li-lon drill driver includes 2 batteries
Today's new paper says $88.00 but on there website says $99.00 (http://m.bunnings.com.au/OurRange/Search/ozito%2018v/Ozito-1…)
Don't know it's a good deal or not but just post it in case someone need it.
Ha, that's not bad hey. But I suppose it makes sense to just do a replacement - I hardly think the cost of parts, labor and shipping would be worth it against the cost price of a RRP $99 drill. The type of user that buys a cheap drill probably isn't going to be using it a great deal in those 3 years either.
Bottom line is you'd probably get what you pay for, but for most home-user who only need it for 5 minutes once in a blue moon, I'm sure it'd be kicking long after the battery stops holding charge
Disposable society, even cars are pretty much disposable nowadays, I've seen cars at wreckers with very little apparent damage, insurers must just write them off and replace.
Most service centres for electronics just swap out boards now and if that doesn't fix it, you get either a total replacement, credit toward a new item or refund depending on timeframe since purchase.
Even if it's just a few caps on a power board, instead of replacing $1 worth of caps they just swap out the board which is odd as the replacement board will almost certainly have the same crappy caps that will most likely fail whereas if the crap ones were replaced on the original board with decent quality ones, that particular problem should never return.
Back to the drill, I couldn't find mention of the warranty on the Bunnings website (useless) but I believe this is the drill in this deal and the reviews mention the 3 year warranty. Drill also seems to review rather favourably apart from one 1 star review where it seems the user was screwing into hardwood.
I hear ya foobar.
That 1 star review is from some tool trying to make a cheap drill do heavy duty tradesman work aswell, so should really just be disregarded. It'd be like buying a scooter then and expecting to take the win at the moto-gp.
It gets worse, much of a products failure is actually "planned obsolescence"
I think Ozito is a decent budget brand as long as you don't expect it to do to much. The drill you linked to has a lithium battery i think. This one http://www.ozito.com.au/lcd-5000 has the Li-ion battery. seems pretty good for the price.
EDIT . the Ozito site states it has a lithium-Ion battery but it looks the same drill as the OP
Yep, on the Bunnings website it states this drill is the LCD-5000 model, and on the Bunnings website, Ozito website, and the printed advertisement, all say Li-Ion.
The Bunnings item codes match between the $88 advertisement and the website - however the website shows a price of $99.
Does anyone know if this charger has an auto-cutoff when charged ? I always forget and leave my batteries cooking for a day or 2… :(
Most Li-ion charges will cutoff at 4.1/4.2v and the battery will also have some sort of protection. The reason being if it keeps charging past 4.2v you will have a nice explosion. Lithium -ion/polymer batteries will explode if overcharged
@foobar
That makes me remember my old Black and Decker drill from the 60s on the sticker says return to Black and Decker for repair. Back then they did repair them. Replace the broken bits.
I got one that is probably around 50 years old. Works as day one, stickers are still freshly on.
A other drill I found in rubbish collection, looked like it fell off a roof and bashed around quite badly. Bit of duck tape, works great.
Both made in Australia. They just don't make them like they used to.
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I had one they are crap. You can get a Makita 14.4v cordless with 2 batteries for around $120 that leaves it for dead.
Can you points us to this MAkita? is it on Bunnings website? I can't see anything.
Are you sure it was this model you owned? This appears to be a fairly new SKU.. Their old 14.4 and 18v were indeed crap.
This one is sourced from Puly / Hanpu like the 10.8v model, which, as far as cheap chinese ODM's is reasonable.
Pros
Reasonable 30nm torque
Jacobs single sleeve chuck / spindle lock
Cons
only 10mm chuck
1.3A/h battery is on the lowest end of the scale
Overall not much a of "bargain" but OK I guess
http://www.bunnings.com.au/products_product_144v-nicad-makit…
Price correct as at Saturday, 03 August 2013 11:59:20 AM
Ni-Cd! 1900s battery technology.
The Makita is great for someone who uses it frequently as the battery will self-discharge quickly in storage.
The Ozito with LiIon battery is great for casual home users who only use it occasionally. They can fully charge it then leave it in the cupboard for 8 months and it'll still have plenty of charge then.
Surely people can see there's a market for casual home users? Not everyone needs a high-torque drill. Assembling Ikea furniture and screwing hooks into walls twice a year won't benefit from a more expensive drill.
Did the Makita have a li-ion battery? It makes a big difference for light users who don't use their drills every day.
If you need a cordless for an occasional 10 min job then these are OK. If you are the least bit serious about DIY then save yourself a lot of pain & frustration and get a one of the better brands.
The Makita models are exclusive to bunnings only, so then they dont have to beat it by 10%. Usually it may be just one didget different in the model number but the parts used inside the drill are usually plastic. i know this becuase I rang makita once to ask why when investigating drills I could never find a bunnings drill on the makita website. So keep that in mind. If you want a real drill "Go where the tradies go" ….. "Not Here"
i had bunnings. pricematch clearance item from sydneytools. 18v makita impact driver with 3 batteries for $240. now all i do is by naked makita 18v tools for around $100 onwards….long term better value…
Can I use this to drill brick wall?
It's not a hammer drill so best not to. Last time I was in a Bunnings, the 710W corded Ozito hammer drill was all of $35 from what I recall.
They do have a cordless hammer drill but it's Ni-CD and probably best avoided.
Here is the in house (Ozito) range of hammer drills.
Thanks foobar, $35 is good enough to get me started.
I would recommend the Ozito rotary hammer drill.
Search for reviews - even tradies swear by them.
A lot of people scoff at the Ozito stuff but I've found it to be of reasonable quality and most of it comes with a 3 year replacement warranty which is pretty good these days.