Flashcell 4.6v Cordless Screwdriver/Torch $20 (Save $29) at Bunnings

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  nonpop on 07/12/2013 - 07:28

  +2

  Quick charging … Good for my Zombie apocalypse survival kit

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  Kanu on 07/12/2013 - 07:57

  Link has price at $49????

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    IsTops on 07/12/2013 - 08:03

    +1

    Keep reading. It's $20

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  llama on 07/12/2013 - 08:17

  Good price

  The've had huge displays of these things in the tool department of my local Bunnings for about a year. I've beeen tempted, but they were simply too expensive!

  At $20, it's a great price - better than the Ozito which takes forever to charge. I think I will grab a couple for Chrissie gifts.

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  bluechan on 07/12/2013 - 08:41

  Do these have enough grunt? Anyone found a review?

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    llama on 07/12/2013 - 09:00

    -2

    For the (original) price, you'd hope it was something decent, but I'm guessing that it's probably the same getless little toy as all the others out there. Or it rotates at about 2 RPM, so to remove a 6mm long competer screw takes 10 minutes of tedious "rrr-rrrr-rrrr-rrrrr".

    I've found with the other brands that they use low gearing to generate enough torque to make them even 1/2 useful. This means that they are as slow as a wet week. These limitations make them totally useless in real life.

    The whole idea of tools, and especially power tools, is to make work faster and easier. There is something inherently stupid about a cordless screwdriver that doesn't have enough grunt, or takes longer to use than simply using a normal hand tool.

    And unfortunately, the majority of these cordless screwdrivers fall into that bracket. And many online reviewers seem to be keyboard warriors who's most complex construction challenge was the Lego Advent Calendar… so they tend to get overly excited about the fact that there is removable bits, rather than whether the product is actually of any practical use :-D

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      tonyjzx on 07/12/2013 - 09:07

      +2

      the $10 ozitos one has been really good for me

      works on pcs and stuff no problem

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        dan76n on 07/12/2013 - 09:57

        +1

        Will it be useful on my Lego advent calendar though?

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        llama on 07/12/2013 - 10:15

        -2

        Yeah… They all work, for rotating a screw.

        The question is WHY do you need a power took to do simple task like rotating a screw?

        They are S-L-O-W and it's not like they have a clutch so you can ensure that you don't strip the thread or whatever (not that most of them have enough torque to do that anyway).

        I've always found that after the first few screws, the novelty wears off and I just use a normal screwdriver because it is faster, more accurate and more powerful.

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        greenie4242 on 07/12/2013 - 19:05

        When you're assembling furniture with 100+ screws, it's great to have an electric screwdriver. If you have to install fifty PCI cards in an office worth of computers over a weekend, you'll also be happy you invested in an electric screwdriver!

        They don't all work for simply rotating screws. A 4.6v one like this probably isn't great and doesn't have enough torque for screwing into hard wood or for self-tapping screws, but if you do need to screw into hard wood, you'll destroy your wrist before a decent electric screwdrivers needs recharging.

        For unscrewing two or four machine threaded computer case screws, unscrewing a faceplate, screwing in a PCI card then screwing the case back into place, a basic electric screwdriver like this can save a lot of arm-ache when you have to do more than a few at a time.

        BTW not sure where you get S-L-O-W from - I've never had a slow electric screwdriver, unless the batteries are nearly flat. They're always faster than doing it by hand. Maybe you've only tried crap brands or ones with flat batteries or something. You're wrong also about the clutch - many DO have a clutch and will not over-tighten, plus the really good ones let you apply more torque with an extra twist of your wrist. Not sure about this model. Too tired to research it.

        Try to use a decent brand, either you'll change your mind, or you never needed one in the first place. But just because you don't need one doesn't mean other people don't.

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      beeze on 07/12/2013 - 10:08

      well, you can buy a Ryobi for $69 that has better everything, or this for less than a 1/3 of the cost…

      Looks like its coming out of the same factory that is making the Ozito ones which I use for work.

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      davidl2 on 07/12/2013 - 10:19

      "to remove a 6mm long competer screw takes 10 minutes"

      ouch! that's suck!

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  bluechan on 07/12/2013 - 08:42

  Double post…

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  newland4881 on 07/12/2013 - 15:23

  Just get one. It works well. Nice looking and surprised charging time.
  Worth for 20 bucks.
  Nothing's like "remove a 6mm long screw for 10 minutes"

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  zoomzoomzoom on 07/12/2013 - 16:46

  Just got one, took it home. It' s noisy when the least amount of load is applied. Sort of a ratchet sound. It functions without slipping. When free spinning (no load), it has a motor sound what I would normally expect an electric driver to sound like. Anyone else have one? How does theirs sound under load?

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  ShipShapeRC on 10/12/2013 - 21:55

  +1

  I bought 2. Tested one. Charged in about 60 seconds. I ran it and grabbed the spindle to apply some load and ran it for about 3 minutes. I noticed it had slowed but seemed as fast as my Ryobi one at the start. I'm keeping them 'mint' for Christmas, but noise was not bad, power was okay. Dunno about "10 minutes for 6mm" I reckon a couple of seconds. It wont have massive long run times. These 'cells' are not normal batteries to charge in a minute.

  For the techies, it charges at 2.4 amps at 4.8V which means not a lot of capacity, but pop it in the holder while you pick up the next screw or board or whatever and it will always be charged. The LED has forward and rear facing lights.

  All up, hey it's $20 and if it's flat, only 60 seconds to charge it. Oh and you can remove it part charged without damaging the cells - if you are really in that much of a hurry.