T18+3

[mike_aa]

I have dropped my T15 many times I have had it for years!

I dropped mine 5ft onto concrete and broke e-tech dail on back of the drill.  Still worked fine.

Then my mum borrowed it and drop it hip height onto concrete and broke the e-tech dail even more.  Kinda annoying but it still works.

It was a Friday and I was working on a job and left my drill outside. I forgot about the drill and went home. I went back to the job on Monday seen my drill outside and was absolutely gutted!
I was gutted because it had been raining really hard all weekend! Typical when I left my drill outside. 

It was soaking and as I lifted it up water came out everywhere from the battery and motor.

I took the battery off and left it to dry for a day. This was a year ago and the drill is still working now.

Are you the guy that did the video at the beginning of this thread?  LOL [big grin]

 

[duburban]

nobody is bringing up Bosch's dropping a drill from a helicopter promotional video?

 

[DB10]

I use my 10.8v Milwaukee drills if I'm working up high, they usually have enough power for the job and are just easier to manage, cheap enough to replace as a bare unit if they don't survive a fall as well.

 

[sae]

I use my 10.8v Milwaukee drills if I'm working up high, they usually have enough power for the job and are just easier to manage, cheap enough to replace as a bare unit if they don't survive a fall as well.

That's probably a good choice, the 10.8/12v Milwaukee drills are pretty dense which should give it a better chance of survival.

 

[jacko9]

Designing cordless drill to survive 8' drops is a bit extreme if you can imagine what the safety factor would add to the drill mass for such a shock loading, we will be hefting 50 Kgm drills!

 

[Deansocial]

You dropped a drill it broke boohoo. What do you expect? My panasonic drill snapped doing the same thing. My t18 is pretty old now looks battered and still works great

But do you routinely take it up to 8' over bare concrete?  Would you have done that with it when it was new?  And what can a T18 do for you up on a ladder that a $200 cheaper Makita or Milwaukee can't?

8' ha i use it to screw structural screws into roofs 7m up. I often use it on soffit facia replacement un a ladder over concrete. Same applies for my pdc.
these tools earn me money when up up there, they dont earn jack sat in the van safely tucked in