CORDLESS DRILL TOUR - Why I Like This Drill

So in this video I want to give you a tour of a full-featured cordless drill so that if you have to buy or borrow one, you're going to get the right kind

So this would be called a drill driver with hammer drilling capabilities

And so I guess I'll start here with this adjustable collar here

So that's a picture of a little drill bit. And when I have the drill set into this position, it's just a full lockup

So the motor is connected to the truck, and it's just going to spin

And there's no slippage or anything like that. So for drilling, and most applications actually, you have the drill set to the drilling position

If I were to move this over, then what I have is an adjustable depth feature

So basically, the drill will deliver a certain amount of torque and then no more

So it's delivering torque now. But you see I'm holding it. The chuck isn't spinning

I've topped out on that particular setting. So this would be for driving screws to a consistent depth all the time

So the lower the number, it's number two, it hardly delivering any torque at all It very easy for me to stop it from turning And if I turn it all the way up let see if I can even stop it at all

I can, but I have to hold it hard. So that's the, when they talk about a drill driver

that's what they mean. They mean a drill that can drill in full lockup mode

and then a drill that has this depth clutch feature. That's the driver part

Now in this case, there's a little hammer here. and when I turn it there, I have full lockup, so it's not going to slip, no matter what

But in addition to rotating, there's a kind of a hammer motion

And that's very useful when you're drilling masonry. Because if I just have it in the regular position here, and I drill, I mean, I'm going to, I'm going to get

this is a brick, it's fairly soft, but I'm still not making very good broken

I'll spend all day doing that. hole but if I put it in hammer mode you're going to hear the drill sounds different

because it does this this hammering action as well as rotation and it's much

much faster when it's drilling see the difference? Regular drilling

and it going in but not terribly fast And like I said this brick is soft So if I was dealing with concrete block or poured concrete the difference between hammer drilling and regular drilling would be even more stark

So you'll see there's quite a difference there

You'll probably be doing some. doing some drilling into masonry when you're finishing your basement

So that hammer drilling capability is pretty important. Just a few other things

Nowadays, cordless power tools exclusively have lithium ion batteries. Previous generations of batteries were nickel cadmium mostly, and they're not great batteries

They don't have a long service life. They discharge slowly on the shelf, so after six months of storage, your badgered

you're going to get your tool, your batteries flat. Lithium ions stores more energy in a smaller space

It doesn't self-discharge at all, really, or very, very little. And it's a smart battery, too

So, for instance, I press this button. See, I've got three quarters of a tank, so to speak, of energy in this battery

And they can operate when it's cold without damage. If you had bad experiences with cordless tools in the past the new world of lithium ion tools which is across the board across all brands is really going to surprise and impress you

And, yeah, it's just the way to go. One other thing here, just this. Almost all drills have this. It's like a low gear and high gear setting

so for drilling in certainly in metal and sometimes in masonry you'd want a slower speed so

that's full speed on the low gear setting so you're going to have more power slower speed faster

speed lower power now this is a professional grade tool and a drill like this

with some kind of a battery and a charger might be $200

You can get a bargain basement consumer grade drill for maybe $100, but in my experience, you pay a

little bit more and you get a whole lot more tool when you get into the professional grade

And you need to think of yourself as something of a professional. When you're finishing a basement, you're taking on some serious work and you don't want to

shortchange yourself with substandard tool. so there you go cordless drill driver hammer drill