| RE:Wednesday Chat 12.19.07 |
Subject: RE:Wednesday Chat 12.19.07 by CasetheCorvetteman on 2007/12/19 23:50:49 Wednesday is gone here, its Thursday....  I laid 6 sheets of fibre cement, 2 of which were about 20mm thick, 2,400mm long, and either 1,200 or 1,400 wide. Heavy as buggery. Took the V28 into work today to assist with the drilling and screwing process, The big beast started with a 3/4 battery, and went the whole job without needing a charge, and still going full steam (still had the 2nd battery sitting in the carry case full and ready to go, but didnt need it). The Metabo on the other hand went through the 2nd battery quicker than we could even charge the first (and yet the 2nd was sitting in the charge cradle so we knew it was full!!), and the LokTor 18v went through 2 full batteries and was onto its 3rd. Suprisingly enough, my old Ryobi 18v cordless outlasted the Metabo by about 3 screws, and when youre screwing into fibre cement this thick, that is acctually quite a lot. These 2 drills were just not built for such heavy work. The other 2 handled the task with ease, being used for drilling, countersinking and screwing, although the big V28 worked over 3 hrs on a 3/4 charged Li-Ion 28v battery, where as the LokTor 18v would only do about an hour's worth of work on a battery, which really is quite efficient for a NiCd system. (we didnt do all this work in 1 hit, but over the course of the full day, the 2 big dogs wouldve easily got a full 3hrs use a piece) |
