Power tools for girls

[quimcunx]

If you're buying stuff like cordless drill/drivers etc then Makita or Bosche blue are the best and worth spending the extra cash on.

I think they only make stuff designed around the jobs they do rather than the person using them though. Do girls hands work differently or something?

I asked my builder dad for drill for christmas one year, knowing that he knows his stuff. Makita I think he got. But he got me a cordless one (girl innit) which, lovely as it was, wasn't any good for lintls so I had to get a hammer one myself, anyway.



Still, it means I have two drills.

And a lovely shiny red toolbox, which is essential.

 

[geminisnake]

Hubby just bought me a rechargeable Titan drill from Screwfix, two batteries in the pack. His work use that make and they last better than a lot of more expensive makes.

If someone bought me a pink power tool they would regret it. I am still in love with my chainsaw, so much so I bought another one for spares but it's not so powerful

 

[Cid]

If you're buying stuff like cordless drill/drivers etc then Makita or Bosche blue are the best and worth spending the extra cash on.

I think they only make stuff designed around the jobs they do rather than the person using them though. Do girls hands work differently or something?

Technically Festool are the best really...

Yours for only £400...

As far as I can tell the older the house, the less likely it is to be reinforced concrete - the only places I've lived made of it are 60s and 70s council flats.
You might have stud walls, which would require a bit of effort if you're going to have anything heavier than like, a single piece of paper on the shelves, but it's not impossible and at least you'll actually be able to get a hole in them.

BTW that Lidl drill has an 18v battery and comes with screwdriver bits if you're not going to get a separate one.

With older houses you do often end up drilling into brickwork though, which you still ideally want a hammer function for.

Depends how much work you intend to do, cheaper drills do often just stop working after a while (tbh they can sometimes conk out after doing fuck all with them as well). I have a Makita, but this is sort of normal for a cabinet maker (actually most of the guys in the workshop have the Festool).

Personally I wouldn't go for a cordless (although it's the one I use most), the fact they have to be supplied with a battery and charger bumps the cost up and the affordable ones tend to be underpowered, you will just get pissed off if you have to drill into any masonry (largely because it won't work).

One of these (shop around, power tool prices can vary a lot online) might be an idea. Yeah, it's £50 and not cordless, but it'll have the power to cope with most of the stuff DIY can throw at it, it has a hammer function, and you'll probably still be using it in 20 years (Makita make their stuff well). Mind you I don't think it has any torque settings, which are useful for screwing things other than yourself...

Hammer/cordless/torque drills start at around £120 for a Ryobi... Never used one though, not a great reputation but probably fine for DIY.

 

[Pip]

Also, don't buy cheap drill bits. It took me two hours to drill four poxy holes in my brick balcony yesterday, and two of them broke.

 

[Cid]

You did buy masonry bits, right?

 

[Pip]

Yes

From the pound shop though

 

[fen_boy]

Yes

From the pound shop though

Do you have a hammer action?

There appears to be a panel of tungsten steel in the bricks in my garage. I've got decent bits and a decent bosch power drill and I just can't drill through them.

 

[Cid]

Tried drilling through the bricks with a masonry then switching to a good HSS bit?

 

[girasol]

In all honesty most mid-ranged power tools are designed to be wielded by skinny amateur DIY'rs like me and should present no issue to gyal.

It's not like the early ninties when a decent masonry drill could double as a cosh.

I cannot big up this tool enough

It has three different blades, one bieng a jigsaw blade. It's light, easy to handle and totally useful for loads of sawing needs.

Also: The dremel multi-tool. It's massive range of heads is well useful

Oh I like that! The jigsaw cutter I have isn't very good.

 

[Boycey]

Technically Festool are the best really...

Yours for only £400...

fuck yeah!

though tbh i think all that kick arse engineering is wasted on drills and drivers- plunge saws, routers and sanders when hooked up to their extraction system however

 

[Spion]

 

[fen_boy]

Tried drilling through the bricks with a masonry then switching to a good HSS bit?

Yeah I've knackered loads of bits, I think it might be Adamantium.

 

[Boycey]

LOL

heavy duty breaker girl is very inappropriately dressed, her supervisor ought to slap her wrist... or something...

 

[pootle]

I'm not clicking through that..........at work


Right then, so it would appear I have to buy a £400 bit of kit as My First Powertool? Ace

 

[Pip]

Do you have a hammer action?

There appears to be a panel of tungsten steel in the bricks in my garage. I've got decent bits and a decent bosch power drill and I just can't drill through them.

Yeah. What happened is I gave up when the second drill bit broke, and came at them again with a decent drill bit the next day and was able to drill holes deep enough that I didn't have to cut the rawl plugs in half. With a decent bit it took a few minutes

 

[Cid]

Bump because Makita are doing a breast cancer drill, it's pretty cheap (for a Makita, £85). Also pretty basic though, only comes with one battery (10.8v, 1.3ah Li-ion though, so should last longer than the NiMH batteries they used to use and will probably charge fairly quickly), seems to have a good range of torque settings though. Also looks like it's pretty compact and light. Obviously it's also blatant publicity and sales for Makita, but since we've already discussed them here and there are worse ways of doing that, I thought I'd post it anyway.

Axminster donate an extra fiver:

http://www.axminster.co.uk/makita-pink-drill-driver-df330dwxp-li-ion-108v-prod858258/

 

[Badgers]

 

[fractionMan]

I can't recommend the bosh multitool enough. It's awesome. Saw, sander, plunge saw, polisher plus a few other things. I've been using it to cut square holes in boxes, sand the boat, cut the end off screws and trim the edges off metal amplifier cases.

Doesn't come in pink though, sorry.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You can get pink drills

Wrong on every level.

They just paint the underpowered cheap crap pink and sell it as a women's model. Fuck that patronizing shit.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Wrong on every level.

I agree entirely

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I agree entirely

You do realise you liked this post Yuwipi. Can I take it that as this level isn't a power tool, it's acceptable in pink? Hah

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You do realise you liked this post Yuwipi. Can I take it that as this level isn't a power tool, it's acceptable in pink? Hah

No, pink tools are always bad. (Well, I can think of one exception.) I just thought it was a humorous response.

 

[stuff_it]

You can even get ladies welding masks these days...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You can even get ladies welding masks these days...

I admit that I do like those. Not the pink one, though.

 

[stuff_it]

I admit that I do like those. Not the pink one, though.

I like the one with the diamante skull, sadly it's the most expensive.

 

[Cid]

Wrong on every level.

They just paint the underpowered cheap crap pink and sell it as a women's model. Fuck that patronizing shit.

This is certainly true. The Makita even includes 3 drill bits, because women don't know which drill bits they should buy and won't have any...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I like the one with the diamante skull, sadly it's the most expensive.

That's my fav too. I might go for the one with the rose on it. Both would go well with my steel toe welding boots.

 

[stuff_it]

This is certainly true. The Makita even includes 3 drill bits, because women don't know which drill bits they should buy and won't have any...

Mind you I can talk - I've probably lunched out more power tools than you could shake a stihl saw at, fortunately I now have access to all of Mr _it's tools (yes all of them, fnar!).

 

[Teaboy]

Hilti have consisently the best kit and the best aftercare service, though tbh they're far more than you'd ever need for diy.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No, pink tools are always bad. (Well, I can think of one exception.) I just thought it was a humorous response.

I was joking about you liking the level.