Screwfix are selling this at half price.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/74113/Power-Tools/Cordless-Drills/DeWalt-XRP-DC988L1-18V-Li-Ion-Cordless-Combi-Drill


Not bad deal.

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It may seem difficult at first! But everything is difficult at first.

That is an excellent deal, I am really tempted.

I already have loads of Dewalt 18v stuff including a drill.

I reckon I can buy that and sell my old drill with a ni-cad battery and charger on ebay and i'll almost get enough to pay for this new one with the LI-ON battery and charger

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good bargin its a shame the batteries dont fit the nicad drills.

the extra bat for that drill is £10 dearer than the drill with the bat

they do fit trust me

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Are you sure?

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/62512/Power-Tools/Batteries-Chargers/DeWalt-DC9180-XJ-Li-Ion-18V-Battery-Pack

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That is the battery that I looked at, which makes me believe that the drill, battery and charger above are all backwards compatible.

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Someone at screwfix has reviewed the new batteries-

"i purchased four of the new dewalt 18v nano batteries. i have always used dewalt tools but wanted to change to the new lithium batteries that makita were doing then i found that dewalt were doing them, also dewalts new batteries still fit the old tools unlike makitas.but i wished i had saved my money and switched to makita The dewalt batteries are useless they dont last half as long as the old batteries and as soon as you hit anything hard they just stop and have to be recharged. DONT BUY THESE BATTERIES STICK TO THE OLD ONES"

I might not bother now

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i think you have to be fair li-ions have circuitry to prevent overloading the battery/drill
so where as before with nicads you could load up the battery and drill way past there desighned capacity now they are protected
i think you have to treat them differently

they may of course be carp i will tell you on wednesday when mine arrives lol

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How many drills do you have big all lol,i read somewhere that the dewalt drills are not much good,but as i have not owned one cannot really comment ,i do like the look of the roybi stuff tho .

drill =
ryobi 5 plus impact
dewalt 18v i angle drill and 1 hammer [2 on wednesay]
bosch 10.8 1single speed 1x 2 speed 1 impact 1 angle drill
bosch 14.4 driver and impact
bosch 24v hammer

14 plus mains [6 ish lol]

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I wonder why that ryboi set you have takes slide on batterys,did they do single drills etc with slide on batts.

argos used to do the seperate drill with 2 batteries and a charger for £90 with frequent reduction to £80 about twice a year

other tools where recip saw and another circular saw desighn and a torch type light

i have a drill 3 batteries and mitre saw goin as well the saw virtualy is unused as i bought it as a spare incase the other saw broke down

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ok have orderd my 3 speed li-ion canary yellow machine
will report back on wednesday

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I got a 10% discount code through this morning from screwfix and so I have just ordered one

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10% or £10!!
i got £10 with the new catalouge!!

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