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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
good gun great price
Ive been using this gun for a week now and it has performed better than expected. I use my ridgid cordless tools everyday at work for the last 5 years. If you dont mind a heavy solid tool ridgid is the way to go. Im using my 18v 2.5ah ni-cad batteries and it workes great. I want to buy some 24v batteries now. I drilled threw 15" of solid wood with a 1 1/8 auger bit in low...
Published 9 months ago by Jesse M. Kerrick
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
its keyless "chuck" is horrible
The chuck is bad and i know someone else with the same drill and he has the exact same problem.
Bought when the kit first came out 3 years ago or so. Drill had a jacobs chuck (keyless - u just grasp it and spin the drill and it locks up and this is the prevailing set up for all drills now). Anyhow, since the day i bought it, the chuck would have difficulty...
Published 4 months ago by PhD, MA, Maa, Maaaa!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
good gun great price, November 24, 2009
This review is from: RIDGID 24V/18V Max Select XLi Lithium-Ion Hammer Drill (Misc.)
Ive been using this gun for a week now and it has performed better than expected. I use my ridgid cordless tools everyday at work for the last 5 years. If you dont mind a heavy solid tool ridgid is the way to go. Im using my 18v 2.5ah ni-cad batteries and it workes great. I want to buy some 24v batteries now. I drilled threw 15" of solid wood with a 1 1/8 auger bit in low gear and it never slowed down i didnt even have to stop partway to clear out the woodchips. ALWAYS use the second handle while doing high torque tasks I burned out my last drill that way. Only one thing ridgid needs to fix is that the trigger sticks under massive torque while not using extra handle. Ridgids hammerdrill is just as good if not better than others like dewalt. The clutch on a ridgid gun is better than any other ive used. Dewalt has the worst clutch ive ever used.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Nice drill, November 16, 2009
This review is from: RIDGID 24V/18V Max Select XLi Lithium-Ion Hammer Drill (Misc.)
This hammer drill is great. I use it almost every day. It has dual voltages. I can use 18 or 24v. Clutch is very helpful. Great drill/driver but I like the hammerdrill function.
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
its keyless "chuck" is horrible, April 16, 2010
This review is from: RIDGID 24V/18V Max Select XLi Lithium-Ion Hammer Drill (Misc.)
The chuck is bad and i know someone else with the same drill and he has the exact same problem.
Bought when the kit first came out 3 years ago or so. Drill had a jacobs chuck (keyless - u just grasp it and spin the drill and it locks up and this is the prevailing set up for all drills now). Anyhow, since the day i bought it, the chuck would have difficulty equally "snugging" itself around the shaft of anything i put in it, whether a round drill bit or hex bit. I would almost always (literally 90% of the time) have to redo it at least once, sometimes 7-8 times, before it would seat properly and there have been times where i literally gave up.
I lived with it assuming it was just "my" drill even though I scrutinized the chuck "well" closely and could see nothing wrong with it. Then a sat dish installer came over to my house one day and i noticed he had the same set up. So we were talking about it and I asked him if he had any trouble with the chuck and he just looked at me and he said "Yes! I thought it was just me or just this drill but you are having the same problem???" So the point is that I know it is not just me or my drill and also, I am a contractor with 30 employees, all my friends are contractors, so i buy tools by the truckload.
If I were using this as a professional installer, I don't know how i'd live with it and I use it strictly for home projects where speed isn't issue.
In addition, my drill has recently developed some sort of motor problem. While drilling at full speed it will increase/decrease RPM without my adjusting trigger pressure so the motor is either going bad or the relay is going bad. This is sad because I would say that as far as usage, I would be an the lowest end of the spectrum meaning I rarely, rarely use my drill. It barely had a scratch.
It's too bad because the power and the batteries are amazing and the rest of the kit is great. The saw and sawzall are amazing but I cannot recommend at all in fact, avoid this drill like the plague.
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