Lidl SDS Drill

[Onoff]

Maybe I've got the January blues (I have) and in need of a tool purchase pick-me-up as on a whim I've just bought one of the £34.99 Lidl drills:



Their corded multi tool I have is excellent. Their, again 230V drywall gun is actually OK too.

I'd have stopped there but my own Bosch 230V hammer drill has just died after 18 years, the one before that lasted 16 years. Tbh I've been getting a bit sick of hauling in my big Makita SDS and the trannie that goes with it of late. This having rotary stop for a bit of chasing and being so light convinced me.

So...it's slow start & makes a nice enough noise drilling. The selector switch could be better maybe. BUT the reason it went back today is due to the fwd/rev switch on the pistol grip. It's not what you'd call positive in its positioning and when in what must be reverse it's all I can do to pull the trigger it's that hard work!

Exchanged the drill tonight for another, again all sealed up in its packaging. Forward function again feels /sounds acceptable but reverse doesn't!

Need to find A N Other with the same drill and compare notes.

 

[eddie49]

Are you sure that the reverse button is moving all the way through from Forward fully into the Reverse setting?
Sometimes there is an intermediate "Off" position, which will prevent the trigger from being pulled in.

 

[Onoff]

Are you sure that the reverse button is moving all the way through from Forward fully into the Reverse setting?
Sometimes there is an intermediate "Off" position, which will prevent the trigger from being pulled in.

Yep. Halfway stops the trigger being pulled in. Tried it incrementally from there all the way in the reverse direction but it's difficult to pull in.

 

[eddie49]

OK, I have another thought: the circular red "Lock On" button, which will hold the trigger permanently on if the button is pressed after the trigger is squeezed right in. Perhaps that red button is not fully out, and is partially blocking the trigger from moving in?