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Makita Batteries HOW MUCH
Hi
Got a call from the hubby asking me to take the spare drill to him on a job. His main drill/batteries died.
He has a makita 24Volt, he asked me to buy some more batteries for it and they are more than the drill themselves…….
I`m looking at the non branded ones, still priced at £100+ each, he wants 3!
Does anyone had a good supplier or ideas.
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I was looking at Amazon for some for our SDS drill. May be worth a look there.
Cheers
Gary
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Hi,
I have a guy on my industrial estate whop is a massive eBay tool seller, when I mean massive I mean like 15,000 sq feet of absolute gems including lots of batteries for loads of types of drills.
I’m not sure if I’m allowed to post his details here.
Rob is this ok?
I think he might be good for the whole forum actually because he sells some right gems…I’m always there buying measuring tapes
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We invested in a set of Makita 18v LXT drill / impact driver and bought 2 extra 3.0Ah batteries. They were £90 each for ‘real’ ones…or we could get imports dressed up as real ones from China from various ebay sellers for £60.
One ‘genuine reseller’ tried to pass off fakes to me…tore him a new one.
Probably ‘just as good’, but not at that sort of price…might as well get real ones.
Put over the years of abuse & use they’ll get it’s a reasonable cost for performance.
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With the new 18v Makita kit the batteries charge in 15 minutes from flat and should give a few hours hard use.
Just buy a kit with two batteries and then buy bare units for the rest of your kit.
Two batteries should be more than enough that way.
Cheers
Alex
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quote alexc40:With the new 18v Makita kit the batteries charge in 15 minutes from flat and should give a few hours hard use.
Just buy a kit with two batteries and then buy bare units for the rest of your kit.
Two batteries should be more than enough that way.
Cheers
Alex
Two new Li Ion batteries are simply not enough for some jobs in remote locations / up scaffolding.
I killed a couple of fresh ones drilling a dozen or so 12mm holes in 20mm steel plate for a large totem (brand new bit too…just lots of torque applied and drill was a bit toastie) and another occasion a full set of 4 on 150+holes in hard-fired brickwork mounting lettering on studs.
15min charge or not….no mains puts you at a disadvantage with just 2 batteries.I used to go on some installs with EIGHT NiCads for my old drills and blow most of them and run 3 chargers to keep them coming (300ish cladding bolts into quarter inch steel plate when fitting a garage canopy fascia)
None of the above suitable for mains or generator.
More than 2 is a safety net reducing down time.
Dave
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Point taken, however for the vast majority two batteries will be enough.
I’m just back from putting 200 self drilling roofing screws in to 5mm plate steel on a garage canopy with an impact driver which used 1 battery, but then I had surveyed and went prepared!
I know what you mean about the hard fired brick work, have melted SDS bits on those before!
My point was buying bare units and sharing batteries between kit can save you hundreds.
Cheers
Alex
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quote alexc40:Point taken,…My point was buying bare units and sharing batteries between kit can save you hundreds.
Cheers
Alex
Absolutely, just hope ‘n’ pray that you don’t invest in a ‘soon to be discontinued’ set of tools.
(3 drills, 2 jig saws. 1 circ saw, 3 chargers and now 12 knackered nicads…thank you RYOBI, thanks ever so much…"
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David I feel your pain 🙁
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I recently had ten dewalt batteries re-celled by county batteries, which worked out about half the price of new batteries, and I had them all up graded to three amps each.
Very helpful bunch, just send off your old one to them and they send them back within the week. -
quote Graham Shand:I recently had ten dewalt batteries re-celled by county batteries, which worked out about half the price of new batteries, and I had them all up graded to three amps each.
Very helpful bunch, just send off your old one to them and they send them back within the week.😀
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quote Graham Shand:I recently had ten dewalt batteries re-celled by county batteries, which worked out about half the price of new batteries, and I had them all up graded to three amps each.
Very helpful bunch, just send off your old one to them and they send them back within the week.oooooh!
Was going to EVENTUALLY get around to doing my ryobi’s my self but re-celling was dear for a dozen batteries… Cheaper to buy a couple of new makita tools and extra batteries.Might give ’em a call.
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quote DavidRogers:quote Graham Shand:I recently had ten dewalt batteries re-celled by county batteries, which worked out about half the price of new batteries, and I had them all up graded to three amps each.
Very helpful bunch, just send off your old one to them and they send them back within the week.oooooh!
Was going to EVENTUALLY get around to doing my ryobi’s my self but re-celling was dear for a dozen batteries… Cheaper to buy a couple of new makita tools and extra batteries.Might give ’em a call.
When I got quotes for new dealt batteries they were coming in at £110.00 each, so a big saving, they will also tell you if you batteries can be upgraded to higher amps
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You got web address for them as loads of county batteries listed.
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