today we're looking at the Bosch go to electric screwdriver and have we got a smoking hot review
today as it goes head-to-head with this other screwdriver that we got from a well-known online
retailer who does next day free delivery everybody loves a bit of free delivery
well it's not just free delivery we're interested in here at efixx it is a challenge it's a review
it's a head-to-head it's a race but we've looked at electric screwdrivers before and it hasn't
always been something that i've uh embraced has it no no there's nothing divides the efixx team
through the middle more than an electric screwdriver now on the channel before we
have looked at this Wiha SpeedE the one and the two and gary has lost lots of races that involve
it so check out the review and those races if you haven't seen them i will put a description below
i'll be in the eye above my head but during the course of that gary what did what was what was the
gripe that people had with the SpeedE 2 that well the SpeedE one it wasn't strong enough not enough
torque was it about point four of a newton meters of talk so he upped it at SpeedE two to one newton
meters of talking i was well one would you ever use that one would you ever use that and then of
course we find out that din rail terminals are at one newton meter talk so if you're doing din rail
terminals all the time that is actually a cracking bit of kit and i'd probably have to eat my words
and say if i was doing panel wiring yes i don't want okay but what's that other what's the other
big gripe they have with obviously a quality tool from we huh um um let me think um it's probably
quite expensive yeah probably quite yeah well that's it yeah suitably priced for what it does
i would argue but people did suggest that we take a look at this Bosch go 2 because it is possibly
more reasonably priced and has more torque so we've got that however it does have more torque
and i'll cover the top bit because it goes up to five newton meters at all which is considerably
more than one i'd suggest that's built for what it's for yep din rails we'll come back to that but
however gary obviously uh i went to an online retailer who does next day delivery for free
yeah and as you get to that checkout process they always offer you a bit of a wild card and
then this one popped up this is the Handife we've got to say that really carefully it's the Handife
yeah the Handife so this is uh so i thought well it actually looks remarkably similar
so let's not just check out this Bosch go 2 let's have a check out on the handife okay which looking
at the spec sheet are pretty similar well it's pretty similar even when they laid it out so yeah
if we look here this was the Bosch are we saying go 2 professional this is the second one
yeah we've got it in every language under the sun and you've got your little uh it's also in every
language under the sun and in smaller prints but the yeah the spec panel looks pretty similar in
terms of that five newton meters it does yeah so i guess the first bit we thought would uh
walk the plank in terms of how many screws can each of these devices put into this substantial
piece of wood and i agree with that but like any great competition and i'm thinking of the
pugilists amongst us there's always going to have to be a weigh in because it's got to be a fair
fight isn't it it's going to be a fair competition so i think before we do that
we ought to have the tail of the tape and see who's in the blue corner against who's
in the blue corner when we weigh these in let's cut to dave in the commentary box for the win
this is the main event of the evening from Stuttgart Germany via Malaysia we have the
Bosch go 2 professional weighing in at an even 300 grams in an almost similar blue corner we have the
handife from parts unknown via a well-known online retailer offering next day delivery at 300 grams
so thank you david evenly matched i would suggest there as we weigh in for the big competition
any other stats you want to throw in at this stage well they are pretty similar match however
on paper this one has more power right okay that's the handife yeah the handife uh this has an eight
watt hour battery okay and this one has a six watt hour battery right if it goes the distance then
this might be the one for us yeah but you know you just to put it back to that we are speedE 2
that's the Bosch has a similar power in the battery pack to what you have in the Wiha we have
oh right okay so but then again that's only going up to one new meters at all these are up to five
yeah now to make some claims on yeah this one will do six millimetre diameter screws
and this one will do five millimetre diameter screws but i would say that's down to what you're
screwing them into as well actually yeah and we'll get to that i'm excited about it
we'll get to it um perhaps have a little look at the operation of them right bring
in the bring in the hand cam um so the good uh the feature i do like is you basically push it
onto the screw to start so i'm just going to mimic that by pushing against my finger
all right okay let's see that one that's gonna even have some little LEDs in there
and can you trigger that in any other way is it just by pushing so there's a switch there as well
yep and then we've got our forward and reverse control there so forward and
reverse with a flick of the switch right okay and it's pretty similar on the Bosch so again
push oh different sound then push down yeah different sound like you're at the dentist
again and then we have a forward and reverse switch there okay and then that's what's going
to also do the and yeah and the switch yeah you've got the push to use as well so i do
like the push on the screw to start it i think that is a good feature no leds though uh no but
you can actually see yeah you could see the you can see the holes where possibly they might have
been but they got cut from the budget at the end of the day they're not on the uh they're
more reasonably priced when you got the leds in there yeah so let's not forget yeah this one is
half the price you ever normally mentioned price well it's half so if you find it this one should
be half that's the thing but similar feel um so i guess yeah right can we try it on walk the plank
to see how we got well we've got them here so it looks like we've already got that footage so we
just need to nip over to the commentary team it's show time and let's get ready to rumble
when we see the Bosch taking on the handife so first up to walk the plank is the handife
yeah what size screw we're using again they're one and a half inch number eight countersunk with a
pozi head okay or four millimetres by almost 40 millimetres if you're younger than gary oh it's
over already oh what we've got here oh that's a knotty timber oh well can we recover yes
it's all from flying okay look at that it's a lovely action scene going in there it is
so its that your thing you like watching screws going in the wood where where the channel for you
here we go so we're going to obviously speed up until we get to the final one
how many do you think we're going to get to oh i don't know can we get the 30 oh this is 29.
i think we've run out of power you're willing it on though aren't you you need to think come on
just a little bit more a little bit more torque sensor we'll come on to that but
yeah i think that's it i think we're done with that trying so we're into the Bosch now okay
we've got a knot coming up will it pass the knot and i think it depends how close it is to it
here we go yeah yeah yeah i quite like the feel of this this Bosch unit oh yeah
it's getting there managed to get into the knot with two okay so to speed it up again
yeah so yeah i'm looking good i think i'm sure we'll slow one down in a minute here
we go so let's see the action again it draws into the wood it's good yep
we'll see if that excuse continues on as we go down the timber well you'll notice that
they're not all going in not quite going in now
are we counting them there we go this is an account how many did you get to this is 24.
well if we're counting the one well the five before it that never made it in
let's have a quick closer inspection of the Bosch smokey go pro i would suggest look closely smoke
coming out of that uh that talk uh talk ratchet on a winter's day also it will warm the hand
oh so what let's let's address the elephant in the room if we can see it through the fog created by
the Bosch you've got the instructions there we're going to tell you yeah well yeah a little bit of
smoke there and i don't think that's mentioned in the instructions what it says here is temperature
dependent overload protection in normal conditions of use the power tool cannot be overloaded if the
power tool is overloaded or permitted battery temperature is exceeded the electronics of the
power tool will switch off until the temperature returns to the optimum temperature range and also
it will send you a smoke signal in case you didn't notice it had gone off yeah so i'd suggest that
that circuit isn't quite needs it needs tweaking a little bit because okay perhaps was it an extreme
test you're asking too much 24 screws less than the diameter it can cope with into a
soft wood uh it's too much yeah well is it too much we don't but that's where your feedback's
always welcome yeah we encourage you to leave the comments below on either of these devices as well
as the Wiha one that we've looked at before can you describe how it felt in hand you're wearing
a glove and obviously you know we're wearing that for whatever reasons you're wearing a glove
was it hot it was hot and was it hot hot yeah it was it was yeah it's safe yeah
you'd welcome it in certain instances you know if you're inside on a cold day
you'd appreciate that warmth in your hand however it's the accompanying smell of hot
electronics that you saw yeah yeah i was surprised at that and yeah that's Bosch and yeah the Handife
yeah on that basis did well however there is slight difference when it comes to the torque
control okay so the handife has electronic torque control and there's some various settings on there
and the Bosch has this mechanical torque control and but and uh it can switch up the max mode
right okay yeah which is what we had it on there so let's just have a little look at how the two
differ let's have a look at the torque pre-setting ring then yeah some people might call it a clutch
gary i prefer the clutch yes this is maximum so this is the mechanical clutch is switched off what
you'll notice it either stops when the motor resistance increases or if you're not careful
it spins in your hand so then let's compare that with the mechanical clutch so this one will give
that jarring sensation when it's got all the way down it can go yeah yeah but you'll notice there's
less torque available next can't get the screw in there and you'll see that vibrating motion
and if we go now to the handife yeah so the handife just has electronic torque control so
this is the uh you set it by putting it to the mid position we've put on maximum here right so we're
expecting what to happen now uh it should stop when the motor reaches its maximum resistance
again you'll see if you're not gripping it tightly it spins and you have sort of recoils around there
um so now let's try it on a different setting so again back to the middle uh middle uh position
and then push the power button and now put it on the lowest setting okay so we're hoping that
it will put the screw in so far and then perhaps stop is that what we think yeah so hopefully it's
less torque available which might be useful for using smaller screws or you just want to
strip some threads you can see it stopped there right so then if you keep restarting it it
almost goes wet again until the motor resistance increases so you can sort of nudge the screws in
so the first time there really a noticeable difference in technology there with that what
we're going to call the clutch between the two and where do you think that's going to benefit
the user uh i mean yeah as you're screwing lots of screws in that sort of recoil action
it gets a little bit annoying and that's where yeah the mechanical clutch comes in however
you're reading the data sheet there's a this does five newton meters slash 2.5
i think the slashers as soon as you turn on that mechanical clutch assembly you're back at 2.5 yeah
you are and we we did find it quite tricky to work out the handife's torque settings from the three
led lights didn't we yeah well actually for both there isn't a torque range it doesn't say what
the minimum torque is now again i'll not keep coming back to but we've already gone from five
to two and a half yeah we've only got to get back to one to be back at where we are with the Wiha
yeah or that we haven't got a 0.4 but if you if you're dealing with sensitive terminals and you're
worried about the maximum torque be useful to know what that minimum is yeah you could be sending
it well beyond where it wants to be but you're thinking the tool can get there and actually yeah
you've got a torque setting that's way beyond what you're screwing and then that electronic setting
on here just waiting essentially for the motor to stop or yeah different sensitivities and that
doesn't seem like torque control just the way you could just sort of nudge them in yeah just
it's it's different people might have different preferences um but yeah that's the one so um and
as we keep mentioning talk i'd just like to jump in there this is not a torque screwdriver that
we describe in other videos that are used in say consumer units and switch gear and we're
returning things to the required torque setting as per manufacturer's instructions this is just set
to a torque which we're struggling to find the range within the torque settings yeah yeah so you
wouldn't use this as an alternative to an accurate torque setting screwdriver you're right on there
um perhaps have a little look at charging so again very similar for them both
get away yeah so this one's got a micro usb charge port on for the Bosch yes and this has the uh ever
popular and becoming more popular usb c uh charge port okay so we're thinking about charging i'm
always thinking battery if there is an issue with a battery i know i can take it out of the
speede 2 and replace it what's the issues here well that's yeah the battery is built in right
and it takes this quote on the data sheet an hour and a half to charge right so you're going to be
you're going to be sat around for a while once you've ran out of battery uh waiting for it to
to charge up and also if that battery fails yeah it's sealed within the actual screwdriver itself
and whether we're calling an electric screwdriver or a cordless screwdriver it's held within it and
i'm pretty much now am i having to buy another one from a well known retailer et cetera yeah oh
yeah try and buy a spare part that you can't get anywhere okay but again sealed unit to me but yeah
but again if we go back to the speede remember yeah you just take the top off and yeah the
battery pops in and it comes with two batteries ah so one's on charge obviously while you're using it
but of course it's only at one newton meters of torque but it's ideal for and dim rails etcetera
we've talked about before yeah but remember you buying you remember those power drills when we get
the milwaukee out the battery is usually quite an expensive bit of kit right okay so i suggest some
of that we are price premium you're paying is tucked up in the fact you get two batteries and
and don't forget it but one thing we did say about the if we're thinking about the Wiha so we'll go
back the other way we quite like the push in action didn't we like the fact when you push you
actually get the screwdriver action yeah which obviously on the Wiha we still having to do it
manually by twisting yes so that might be a good upgrade but it's got led lights which makes it
better already yeah and yeah so if we're going for the Wiha when they get to SpeedE 3 that'd
be a good tip and on the Bosch yeah replaceable batteries on either these and if you're going for
the hand the handife version three you could do with a mechanical clutch yeah okay we always like
things they come with uh the handife came with a pouch and you know how i love a pouch effects one
thing i do like more than a pouch though is what is an L-boxx yeah well the L-boxx was originally
invented by Bosch i'm sure you would expect it to come in one and it does come in one um which also
the old speede 2 does as well um but in the box i mean in there okay we've opened it and taken
it out yes it's a box you can oh yeah however it does come with this uh set of bits it does
and uh when we looked and counted them up it came with slightly less ones than the handife yeah so
the handife look like a handy holster a handife under the instructions comes away you found them
eventually yeah yeah it's very similar range of bits but they are colour coded at the moment
at the moment and it's marked on the uh on the holder as long as you put it back in
the right place yeah as long as you put it back in the right place and these got two more bits
and there's two more bits in there it's less money yeah two more bets yeah because of that uh each
obviously a usb charging lead to their respective connectors and yeah so again pretty similar
um there is one slight difference obviously the the Bosch has all the labelling you'd
expect it to have on there oh so let's bring the camera in because so let's have a look yeah so
we go the boss has all those requirements the yeah the CE mark and yeah it's crossed out wheeled
bin and yeah it's rating and things like that and the handife is a little bit lacking in it
think of the cost of that etching to get it onto there and we've saved all the money on this one
yeah well i'm just i'm always a bit yeah a bit suspicious when the product doesn't have
the requirements to be sold in the European market on book labels it's just like apples isn't it yeah
but it is half the price it's half the price comes with two extra bits and does more screws
so with that in mind i'll move this one out of the way because i know what you all say because i've
worked with you too long you got a choice where you going you going Bosch are you going handife
it's it's tough actually i mean i would you've taken me off you've taken that away yeah i
would have gone i would have gone i mean that i struggle with this product category all together
really because it's like if i'm if i want to put chunky screws into wood like that i'd use the uh
i'd get the drill out yeah like everybody does yeah so this is handy if you're in a
in a tightly confined space so you're doing some assembly work rack building rack building yeah
but it's that it's that torque and yeah i can't be good to just know what those torque settings are
okay so back to the original question which one are you going for i'll tell you mine yeah i'm
gonna i'm gonna have one that's got a bog off in it i won't get one free because if i buy this one
and it fails i can buy another one and i'm still just short of the price of this one this one
didn't smoke this one comes with two more bits and this one did more screws which one are you having
yeah i think you might have tipped it there gary that yeah yeah bosh i would have expected better
oh sorry i apologize balance argument this has got more of those labels you like on it hasn't it so
maybe that's what the yeah i might get over the line yeah that smoke was not getting me
over the line say what gary i'm gonna went to version three version three okay on on that
bombshell we're always interested in your feedback what's your go-to electric screwdriver is it one
of the ones on the table or is there something else you want us to review on the channel he's
going to keep doing that all the way through the exhibit we're always interested in your comments
are you a massive fan of the SpeedE 2 like he is and you think that is the single greatest
innovation since the incandescent lamp please leave those comments below and we'll try and
get back to we won't get back to them all we've got to start saying that because we are getting
loads of comments we'll get back to as many as we can but if you can answer some of those comments
for us in the the community that we're trying to develop here at efixx we'd also appreciate that