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I'm Bob and today we're going to review this hammer drill by DeWalt and this drill by DeWalt.
So I picked up this DeWalt set which is, it's an actual set together;
you get the hammer drill, you get the drill, you get two batteries, and you get this bag that they give you.
I mean it's a nice set but I've been a little bit unhappy with the batteries themselves.
As far as the hammer drill goes it's a great drill. This is the DCF887,
if you can see it there, that's the model number on it,
and this is the 20 volt max battery that this takes.
This is the drill that comes with it which is model number DCD791.
I've had these now, which I've been using in my videos, you know demonstrating
the installation of fasteners, and I haven't used these where a contractor would use
them day in and day out, however I've been dissatisfied with the battery and the battery charger.
The function of the hammer drill has three settings: one, two, and three.
I found these to work very well for speeds when I'm driving screws.
I'm happy with the disconnection of the battery.
You can switch between them it works very well.
However, I'm very dissatisfied with the battery charging, the charger itself, and the batteries.
The batteries don't seem to hold a long enough charge. The battery doesn't sit in the charger very well.
It goes on and off; the littlest hit will trigger it not to be charging when you think it's charging.
You have to push it down; there's no locking mechanism here you just
slide it in and when we slide it in-
look I just put it down the light went out.
So it doesn't show it's charging or if it's charged. Really poor design.
I think my battery's dead.
Yeah. This battery is dead.
So I ran out of battery power again so I had to recharge my battery.
I guess I failed to charge my batteries before this demonstration but here we go.
Still not charged enough. I don't have enough power yet.
This should have some type of locking mechanism that locks into the charger itself.
The charger is a DCB112.
I'm very unhappy with this. The drill itself performs very well. There's a first and second speed.
I've used it several times in the my videos to demonstrate screw installations
and I've been pretty happy with this.
So my dissatisfaction is not in the actual tool itself but it's in the battery.
The battery itself just doesn't get itself a full charge.
It's not functioning properly.
Very poorly designed and I think most of it has to do with the charger itself.
You think it's charging and it's not charging.
You can move this around and then all of a sudden the light will start blinking that it's charging.
It's really strange. So
they really get an F on this as far as the design of the battery charger with the battery.
But once the batteries are charged I found them to work and last pretty long.
They work very well.
So I wanted to give you my review of the DeWalt hammer drill and drill battery, 20-volt max,
and I probably will be seeking to buy something else.
Thanks for watching.
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