hey guys welcome to tool optics today we're going to have a look at this aeg 18 volt
brushless hammer drill ryobi aeg and milwaukee are all made by the same company
called tti what they've done is they're aiming ryobi the ryobi brand as the kind of entry level
power tool for them the aeg is kind of the mid-range one and the milwaukee is the more
heavy duty range i've changed over to the aeg brand a lot of my tools recorded and i'm wanting
to get into the battery-powered tools and so i thought to myself well i'm not just going to buy
one drill or one impact driver i'm probably going to buy multiple tools on the battery platform and
so i need something that's affordable but something that's also good quality so i'm
not going to go down the road of buying really top-end tools where it's going to cost me 500
bucks to a thousand bucks per tool because of the amount of tools that i'm going to be needing
so i've chosen the aeg brand because they have a big range of tools if you're living in the states
the aeg brand is called rigid over there it's been branded as rigid they're very similar apparently
you can use the same battery packs in the rigid tools as the aeg but i do believe that the rigid
brand in the states doesn't have the the range of tools that aeg does in the rest of the world
the other thing is that like aotearoa and australia we can buy aeg batteries that are 6 amp
hour and nine amp hour batteries whereas i believe the ridgid brand only goes up to four amp hour
batteries at the moment first impressions of this drill it's a really solid drill there's a lot of
metal on this drill which i really like the it has a metal keyless chuck even the clutch is metal
there's a bit of metal on the actual body as well you can attach a handle onto this hammer
drill for more stability but it just feels like a really solid tool now one thing i will say is this
6 amp hour battery is really heavy and so i think what i'm going to be doing
is i'm probably going to be buying like a 2m hour battery or something maybe a 2 and
a half or something like that just for lightness so if i'm doing overhead work
or any kind of work like that where i don't really need this tool to be powered all day long
i'll get a lighter battery just as it is the tool is fairly light um without the battery so
but this battery weighs nearly a kg so it's it's pretty heavy when you when you have it
all together this tool is 90 newton meters of torque and so it's a very powerful drill
you've got to be careful when you are releasing your drill bits through the keyless chuck because
if you are like me and you just want to change the bit very quickly and you use the you use the tool
if you have this set on speed number two and you're taking out a drill bit or something like
that you can easily burn your hand on this char if you want to do it the slower you can just turn the
chuck manually take it out and just use the variable speed trigger and just
slowly tighten the chuck on the bit okay so let's test out the drilling uh capabilities of the drill
i put the 10 mole aeg drill bit in the drill and we'll just drill into some pine and just i'll
i'll show you the two settings first of all we'll look at speed setting number one to use this drill
in drill mode just turn the clutch until you get to the drill icon speed setting number one
okay let's put it on speed setting number two
as you can see speed setting number two is incredibly fast just remember before you take
the bits out you want to reverse the speed of the drill you also want to take it off speed setting
too and then just slowly hold the truck and just slowly turn the drill so that you can release the
bits out without burning your fingers it has three modes so really you're getting three tools in one
first you're getting a hammer drill so you can put it onto the hammer setting and it'll give you
31 500 impacts per minute so it's a really effective hammer drill i would say if you're
doing lighter work this is the perfect tool for you if you're going into kind of heavy concrete
or hard kind of baked bricks or something my my house has got a newer section in an older section
the older section this tool would struggle with the newer section going into the brickwork uh it
would handle pretty well but for the older section i'd have to use a rotary hammer drill for that
if you are screwing in screws this tool has a 22 setting clutch the numbers go up to 22. so if you
if you want to do very lightweight work you you're screwing into very soft wood you set this way down
to maybe six or something like that you'd screw it in and just check the depth of your
screw if it hasn't gone flush yet you just keep turning up the clutch setting until the screw
goes flush okay so that's the drill test done and uh wow you can see that uh in in that high clutch
setting and that hard torque setting the the screw is driven deep into the wood so you can see there
how useful a drill like this is if you're working with a hardwood or a soft wood you can adjust the
intensity of the drill and you can get your screws being flushed if you are screwing on plasterboard
you'd want this on a lower clutch setting so that you don't blow through the plasterboard
and it pops off the wall does come with a belt clip and it comes with a little driver bits
clip as well the battery charger that this tool comes with will charge the 6 amp hour battery
in around about an hour and 40 minutes does take a little while but once they're charged this battery
will last me virtually all day also detect if your battery is faulty yeah um and if i if i
buy the smaller battery pack say the 2 amp hour or the one and a half amp hour it'll charge in about
35 to 40 minutes so pretty handy there this this drill also came with a a drill bit set from aeg
which is really nice all the way from size 1 to size 10 going up in increments of 0.5 i'm not
sure of the quality of these drill bits but they look pretty good and always good to get something
extra with the tool as well just it feels really solid in your hand it's it's comfortable to hold
there's a lot of metal on this tool especially i like the metal chuck i don't like plastic chucks
i like the uh the range of the clutch settings i like the variables b speed trigger it has a
brushless motor so this tool is extremely powerful it's probably a bit too powerful
for what i use it for i'm just into diying i do some home renovation i do some woodworking
i'm not in construction i'm not a tradie so i probably don't need the power that this tool
has got but i do have friends who are tradies who use the aeg brand and they're more than happy with
with what they've got one of the things i like about the aeg brand is just a personal preference
i really like the color scheme i think that orange and black is just a great combination
looks great on cars and it looks great on power tools you might be new to woodworking or diy
maybe you thinking about renovating your home and you might be asking yourself well
do i need a drill like this what would i use it for and as i mentioned earlier this is
really three drills in one so if you're wanting to do some heavy heavy kind of
commercial work or industrial work you'd probably and you're going into concrete you probably want
to get yourself a rotary hammer drill but for general diy work for woodworking around the shed
maybe doing some renovating on your home mate maybe you want to hang a picture and you've got a
you've got a concrete wall or you've got a brick wall uh this drill should do you fine as i said
it's a three-in-one drill so you're actually getting really good value for money you're able to
use it as a screwdriver you're able to use it to draw holes with your drill bits and you're able to
drill into masonry but it's it's a really capable drill it's a very powerful drill and i think
it's really well priced i think this is a really great purchase if you're wanting to just get into
handyman work you're wanting to get into diy stuff you're wanting to renovate your own home
the other thing that i really like about this tool is that it comes with a six-year warranty on the
tool and a three-year warranty on the battery that's incredible so if anything goes wrong
with this tool in the next six years i can send it back up you have to register your product online
on the aeg website put in all the serial numbers and all that kind of thing and then if i need
a replacement in within the next six years i can send this back and get another one i think that's
a really great warranty i think it's a really good deal so get out there buy yourself an aeg you