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wrote:

Thanks, John. I'm starting to think of the possible jobs I may need a
drill/driver for sometime in the future...when I get round to it.

For the sake of argument, lets say I want to drill through a
breezeblock internal wall ( to spur off an electrical socket in an
adjacent room).
Would this job wreck a 12V cordless drill? I reckon I would need a
corded drill for such a job. Or, better still, get an electrician in!

Bruce

you could do that with anything, even a kitchen knife.

Mains has the advantages over battery:
much cheaper
much more power
much more speed
much longer tool life expectancy

But the downside is that for scrweing, they work, in fact they work
better, but are crude to handle, with poor speed control, no instant
stop and no torque control.

If I were buying just one tool, it would definitely be a mains drill
with speed control.

And dont buy B&D drill bits.

Its scarey to say this, but IMM got it about right, for the 3rd time in
his life.

NT