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[Entwood]

go to aldi they have a li-on one for 40 pounds with a 3 year warranty.
paying 100 pounds is great if you going to use it regular but something thats going to sit in the garage for 90% of the time 100 is a waste to me still it depends on how deep your pockets are.

Possibly true .. but mine is used nearly every weekend .... for winding the legs on the tin tent up and down a couple of times ..

[Lizzie_Zoom]

The men around me in the past have been heavy in praise indeed about Bosch drills. 

I was thinking myself I need a cordless, as my garage has no power laid on.  So looking at the Screw-fix site that has been provided on here, I note the following Bosch models:

http://www.screwfix.com/search.do?fh_search=cordless+combi+drill&fh_view_size=20&fhSearchParams=fh_location%3D%2F%2Fscrewfix%2Fen_GB%2F%24s%3Dcordless%5Cu0020combi%5Cu0020drill%2Fsegment%3D%7Bscrewfix%7D%2Fbrand%3D%7Bbosch%7D%26fh_refview%3Dsearch%26fh_reffacet%3Dbrand%26fh_eds%3D%25C3%259F%26fh_refpath%3Dfacet_88934134&fh_sort_by=&customPrice=&priceFrom=&priceTo=&priceFilterOn=&_requestid=526095

Some are very pricey, but with the £100 budget suggested by the OP for his needs, there are three in particular that catch my eye, one model has model £80 off RRP!

[Marks DTM Calib]

Bosch were great 10+ years ago, not nearly as good these days. 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Bosch were great 10+ years ago, not nearly as good these days. 

Ah, right, Thanks Mark

[Tonka.]

The Nicad one:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/makita-8391dwpe-18v-combi-drill/84044

Thanks for all your help folks 

Mark. The Makita 8391 is less than £90 in B&Q, so I think I will go with that. Thanks for the advice. 

[tigers_gonads]

If its just for diy stuff, it will do a good job 
Just don't let the batterys get too cold though, they don't like it 

[TheBoy]

Batteries, LiON has little memory effect, but prone to failure, sometimes catastrophic. Generally good for 300+ charges or 2-3yrs. Cannot recover from deep discharge. Very good capacity.

NiCAD does have significant memory effect, even with decent delta chargers - some top end chargers will discharge first. Generally robust, and have a good life if looked after. Shite chargers (such as those from Hitachi, Clarke (who use Hitachi) and Bosch) wreck them quickly.

MiNmh is a bit of a halfway house, but needs better chargers than NiCAD

[Martian]

Batteries, LiON has little memory effect, but prone to failure, sometimes catastrophic. Generally good for 300+ charges or 2-3yrs. Cannot recover from deep discharge. Very good capacity.

NiCAD does have significant memory effect, even with decent delta chargers - some top end chargers will discharge first. Generally robust, and have a good life if looked after. Shite chargers (such as those from Hitachi, Clarke (who use Hitachi) and Bosch) wreck them quickly.

MiNmh is a bit of a halfway house, but needs better chargers than NiCAD

You can't break the laws of chemistry, at least not entirely 

[Marks DTM Calib]

NiCAD does have significant memory effect, even with decent delta chargers - some top end chargers will discharge first. Generally robust, and have a good life if looked after. Shite chargers (such as those from Hitachi, Clarke (who use Hitachi) and Bosch) wreck them quickly.

No it doesn't, never has had significant memory effect.

Having at one point spent 2 years running a project developing from scratch a standbye telecoms battery backup solution where we looked at Nicads, Nimh and lead acid I can assure you that the nicad memory effect is an urban myth where the phrase was associated with overcharged batteries. 

[Tonka.]

Just to let you know what I got from SWMBO for Christmas...........


The Makita 8391. Absolutely brilliant 


Thanks folks