Dewalt DW 615 - Electric Router

DEWALT-The Industrial Drill

Advantages: Reliable, easy to use, quick recharge, two speed, 13mm keyless chuck, forward/reverse facility, many different torque settings. Meant for Industrial use.
Disadvantages: Heavy, but well balanced, can cause wrist ache if used a lot.

DeWalt are a company more associated with the professional or industrial side of the tools market. I recently started work as a Cabinet Maker and needed a reliable, heavy duty and long lasting cordless drill/screwdriver. My boss advised me to buy a DeWalt drill as it would hopefully be a long lasting and heavy duty drill. I went ahead with it and followed his advice and bought a DeWalt DW914K2 14.4 Volt Cordless Drill/Screwdriver. This drill costs approximately £253 (including VAT). This seems a lot compared to drills you may see in cotalogues and many tool shops, but they tend to be the DIY drills for light use. The 14.4V drill appears big and bulky, and although it is fairly heavy at 2.1kg it is well balanced unlike many drills. You can easily line up the drill to drill a straight and accurate hole, asit is fairly square ...

PeterFarrell 16.10.2001 (29.12.2001) · Read full review
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Dewalt DW953 12v Drill-Driver

Advantages: Power, quality, control, recharge time, built to last
Disadvantages: Costs about £120, torque setting doesn't go low enough

I am a keen DIYer, and tend to do a lot of drilling and screwing (no pun intended). I have previously used a cheap Black and Decker drill driver, but found this low in power, and taking hours to re-charge. I have no regrets investing in the Dewalt. I can strut around like Handy Andy now. It has loads of power, easilly coping with 22mm drill bits in wood. When the battery runs out, it came with a spare so you can carry straight on. The battery only takes half an hour to recharge. Don't be tempted by the cheap drills, even if they have bartteries the size of a house, they are rubbish. Invest in one of these babies and you will have many hours happy drilling and screwing. ...

GaryWilde 24.01.2001 (23.01.2001) · Read full review
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Belting Belkin Router!

Advantages: Fairly easy to set up, easy to use, reliable, looks good.
Disadvantages: Bandwidth Innacurate.

We'd wanted to upgrade our router for a while to cope with Rich playing on his Xbox online mainly as we kept getting lag, which was especially apparent if I was also browsing the net (which I generally was) even to the point of Rich being disconnected mid game. He was getting annoyed with it so when we saw this router on offer at ebuyer.com for £69.99 (but has since gone back up to its previous price of £89.99); I jumped at the chance to get it and now we have it, I thought it was worth writing a review about, so here we are! My review will be based on my experience of the router, and not a full technological break down of what it is capable of etc as that is readily available online from the manufacturer and would probably bore most people to tears anyway. The first thing I notice when opening the box is how big the router is ...

Claire_DC 24.11.2008 · Read full review
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