Good battery drill for a mill

[admin]

My old battery drill gave up the ghost a while back and it was p1ssing me off having to get out the 750w mains jobbie every time I wanted to mill and auld bit of grain.

One of the things battery drills don't have is a lot of torque (mains don't have it either at low speeds) due to having small batteries, but this drill piqued my interest in Argos. Ok so it looks like it's out of Transformers but read the fine print. It has a reduction gear which means the speed is halved for double the torque. 18 Nm is quite decent.

I can confirm it worked perfectly and flawlessly with the Brouland mill from HBW.



http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/7114535/Trail/searchtext%3EDRILL.htm

[christhebrewer]

I might just get one of them to save killing my good hitatchi. I bought one of those ROK mains drills in woodies(€19.99)  for the crankkandstein but it's just too fast, when you try to slow it down it stalls. 200 RPM with torque is hard to find!

[Ciderhead]

I thought there was an optimum speed of 90rpm for milling? too slow and uncrushed, too fast - moondust + uncrushed?

[DEMPSEY]

About to send a car to that great car home in the sky,was thinking that maybe the wiper motor should not go there just yet.

[Shane Phelan]

I got this one from Argos, a little bit more expensive (€65) but has a spare battery and is 28Nm. It can grind 10kg of grain per battery with the corona mill.