Black & Decker Firestorm FS1800D 18 Volt Drill (Tool Only)
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Product Details
Manufacturer: Black and deckerModel: FS1800D
Product features:
- 440 in. lb. professional grade high torque motor easily handles the toughest applications
- 1/2" Fast Drive removable chuck;go from drill to drive in seconds. Drill hole, remove chuck & screw
- 2 Position gear box, for high torque driving and high speed drilling control
- 32 position clutch with micro-adjust torque for driving many size screws
- New. BARE TOOL ONLY. BATTERIES, CHARGER SOLD SEPARATELY
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Black & Decker Firestorm FS1800D 18 Volt Drill (Tool Only)
Customer Review: Compare to Milwaukee, and walk away from B&D
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had almost every 'Firestorm' tool made, from 12-v up to the newer 24-v, and two of the FS1800 Firestorm drills like this. While the chuck detachment is nice for 1/4" drive bits, I found out what I was missing one day, when a friend and I decided to tear out a 'curtain wall' in our shop office and re-fit it with trim to hide the curtain-wall line.
Ok, first off, it was a dead wall, no power in it...and the wall was 12'4" x 7'4"...so not that big. We made it a 'quick afternoon' project before we were to head to the lake. I had charged my Firestorm drill up, batteries were fully topped off...and packed into my truck with wrecking bars, sledge hammers, etc. He pulls up in his truck, sausage-biscuit in hand, and I ask him, "where's your tools?"...he looks around, opens his truck bed toolbox...starts digging. I figure he hasn't got anything needed. He pulls out gloves, then wrecking bar, goggles, and a sledge hammer. I ask him, "have you got a finishing or ripping hammer for putting the trim back in?" He replies, "hey, I have these sheetrock screws that will match the trim, let's just screw the trim up, instead? I say...ok...(again, I had my 18-v Firestorm, and I figured it would come in handy...so I figure it is all we need). I'm game, let's do this...so we go at the wall, and have a NIGHTMARE...the wall was 1980's industrial carpet FULLY GLUED down. We have to rip it off to see the panel lines because it isn't sheetrock below the carpet, it is 1/2" CDX plywood! Ok...3-hours of sweating, and we finally get the carpet off and plywood off...only to find that all the studding was done with 4-inch screws! Great! Glad I brought my Firestorm...well, my friend sees this, walks out to his truck, and comes back in with his beaten, battered, scarred Milwaukee 18-v drill. He mumbles something about he hasn't charged the batteries in a month, and don't know how much help he will be. Lovely. So, we start working...and 1-for-1, we start pulling screws out of the wall framing to remove it. The original builder had went NUTS with screws...in total, there were HUNDREDS of them there! This wasn't a load-bearing wall! Well, this is where it got interesting...my fresh Firestorm, with fresh fully-charged 18-v battery starts to get weak...and weaker and weaker it goes, until it is dead. No problem, I pop in another battery, also hot and freshly charged. We continue to work. The wall is now down...and we have to put up the cover-strips of walnut 1/2" x 4"'s, to hide the joint line...and so we start. Well, before we finished...and we had been staying near-even on number-of-screws-driven/removed, my 2nd battery weakened and died...and I could hear his Milwaukee slowing down, but not like the Firestorm had. From large amounts of use, I knew that my drill had worked as it always had...there was no excuse, that's just the amount of work you get out of a battery pack. So, I started razzing him, that while I wasn't paying attention...he had quietly been putting in more Milwaukee battery packs! He denied it, and told me if I didn't believe him, search him for the others I thought he might have...and I did! No extra packs...that Milwaukee really ran like that! He told me that he had played with Firestorms once too, but that after getting his used at a pawnshop for $50, that he'd never own another brand...then he admits, he'd got the batteries and a charger at the pawn shop also...USED!
Well, I got over my Firestorm addiction...if you need to work, you really should look at the Milwaukee 2601-80 drill, before buying the FS1800 in any of its various formats...the 2601-80 is a little more pricey, but then again...it is also twice the drill...if you really are going to work it, there is no comparion...and I was just lucky to get to participate in such a match-up, to see that drills really aren't made equal...no matter what anyone says.
Description of Black & Decker Firestorm FS1800D 18 Volt Drill (Tool Only)
Includes Drill, manual. Bulk-Packaged. BATTERIES, CHARGER SOLD SEPARATELYPistol-Grip Drills Tools
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