540 brushed motor

Yeah I've never really been happy with this unit at all. It would be a solid #1 on my top ten of most regrettable purchases.

Seems I might have found a local dude who may have a motor lying around. If that falls through I may just have to get a new one.

[JERRY2KONE]

You can purchase a brand new Ryobi 18volt drill with a charger and two batteris for $100 from The Home Depot. Replacing a motor in any drill these days is just a waste of time if you ask me. One can find all kinds of online deals if you do a little research. If you do not have access to these kinds of stores make a friend with someone who can and work out a deal. And in retort to your comment about what you can get where you are located, since you don't show your location in your profile I have no idea where you are located or what you have access to in the way of battery powered handtools.

Oh yea and B&D are one of the cheapest power tools on the market these days. They are what people buy when they can not afford anything better. You get what you pay for, right? I had a Ryobi multi purpose 8 piece powertool set for about 4 or 5 years before I had to replace the cells in the batteries and the drill finally fried some kind of diode on the trigger last July after 7 years, so I trashed it and got a new one. I finally broke down and got one of those new Ryobi drill kits and it came with the charger and two Lipo battery packs for $100 on sale at The Home Depot. Anything is better than a B&D.

Ahh, I must have forgotten to update my locale information.

I'm in Denmark.

I found an online outlet with a better choice, I'm between a Hitachi 14.4v Li-ion and a Makita 18v li-ion unit.

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by CarstenL

Ahh, I must have forgotten to update my locale information.

I'm in Denmark.

I found an online outlet with a better choice, I'm between a Hitachi 14.4v Li-ion and a Makita 18v li-ion unit.

Well the Makita has always been known to be one of the best powertool manufacturers, but they also usually come with a higher pricetag as well. Hitache has come a long way over the last ten years and also makes a pretty nice range of handheld powertools as well. I think either way you will end up with a pretty good tool. Good luck with your purchase sir.

Thank you.

Just found a sale on a AEG 18v ni-cd unit. It's older technology, but I use my drill maybe 6 times a year. So I feel li-ion is a bit too much money to spend. This drill just happened to give out when I was halfway in drilling all the holes in my new CF chassis for my 8ight-e.

I asked around about AEG today, and the consensus is that it's good quality. We'll see.

If you ever want a very nice drill go makita. My 18v Liion Makita is to say the least awesome. Very light compared to the old Nimh battery types and crazy power. It was $450 though. Sad fact is you could probably by the same drill at you home depot or whatever you have over there in the US for half that.

I'm not sure where you would get a motor like that though sorry. Only thing I could find on ebay where they tamiya/Johnson 540s. They don't have the torque ring and I have no idea if they are the same wind? Looking at the Johnson website though the ones that a rebadged as tamiya seem to be high RPM low torque. Not exactly you want in a drill.

Kieren

I found a replacement motor, but will have to buy tools to replace the pinion, that just doesn't seem worth it since I was never happy with this POS drill.

I'm just gonna have to suck it up and get a new one. Good thing I just get heating money back, but I wasn't planning on spending them on this. Bugger.