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Current Club Drill

As I understand it the club has an old 24V hammer drill. Anyone know where this is and what state it's in?

Similar question goes for battery packs for this drill - do we want to use some of the GP Batteries cells to make new ones?

New Drills

Makita are very kindly giving us 2 new BHR180 rotary hammer drills. These use 18V battery packs: Some possible things to consider:

  • Do we want to mod them so battery packs aren't attached to the drill but can stay in a tacklesack?
  • We need to make some padded tacklesacks for transporting them underground.
  • We can make spare battery packs using some cells from gp batteries.
  • Charging: am I right in thinking solar panels at top camp can only charge 12V or 24V? We can either try to make a transforer, bring a mains adaptor up, or take battery packs down to basecamp for charging. Thoughts?
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