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Would be interested to see how long it lasts or how much work it does as that's the only way to really understand the value proposition. I had a Festool CXS for 10 years and it took me a year or 2 to decide to buy a TXS which I did a few months ago. If I started listing the drills I have it would be embarrassing.
Regarding the quality of work that goes on in property maintenance, I've got used to looking at other peoples work and thinking about all the tools they must not have had available when they did the job. I get it when you are working on a 4th floor flat in Chelsea and the tools in in the van parked 2 streets away and you don't want to spend a fortune on parking just to go and get something from the van. I don't work that way but it does mean I'm not attractive for some jobs.
I've been putting together some running around bags that I can carry on the Brompton and the Mafell A10 was on my list for that reason. I enjoy making up 'ultimate' lightweight toolboxes and trying them out in the real world but it's rare you have everything in those cases.
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I've had the 4 in 1 for 6 years and used it as my main drill/driver for work in all that time. Light duty as I say, but 6 years service and it still works completely fine. It isn't particularly lightweight as a single unit, and if I'm working overhead all day I'll curse not buying a 10.8 system, but never enough to buy something. It is lighter than carrying an impact driver and combi drill though.
Lots of my colleagues use the CXS drivers, always singing their praises.
I enjoy making up 'ultimate' lightweight toolboxes and trying them out in the real world but it's rare you have everything in those cases.
I know what you mean. On the jobs that it's not easy to roll my stack of systainers in, I try and just bung my driver, charger and a spare battery in a rucksack, and take a single thin Bosch Lbox filled with hand tools. It's a small box, but filled to the brim it feels like it weighs about 20kg! But it's a nightmare to rationalise what goes in the box - everything has a case for being in there. Used to sit comfortably on my bike rack when I lived in Amsterdam tho.
Nef
My main drill is the Makita DTP141, a very handy 4 in 1 - drill, driver, impact and percussion. It's obviously a light duty tool, but very handy only needing one thing when bashing a frame together with 4 inch 10s - pilot, bang screws in, and then drill small holes in masonry.
Paid £147 bare, brand new second hand. Spendy, but paid for itself no worries. It also has the advantage that because the impact mechanism is smaller than a dedicated impact driver, it's a lot quieter.