The Masterforce 20V brushless drill isn’t going to wow you with a lot of bells and whistles or eye-popping performance in the compact class. From a bird’s eye view, it’s a pretty average value and a fair price for what you get. Regular price on the drill kit is $139 with a pair of 2.0Ah batteries and a charger. At the moment, it’s not available as a bare tool. Menards runs plenty of different sales throughout the year. However, the kit comes with 2.0Ah batteries and you can upgrade to compact 2.5Ah packs to get the best combination of weight and runtime. You can shave the most weight by going with a 1.5Ah battery. The drill came to us with 4.0Ah batteries and we tested the other compact drills with their compact packs. Masterforce is the heaviest in this class, weighing 4.21 pounds with a battery. However, most of the group is 7.8″ to 8.0″, so take that with a grain of salt. Its 7.2″ head length is solidly mid-pack with the tightest options down to 6.6″ (6.3″ for sub-compact models) and the largest at 8.3″. Its height is 8.0″ without a battery and that’s in a tie for the tallest. Size and WeightĪs a budget-friendly option, the Masterforce 20V brushless drill is a pretty reasonable size. Picking a model with more drilling speed might be the way to go if you’re only looking to compact drills as a supplement to your heavy-duty drill, though. If you’re looking at this as a standalone tool, that’s important. The trade-off is that you have a wider range of bits sizes you can work with than other compact models. It results in somewhat lower drilling speeds with higher efficiency. When we look at no-load speeds, Masterforce is near the bottom in both high and low speeds. It’s the third most efficient in this test with only DeWalt and Metabo HPT having an easier time of things. For the compact drills, this earned it a 10th place finish.Īgain, we see that the efficiency here leaves us more wiggle room for larger bits. Masterforce managed 359 RPM for its average and 80% of its no-load speed. We then inserted a 1-1/2″ Milwaukee SwitchBlade Self-Feed Bit and ran the test over again. You should be able to move up to 1″ auger or spade bits with relative ease. This landed it in 12th place for the compact drills.Įven though the speed isn’t near the top, the 73% efficiency rating tells us it still has more muscle to offer at high speed. The Masterforce 20V brushless drill averaged 1185 RPM in high speed, which was 73% of its tested no-load speed. Masterforce starts to look more competitive as you work down the list to DeWalt’s 2nd-place 220.8 in-lbs and the rest of the group all under 200 in-lbs.įor speed under load, we hooked up a 3/4″ Bosch Daredevil High-Speed Auger Bit and went to work on 5-ply OSB subflooring. Metabo HPT (Hitachi) put everyone in the rearview mirror with 312 in-lbs of torque. The Masterforce 20V brushless drill averaged 178 in-lbs of soft torque in our compression test, landing it in 5th place for the compact drill category. Be sure to check that out! Torque Testing Our Best Drill Head to Head Review has all the details of how we test for soft torque and speed under load. Those aren’t a big deal considering Masterforce caters to more price-conscious users. It’s missing smart controls/tracking, additional electronic modes, and kickback control if you’re comparing to premium brands. It’s a basic yet functional feature set that checks off everything most Pros need.
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