December Build{hers} Club Link Party and Porter-Cable Drill/Driver Giveaway!
My cordless Drill/Driver is my most used tool. I’ve had quite a few over the years and I just got a new one that I really like! It’s the 18V Lithium Porter-Cable Drill/Driver.
What I like:
-The 18V battery making it the most powerful Drill/Driver I own. It has plenty of power for building cabinets and driving lag bolts or large screws into wood. It had some difficulty drilling pocket holes in 3/4 plywood but I usually use my corded drill for that job so having to baby it a bit in order to have the convenience of going cordless is a fair trade off in my opinion.
- The drill and battery packs are small and light, which I love! Because of it’s size, I can “get up in there” better than with a big clunky drill and because it’s light, it doesn’t tire out my arm as fast as a heavier drill.
-It has an LED work light that illuminates what I’m working on which comes in handy! None of my previous Drill/Drivers had work lights so I didn’t know what I was missing. I like that little touch more than I anticipated, especially when I’m sitting inside a cabinet, trying to screw something into the back or I’m in an awkward position and don’t have an extra hand for a flashlight.
-2 Battery packs is a must. These charged really fast. I think in about 20 minutes. They are thin and light and they hold their charge for a long time. I used the same battery for 2 weeks. I changed it when drilling the pocket holes but it didn’t make a difference. The first one was still charged. I was just asking it to do a hard job.
-There are 2 bit holders on the base. This is a nice feature because with the assortment of screws I use on one project, I find myself switching back and forth between philips, star and square bits A LOT. I think all screw manufacturers should have a summit and figure out what screw head is the best for grip and non strippage and stick with it…but that’s beside the point. The fact is, screws have all sorts of different heads, requiring us to keep track of an array of different screw driver bits! So it’s nice when you can store as many as possible ON your driver.
- This drill/driver gives you a wide range of torque and speed adjustments. The adjustable clutch has 22 settings and the drill has 2 speeds giving one the ability to find pretty much the perfect setting to drive a screw to just the right depth regardless of length of screw and material hardness. (Refer to my Drill/Driver video if you want more information on what an adjustable clutch is.)
Cons:
-There is no directional illustration on the forward/reverse function switch but that’s an easy fix with a Sharpie and not something that would dissuade me from buying this drill.
-I had the chuck get “wobbly” after switching back and forth between driving forward and reversing a screw back out a few times. I had to tighten the chuck, really hard, and then it stayed put. I’m used to hearing and feeling a little “click” on another drill I own, when the chuck is fully tightened on the bit shaft. I didn’t have any more problems after I realized that I just had to turn the chuck as hard as I could when installing a bit.
Other Points:
-There isn’t a built in quick change chuck. If you want one, you have to install it but this is a good thing in my opinion because not all bit are hex shafts. I install a quick change chuck that accepts only hex shafts but on occasion, I need to remove that and use a drill bit that has a cylindrical shaft. That would be impossible if the quick change was built in. So, for me, this is a positive point.
-The case is a soft case that opens at the top and everything sits down inside pretty deep. On the inside, there are just 3 pockets. One for the drill and 2 for the batteries and charger. I like to store my drill with the batteries removed and I’m not sure exactly where everything is supposed to go. However, the soft case also has a strap and 2 pockets on the outside which, although I initially didn’t think I like it, turns out to be pretty handy. I put my pencil and tape measure on the outside and carried the Drill/Driver case over my shoulder which freed up my hands for carrying a pile of wood. So I decided that I actually do like the case and find it to be very convenient!
All in all, it’s a great drill. I used it to install my closet rods, remove and replace a cabinet door in the kitchen, drill pocket holes and install the new shelves and faceframes in Wes’ closet as well as a couple failed crafty DIY projects that I was going to WOW you with today! The drill worked great, my ideas, on the other hand, just didn’t pan out. Oh well!
*I received this Drill/Driver for free in order to test it. All opinions expressed are all my own.
So, I’ve tried it, I like it and now one of you get to win one! Whoot!
Here are the details:
Sweepstakes for one 18V Lithium Porter-Cable Drill/Driver valued at $150
There are 4 possible entries per person. You must leave a separate comment on this post for each entry.
1. Follow or subscribe to Sawdust and Paper Scraps and tell me what project you would tackle if you won the Porter-Cable Drill/Driver.
2. ”Like” Porter-Cable on Facebook and tell them how much you love the drill they are giving away at SawdustAndPaperScraps.com.
3. Tweet about the giveaway.
4. Post a link to this post on Facebook and tell your friends or fans about the party and chance to win!
*Odds of winning are based on number of entries.
*Sweepstake will run until Midnight (EST) on Thursday, December 8th.
*Available to US and Canada residents ages 18 and older only.
*Winner will be chosen through random.org and contacted via email and must respond within 3 days or another winner will be selected.
Good Luck!
Now it’s time to show off what you’ve made recently!
Remember, this party is for any project, Craft, DIY, Remodeling that you did using a tool.
Link up to your specific post and please give a shout out to the party so others can join in. I love seeing what you’ve been up to.
Linky will be open until Sunday, December 4th at midnight (EST)
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Hi. I’m Sandra.
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Hi Sandra- I want one of these drills so much. I still use a corded one, but recently had a job where the contractor I was working with let me use his. I was sold. Made the job go so much quicker – more power – more mobility. I have a long lists of projects that I would use this for. I would keep it handy as I know I would use it all the time.
My best- Diane
Hi Again Sandra-
I really could use this drill so I liked Porter Cable on Facebook.
…and tweeted your sweet tweet about it, too.
Would love to win the 18V Porter-Cable Drill/Driver. I think I’d like the extra drill power and the smaller battery size. The thing I could use it on most is the Ikea knock-off loft bed I’m making for my girls. I’m follow you with Google Reader.
I liked Porter-Cable on Facebook too!
I am a loyal follower! Love your blog!
I liked Porter cable on FB.
I Subscribe via Google Reader. I would tackle a dart board cabinet I’ve been dying to make for about a year.
I ”Like” Porter-Cable on Facebook and left them some love!
I am a loyal follower on FB and email
I “like” Porter Cable on FB… They have a great router I like as well…
I think I would finally install the curved shower rod that I have been wanting. THEN after gaining conifidence, maybe I could build and install my kitchen cabinet doors
Shared the link to this post on FB.
I subscribe to your blog (and love it!)
I would tackle the fireplace mantel I’ve been wanting with the new drill/driver.
I am the first one to share! very low use of tool, except for a saw and drill!
My old drill is just that old, so a new one would be perfect and cordless, now we are talking!
I love your blog!! The first thing I would build would be a dog bed made out of an end table. My husband and I are separated and he has all the tools.
I follow you! I would build a bed or headboard for our bed. And bookshelves!
I subscribe through Google Reader – does that count? I would LOVE to win this for my husband,the tool man who has everything. So far, all I have for him for Christmas is a snow shovel, and he actually suggested that as a gift his daughter could get him but she already bought him a couple of shirts and didn’t need the gift suggestion, so I jumped on it. He doesn’t want or want for anything but I know he doesn’t have this drill!!!
I’m a faithful follower! I would give this to my hubby for Christmas so he can build a nice little hutch for our dining room. I decorate, he designs and builds!
I liked and commented on facebook.
I made a link on facebook!
I would love to build my own entertainment center with the specs i want not the specs the stores want to give you when you buy from them. I think this would be the tool for the job…
I am a follower and a FB friend. I could use a drill like that to get me into building, etc. I should have fun using wood instead of fabric!
I’m a follower and my drill died so I need a new one. I’m making an Entertainment Center soon and could use one for that.
I’m following you on my Google Reader and would love this drill to install custom built in storage in my (currently useless) hall closet!
I would tackle an entertainment center….after my husband FINALLY finishes dry walling the garage! (I would do it, but he insists it’s HIS project, and he will finish it!)
You’re closet is looking great!
Hi! I’m a new subscriber on your blog via email and I am SO inspired by you! I am new to the carpentry/DIY world but like you I want to jump in both feet first and start! Since I’m starting at square one I need a lot of tools so this drill would be perfect. I have liked the Porter-Cable page on FB as well as your FB page. For my first project I am going to make something practical that I will use on a regular basis which is a pair of sawhorses. Thankful for your blog!
I Subscribe to Saw Dust & Paper Scraps via email.
I ‘Like’ Porter-Cable on Facebook.
I Tweeted about this giveaway. jrosencr
This would be super helpful for my basement remodel. I’m going to build bookcases on casters as a room divider.
I’m subscribed & love it! I have sooo many projects I would tackle if I had a new drill/driver. I’d start by trimming out my new bookcases to make them look like furniture…then move on to some beadboard in the kitchen…then who know?!
I’m a long-time follower via RSS feed. I’m thinking about making my 4-year old niece a desk of her own. This would be a welcome tool to get it done.
I “liked” Porter Cable on FB and told them you sent me their way.
I posted a link for some friends on my FB page, with the caveat that if they won I got to use it whenever I wanted. Sounds fair, doesn’t it?
I subscribed via email – My fav project of yours was the craft room island!
I would be so psyched to win this – I would be able to make my son his ‘fort’ and maybe attempt to build a dog house too.
I liked Porter Cable on FB!
Hi, I just found your incredible blog from a tweet by Diane@InMyOwnStyle! My dream is to be as creative and skilled as you one day! I would use this Porter Cable drill to help renovate our 1920 Craftsman-style home that needs a new kitchen, among other things! I’m so glad I discovered your blog and this awesome give-away! I can’t wait to read your tutorials and learn diy from you!
I “liked” Porter-Cable on my FB page!
http://www.facebook.com/abra.wilder
I tweeted about your giveaway here:http://twitter.com/#!/Retromodgirl
We are building a built in wall bed system for the girls at our house,walk in closet shelving, new fireplace mantle, living room bookcases, and kitchen pantry. That’s just the first list. I follow you on facebook.
I would use this drill to install shoe cubbies in my closet!!!
I would love to win one of these too! I would use it to customize my daughter’s closet first, and mine after that. But they won’t be nearly as impressive as yours
I follow you by email…
I subscribe via Goggle Reader. I would use it to finally make some much needed book shelves.
I’m a follower who would love this drill. I’d like to make a few storage improvements to our closets, an this drill would make the job much easier.
liked on facebook
tweeted
http://twitter.com/#!/neal_longcock/status/143032923120074753
I would love to win this dril set! I would finish the teak mirror frame that I have been working on and finally get it installed!
i ALREADY LIKED PORTER CABLE, BUT I DID COMMENT ON THIS AWESOME DRILL
I would love a new drill – not that I need it but I figure you could never have too many, right?
I had already liked Porter Cable, I left a message on their wall
I liked Porter Cable on face book. I own other Porter Cable tools and love them. A drill would be great.
I subscribed to Sawdustandpaperscraps.
Sandra I like porter cable on fracebook
I Follow Sawdust and Paper Scraps – gfc – emillie. Would remodel a bathroom!!
hisprincess886 at yahoo dot com
I ”Like” Porter-Cable on Facebook and left a comment – emillie rose.
hisprincess886 at yahoo dot com
Tweet – http://twitter.com/#!/HisPrincess886/status/143128105500950528.
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Shared on fb – https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=316842738343034&id=100001891505536.
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I follow Sawdust and paper scraps. I would like to use it to finally finish a desk I bought almost a year ago
I like Porter Cable on FB
I posted giveaway on FB
I tweeted giveaway
I would love to win this drill. I would use it all around the house! I would love to tackle some bookshelves and I would love to build shelves in our closet. Love your closet by the way!!
GFC follower – maggietucker10
The first thing I would use this for would be to install shelving in my craft room.(shhhh, don’t tell hubby!)
I liked Porter Cable on FB and posted on their wall.
Follow or subscribe to Sawdust and Paper Scraps and tell me what project you would tackle if you won the Porter-Cable Drill/Driver.
I would help my fatherinlaw with building our kitchen… lol he won’t share his tools with me!
2. ”Like” Porter-Cable on Facebook and tell them how much you love the drill they are giving away at SawdustAndPaperScraps.com.
-trista zollars
tweet tweet!
http://twitter.com/#!/tristazollars/status/143371800389230592
New follower! Would love some of the extra features this drill has over my old one… like a light!! I am customizing our new house and have LOTS of projects to do!
Liked Porter-Cable on FB!
Hi Sandra,
I just started blogging about our DIY adventures and added my first link. I sure hope I did it right. I’m still fumbling my way through WordPress.
Love your blog!
Donna
Forgot to add…I would tackle the doors to the base cabinets I built.
I subscribe to your blog and I would love to win this! I would fix all the shelving in our closets that are starting to come down.
I subscribed to your blog. The first thing I would make with this were I to win would actually be an anvil stand.
Liked Porter Cable on Facebook and commented on giveaway post and thanked
Tweeted the giveaway (https://twitter.com/#!/mimir557/status/143520588529545216)
Posted on Facebook (username:mimir). Thanks for a great giveaway
I would love to win this. I am hoping to start my own collection of tools that the hubs will not be allowed to touch or loose. I would hang all the pictures I have pilling up!!
I would love to build a new craft table
I am a subscriber/follower. I am planning to make a storage unit for my daughter’s room. Thank you for the chance
I follow you!!! And I would like to try your cabinet tutorial for a blank wall in my kitchen…
I am a follower and a subscriber. I would love to win one of these for the pantry I am building.
I absolutely LOVE your blog! I would like nothing better than to be your apprentice and absorb all that knowledge that you have accumulated from experience. Then I would have a starting off point! I am trying to have several smaller projects now, working up to my big project this summer. I am planning on drawers to go under our bed with a platform. So in the meantime its practice, practice, practice! That drill/driver sure would be nice!
I liked Porter-Cable on FB.
I am a faithful follower of your blog!
I follow you. I have so many projects to tackle I can’t pick one
I liked porter cable on FB!
And I posted about it on Fb. I don’t have twitter.
I’m already a loyal fan of Sawdust and Paper Scraps! If I won this we would definitely starting working on the workshop for the garage!
Just stopped by the Porter Cable page and told them how much I’d like to win!
http://www.facebook.com/portercable/posts/10150410450473907
Mr. Woodsy would love to win the porter cable drill to help me finish up my laundry list of projects!
I just started following you. I guess what I might try is a Shelf to hold the microwave above the stove.
OOOH, I WANNA WIN! and i’d follow you to the ends of the earth in order get some of your mojo rubbed off on me, so i think i will win. i will win. i will win!
i just liked them on FB and told them i can’t wait to win the drill!
and now all my fb besties know the i entered your giveaway.. but i told them all NOT to come and see because then if they won we couldn’t be fb besties anymore.
I’ve got a LOT of remodeling to do, a bathroom and a kitchen/den/dining room. This would come in handy throughout those projects!
I would make some closet shoe cubbies and throw out that old plugin drill!!!
Hi Sandra, I would love to use the Porter-Cable drill to build a murphy bed for company!
I stopped by the Porter-Cable FB page, liked it, and gave your drill giveaway a shoutout…
…and tweeted about the giveaway…
…and posted a link on my Facebook page to the giveaway so my friends could enter too. Then I checked out some more projects on this blog. Thanks for the opportunity and the ideas!
I follow you via GFC i would use this to assemble some storage boxes that we are making for our kids room
I liked Porter-Cable on Facebook and told them how much i love the drill they are giving away at SawdustAndPaperScraps.com.
Michelle B
I would tackle putting shelves up in my office/craft room.
I like you on Fb.
I am a new email subscriber!
After a few little projects around the house, I’ve decided “woodworking” is going to be my new hobby. I have a few things on my list for winter:
Book Nook- built-in book shelves with a window seat at the top of my stairs.
Built-in shelves/cabinets in my daughters room.
Shelving in my husbands office
Free standing bookcases/shelves for my crafts.
Shelving in the game closet.
Over achiever?
I’ve been using my husbands DeWalt, and he wants it back. I also put a nail gun on my Christmas list…
Would love, love to have this!!
I’m following Porter-Cable on Facebook!
I’m following Porter-Cable on Facebook
We just put in new windows, so I would use the new drill making window boxes!
I already “like” you on FB. Hahaa
Hi Sandra,
I would use this drill in place old one that is on its last legs and has so little power it drives me crazy.
I have tons of projects but first would be handing window blinds in our office.
Already a follower, I would use this drill to build my bathroom vanity. The sink’s sitting in my bedroom, just need to tack something to put it on!
I remodel houses, like you. I have worn my drills out and would love to use this drill on my current project!
Posted a link to this giveaway on my FB page. Thanks!
If I won this wonderful drill, I would use it to hang new blinds in all of our bedrooms!!! It is time to retire the old screwdriver!!!
I like Porter-Cable on Facebook and thanked them for the giveaway that Sawdust and Paperscraps.com is giving away!!!
I have been a subscriber for ages and love your blog! I would love to replace the second drill I have now worn out in long years of DIY. I am ready to tackle renovating our playhouse for my grandchildren who are moving to town in the Spring! Thanks for all the great ideas.
I LIKED Porter-Cable on Facebook.
I seriously never win anything…ever. But I love your blog and need a new drill so I thought what the heck! Oh & I already follow you!
And now I “like” Porter Cable on FB!
I mean it’s on the link is on FB!
email subscribser
my husband would be the one who decides the projects lol
thanks
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Question …. The outside of the playhouse that I have been building is done. Are you doing a Dec link party this Friday?
I subscribed to your site
. The first project I would make with this is a wooden bookpress!
I would love to win this
I have so many projects I could finish for my sweet wife, and my drill broke last year. What an awesome giveaway! I am following you on GFC.
Thanks!
dvdgossett915@gmail.com
I ‘liked’ PorterCable and posted in regards to the giveaway
I tweeted the giveaway at http://twitter.com/#!/CaliCat10036/status/144947640478597121
I liked them on FB and left a comment!
dvdgossett915@gmail.com
Posted on my Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000381931196). Thanks for a great giveaway!
I follow your blog and I would use this to make a recycling center for our trash.
I ”Like” Porter-Cable on Facebook
I tweeted about this giveaway
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https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=197325807021701&id=71005186
I shared on facebook
Follow on GFC: rhoneygtn
I would use when we rebuild our outside deck.
Follow Porter Cable on Facebook: Rebecca Honey Graham. I wrote on their wall that I like the drill you are giving away here.
I subscribed to Sawdust and Paper Scraps. The first project I would make with this would be a case for all of my husband’s model Corvettes
I ‘liked’ Porter Cable and commented thanking them for the giveaway here
Tweeted at http://twitter.com/#!/MelVettegirl/status/144988878405763073
. Thanks for the giveaway!