Ok, brief stint with the FlexiClick today - no pictures though.
First task was attaching Corian kitchen top with green mdf backer to kitchen cabinets.
Used the angle attachment which was very solid and easy to shift to the right position. No problems and the angle chuck is as solid as the competition.
After that it was a rather lousy job for a fine drill: mixing thinset mortar for tiling...
...which it did really well. Even in first gear it revs pretty high and the wrist saving RFC kicked in one time and after that I provoked another dead stop. All I had to do was release the trigger and start again. Good power as is expected by a modern 18V drill/driver.
Metal jacobs chuck inspired confidence.
I don't know the first gear RPM but it seems quite high. In second gear it is 1900 RPM which is good.
Other impressions:
Fit and finish is very good, bordering on excellent. Not superb.
Rubber overmold in the right places.
Grip is good, better than Metabo (for me) and on par with Festool. Slightly behind HitaKokiBo. Though for larger hands (mine are small to medium) I think most will find the grip excellent.
Chucks are solid, excellent.
Bit chuck is permanently attached to the machine and fits inside the chucks when they are mounted. Bit chuck does not look anything special but does a great job so far - except it disengages by pushing in which is a potential problem when drilling/driving near an edge or protrusion. It makes for easy insertion of bits with one hand but I would prefer to pull the collar.
So, Inserting a bit is done by pushing _in_ the collar. This posed a small problem during the very first driving task: the bit chuck caught the side of a cabinet railing and popped out the bit... ...changed over to a longer bit and avoided a repeat pop out of the bit.
The bit holder holds centrotec bits very sturdy, at least the hardened/chrome plated (?) drill bits and depth drill bits which are locked in place and cannot be drawn out. Very good for me as I have a few of them. Fisch drills work great, as they should.
It does not hold the Centrotec bit chuck as well, it does not lock.
Driving is good, there is a slight vibration going on, no run out on the bit chuck but some handle vibration. Not best in class I would say. You feel it when driving the small stuff, for everything else you don't think about it.
Overall I would say the FlexiClick 18V looks like a great problem solver. I look forward to trying the SDS Chuck tomorrow. Didn't get to do it today.
Batteries deserve a mention: 4Ah ProCore, as small and seems as light as the previous gen 2Ah batteries. Charger tops them up to full in 35 minutes - which is superb. No reason to go smaller. No real reason to go more Ah. A near perfect battery? Perhaps!
As a stand alone unit the drill is superb value for money for what I paid. For the price of two accessory chucks for Festool I got a drill, a SDS hammer chuck, angle chuck, offset / excenter chuck, high quality metal jacobs chuck. Add to that two 4Ah batteries that can power a jigsaw/multicutter/hammer drill and other stuff and you are good to go at a fair price. It teams up with the GDX 18V EC that I recently got for a great stand alone kit.
Still, nothing beats the Hitachi drills for bang for the buck and performance (for the price paid at the close out sale) but they don't have any chucks like many of the competitors have now.