Skil PWRCORE 20-Volt Lithium-Ion Cordless 1/2 in. Drill Driver Kit

This Skil Pwrcore drill, battery and charger arrived very quickly and all inclusive in a well packaged carton. It also had the 5 amp hour battery that I also ordered, included. I like the light weight of the drill. The specific features are the LED light and 1/2 inch chuck. I use it for all my home projects and keep it in my basement work shop. I will put this drill up against the other quality named drills. It gets the job done effortlessly. You will not be disappointed and you will love the economical price of it.I like it a lot.This is my second drill/driver drill. I keep the original one with the impact driver drill (as the photo depicts) in our garage.

Variable speeds, plenty of power, light to see what you’re doing. Great value!

In 1958 , just recently married I went to a Garage sale and the firs thing I spotted was a 7 1/4 inch SKIL SAW for sale, which I had always wanted and now moving into a rented home I knew that I would need to add some shelves to the Garage for storage and I had always wanted to own a Skil Saw and that was over 60 years ago and I still have and use that electric saw. When I saw that Skil had a portable 20 Volt battery operated drill, I knew that I also wanted one and I am totally impressed with the quality and features on this drill. It is powerful, compact solid and I know it will last forever. Over the years Skil has proven its worth and quality to me..

Skil is a well known and reputable tool manufacturer. There are a lot of nice features about this1/2 inch cordless drill driver. Comes with nice recharger and 20 volt battery. Easy grip, and comfortable handle. The light built into the base is different than any other drill I have owned. Makes perfect sense to shine the light up towards the object you are screwing or drilling. Nice size fits very easily into my hip tool box.

Great product, fair price. My only concern is that sometimes you hear a strange noise from the clutch. I hope this is normal and it doesn’t foretell a breakdown at some point in the future. Nonetheless, the drill now works fine.

This is yet another great Skil tool…the PWRCORE cordless drill driver is a great tool to have for all of the projects around your house.  With the 20 volt battery and included charger, this drill will accomplish your household tasks like hanging pictures and window shades, assembling that new furniture that was just delivered or simply tightening the screws on your chairs.  This has an LED light that will illuminate when you press the trigger making sure you can see what you are doing.  

Imho SKIL makes great tools that work on demand and won’t let you down and this 20V 1/2 drill driver is a great example. It has all the features you would expect and a few more. It has a variable speed trigger switch,2 speed gearbox switch for low/high torque,simple slide switch for direction of rotation and LED worklight. There is also a green arrow to indicate wether you are going forward or reverse. It comes with a 20V lithium battery and charger and battery has a charge level indicator to let you know how much power is left. It also comes with a handy belt hook that attaches with a screw if needed. This is a smaller profile drill that I personally prefer and doesn’t give my hand/arm much fatigue. Uses all types of dril and screw bits and is easy to switch them out. Great drill for anyone to use on a daily basis and the lithium battery gives great power.

Amazing driver. Able to drive 60 three inch screws in a project and battery is strong

Good entry-level drill. Comfortable grip, lightweight, and I like the battery charge indicator. It has a forward/reverse light on top, which is not that useful to me but it doesn’t hurt anything. My only complaint is that if you don’t tighten the chuck enough, the bit can fall out after the electric brake stops the drill from spinning a few times. Other than that, I like it for household tasks.

I’ve owned multiple cordless drills over the years. I love the convenience of the cordless feature, but hate it when the battery fails, and the replacement costs of the battery is almost the cost of a new drill. All my other drills came with two batteries, and it seemed one battery would always last much longer than the other. Not sure if this is just variances in manufacturing, or affected by duty cycle. The other obviously advantage is that you can have a back-up battery to finish the job when the first battery dies. Anyway, two batteries are much more desirable package than one. The price of a Skil battery is about 2/3 the cost of this drill package, so if the battery dies, you may as well throw everything away and buy a new drill.The March 2020 issue of Wood Magazine had a large article on comparing 18- & 20-Volt drills. The Skil model DL529302 actually compared well in all performance issues, but received lower marks for LED effectiveness and a B+ rating (lower than most) for ease of using power switch. It actually beat everybody on the number of holes drilled with one charge. However, the big negative is that they only supply one battery. This drill (DL527502) is actually half the price of the 302, and nearly every other 20- volt drill. I didn’t feel this drill exhibited the negative comments Wood magazine noted on the 302 drill. This drill has a plastic chuck, compared to a metal one on the 302, and does not have the “brushless” motor feature.This is my first compact drill, and I like the size and balance. Also, its much lighter than my 18-volt DeWalt. The drill also has a cute feature of a rotation indicator light. I installed a 2.5″ hole saw, and the drill did exhibit good torque. The chuck requires slightly more rotations than my DeWalt, to go from closed to fully open, which is good. I’m guessing manufacturers are phasing out the brushed drills, in favor for the brushless, and thus the good deals on these current drills. If you are satisfied with just one battery, then this is a nice drill for the money. I’m dropping the rating down to 4 stars, since it only has one battery.