Ryobi CID1823VK: Discontinued — What to Buy Instead
An 18V hammer drill kit from the older ONE+ range. Retired, and worth replacing rather than repairing.
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The CID1823VK was an 18V hammer drill kit in Ryobi’s earlier ONE+ line — a drill/driver with a percussion setting for masonry, sold with batteries, a charger and a case.
It is discontinued, though ONE+ batteries remain cross-compatible with everything in the range, old and new.
What the hammer setting actually does
A percussion hammer drill works by two ridged plates ratcheting against each other as the chuck turns, tapping the bit forward thousands of times a minute. It is enough for anchor holes in brick and soft block.
It is not a rotary hammer. An SDS rotary hammer uses a piston to strike the bit and will drill concrete an order of magnitude faster. If your masonry work is more than the occasional wall plug, a cheap SDS drill will do more for you than any upgrade to a percussion drill.
Replacing it
The wear points on a drill of this generation are the chuck jaws, the clutch and — most often — the batteries. None of those are worth repairing on a tool at this price.
The Ryobi ONE+ HP brushless drill kit, linked below, replaces it on the same battery platform. It is a drill/driver rather than a hammer drill; if you want the hammer function, Ryobi’s ONE+ HP hammer drill sits alongside it in the range and takes the same packs.