SDS & hole saws

[jaypp]

Horses for courses.

I have my Dewalt 18v combi for light stuff, a cheap 110v Ryobi SDS that I've had for about 7 years and a Milwaukee core drill I've had for longer, that I use for well... for core drilling.

I used the Milwaukee to put a 4" hole through 2' of black basalt not that long ago.
I can assure you even with a decent core bit it was nothing like a hot knife through butter.

I work on the principle that if I use each drill for what it's designed for then I'll still be using them happily for years.

until the 'labourer factor' or the 'van's 3 flights of stairs + 5 min walk away factor'!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Horses for courses.

I have my Dewalt 18v combi for light stuff, a cheap 110v Ryobi SDS that I've had for about 7 years and a Milwaukee core drill I've had for longer, that I use for well... for core drilling.

I used the Milwaukee to put a 4" hole through 2' of black basalt not that long ago.
I can assure you even with a decent core bit it was nothing like a hot knife through butter.

I work on the principle that if I use each drill for what it's designed for then I'll still be using them happily for years.

I feel your pain.

It's jobs like this when you need a rig to fix the machine to so all you have to do is turn a handle to feed it through the wall.

Not something you would want to buy on the off chance you'll need it someday, but maybe worth hiring now & then.

http://www.edcoinc.com/core-drill-rigs-36.html

 

[Geordie Spark]

Some piccies of the sort of thing I used to make: D-Drill Concrete Core Sample Cutting Service with Nationwide availability

 

[Selfmade]

until the 'labourer factor' or the 'van's 3 flights of stairs + 5 min walk away factor'!

Or the 'yet another thing to load in the morning, unload at the job, load at the end of the day, unload back home' factor. Exhausted and out of time before any work has even been done!

Reckon if my 18V combi will cope with the occasional solid board access hole, then so will my SDS... If I need to do loads on a job then maybe I'll hire...

 

[jaypp]

Some piccies of the sort of thing I used to make: D-Drill Concrete Core Sample Cutting Service with Nationwide availability

either that bloke in all the ppe is 'frodo baggins' or that's a rather large core!:smile5:

 

[Geordie Spark]

until the 'labourer factor' or the 'van's 3 flights of stairs + 5 min walk away factor'!

You think you've got a hard life???

Spare a thought for this poor chap!! Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock - Rock'n'Roll Legends - R'n'R + lyrics - YouTube

 

[jaypp]

You think you've got a hard life???

Spare a thought for this poor chap!! Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock - Rock'n'Roll Legends - R'n'R + lyrics - YouTube

if i'm 'getting' this right, a decent girl would have done the rocking (while he checked ceiling finish) after he climbed all those stairs!!!!

 

[ayjay]

you need a rear handle 1000 watt elu drill and a diamond tipped cutter mate theres no magnetic slip clutch, if it binds you get a busted arm
the nose of the elu drill will go through the hole that the cutter bores if its a 4 inch hole for fan ducting/ soil pipe

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Elu, is now Dewalt.