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my last drill was a bosch 1136 and it performed o.k. so i bought the milwaukee and so far it has performed well, with plenty of power even when i use a 30 inch bit to drill through super thick walls.
the case could have a better design for holding bits. it is super light, and the case takes up less space than the bosch, as well as being way lighter.
i bought this hammer drill to use for work. i need a drill that can handle a 1 1/8 drill bit and the bosch finally left me hanging when the teeth stripped off the chuck.
there is not any room to store the 16 inch bits, but the drill is a great purchase and i am happy with it. i drill through masonry fireplaces to run gas pipes in.
but i was never truly happy.
The Milwaukee SDS Rotary hammer drill. I beg to differ. I believe that the manufacturor has underated this tool. The hammer drill punched through the floor like a hot knife through butter. I am a handyman/ and I do alot of remodeling.
(Really not worth complaining about. The drill is capable of drilling a 4 inch diameter core hole in concrete. Now for the small complaint I have is; I am left handed and when I use the accessary handle it doesn't allow me to tighten it down without hitting the locking nut. The chisel mode has multiple positions when you use the mode selector switch.
The manufactor states that when your in chisel mode it will handle light chiseling. I was doing alot of jobs that called for a hammer drill. I have used it for other jobs involving hardened bloch that I could barely chip with a small sledge hammer and the hammer drill tore through it without hesitation. We starred at the broken up floor with amazment. I got out the hammer drill and selected chisel mode. It took only minutes to demo the floor.
The drill mode has alot of torque for those heavy drilling applications like landscape beams. I watched as my partner with all his might and a hammer sweated through a short session of demo.
Do not use cheap mason bits this drill will eat them up. This is as valuable as a sawzall is to a remodelor.
There is a convertor chuck that allows you to use normal shank bits. I finally broke down and purchased one on a clearence sale.
I had no sore muscles or banged up hands. I told him when he got tired to let me know.
It has three modes; drill, hammer drill and chisel. I was remodeling an old bathroom that had 3 inch poured floors with set in porcelin tile.
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