[Closed] Hilti Drills

I would have thought they'd be a bit pricey still? No doubt, they'd be excellent quality but I'm sure a Blue Bosch would do the job well at a reasonable price (corded obviously...cordless sds is usually £££). Depends on the size of anchor I suppose.

Hilti are awesomz!
However as dd says blue Bosch are good. In fact I have the smallish corded sds in my van. Happily drill into c40 all day long so longs we're not talking much above 13mm

Hilti or one of the older corded dewalts 110v and if you use good sds bits it will be a doddle . I use the blue Bosch cordless drills all day no good for anything over 15mm into proper concrete as it's gearbox is made from soft cheese . Are we talking all day everyday or a one off project . hire one?

I have a £90 Ryobi corded SDS that has taken unbelieveable amounts of abuse. I've also tried a Hilti 36v cordless SDS and that was sublime. Just 5x the price 🙂

From memory, my anchors are 18mm diameter and need about a 60mm deep hole. I hate using cheap kit and will happily splash the cash for the right tools.

18mm diameter

Oooh, I think that'll need a biggish gun. 🙂

Isn't that terrible marcus? You might have to go and splash some cash on a mega-drill. Just awful. You must be gutted. 😆

"I use the blue Bosch cordless drills all day no good for anything over 15mm into proper concrete as it's gearbox is made from soft cheese"

thats just the cheapo bosch blue thats in screwfix atm that one.... there are other blue cordless bosch that are just fine . pays your money takes your choice.

Hilti it is then . If your only going 60mm the Bosch will bounce about a lot trust me I put 10mm,15mm and 25mm anchor points in 7 or 8 a day the Bosch is fine for 10mm but won't last for anything bigger.

Just ordered a TE30 - gulp

[i] I hate using cheap kit and will happily splash the cash for the right tools. [/i]

ooh, check out Billy Big Bollocks 🙂

Pish off Nettles. I bet you would be dead happy trying to do your job with a ZX61 of whatever they were

Consider Metabo too. Our SDS must be 20+ years old it's pre clutch era anyway. You know when it bites as it trys to rip your arms off! Had a lot of abuse over the years, now just used on the heavier tasks. A mate bought a bottom of the range metabo last year. It's well made and he's happy with it. I had a cheap Hitachi which was good until it burned out after about 18 months.

Look at what you could have won

http://www.toolstop.co.uk/dewalt-d25123k-sds-hammer-drill-3-mode-240v-p14559

It's smaller, lighter, hits harder and costs a quarter of what you've just bought.

I've had mine almost 4 years, regularly use it for 127mm cores and stripping render.

The £430 saving buys a lot of tools

I use the blue Bosch cordless drills all day no good for anything over 15mm into proper concrete as it's gearbox is made from soft cheese

If you buy a proper one it will have a clutch to protect the motor / gear box and cut out long before any damage occurs.

Mine is this one:

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Funky, Not sure my clients would be too impressed with me turning up with 240v kit.

To avoid confusion I was referring to cordless. Corded and 110v is a different affair the old dewalts are fantastic mines over 15 years old now. Would not buy a new dewalt now . Hilti or Milwaukee depending on cash

I have the TE10. It does the job. Seemed pointless buying a higher model when all I'd be using it on was masonry anyway. Don't regret buying it.

Bosch GBH for me. Its pretty old and had a tough life but still goes though anything

Hilti TE30 - £1100 RRP! Wow - I didn't know you could spend that on a drill!

S'pose man in the street would say the same about bikes mind you.

It's available in 110v if it had to be so.

Back when i was a branch manager for a tool hire company we had a guy bring in an old 110v Hilti drill in after one of his workers drilled into an underground 400v cable (it was in the wrong place but he never CAT scanned first). He survived it with some fairly major burns but the drill was returned to Hilti to see if it could be salvaged. They repaired it foc even though it was at least 10yrs old at the time and the damage definitely fell into the misuse category. A new power cable and some brushes and it was good to go. The poker he was using in it was about 3" shorter than when he started. Hilti said if it had been 240v he would have been a goner.

Try Millwaukee fantastic kit