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Below I put a picture of a job I was on; it’sa brand new house I was setting up a reverse osmosis system in the basement mechanical room. The picture shows the adjoining storm room where a carpenter is installing walls and laying down his base plates to mount the studs to. He was using an old Milwaukee corded hammer drill to make holes for his tapcons. It was extremely loud and he was really going at it hard. Then his bit would fall out of his keyed chuck…… I decided to introduce him to sds technology (Thank you Bosch) and I’ve always thought everyone should get a chance to use a sds drill if they’ve never used one…. So I grabbed mine you see in the pic and I asked him if he wouldn’t mind trying out my drill instead, please?
So now he drills the rest of his holes with half the noise, twice the speed and the bit doesn’t fall out… But I had to remind him he’s going to have to get his own now lol!
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Nice work! Really do make drilling concrete much much easier
nice work 🙂 that`s why SDS drills are in this world 🙂
SDS drills have been around for over 40 years.
M80 wrote:
2 hours ago, M80 said:SDS drills have been around for over 40 years.
Good thing I found them this early in my life then
Never knew hammer drills existed until I bought my DeWalt drill.
M80 wrote:
4 hours ago, M80 said:SDS drills have been around for over 40 years.
And yet they’re far from common knowledge :P.
Sounds like a commission based sales opportunity !!?
How archaic!
Foneguy wrote:
7 hours ago, Foneguy said:Sounds like a commission based sales opportunity !!?
if only he were a Milwaukee rep
JimboS1ice wrote:
4 hours ago, JimboS1ice said:
if only he were a Milwaukee rep
If @KnarlyCarl was a Milwaukee tool rep then who would pay for his current rep’s childrens’ college? 😛
JimboS1ice wrote:
12 hours ago, JimboS1ice said:
if only he were a Milwaukee rep
BMack37 wrote:
8 hours ago, BMack37 said:
If @KnarlyCarl was a Milwaukee tool rep then who would pay for his current rep’s childrens’ college? 😛
Lol!! Well that’s what I’m called at work anyways….
Why don’t I own one yet?!?!????
Bigmikez wrote:
20 hours ago, Bigmikez said:Why don’t I own one yet?!?!????
I know man it’s time you got one lol!
Hopefully you didn’t have to wrestle with him to get it back.
Eric – TIA wrote:
54 minutes ago, Eric – TIA said:Hopefully you didn’t have to wrestle with him to get it back.
Lol yeah nah he’s great, totally understanding, a kind of guy you could grab a beer with and shoot the breeze as they say