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At the Home Depot and I saw this deal on a 1″ hammer drill for $199.99. Seems decent since it also comes with a 4 1/2″ grinder. Fair market price?
Not to bad of a kit, but it is corded. Better deal would have been cordless.
Only ” negative thing ” thing about that rotary:
Sometimes when you want to switch from drilling –> hammer drilling –> chipping you will have to turn the bit/chuck a little bit for the gears to fall in place. Else the switching wont work.
If you know what i mean 🙂
Not really a problem but i just had a few customers coming back to me saying the selector knob was stuck who didn’t know about gears that can be ‘stuck’ unless you turn the chuck a bit 🙂
Yeah, cordless would have been better. Too bad there is no way you will find a price that cheap for a cordless hammer drill and grinder.
kornomaniac wrote:
Sometimes when you want to switch from drilling –> hammer drilling –> chipping you will have to turn the bit/chuck a little bit for the gears to fall in place. Else the switching wont work.
I use that drill all the time at work and have never run into that issue.
Only happens even so often 🙂
The cases of those HR26… here in belgium even had a sticker on the inside with drawings to help people understand =p