Demolition breaker

[Tabby]

I've been offered a demolition breaker for 50 notes - are they useful for anything other than demolition? I assume not, but thougth I'd ask :) Its about 10kg.

NT

[The Medway Handyman]

What make?

[Ronald Raygun]

It's conceivable that in the right circumstances it would do a better job than an angle grinder.

[John Rumm]

Unless you have specific recurring use for it, then they are handy on the very odd occasion you need something that punches harder than a SDS, but not quite into full breaker territory. I can only recall a couple of jobs where I would have liked one. Having said that £50 is probably not far off medium term hire price, so if you have storage space for it, it might be worth having if its a decent one.

[Andy Dingley]

You can dig with it. If it's only 50, a reasonable make, reasonable life left in it and uses some source of power that you can supply, then I'd go for it. I used one recently to trench concrete for SWA out to a shed.

Mine is a Bosch (=A31500 list today!) that I got in an auction for a tenner. Great deal, except that it's 400Hz (ex RAF Regiment, bizarrely) and it cost me =A360 for a ex-mil generator to drive it (Anchor, couldn't give them away). Paid for itself on the first job though.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Tabby saying something like:

Heap big tool, buy.

Even if you never use it, it's worthwhile getting it just to have it.

[Tabby]

Unfortunately its a McAllister, unlike the other stuff, mostly dewalt. I'm kinda torn between passing on it, I dont do much demolition, but there is one demo job to do at some point, and it seems a fair option cost wise.

FWIW it comes with the bits.

NT

[Tabby]

Its 240v, so no problems there. Sounds like you got a deal.

I know they use 400Hz on planes, but cant imagine needing a demo breaker on a plane.

NT