The guy who owned it, said the two speed is unique with a spin speed of
1240rpm not 500rpm as most are. It also has a 10mm chuck and is suitable for drill bits not just hex shaft screwdriver bits or hex bits. So it is a normal drill too. The batteries charge in 15 mins. So a drill/Impact Driver and collating gun all in one. I still don't know the price.
Matt, you wouldn't know if it is high quality or not. Hilti do not make crap.
Take a look at the price ranges for similar tools.
Matt, you wouldn't know if it is high quality or not. Hilti do not make crap.
I didn't say that they made crap, I said that not all of it is of high quality. That is not the same thing. Nobody has suggested that Hilti's high end industrial products are not of good construction and durability. Their small cordless tools are nothing special for example.
There is no one brand or manufacturer within a given category who makes the best tools of a given type in that category. Experience and many reviews show that there is not one manuacturer who has best of breed across the board. This is one reason why TTI's approach with their Ryobi product line may appear to be attractive at first sight because of commonality of battery. However, this is a lock in and while they may be making the best product within their class for one tool type, they won't be for another and so the customer is disadvantaged in a different way.
I gave an example of their pistol grip battery impact drill. Nothing else is like it. A mains Makita SDS will not outdo it in brick up to 6mm. Not cheap though!!! A true professional tool - and made in China like all other major tools, except Kress and Sparky.
This is hardly a reasonable comparison point.
Kress and Sparky are not major tools.
You forgot to mention Festool.
It is.
They are big enough.
Festool.
Don't be silly. One doesn't buy an SDS drill just to make 6mm holes in brick.
Thank you.
Matt, read what I wrote. "A mains Makita SDS will not outdo it in brick up to 6mm". That tells you a lot about this baby. If you don't need to drill larger than 6.5mm this will sail though brick. You can do larger and it still perform very well, although not as good as an SDS above 6.5mm. I know of no battery drill that touches it.
That's a big "if". Most masonry drilling is in 8mm or larger.
It is not a big if at all. It is equal, if not better than a Makita SDS.
Most DIY is small stuff. also much pro work is that small depending on what you do.
I don't.
It may be (according to you) but only in circumstances where you wouldn't use an SDS anyway.
You fit shelves to walls using 6mm plugs?
making doll's houses?
Mmmm....
As opposed to what? No need for anything larger than that unless you have a very heavy load.
6mm Fischer plug & a 40 x 4 screw gives an incredibly strong fix - easier to get a sailor off your sister than pull that out.
A shelf of books? Several shelves of books?
That depends on the load and on the nature of the wall to which it is being attached.
Sounds like a Chatham phrase.
Again..."It is equal, if not better than a Makita SDS"
In the same sense that a steam roller is better than a Ferrari, I suppose it might be.
Held by London brackets, cantilever brackets, battens, twin slot steel uprights & brackets? Any of those can be fixed 100% with 6mm plugs.
Fischer plasterboard plugs are 6mm too - and very strong.
The Chatham version is less PC :-)
But would you hang a 37" lcd using four of them? That's what the bloke in screwfix was going to do. I wouldn't.
Well they *can*. The question is for how long.
It would be sheer folly to consider fixing book shelves just to plasterboard - unless one os looking for repeat business.
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