Whoever mentioned these a while back:
So far I am *deeply* impressed. They really do drill proper brick at 10mm with no hammer and surprisingly little effort. They seem to be quite good at not wandering too (important as I was setting out battens that needed to be precisely mounted).
And they drill celcon crap-blocks cleanly enough too.
I'll be more impressed if they last more than a week - but time will tell...
They do ;-)
to be fair they are very good in masonry - and I would buy them for that alone. Their drilling performance in other materials is "adequate" when new, but suffers a bit as the masonry use takes the edge off them.
(not tried as yet - but they look like they might be quite easy to resharpen on a bench grinder)
T'was me :-)
Yup, surprisingly well.
Its just the convenience of them though, great for tiles, battens with hammer fixings, all sorts. Wouldn't buy them 'specifically' for wood or metal, but they are adequate for those materials and great for masonry.
A while ago I had been going to put a small set onto an order. Then I started to get perplexed so left them off. Is there any difference among these descriptions?
Bosch Multi-Construction Bosch ROBUSTLine Multi-Construction Bosch Multipurpose
(Copied from Axminster & Screwfix - probably find a few other variations if I searched a bit further afield.)
I think they were originally called Multi Material. There is only 1 type AFAIK, but I've only ever bought them from SF.
I fully concur....
Where they particularly score is making another hole through a radiator bracket straight into the masonry behind (to try to get a decent fixing where the original hole positions don't give one), putting fixing holes through skirting straight into masonry etc.
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