SDS drill grease

Nov 09, 2005 30 Replies

| Lurch wrote: | | >>There'll be a cap on the top of the drill which unscrews (Sometimes | >>with a special spanner supplied with the drill). | >>

| > | > Don't know where you got that from, the grease is to apply to the | > drill bit before insertion into the chuck. | | Depends on your drill. The budget ones often have a grease filling port | as described - and they can use significant amounts of it in time. Much | of it ending up all over the tool, its user, and anything close by! The | posher SDS drills have no such requirement but do suggest the occational | lubrication of the drill bit shank.

Mine is the 6kg cheapie. As an active AOP I can use it without problems with the weight.

So my Stayer is one of "The posher SDS drills" then! :-)

I've never greased anything on it and it's still serving me well several years after I bought it.

What's the correct (posh!) name for the grooves, then?

Me two :-)

I've never lubed anything at all on it, AFAICR it didn't say anything about it in the instructions

The instruction manual that came with my SDS drill!

It came with a little tub of grease and a special spanner to remove the cam on top the drill with the instruction to re-grease every few hours or so.

sponix

Err..you are supposed to replace the cap before using the drill!

sponix

On or around Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:08:44 +0000, John Rumm mused:

All mine must be posh ones then. ;)

On or around Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:25:15 +0000, Dave Fawthrop mused:

Eh?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@isbd.co.uk saying something like:

Why, the difference to the reciprocating action in the orifice, silly.

The "fill with goo" type do seem to be getting less common now....

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