On Oct 7, 2:58 pm, George wrote:
willshak wrote:

First, let me say that I didn't ask for alternatives, I asked a direct
question about where I could get a specific product.

I share your disgust. What is the world coming to when people offer
polite, helpful and accurate suggestions to someone who appeared to have
chosen a bad path to follow?


I guess I can see both sides of this discussion. I know there have
been times when someone has asked a simple straightforward question
that does have a direct answer and instead got lots of uneeded advice
without answering the basic question. In this case, the answer was
that HD stocks them. I bought one there earlier this year. In my
case, I just had to enlarge an existing a hole a little bit to be able
to fit a 1/2 water pipe. It took about 2 mins.

On the other hand, I've used masonry drills, star bits, and hammer
drills. And the hammer drill will make holes so much faster and
easier that the posters suggesting that being the best solution were
only trying to share their experience and make the OP's job easier.
When the OP said that one issue with renting a hammer drill would be
what if he didn't get all the holes drilled in one day, I had to
wonder if he's ever used one. If a hammer drill can't do the holes
in a day, IMO, I can't imagine doing the job with a regular drill and
star bit with hammer.