On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:35:48 +0000, Tim S wrote:

Alang coughed up some electrons that declared:

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:23:49 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

Alang wrote:

wall. Took me about 30 minutes with a 2lb hammer to go through two
bricks. Not easy but did I need to buy a special drill for something I
would only do once a decade?

You may find other occasions to use it if it were easier and quicker
though ;-)


The only time I would have used a SDS hammer drill was when I took our
back wall down to get the car in. I still haven't trimmed the bricks
off at one side.

Heh. All those 'tuits ;-o

Just mostly given up. Gets done when have time. Two outside doors
and two internal doors to strip and repaint next spring


For my project, my pair of SDS drills (nice Hitachi 2kg and a rough but dirt
cheap 8kg ALDI) are going to see:

Much tile removal,
Back box sinking (loads)
Finishing chases
Heavy drilling
little bit of core drilling
random small scale concrete breaking

I do very little of that now

That's the dead-certain list. I expect I'll find a few more uses...

I have a B&D bought in 1974 with a circular saw attachment and a B&D
BD154R bought some time in the 80s. Does almost everything I need. The
only things I never use are an arc welder bought for one job in 1990
and a router I bought a few years ago. Again for one job and never
used again. For DIY I have a good selection of hand tools and all the
time in the world.

I agree - it's in the time. I have until next September to gut and redo the
ground floor of a bungalow, or I'm dead ;- I'll also be doing it full time
without monetary employment from next February so time really does equate
to money. Anything which costs 100-200 quid and turns 20 days of work into
a week has more than paid for itself.

Yebbut I'm semi retired. If I drop dead first it wouldn't matter if
the doors got painted or not