David Hearn wrote:

This sort of reply is probably what I find most annoying about this
otherwise excellent uk.d-i-y group. Someone comes and asks whether a
masonry drill can get blunt, and the reply he gets is "That looks a poor
quality bit - buy a £100 drill and new bits, although cheap bits make
little difference."

You seem to be misquoting there...

The "cheap bits make little difference" part is *only* applicable to SDS
bits. This is not the case with conventional masonry bits.

--
Cheers,

John.

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