Drilling a round of holes in a 2' thick stone wall, for a 5" flue and
the Bosch went phut with a flash, a puff of smoke, an acrid smell and a
"*******!", as it happened near my head.
It lasted amazingly well; eight years of heavy use drilling and
chiselling, with only a set of brushes needed two years ago.
The model was a PBH 2200RE, green body, but behaved like a blue'un.

Ho-hum, I had to dig out the standby; an old SDS 110V AEG badged as
Atlas Copco, but which doesn't have rotary stop. Tough old thing,
though; it carried on drilling the holes. Annoyingly, my 650mm 12mm SDS
bit got well and truly stuck in an 'ole and I called it quits for the
day, leaving it sticking out. Sod it, it can wait until I chisel the
plug out of the middle.

On the way home I dropped into my local hardware/farm store and picked
up a nice shiny Makita HR2470 SDS rotary stop drill with some bits and
chisel (only normal, these days) thrown in the case.

I love new power tools

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:32:30 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

Drilling a round of holes in a 2' thick stone wall, for a 5" flue and
the Bosch went phut with a flash, a puff of smoke, an acrid smell and a
"*******!", as it happened near my head.
It lasted amazingly well; eight years of heavy use drilling and
chiselling, with only a set of brushes needed two years ago.
The model was a PBH 2200RE, green body, but behaved like a blue'un.

Ho-hum, I had to dig out the standby; an old SDS 110V AEG badged as
Atlas Copco, but which doesn't have rotary stop. Tough old thing,
though; it carried on drilling the holes. Annoyingly, my 650mm 12mm SDS
bit got well and truly stuck in an 'ole and I called it quits for the
day, leaving it sticking out. Sod it, it can wait until I chisel the
plug out of the middle.

On the way home I dropped into my local hardware/farm store and picked
up a nice shiny Makita HR2470 SDS rotary stop drill with some bits and
chisel (only normal, these days) thrown in the case.

I love new power tools

Did you have to!? I've only just got the Makita drill/driver/impact set
and, for 12V, it's bloody good!
At the time of purchase, I was fondling a Makita SDS - as one does - but
couldn't justify it :-(
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

picked
up a nice shiny Makita HR2470 SDS rotary stop drill with some bits and
chisel (only normal, these days) thrown in the case.

Annoyingly, I got three identical sets of drills (plus the chisel) with
mine, I can understand a couple of the smaller sizes which are more
likely to snap, but I'm sure everyone would prefer a larger range of
bits ...

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
Drilling a round of holes in a 2' thick stone wall, for a 5" flue and
the Bosch went phut with a flash, a puff of smoke, an acrid smell and a
"*******!", as it happened near my head.
It lasted amazingly well; eight years of heavy use drilling and
chiselling, with only a set of brushes needed two years ago.
The model was a PBH 2200RE, green body, but behaved like a blue'un.

Ho-hum, I had to dig out the standby; an old SDS 110V AEG badged as
Atlas Copco, but which doesn't have rotary stop. Tough old thing,
though; it carried on drilling the holes. Annoyingly, my 650mm 12mm SDS
bit got well and truly stuck in an 'ole and I called it quits for the
day, leaving it sticking out. Sod it, it can wait until I chisel the
plug out of the middle.

On the way home I dropped into my local hardware/farm store and picked
up a nice shiny Makita HR2470 SDS rotary stop drill with some bits and
chisel (only normal, these days) thrown in the case.

I love new power tools

Don't forget to keep the chuck when you dispose of the rest.

S

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Spamlet"
saying something like:

I love new power tools

Don't forget to keep the chuck when you dispose of the rest.

I'm starting a collection of them, now.

In article ,
Grimly Curmudgeon writes:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Spamlet"
saying something like:

I love new power tools

Don't forget to keep the chuck when you dispose of the rest.

I'm starting a collection of them, now.

I had a B&D drill for about 15 years which I rather liked, and it
had a very nicely made chuck. Gearbox on the drill failed though.
Anyway, just dug out the chuck and gave it to my dad, who had a
similar B&D drill, but with a less well made chuck which wore out.
These chucks have a 10mm threaded shaft to screw into the drill
(with a finer pitch than a standard M10 bolt), and don't seem that
easy to find anymore.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (Andrew
Gabriel) saying something like:


I had a B&D drill for about 15 years which I rather liked, and it
had a very nicely made chuck. Gearbox on the drill failed though.
Anyway, just dug out the chuck and gave it to my dad, who had a
similar B&D drill, but with a less well made chuck which wore out.
These chucks have a 10mm threaded shaft to screw into the drill
(with a finer pitch than a standard M10 bolt), and don't seem that
easy to find anymore.

I have a couple of decent old Jacobs chucks fitted with SDS adapters -
very useful from time to time and much better than many of the more
modern items for build quality. They're still around if you look in
bootsales, etc, much like finding a sought-after lens on a Praktica.

On 19 Aug,
(Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

I had a B&D drill for about 15 years which I rather liked, and it
had a very nicely made chuck. Gearbox on the drill failed though.
Anyway, just dug out the chuck and gave it to my dad, who had a
similar B&D drill, but with a less well made chuck which wore out.
These chucks have a 10mm threaded shaft to screw into the drill
(with a finer pitch than a standard M10 bolt), and don't seem that
easy to find anymore.

I've still got a black and decker model 1 going. I inherited it from my
father. I've the original receipt somewhere for about £1/9/11 (£1.50) It has
a 1/4" chuck locked by an allen key, and is very short but not very powerful
250w?). It's main use is getting into confined spaces, but I seem to find
more modern items for that these days. days.

--
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Change lycos to yahoo to reply

wrote:

I've still got a black and decker model 1 going. I inherited it from my
father. I've the original receipt somewhere for about £1/9/11 (£1.50) It
has a 1/4" chuck locked by an allen key, and is very short but not very
powerful 250w?). It's main use is getting into confined spaces, but I seem
to find more modern items for that these days. days.

I've got one of those too, it was the first power drill I ever had and it
must be over 50 years old now. According to the rating plate it's 220 watts
but seems much less than that now. The allen key chuck was its greatest
weakness - very difficult to get it to grip tight and stay tight. I ended
up ditching the chuck in favour of a 1/4" Jacobs one which was a great
improvement. Those were the days, you had just one power drill and could
get lots of different attachments to turn it into all sorts of different
tools - orbital sander, portable saw, bench saw, drill press, jigsaw, hedge
trimmer, lathe, floor polisher etc.

--
Mike Clarke