Sds max has died I need a new one.

[OffshoreGas]

I’ve got a Bosch GBH 11, I bought it second hand from Fleabay when I had some big drilling jobs. It’s a monster and has had some real abuse and kept on going. I’d have to check but I don’t thing it has a non hammer drill function. I’d guess it was about 15kg and not something you’d want to hold while you core.

 

[centralheatking]

My Makita sds is as old as my youngest son 19..it has done
4 inch core , 36 inch 18mm and wider on its 2nd or 3 rd set of brushes still performs like I expect it to do, solid machine and this is not micky mouse diy almost every day and Cornish Granite
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[Harvest Fields]

dont have any batteries for dewalt and true milwaukee have got one but bosch will always have me for there sds they make some cracking ones in my opinion

Wouldn’t spend that much on a drill if I was getting 6 of them.

 

[OffshoreGas]

Most have brought out cordless sds max drill capable of 5 " coring nowadays, why the soft spot for Bosch sds (still use my 24v btw)?

DeWalt DCH733X2-GB 54V XR FlexVolt SDS Max Rotary Hammer Drill 2 x 9.0Ah | Toolstation

54V XR FLEXVOLT 2 MODE SDS MAX Drill offers unrivalled cordless performance and power • Impact energy: 13.3J • No load speed: 177-355 rpm • Impact rate: 1350-2705 bpm • Max Drilling Capacity (Concrete) - 48mm • Max Drilling Capacity (Breakthrough Bit) - 80mm • Max Drilling Capacity...

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I bought a couple of Dewalt FlexVolt kit but it was quickly sold on. The batteries essentially contain 3 normal 18v batteries. If you use it with an 18v tool you get 9ah which is cracking, if you use the same with a 54v tool you get a pitiful 3ah as the batteries are connected in series. The grinders and saws I had were very powerful but the rub time made them almost worthless.

 

[gmartine]

Good to know but I thought you could acutally choose between whether to use 18v & 54v on the Flexvolt range and therefore opt for the extra runtime, obviously not. I've posted a youtube review in the tools section where Hilti whoops the lot of them.

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[OffshoreGas]

Good to know but I thought you could acutally choose between whether to use 18v & 54v on the Flexvolt range and therefore opt for the extra runtime, obviously not. I've posted a youtube review in the tools section where Hilti whoops the lot of them.

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That’s possibly a feature they’ve introduced with the new tools, wasn’t an option with the ones I had as far as I know. My understanding is the flex volt thing came about because of battery capacity limits on air travel. They’ve dodge these rules by building 3 batteries into one case and using electronics to connect in series or parallel depending on application.

I’ve gone off Hilti in a big way due to poor service/support. Seem to be another great company circling the pan these days. What support you get appears to be luck of the draw what you get depending on what your local rep is like.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Hilti are awesome. I know that and i do not own any.

 

[OffshoreGas]

Hilti are awesome. I know that and i do not own any.

Not knocking the quality, the service and after sales is pretty poor in my experience.

 

[Scott_D]

Not knocking the quality, the service and after sales is pretty poor in my experience.

I heard they were closing down most of their shops

 

[OffshoreGas]

I heard they were closing down most of their shops

Yeah, they seem to have shut a lot. They only seem to be interested in fleet service agreements wit big companies.

They don’t really seem to have kept ahead of the others in terms of quality either. 15 years ago the DIY Ryobi type brands were garbage. Today they actually make products that work, they might not be the right choice for something you use day in day out but they’re cheap and generally last quite well.