cancidas
2008-01-31, 01:36 AM
today i was doing some work on one of our houses, adding a light to the badk yard of the house to be specific. to do so i needed to drill through the outside wall of the house, about 2' of cinder blocks. i was using a dewalt 1/2'' hammer drill and started drilling from the inside. i was planning drilling the hole to pass electrical conduit through it from the inside and then again from the outside. about halfway through drilling from the inside the damn drill stopped spinning on me. i took it apart and found that the gears just snapped. now, i wasn't going excessively fast or pressing excessively hard but the damn POS just broke. mind you, this is the same model drill i used to bore out larger holes in the shackle that joined the leaf springs and axle in my truck's suspension. it broke then to, and we got a replacement (new) drill from dewalt.
this is the drill in question: http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/tool_detail.asp?productID=16238
so on my way to school i stopped off at home depot by the bulova center to return the POS drill and get my money back. in doing so i got to talking to the HILTI rep that was at the store. he was standing by the returns counter and overheard my convo with the clerk. he talked me into letting him show me the HILTI tools he had on display, and they did feel like they were of a much more solid construction. i chatted with him for a while, he was trying to sell me a $700 kit that included a 24V hammer drill, 24V reciprocating saw, 24V circular saw, 24V flashlight and 15V screw gun; all CORDLESS!
this is the kit he was trying to sell me, sans the 15V screw gun.http://www.us.hilti.com/holus/modules/prcat/prca_product.jsp?OID=42034&CATE_OID=-20989
so now i pose my question; does anyone here own or use HILTI tools? anyone use them in the past? i'm not bothering with dewalt/ makita/ ryobi/ milwakee ever again. i don't want to spend money on tools that will fall apart, i need stuff that works and will continue to work. cinder block isn't that hard to drill through...
this is the drill in question: http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/tool_detail.asp?productID=16238
so on my way to school i stopped off at home depot by the bulova center to return the POS drill and get my money back. in doing so i got to talking to the HILTI rep that was at the store. he was standing by the returns counter and overheard my convo with the clerk. he talked me into letting him show me the HILTI tools he had on display, and they did feel like they were of a much more solid construction. i chatted with him for a while, he was trying to sell me a $700 kit that included a 24V hammer drill, 24V reciprocating saw, 24V circular saw, 24V flashlight and 15V screw gun; all CORDLESS!
this is the kit he was trying to sell me, sans the 15V screw gun.http://www.us.hilti.com/holus/modules/prcat/prca_product.jsp?OID=42034&CATE_OID=-20989
so now i pose my question; does anyone here own or use HILTI tools? anyone use them in the past? i'm not bothering with dewalt/ makita/ ryobi/ milwakee ever again. i don't want to spend money on tools that will fall apart, i need stuff that works and will continue to work. cinder block isn't that hard to drill through...