Ping Vass

If one was to hypothetically want to purchase something like this:
http://www.northerntooluk.com/products.asp?partno=5913E, could a
discount be had on it?

I need summat to rip up a load of ceramic floor tiles.

TIA

 

I think you need one of these, possibly hire might make sense.

http://www.northerntooluk.com/products.asp?partno=0750E

I borrow one now and again and they're great.

 

Actually I think that might be overkill (although fun). I think that
would end up going through the whole floor. Summat like an SDS with a
wide chisel should be perfect. My air chisel would do it too, but I
can't get near enough to the job with it.

 

Looks ok, but for once I've decided I might not go down the pikey price
route. The cheaper SDS (as that one) are about 2.5X heavier.

 

'Simon Wilson' wrote...>

Box full of cold chisels, large pile of pizza, beer and general UKRM
invite?

 

'Frooty' wrote...>

I want one and I've got absolutely no use for it.

 

heh, s/pizza/moules, fromage et baguettes/ and s/beer/really nice
locally brewed Normany cider/ and that could be a plan.

 

Bring Your Own Hammer.

 

Why do you need to rip them up - what's replacing them?


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er, more floor tiles. But whoever put the previous lot down didn't use
anywhere near enough glue, or summat. Some of them are loose and have
lifted. At first I thought they were laid on top of hardboard they
flexed so much, but in fact the floor underneath is concrete.

 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Is 110V a requirement? Unless you're doing site work, it's a pain in the
bum lugging a transformer around. My 110V kit is hardly used at all,
nice though some of it is.

Cheap and heavy shit, not worth it. I had the use of one of them when I
was doing some stuff and the brushes in my Bosch went gaga. Never again,
what a pain in the arse of a tool.

 

Crap, no, well spotted. I clicked on the wrong one. 230V the same price
though http://www.northerntooluk.com/products.asp?partno=593E

 

'Grimly Curmudgeon' wrote...>

That cheap drill weighs 4.8Kg.

This one

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/44487/Power-Tools/SDS-Drills/DeWalt-
D25701KL-110V-7kg-SDS-Max-Combi-Hammer

costs £549.99p and weighs 8.3Kg.

I see the expensive ones got 3.5 x as much impact energy, and a higher
power motor.

I take it that the physical weight is nothing to do with it, and its the
usual specs of the max bit size / motor power / max impact power that
really count?

 

'Simon Wilson' wrote...>

Same price? Thats £99, not £35!

 

You have to use it a lot to beat grabbing one from the local hire shop
when you need it.

 

Of the smaller drills, for the same-ish useable power, the cheap ones
will usually be nearly twice the weight because they're using a simpler,
cheaper motor design, and the castings are bigger because of larger gear
components - which are large because of them being made of cheese and
have to survive somehow. It all adds up.

Of the SDS-Max size drills - the proper breakers and so on, the good
quality ones are all much of a muchness for size, and again the cheap
shit ones are bloody heavy in comparison - though I must say, if it's
for breaking in a vertical position, the weight of a cheap one can
actually help, for as long as it lasts. They're an utter pain in any
other position though.
I have an old Bosch SDS-Max drill/breaker which I picked up for next to
nothing at a carboot because it was 240V and every site tool needs to be
110V, but it's a great piece of kit and half the weight of the Chinese
ones, which really, really makes a difference if you're boring out
horizontally.

 

np thanks for checking.

 

Buy a long airline. Cheaper than a new tool and handy for other things too.
Bondage springs to mind.

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Heh. Needs to be about 180 miles long and stretch across the channel.
My compressor's much too big to lug over there.

 

Wanna borrow mine ?
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