After watching a youtube vid on removing plaster, I bought myself a lightweight 2kg SDS and tile remover chisel. My god it's genius! how could I have lived 40 years and not bought one yet!! Not tried s=drilling into concrete yet as have loads more plaster to hack off...but a becent bit of kit it is!!
SDS...how did I live without?
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Make your next tool an impact driver and you'll wonder the same
I think these are the 2 most talked about tools you wish you'd bought sooner
What SDS drill did you go for virgilns? A Bosch I hope. Bosch invented SDS in the '70's and everything else is a copy.
SDS are fantastic, couldn't live without mine.
Those impact drivers are great, was using mine today screwing a sub floor down. Moisey though.
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I bought a bosch blue sds way back in the late 90's, one of the very early 3 function roto stop ones and it had the detachable sds chuck for a heavy duty 3 jaw, alas it was 240v which wasn't a problem at the time, used it for 5 years and then gave it to my brother (not in the trade) and he still uses it around the house and its never been serviced nor failed.
ATM i'm running a 24v dewalt sds, got it 5 years ago while on offer at SF...£249 with 2 2.4 batts, still going strong and never let me down either although its crying out for some sds grease, just keep forgetting
ATM i'm running a 24v dewalt sds, got it 5 years ago while on offer at SF...£249 with 2 2.4 batts, still going strong and never let me down either although its crying out for some sds grease, just keep forgetting
Make your next tool an impact driver and you'll wonder the same
best tool ever, you learn to love the noise and with a 100mm screw and 3x2 off cut you'll never want for a cork screw again
I bought an impact driver naked to go with the 10.8 bosch range 18 months ago and apart from putting some solar panel brackets on I can't seem to find a use for it, and you could wake the dead with them, they are too noisy.
I'm still a huge fan of bosch blue. I've got a screwgun, ipact driver and a little drill for the 10.8V range and they're all brilliant, and of course the obligetory SDS drill. I've got a GBH 2400 in 110V. I really abuse it and it just laps it up. I tend to use it more than my 24V makita SDS drill these days, especially on site.
I've just bought a GOP 10.8 multi tool and it seems really good, but I haven't had chance to use it in anger yet.
As for DeWalt, I'd steer clear. The quality has nose dived recently. I'm not sure if it's just their drills, but bought a 2kg SDS drill of theirs and was really disapointed. I think it's still in the garage somewhere, but I never use it.
Having said that, I recently got a DeWalt 1st fix nail gun, and it's brilliant, as are their laser levels.
I've just bought a GOP 10.8 multi tool and it seems really good, but I haven't had chance to use it in anger yet.
As for DeWalt, I'd steer clear. The quality has nose dived recently. I'm not sure if it's just their drills, but bought a 2kg SDS drill of theirs and was really disapointed. I think it's still in the garage somewhere, but I never use it.
Having said that, I recently got a DeWalt 1st fix nail gun, and it's brilliant, as are their laser levels.
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Sorry to hijack a thread, but any comments on how they compare to Passys? I have 16ga and 18ga 2nd fix DWs and I've been waiting to see this new tool
I haven't really had it long enough to give it a proper good hard go yet, so can't really comment on relaibility but it seems well built to me.
It's virtually the same size and weight as my paslode, it uses the same nails too, but the dewalt doesn't need gas and works in the cold which my paslode struggles with.
They are on a par with how hard they fire the nails too, both having no trouble with 90mm glue tipped nails into old joists etc.
The batteries don't keep falling off the dewalt gun unlike my paslode always does!
Oh and the dewalt has a rapid fire mode so you can keep the trigger held and it fires every time you press the nose in like the old air powered nailers used to.
It's not a tool that I use every day, but I have a few projects a year where it's a god send. I've had a paslode for years but it gave up the ghost last year typically just when I needed it. It's back working now, but I hardly use it any more.
How do you rate the 2nd fix dewalt gun? I have a paslode im250 but it's really old and is just not reliable any more. I seem to see a lot more dewalt 2nd fix guns on site than I do paslodes these days, which tells a story.
It's virtually the same size and weight as my paslode, it uses the same nails too, but the dewalt doesn't need gas and works in the cold which my paslode struggles with.
They are on a par with how hard they fire the nails too, both having no trouble with 90mm glue tipped nails into old joists etc.
The batteries don't keep falling off the dewalt gun unlike my paslode always does!
Oh and the dewalt has a rapid fire mode so you can keep the trigger held and it fires every time you press the nose in like the old air powered nailers used to.
It's not a tool that I use every day, but I have a few projects a year where it's a god send. I've had a paslode for years but it gave up the ghost last year typically just when I needed it. It's back working now, but I hardly use it any more.
How do you rate the 2nd fix dewalt gun? I have a paslode im250 but it's really old and is just not reliable any more. I seem to see a lot more dewalt 2nd fix guns on site than I do paslodes these days, which tells a story.
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That's one of the (many) things I absolutely hate about gas guns. That and the fact that older (pre-im350) Passy guns can't fire 90mm ring nails, which is probably why Passlode don't list them. Thanks for the heads up. BTW what batteries do they use? Looks interesting, but first I've got to wear out my Senco GT90CH.....
Very highly. Mine (I have a 16ga straight and an 18 ga) are both about 4-1/2 to 5 years old now and still going strong, although the batteries (18 volt NiMH XRPs) are pretty much shot and so due for replacement. There are a couple of downsides - the 16ga won't fire 63mm pins through hardwood like oak, although it's OK with 50mm ones, neither of them will handle the really short pins you can get for Passys - the 16ga only takes down to 32mm (25mm at a pinch) and the 18ga doesn't like anything shorter than 25mm - this isn't a problem for me, but might not suit everyone. The other thing is that they are pretty heavy, but it doesn't bother me and at least they fire upside down, continous or single shot, unlike my last Passy. In the time I've had them I've gone through 4 or 5 plastic nose pieces and had one striker (? - the rod which drives the pin) replaced last summer when the old one sheared, cost £60 (parts and labour). Other than that they've been ultra reliable requiring only the odd squirt of oil on the magazines to keep them running smoothly and I can get packs of 2500 pins from screwfix for £10 or so (although they will use Passy pins, too). No service costs, no field strip downs to clean out, no smelly, out-of date, non-working gas to deal with or corroded battery contacts and the batteries DON'T fall out - so much cheaper to run and completely hassle free. DW haven't yet indicated if they will be updating to the new Li-Ion batteries, but if thet do I'll consider changing.
With apologies to the OP
My 1st fix paslode is an im350 and I seem to think it doesn't take 90mm ring nails, but the dewalt gun does.
It runs on 4.0Ah 18V XR Li-Ion batteries. They are the new slide on type and look very similar to makita 18V batteries. A charged battery does a full day for me.
I would like to hope they bring out a 2nd fix gun which uses these batteries. That would be ideal.
I sounds like the 16 ga. gun would be ideal for me. I might have to ask santa nicely next year
Yep, sorry for the hijack OP...
It runs on 4.0Ah 18V XR Li-Ion batteries. They are the new slide on type and look very similar to makita 18V batteries. A charged battery does a full day for me.
I would like to hope they bring out a 2nd fix gun which uses these batteries. That would be ideal.
I sounds like the 16 ga. gun would be ideal for me. I might have to ask santa nicely next year
Yep, sorry for the hijack OP...
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That's why I switched to a Senco - they supply 90mm ring shanks AND their guns are man enough to drive them. Of course the other thing is that I've been waiting for this DW for about 4 years!
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