I seem to have bust my second SDS Drill 
My first one stopped hammering so is now just used as a mixing drill, which it does a great job of.
My second one the switch fell apart and it jammed on - I've used it like that for 6 months or so but it's now spitting sparks out of the motor area, feels like little needles hitting your arm - so it's probably time to ditch that one.
I'm only a home user but I seem to find loads of jobs for them, but due to the relative low use I've never been able to justify spending too much on them.
Both the previous ones have been sub £40 corded etc.
The main use tends to be chiselling so I will require that function, I sometimes use them for drilling especially large holes for using core bits to do pipe holes etc - this is very occasional though, so it's probably used 80% of the time for chiselling 20% of the time for drilling.
I don't really want to spend too much but if I buy another £40 one and that breaks then I will have spent £120 and could have bought a much better one in the first place!
I've got some Makita Tools which use 18v NiMH batteries so have the charger and spare batteries for them but I don't think they do an 18v SDS and I'm not sure how good it would be.
Mains or battery would be OK - any suggestions?
Also don't mind buying 2nd hand if it makes more sense to buy a decent make 2nd hand one rather than a cheapo new one.
My first one stopped hammering so is now just used as a mixing drill, which it does a great job of.
My second one the switch fell apart and it jammed on - I've used it like that for 6 months or so but it's now spitting sparks out of the motor area, feels like little needles hitting your arm - so it's probably time to ditch that one.
I'm only a home user but I seem to find loads of jobs for them, but due to the relative low use I've never been able to justify spending too much on them.
Both the previous ones have been sub £40 corded etc.
The main use tends to be chiselling so I will require that function, I sometimes use them for drilling especially large holes for using core bits to do pipe holes etc - this is very occasional though, so it's probably used 80% of the time for chiselling 20% of the time for drilling.
I don't really want to spend too much but if I buy another £40 one and that breaks then I will have spent £120 and could have bought a much better one in the first place!
I've got some Makita Tools which use 18v NiMH batteries so have the charger and spare batteries for them but I don't think they do an 18v SDS and I'm not sure how good it would be.
Mains or battery would be OK - any suggestions?
Also don't mind buying 2nd hand if it makes more sense to buy a decent make 2nd hand one rather than a cheapo new one.
