hey all I'ma data cabler here Adelaide see alot of double brick homes plus I'll be heading to a few sites soon with out any close by power... also tired of draggin a power lead up when doing the odd Centeral filter install.

needs to be sturdy, not too gimicky just a good all round drill...

budget up to $400

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I use a 24V panasonic hammer drill... this thing is built like a brick shhh ithouse... Is there anymore money you can squeeze out for a hammer drill? It one thing you're going to be using a lot i would go for a decent powerful one.

Makita are ment to be good... Dewalt not bad too... As for pricing for these things i am not sure. Maybe someone else with a little more intellegence can give yo a hand!

Good luck with your quest.

Cheers
Armers

Pugs,

As Armers has said look at Panasonic, Makita , De Walt & also Metabo.

Go for anything 18V and above. 24V is preferable in a hammer.

Probably depend on how much you are going to use it but all the new ones are Lithium ion.

You may pick up a Ni-Cad one a bit cheaper though but the charge and charge rates are nowhere near the lithiums. So if it's for ocassional use i'd go for Ni-Cad. Then on the other hand, once you gone down the path of cordless you'll always use it.

Your call now....

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Steve

Live while you're alive and sleep when you're dead

def 24 volt... there have been installers i've seen with 18v that can't even get into solid brick and use the morter as a short cut... which is @@@@ when you're trying to mount a weatherbox. But with my pana i get get through some serious brick / double brick... best was my 18mmx400mm bit bottoming out on a quad brick wall... right through it like butter

Ahhhh fun...

could go up to $500 but this si coing out of a client deposit for a Job..so.... yeah

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All the above advice is OK, but voltage is less critical than amp/hr (although I agree 18v or 24v) and I haven't bought NiCd for several years. The Li Ion stuff is just too good IMO and now quite competitively priced.

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I agree with Bloss
Li-Ion is the way to go.
I use a Milwaukee V18 Li-ion ( they do a 28volt too) with a 6.5mm bit for attaching timber battens to concrete and the drill will do a lot of holes for a charge.

yeah currently tossing up between a Makita 455 18V two speed I believe and a Metabo SB18LT / SB18LTX

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