SDS drill

[Someone-Else]

My old mains SDS drill is showing its age and leaking grease (But I suspect that is because it got too hot in the sun) so I looked around and I now have.........

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It came from screwfix, only had it a few hours, "tested it" just like you would expect, it didn't notice there is a wall in the way (Even when I tried the 18mm drill bit) I can't see me using it that often, so I only have the one (18v 4Ah battery) but I do have one particularly tough wall, odd thing is, it cost the same as my Dewalt hammer drill (Both were £150 each, not at the same time.)
It has a blow moulded case, which if like previous blow moulded cases will not last long, but we shall see.
But for the price, I am very happy.

[Cannyfixit]

I have had the same one one for over a year,it’s use is mainly for M12 rawlbolts and brown rawlplugs , no matter what the substrate is it goes in easy, I can’t fault it

[Rorschach]

Looks good. I wouldn't buy cordless for an SDS myself as I don't use it often enough but if you are regular user it makes sense.

[Dave54]

I'm with Rorschach. Looks to be a good tool, but I don't use one enough to warrant going cordless.

[Job and Knock]

I went cordless (Makita 18 volt) 5 years ago. Sold my Bosch 2kg corded SDS within months. I'll not say that there haven't been occasions when I haven't needed a larger SDS drill - but they have been few and far between and pretty much every instance has been one where I was using rotation stop (for chipping, chiselling and breaking out masonry), and even then in most cases the cordless has been good enough to do that, too