![]() ![]() A hammer drill is just not the same as a rotary hammer! Next job is drilling some brick.which the Ryobe also failed on. Same bits the Ryobe was using so unsuccessfully. I have the SDS-plus bits, but I also got the drill chuck and did the holes for the threshold with TapCon bits, since those were the screws I was using. The last hole was about twenty second to sink in a couple of inches and finish the job. When I got the Bosch I took another shot at it.about 10 seconds was all it needed to blow through that rock and finish the hole. I got a couple of holes drilled eventually (after minutes of noise and effort), but there was one hole that ran into a rock in the concrete and the Ryobe couldn't get past it and I eventually gave up. I'd previously tried this with a "hammer drill" made by Ryobe.which worked a little bit. First use was to drill into concrete to fasten a threshold for a door. Nice tool! I'm a homeowner, not a tradesman, so my use is fairly light, but this has done what I wanted it to do. If you have to drill in concrete, masonry, brick, stone, etc. It worked well, with my existing batteries, and so I have no complaints. While I can't be certain if this was a "return" or "refurbished", it was advertised as new, and it did look new. It did have the instructions and all the attachments as shown. It came in a cardboard box, shrink wrapped to a cardboard insert. Mine did not even come with the retail box. It does not come with a battery, or charger. The side handle may be useful.Please note, that this is a "bare" tool. I found that the depth gauge did not help much, and seemed to just get in the way. I am still undecided as to the utility of the side handle and the depth gauge. The drill is bigger than their regular drill, and a bit heavier, but not by much. ![]() Made my life a lot easier, because I had a lot of brackets to install. I did not think it would make that much of a difference, but with the first hole I made, I changed my mind! This drill, with a regular masonry bit, drilled a hole for a plastic insert in concrete in about the time it would have taken me to drill a hole in wood with a regular drill and bit. With a lot of pressure on the drill, and going through one bit for every two holes, I decided to get this hammer-drill. ![]() I paid the "not paying attention" tax.Great tool! I have been using my Ryobi drill with a masonry bit to try and drill holes in a concrete basement wall, with limited success. Except they didn't switch anything, I was just too drunk on Ryobi Days Deal Madness to notice that the thing is gimped right out of gate. This feels like one of those devices that are made just for Black Friday and the like. But- the big selling point of SDS devices is that they can be set to just hammer ("giggity giggitty!"), right? I suppose if one didn't already own a hammer drill, this would be likely outperform any non-SDS hammer drill. Well, that goes back tomorrow and I'll just pick up it's big brother. So I check the customer questions and sure enough, when asked if this could chisel- the answer was no. The dial is missing something, uh, critical. I get it home, take it out of the box and then look at it closely. So I picked up the rotary hammer that is part of the Ryobi Days bundle, thinking it would be a good addition to my wall (let's just be honest here, I may have a completionist problem) and it would be very useful when I finally demo the slate tile in my kitchen later this summer. ![]()
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