How To Use A Masonry Drill

These are both masonry drills, two different types. A percussion drill, which this is, and an SDS drill, which this is. Percussion drills normally have a choice of two different things: it can be a drill action or a percussion action which has a little hammer on it.

It always goes round, the chuck always goes round but sometimes it bangs the bit into the wall. It's just a normal drill that can drill in steel and wood and things like that. This one's got a quick fit chuck instead of a key chuck.

We put it on the hammer setting and drill the whole in the wall. It's quite noisy. It drills a hole in the wall but it's quite noisy and takes quite a long time.

This other drill is an SDS drill. This, you put the bits in a different way; slide the collar back on the chuck, put the bit in, and then it just locks in like that. It moves forward and backward just like that.

This you can have on drill, drill and hammer, or just hammer. If it's on just hammer, the chuck doesn't go round, it just vibrates backwards and forwards. Now, we'll drill into the wall again and this time, it's a much bigger bit as you can see, which would normally, if it were the other drill, take a lot longer with a bigger bit but with this one.

It's a lot quicker. You can put triple pieces like this. Now, the feeder won't allow it to go round so you put it on hammer and it just hammers.

This one will shatter things in the wall, sort of like a pneumatic hammer in the ride. Another of the things you can do is cut great big circular things so pipes can go through walls. Diamonds are mounted through here.

Diamonds are mixed with the steel, and that just drills a great big shaft through the wall. The SDS drill bits comes in all sorts of sizes, and you get a range of sizes for the big hole cutters as well. .