10December 2021
This is the Milwaukee one
inch SDS plus rotary hammer. I bought this at Bhagwansingh's about
a couple months ago, and this is my review of the tool. A general
overview an idea of its performance and the like. I want to make mention of the fact
that I was in no way sponsored by either Milwaukee or its local representatives or by Bhagwansingh,
I bought this tool with my own money. So this is a close-up shot of the warranty that I got from
when I purchased the tool at Bhagwansingh's, you could see they give a five-year
warranty on portable power tools air nailers, staplers and there are other
warranty periods for like if you use the battery powered series tools. Now let's
take a look at what's in the case. We have the actual rotary hammer here right, it's
in the case.
It came with an instruction manual you could see the series is the 5262-21
series one-inch SDS plus rotary hammer and nothing much else came in the case, apart from the actual raw tool itself. So since I've had to purchase only the raw tool
itself I've had to buy these SDS plus bits separately, and a couple of these SDS plus
concrete bits, all purchased separately, so that I could use the tool. Nothing
came with the tool, well none of these bits that I'm showing here came with the
tool itself. Now additionally, when they sell these SDS plus rotary hammers,
the larger rotary hammers they come with a small tube of grease, to grease
the head and the back of the bit which is right here, when you
put it into the rotary hammer but this did not come with it at all, so I've had
to actually purchase some grease on my own.
There's some grease there that goes for wheel bearings,
velocity joints and chassis lubrication. I've had to purchase this separately because
I'm not comfortable using the tool without having some sort of lubrication on the bit
itself. Why? because when this bit goes into the chuck here on the tool, here's where a lot
of the movement takes place in the tool, so you need to lubricate this. A general
overview of the structure of the case itself. Now Milwaukee is supposed to be one of
the more reputable brands in the States but the case itself does not appear to be all
that sturdy, it may appear to give it that rugged look on the outside but if you look at these
corners here, the plastic is a bit thin and I could very easily deform this with my
fingers.
Now let's have a look at the tool itself. It has a good weight to it. It appears to
be pretty solid in its construction, the grip on it, the feel of the handle you know, the texturing on it is
is good it gives you a good grip. So I mean apart from the seemingly flimsy
case it seems to be a well constructed tool. We'll
determine that when we decide to actually put it through it's paces, in some demolition. Here's a close-up of the power cord, it came with
this little cap to protect the prongs here in the case. So as you could also see with this
drill here, there's a metal depth gauge right, and it's a good thing that it's metal and you see
the red tab there is for you to adjust it with so whatever depth you want to do your drilling
with you could just easily press the red tab and make your adjustments accordingly.
So
I put a generous amount of grease on the end that goes into the drill there,
so in preparation for some demolition. So all I have to do now is just slide the bit into
place, and I'm ready to go. And i just have to do a little quick adjustment on the side to control the
angle of the bit and I'm ready to start my work. So after 20 to 30 minutes of chipping up
this wall here and the tile, to expose the pipes that are buried in the wall, I would say the tool itself performed fairly well. I did notice
that the gearbox end which is this grey part here, it became hot, when you know you pushed it a lot,
but it had sufficient power to knock through the concrete to knock through the tile and
to chip at it and to break it out.
Now if you look at what's going on in
that corner there, I'm not sure if you could see it properly, it has some concrete
that was packed up around the pipes and the rotary hammer itself got a little bit of
difficulty to try to knock through that stuff, which tells me that it didn't
really have that much power. But for the task that I put it
through, it was able to handle it fairly well without any major problems or issues. So I also decided to do a test with a 3/16
and a 5/16 concrete bit, masonry bit and it performed really well in drilling these things
through some really old concrete in the backyard. So my general impressions of this tool is
that it seems to be very well constructed. This is a very convenient feature here
on the depth gauge, and the depth gauge is metal, so it's not very easily deformed when
you have to put it through a lot of tasks. The user here has a lot of options of drill
drill and hammer on hammer only and the option of rotating the bit according to the the
task at hand.
The body is very well constructed, the cord is of a reasonably heavy gauge, so
it could handle the amperage of the motor, and I would describe this tool as being capable of
performing light to medium duty tasks fairly well. It seems to not perform well when you put it
up again some very thick pieces of concrete. So who is this tool for?
This tool is for the home owner. So if you have to do some general task in which
you have to do drilling, hammering and drilling, or if you have to chip some tiles out
from a bathroom to do some renovation, this tool may be applicable for you.
If
you are a Plumbing and Electrical Contractor, and you have to drill concrete so you
could use the hammer and drill mode, this goes through concrete very easily. So if
you have a job that requires you having to chip or to break up heavy concrete, this is not the
tool for you. Spend your money and buy something with a lot more power or a lot more heavy duty,
or spend your money and rent, depending on the task at hand. But for the general homeowner,
maybe a Plumbing an Electrical Contractor, this may be applicable to you.
If you're
a homeowner, this tool in combination with a battery powered tool, such as this Makita here, these two will be able to help you get a lot
of tasks around the house done very easily. So here ends my review on the Milwaukee
one-inch SDS Plus rotary hammer. I want to thank you for watching, and I really
hope that this is very helpful to you. Thanks again..