Visited a job site in Denver and saw a guy using a hammer drill as a chisel

Watched him drive a flathead screwdriver with it to chip away at old mortar. The chuck was glowing red after 10 minutes. I asked if he had a rotary hammer and he said this was faster. Is that actually a common hack or just a good way to wreck your drill motor?

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phoenixb6615d ago

Yeah wait have you ever seen a guy try to cut rebar with a sawzall blade that's clearly dull and bent? It's the same kind of energy - just pure stubbornness pretending to be efficiency. That hammer drill trick sounds like a one-way ticket to smoking the motor brushes and then having to explain to your boss why you need a new drill. I watched a guy in a basement once use a corded drill as a winch to pull a stuck pipe out of a wall, and the whole tool caught fire after about 30 seconds of smoking and screaming. People get real creative when they don't want to walk back to the truck for the right tool, you know?

holly89815d ago

Oof, sounds like that guy invented the world's sketchiest pipe winch.