Dave H (MI)
Well-known Member
What is a good one? I have a Porter-Cable unit that I bought at Lowes years ago and just used for the first time last summer. My first issue is that it does not seem to do anything different whether it is switched to hammer or normal. Never had a hammer drill before so don't know what is normal. My second issue is that I was drilling holes in a footing I poured about 9 months earlier so that I could insert rebar with epoxy for a block wall. About half way thru the drill started to smoke and I could feel it had gotten really hot. I gave it more breaks after that but it really was not up to the load. This summer I will drill a lot more holes in concrete. Some will be in fairly fresh slabs to put in anchors for grain bins. The rest will be drilled into a decades old footing for rebar to rebuild a block barn wall. Thinking I need something HD?