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Cool I was just about to defend my normal hammer drill since it chews thru bricks like chewing gum after reading these post and it turns out its not a normal hammer drill...

M18 18V Lithium-Ion Brushless Cordless 1 in. SDS-Plus D-Handle Rotary Hammer​

Its a rotary hammer drill

Ive never seen anything like the difference this tool made. I'm going to make a youtube vid in a few days when I drill some more holes into a brick wall with it showing the difference of a normal drill using the same bit as drill with the rotary hammer drill.

I spent 2 damn hours trying to drill a small hole in a brick wall trying to install the cover kit for the mini split I installed last week using a masonry bit and a normal drill. I then found I had a bit that small for the sds plus the hammer drill needed. I drilled 7 holes in 60 seconds of actual time drilling after switching over.

I literally couldn't get the drill up to full speed before the hole was made.
It was like magic in comparison.

I grew up in the Welsh valleys where many houses were built of Beaufort bricks which were known to be one of the hardest in the world, the US shipped something like 40,000 of them from wales to NYC for the foundations of the Empire State building. Tradesmen hated them as trying to fix anything to them was nearly impossible even .22 nail guns would just bounce off(many accidents) old hammer drills wouldn't even dent them never tried rotary hammer but even a heavy duty one I would guess would still take its time.

fpgt72 said:

I really like this.

In my future is a "lean two" that is going to be on the side of my shop, I was thinking....hay I could make the roof out of solar panels, then store the brush cutter, finish mower and all that jazz under there.

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Same thought.. I built a lean to tractor barn earlier this year before I started to get interested in DIY solar .. last week a storm blew the corrugated metal roof off so now I need to rebuild .. already have a solid pole barn frame .. I'll beef up the structure and convert to a solar panel frame ..

Mine are a mix of Iron Ridge and wood/uni-strut mounted panels, totaling 135.

Here's some adjustable wooden frames I put together. The first one I did is made of non-treated wood, since I couldn't find the pressure treated 2x2's that day and impatiently bought wood anyway. But I sprayed it down with wood sealer spray. The second one is treated wood. We'll see how each holds up... I might put plant shelving on the lower tiers.

I will probably scale these up and add cross bracing for a few 400W panels I will soon add.

Got four more panels in. I ordered four 100W Grape Solar panels from Signature Solar yesterday (Well, effectively yesterday - I ordered them on Wednesday at 11:15PM, and processed and shipped on Thursday morning) and they were delivered today. I plan on buying four more later on. In the future (2025?), I want to buy 16 more, but if I buy these all at once, I'm going to drive to Signature Solar and pick them up, due to the cost of shipping.