Reports from Las Vegas

Bosch’s Daredevil framing blade made a strong appearance at WOC as a key contributor to applications like form building.

The Bosch WOC booth had a ton of tools and accessories for testing – check out what @ToolGuyd* had to say about the Daredevil saw blades and Bulldog hammer bits: http://toolguyd.com/new-bosch-tools-accessories-woc-2012/

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Hammer Vs. Drill

While traveling around the country as a trainer, I realized there was a lot of confusion about the difference between hammer drills and rotary hammers. Let me get something straight here, they are very different tools.

A hammer drill uses a percussion mechanism to generate a small impact force, but does it at super high speed. A rotary hammer uses a piston – striker – impact bolt – bit setup, which generates a lot more impact force, but does it a lot slower than a hammer drill.

Hammer drills have a 3 jaw chuck and use round shank bits. Many are cordless, small impact force, high BPM, and great for things without hard aggregate, typically not for concrete.

Rotary hammer have either a SDS Plus, Spline, or SDS Max chuck and use the corresponding bits. They have high impact forces, and are great for concrete.

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SpeedX Hammer

Lots of talk about the Speed-X hammer carbide bit at toolmonger.com, including some speculation from Sean on what the origin of the Bosch Speed-X is. My money is on the “all-spark cube” from the Transformers.