Weka diamond drill

[Welderpaul]

Just bought one of these. Or rather one of our Clients is paying for the gear
We need to diamond drill a load of post holes into reinforced concrete, 42.4 CHS posts, so 80mm ish dia holes, then grouted in and finished off with a laser-cut disc.

Any recommendations on decent quality core bits. Need 400mm long. 1 1/4 UNC thread. Nimbus? Golz? There were turquoisey-coloured barrels i used years ago, anyone have a stab at the make?

 

[brightspark]

try brandon hire tel 08705143391

 

[Welderpaul]

Think the claw for the water feed looks smaller than a normal road compressor airline size?

 

[mike os]

for stuff like that I have only used marchrist or Hilti

 

[brightspark]

Think the claw for the water feed looks smaller than a normal road compressor airline size?

there prety standard just the bores vary 1/2inch and 3/4 bores are the same coupling size externaly

 

[Tigman]

Ive done this sort of job twice now , both times I used diamond core cutters on concrete hired from Rapid tools Watford the bits didnt last long and I burnt out two of their drills , very hard going , I wont do it again I will be calling the Diamond drill company , They come out and drill the holes for you with a proper rig with water , it costs but so does 2 days labour and the hire of the drills and you pay by the millimeter for the diamonds , never again says I !

 

[Hitch]

Macrist probably a good bet, not the ones you are thinking off though.

 

[Welderpaul]

Ive done this sort of job twice now , both times I used diamond core cutters on concrete hired from Rapid tools Watford the bits didnt last long and I burnt out two of their drills , very hard going , I wont do it again I will be calling the Diamond drill company , They come out and drill the holes for you with a proper rig with water , it costs but so does 2 days labour and the hire of the drills and you pay by the millimeter for the diamonds , never again says I !

Thats the reason i've bought that drill...thats the ones the professional diamond drilling companies use, and they fit into a bolt-down rig for bigger diameters if needed.
For what it costs to buy the gear pays for a days drilling by a company, plus we can drill them as we need, rather than saving up a full days work for them.
Looking for a decent 110v sub pump to stick in a water container which is what they use.

 

[Tigman]

I hope you have more luck than I did , I struggled like mad , thats why I wont do it again !