Gas-powered tools are fine if you use them somewhat regularly, but dealing with gas and oil for sporadic use is a pain, and forgetting to deal with them for many months tends to gum up the works (e.g. a $98 repair bill for forgetting to drain the gas from my Honda generator for about a year).?ÿ Modern battery-powered tools retain a charge for months and are quickly recharged with a few hours notice, so I find them much better suited to occasional use.
New toy er... uh, tool arrived today. No more busting my hump trying to set stuff in caliche.
I have two Ryobi ER160 gasoline-powered hammer drills, both about twenty years old, both of which just came back from the shop and are running great. I keep one as a backup so that if one ever needs some work I can send it in and use the other one. Over the years, they've both gotten a pretty good workout since much of my work has been in an area where almost all spikes and 5/8 in. rods have to be set in drill holes in the native limestone. In the city, the drills have been great for drilling holes in curbs and other concrete surfaces for spike and washer control points.
The ER160 isn't in production any more and I'm resigned to my drills eventually being unrepairable, but so far it looks as if it will be some time yet since the carburetor is a common model and the parts are readily available. It's really too bad this tool isn't still made.
Howdy Kent, I??m looking for an er160. I??m an expeditionary climber. Get in touch if you have one for sale. Thanks.?ÿ
That post by Kent was in 2010 and he hasn't posted here since 2017, so your query will not be successful.
That post by Kent was in 2010 and he hasn't posted here since 2017, so your query will not be successful.
And I think that his Ryobi's will pried out of his cold dead hands. In any case, cordless hammer drills are so good today that I no longer miss the gas powered ones.
Used one yesterday to cut out a square to get down a few inches to get to the pipe in the middle of a paved road.?ÿ They are the cat's pajamas. (Anyone under 65 may not understand that last sentence.)
