Anybody ever seen a vacuum attachment for hammer drills? Got to drill hundreds of holes in a concrete ceiling and would like to avoid having it rain down on me.
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Hilti makes an onboard "vac" box that uses the exhaust of the drill motor I think to make it collect. There's a brush end on it that the bit slides through. It has a pull and clean box with a filter so what's sucked up-doesn't blow out.
Works on overhead and underfoot.......very well.
This is on their rotary hammer drills.
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Bosch makes an attachment that fits some of their drills. Unlike the Hilti, it requires attachment to a vacuum cleaner. I don't have one, so cannot say how well it works.
Bill
Of course, you have to buy the drill.
How about-if you have three hands, you rig up a deep pan and put an outlet on it that your vac can hook to.
There used to be a "compass" cutter for drywall (can lites) that had the bit going through one of those plastic "lids" for a pie or cake. About 3'' deep and 8/9'' circumferance.
You could do the same only smaller.
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I was just reading it this afternoon(Construction Equipment) Jan 08.
Haven't gone to the site but here's what you need -enviroboot.com
The one that looks the closest is EBCH-1 but I believe if we go to fernco site we might just have a TY that could do ya.
I went to the site but It's kinda luggi loading. http://www.enviroboot.com/products/EnviroBoot-EB-1.html
Edited 1/24/2008 8:49 pm by ClaysWorld
Somewhere, I saw somebody who took something like 1/2 a basketball, stuck the bit through it, pushed the rig to the ceiling and drilled away... probably too lo tech, huh?... besides, who would cut a b-ball in 1/2? Winterlude, Winterlude, my little daisy,
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or one of those faux kick balls for minimal dinero-probably of chinese origin-what the hey-first trip to walmart.
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"I saw somebody who took something like 1/2 a basketball, stuck the bit through it, pushed the rig to the ceiling and drilled away."
I was kind of thinking the same thing - But maybe with a cheap playground ball.
If you had a mind to, you could cut a hole in the ball for a shop vac hose and duct tape it in there.
Kinda low tech, but I think it would work.
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and then, there's something like this:http://www.karcher.com/int/Products/Private/Consumer_Indoor/Drill_dust_catcher/16791000.htmand, I think I've also seen something electricians use for cutting cans into sheetrocked ceilings...none of it sounds like a lot of fun to me <G>
use the MM's dust collector attachment and hold it on yur HD with a serious rubber band...
works great...
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drill the hole through the bottom of a plastic cup or margarine dish, will keep all the dust/grit from getting into the chuck and fan blades too!
Same idea only a little bigger - bottom half of a 1 gallon joint compound bucket.
Shop vac hose could be attached with one of those multi-sized hose adapter fittings - hose adapter could function as a handle.
Can usually do pretty well with a helper holding a shop vac rigid pipe next to bore hole. This assumes a helper is available.
Further assumes that everyone involved is willing to listen to the shop vac and the hammer drill for the duration - I'd be earplugging and muffing!
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How about this:
http://www.dustlesstechnologies.com/prodlist.php?cat=1