Pro Tool Reviews: So you’re at the hardware store looking for a new cordless drill and you see a couple of options that look almost the same. The only difference you can see is that one is called a hammer drill, or hammer drill driver to be more proper. In fact, a close look at the hammer drill vs drill comparison reveals that these two tools are very similar, save for the hammering mechanism.
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As someone with wrist tendonitis, it makes all the difference in the world. The difference is speed, and that means a lot when you’re talking about overworking your wrist. Hammer drills/impact drivers, while the extra vibration they bring poses extra strain on the wrist, seem to ease the amount of pressure the person needs to put on the drill. I typically find my tendonitis is much worse with a regular drill that requires me to press down harder to gain any progress. When you start working with steel and other less permeable materials, having a hammer drill makes the work a lot faster. I wonder what looking at the ergonomics would reveal, though, considering that the hammer drill could send a lot more force to the hand and wrist due to its vibrations, but a regular drill requires the user to put more pressure on the drill, and use the drill for slightly longer periods of time.
A good drill is perhaps one of the most important tools craftsmen can own. The debate between a hammer drill versus a traditional drill is one that I do not have a lot of skin in. While I do prefer an impact driver for driving screws, I have not found myself needing a hammer drill very often. In theatre, we do very little work that involves concrete so a hammer drill is not always necessary. I do like how Pro Tools is always very candid about the price of tools and whether or not it is worth it. They point out that most tool manufacturers offer standard drills and hammer drills and the price difference is usually fairly insignificant relative to the overall cost of the tool. Finally, the hammer drill is just a faster process for drilling into stone and in the theatrical industry and the general construction industry, time is always consumable so using a tool that makes a job go faster, in my opinion, is never a bad thing.
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