Milwaukee is soon coming out with a new M18 5/8″ SDS Plus cordless rotary hammer, model 2612. The new rotary hammer is lightweight, compact, and powerful enough to handle most masonry drilling needs.
Features
- 5/8″ max capacity
- 12″ length
- 5.5 lbs
- 0-1300 RPM
- 0-7000 BPM
According to Milwaukee, the new 2612 rotary hammer can handle more than 80% of the holes being drilled at jobsites. This mirrors a chart they showed at a past media event that shows how about 4 out of every 5 holes are 1/2″ or smaller.
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The reasoning makes sense – if you know you won’t need to drill any holes larger than 5/8″, why lug around a larger and heavier more powerful rotary hammer if you don’t need to?
With a 4.0Ah M18 battery pack, the rotary hammer can drill over 100 1/4″ x 1-1/2″ in poured concrete.
Kit Options and Pricing
- Bare tool, 2612-20 – $199
- 1-battery kit, 2612-21 – $299
- 2-battery kit, 2612-22 – $399
The kits include the 2612 rotary hammer, (1) or (2) XC high capacity lithium ion battery packs, a multi-voltage charger, side handle, depth rod, and carrying case.
ETA: mid-October 2013
First Impression
This product goes against everything we have to come to look for in 18V power tools. As with many things, we want more power at lower prices. But more power often means greater tool size and heavier weight.
When I first opened up the press release, I took one look at the product photo and thought that Milwaukee resent a press release of their M12 Fuel brushless rotary hammer.
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The new rotary hammer looks very compact and streamlined, especially compared to Dewalt’s latest model. That’s very promising, especially for users who work overhead.
Joe
This looks like a great deal. It costs the same as the M12 fuel sds. It looks like its still pretty compact. I would love to see a good size comparison. According to Milwaukee’s website this is only 1.6 lbs heavier than the M12 fuel sds. I’m sure that with a battery that difference changes a fair bit though.
Still this looks a good bit more powerful than the m12 fuel sds. Still for my purposes I would probably end up preferring the M12 sds.
LORDDiESEL
This looks like a beast! I will be taking a closer look at this drill. I’ve been pinning wall plates down with wedge anchors in older homes to meet new earth quake code requirements. Sometimes it’s a nightmare to crawl around and drag a cord with you. If the cord gets stuck, you have to crawl back to it which can really piss you off. Especially if you’re working in under 16 inches of head room.
Javier
Milwaukee has been an unstoppable force lately pumping out new products left and right. Some of us are gonna be broke if they keep coming out with new tools.
Another great addition to their lineup. At first I thought what for? When I seen this new rotary hammer but then I considered their corded rotary hammer line with different price points and features and that’s when it clicked in my head. More selection and price points to better fit people needs.
Jason
The lack of a brushless motor is somewhat disappointing I can live without it though. The feature I would have liked to see is a chipping feature if I buy an sds drill I would like to have that function on the tool. Milwaukee probably has a good reason not to include it either the mechanism couldn’t handle it or it would have added more cost to the tool, or it adds weight to the tool plus the other 18v sds has a chipping function also.
Javier
Milwaukee already has a m18 rotary hammer with chipping function. its also bigger more powerful heavier and pricier.
I believe they wont make anything brushless unless they have a brushed version first. Look at the m12 rotary hammers for example. I think this is what is happening with the m18 multitool. A tool that was announced with a bunch of fuel m18 tools and very well could have been a fuel model from the start but wasnt. I bet a fuel m18 multitool and a m18 fuel rotary hammer are in the works but most likely will be next years news. Who knows, maybe even a fuel m12 multitool.
Jason
That’s the part that kinda sucks it’s on the bigger heavier and more powerful unit I don’t really need a SDS drill in the first place, but If i did get one I don’t want to spend too much money one and miss a feature I might need. Realistically if I did get a sds drill I probably shoe get the corded one that has the best value for me I just had dealing with cords plus while they are still cheaper than battery packs a good electric cord is pretty expensive now.
jeff_williams
Looks like the handle and depth stop would fit on the m12. I could really use a depth stop on the fuel.
MC
1 ft lb of impact energy? No thanks…
I wonder if they’ll be coming out with a Fuel version.
keith
finding it real hard to get a true performance comparison between this and the m12 fuel version. Anybody got experience with both?
Stuart
No, but generally the Fuel version might have greater hole capacity and should drill more holes per battery charge.
glenn
I know this is a bit of an older thread but I didnt see your question before.
In answer.
The above drill has 1.2 joules impact force.
The m12 brushed rotary hammer has 0.9 joules. ( I have this drill myself and find it more than adequate for my needs, drilling 10mmm, 8mm and 5.5mm holes into brick, concrete etc).
The m12 fuel rotary hammer has 1.1 joules.
The brushed m18 rotary hammer has 2.4 joules. ( we use one of these as well and again its more than powerful enough for our needs, ie; drilling and chipping brick etc).
The upcoming m18 fuel 26mm rotary hammer has 2.7 joules
The upcoming m18 28mm rotary hammer has 4.3 joules
1 joule = @ 0.74 ft lb.
Obviously impacts per minute and drill speed rpm are also a factor in drilling speed.
Hope this is of some use.