BOLTR: Hilti Cordless Grinder | "Never seen this before!" 

Ave please don't worry about the splatter as i wiped it off this end 🤪

"I'm a hell of a grinder." I didn't know you used dating apps.

Thanks for never changing. One of only a handful of RU-vidrs left who hasn’t completely changed his content and delivery due to success and changes in RU-vid’s policies and algorithms. Thank you for being real, for being the content creator I love to learn from. Keep up the amazing work as always and just be you. We love you just as you are, don’t change.

I like how Hilti doesn't even mark the tool as brush-less. Basically saying, It's a Hilti you don't need to worry about it.

It would be so fun to run around NYC stealing bikes with that thing.

All my jobs only require 2 beers. The first and the last those ones in the middle don’t count.

" I may not be much of a welder, but I'm a hell of a grinder !" - AvE. Never a dull moment when it comes to AvE vocabulary and descriptions ! 😜😄

Yeh! 22 is 2 more than 18. 😂

I work for these guys. The detached pinion is indeed a design choice. One of the big selling points of these grinders is the "active torque control", basically a safety feature that shuts it off should it bind on something. They work for a bit after they do bind but the thing eventually strips.

Farmer's nut rounder, called an agricultural lathe over here.

When you're workin one-handed in the dark that soft start is so helpful, stops you giving yesself a premature nose job

You can tell by looking at my name I'm not much of a welder myself, I've put many a hard hrs on a grinder or three. Also a bit of a scumbag if I do say so myself.

I'd be happy to take that grinder for a spin! I work in a mattress store, so my employer probably won't be happy about it...

Fun fact: Hilti is headquartered in Lichtenstein, the only major company in one of the smallest "countries" of Europe with not more than 40.000 people.

“A Grinder and paint, makes me the welder I ain’t!” And my own... “Do your best and caulk the rest”

"Doing some grindin' and paintin'...y'know...typical welder stuff." Good to know I've been doing it right all these years.

Damn, I read the title as "Hilti COFFEE Grinder". I got so excited for a second.

Take apart the festool domino tool and tell us why it’s like $1500!

As an autistic viewer I appreciate the hell out of you lowering the volume when grinding/cutting and so on

"It's bigger when you get it into your hand" lol...I'll have to remember that one.

The soft start is an EU directive to improve worker ergonomics. 8 hours of stopping and starting it makes a big difference for us not so strong in the wrists.

Also: why not start a 2nd channel "BOLTR 2 : Tales from the healing bench". I'm sure it will be demonetized because of some cursing, but might be a blast for the admirers of the long-form video!

18 + 2 = 22.. It's just science!

I had the whole set but someone else liked it more then i did

I'm curious how well this would last in our waterjet shop.. We've been using "team red" for some time now, and it looks like 2yrs is about all they'll suffer in our hydraulic fluid and garnet filled shop. One of our fab guys is excellent with a grinder, the other doesn't wear any eye protection when he welds.. so figure before long we'll have a 2nd guy pretty handy with a grinder once he's gone blind and can't aim the metal hotsnot gun worth a diddly.

"Theres no accounting for some filthy wood elves taste" 😂😂

IT feels weird seeing something made properly After seeing so much crap from China

That front shaft arrangement being hollow and the motor shaft going so far up in is because the one bearing there is not just the pinion bearing, but also the front motor bearing. She’s pulling double duty on ya.

I'd like to try that out but I'm in the uk, and that's a left hand drive. Not impossible but makes overtaking tricky. Keep up the great work big man.

Soft start also helps reduce shock loading to the discs, helps reduce the old OSHA vidjo look

"In heavy industry, the surefire way to let the smoke out of an electric motor is to over grease it..." Unless it's a steel mill, in which case you pack everything as right full of calcium sulphonate grease as she'll suffer to purge (and keep out) the water and scale...

I got that same grinder, a hammer drill and driver plus 3 batteries and a charger - $100 out of the local pawn shop because the lowest price on their sticker for everything was $200. It was on a "closeout" table with a "up to 50% off" sign on it and a yellow closeout sticker on the price tag. When the store manager confirmed the $100 price, I had to hold back the love explosion facial expression and just quickly ran to the register to swipe my card.

On behalf of the wood elf community, I believe I could give this a proper hot supper and dust ingress test by way of tree carcass carving.

"Like ya do yer reyint." AvE, that was some dang convincing Murican.

“It’s been value enginerded into complete chintzyness” love it

Loved the Neil Young reference. "A kinder, gentler machine gun hand" Definitely a maple leafer...

Ave I’m a pipeliner (welder) in West Texas and I’ll have my dull beaver feed that thing a hot supper. He can break anything.

AvE's bed time stories help me sleep

Man, a cordless grinder is one of my favorite tools. Like you said it will never replace a corded jobby, but you can walk out to the parking lot and do some actual REAL work. Even some of the nicest battery powered ones only give maybe an hour of hard work, but an hour of hard work on an angle grinder is a LOT of work.

My grinder is shooting more sparks of the motor, than the steel im grinding its a (mil-fuky)

Remember the good old days when hilti meant shooting nails into concrete and nothing else....

The slow start probably helps with that key thing Makes the edges stay sharp and not roll over as quickly

I work for a company where we use three of those angle grinders almost daily, they're heave duty stuff, we even cut concrete with those, been working flawlessly for the past 3 years. No broken parts yet, even that locking tab you said would most likely break are still intact.

Love your plan to let a craftsman work the tool! I worked in commercial steel stud and drywall for a while and know the Hilti quality is best by far!

Dang that's a bulky battery pack.

1:26 Filthy wood elf? That's me! I'm a vintage wormdrive Skilsaw man, myself. after 30 years it still shows up to work everyday despite knowing it'll probably get a hot lunch. ;-)

As a dirty dead tree carcass sculptor with some Festool products, the dust collection is second to none. And while I can’t speak to the skookumness I have been happy and dust collection is a priority.

Who are you kiddingg, we know you recko-o-ordered that last bit when it was all still together. No grown human can put that back together. That polisher is on its way back to hiltiland for re-assembly by a 3-year old in chicom because no aduld fingers can reach inside

Haha, my wife calls it my tool infatuation and she has excepted that I will own the quality tool.

Send it to me Ave, i work above the arctic circle here in Alaska, it wont last too long here i'm sure

No unboxing!

math is difficult. "these are 22 volts, which is far far better than the 18 volts of a typical tool. it's just 2 better which is science"

11:35 Two big *Japanese, low-ESR* capacitors, that is... Double-skookum right there!

We went through two Milwaukee cordless grinders 4 1/2 inch in one year. Used them every day at full capacity ( misc metals trade). Bearing went on one and the other seized solid. We then bought the Hilti grinder same capacity and it's going on nearly three years now and we beat it up every day as well. Loved your video, was surprised to see how well built the Hilti grinder is.

Young welder neighbor just told me that the newest DeWalt grinders have a delayed start. Burning them out left and right in the pipelines.

You can’t beat a Hilti. The old man bought a TE-17 rotary hammer drill back in the late 70s maybe 1980, and that thing has shifted more masonry than Chinese Great Wall worker. Still works. I do remember going without Christmas presents one year, this was probably the cause.

"I'll just squint". It was at this point a fine pilsner exited my nasal cavity at high velocity...

I use grinders all day every day in construction and mechanic work i love European blue Bosch grinders im in the market for a cordless i would love to put that to the test for you i give tools a hot supper but don't abuse them unnecessary

I'll pass that around the chain gang like that picture of Johnny's wife, keep it real warm with all the work we're seeing lately.

I always wait for the moment in every video where you say "focus, you fuck!"

'If you think you can break this tool comment below' I'm an industrial welder running sub arc and flux core Ive broken one 4.5 inch grinder and two 7/9 inch grinders. Pretty sure I can break that one

I only watch enough of this guys channel to understand about 60% of what he's saying

Awesome video. 👍 I've been using my Hilti cordless tool's in the industrial sense for around 6 years now and I must say they are second to none, and I've used them all. I did manage to finally break the upper casing on my grinder thow- I guess they should have given instructions on how to throw it at the boss man with a bit more finesse.😡

AVE, if you want a more powerful cordless grinder, you should try a DeWalt 60v, e.g. DCG414B. Its motor produces up to 2.2 hp (1700 WATTS). Your Hilti will feel like a toy in comparison.

I know you fellas from the colonies are not sharpest tools around but where on earth is the guard? In Europe you are sent to jail if remove the guard.

Looking for field testers? How about a shop full of prepubescent metal shop kids -- boyz & gurlz-- to give that grinder a whirl. My own shop teacher told me in 1975 that kids and sailors are the only two things that could foul a steel ball bearing with a rubber mallet.

You should do a BOLTR on a Ryobi drill

Danish combat engineer here... The danish army uses almost exclusively Hilti powertools, I can confirm those fuckers take a TON of abuse... We litterally throw the grinder into a bag and rush forward dropping on it and crawl on it, yet it still manages to perform once we reach the barbed wire.. I will say that the battery life seems to be a bit short after several years of abuse, but that's about it... We've never actually broken one in my unit, So I can't tell you how that's done.

Why is there a wifi icon on the label? Iot device?

Any of you intelligent engineer types on here have a good method for removing needle cage bearings like the one on the Hilti from a blind hole. I have tried a blind bearing puller but it tends to snap the top off the bearing case.

As pointed out by "first" Mr19ford93 no unboxing. You must be your running a skeleton production crew, they were cutting into the beer fund.

Send it to me. I'm currently in the market for a cordless grinder but have been leaning towards the Metabo. I already have batteries for the Hilti though. I won't need it more than 3 months for the current job I'm on.

Sometimes when you play with the dingus end, you get overspray.

What if i cant kill it? Do i just keep it? That is a skookum tool. I find dewalts are pretty good,20v out performs buddy's chakitas. Need magic smoke released? Im your man!

Before Home Depot switched to Hilti, they were/are still carrying Bosch and Makita for the rentals. All my cordless are Bosch, other than a couple niche tools from Milfukie.

7:20 Im pretty sure they have a fairly tight interference fit to secure that bearing. I also wouldn't be surprised if they put some sleeve locking compound on it. I took apart a small Eaton roots style blower for a rebuild that used that style of roller bearing to support the scroll shafts and even with the correct tool I could not extract them for the life of me.

"...huge CHUNGUS of amps cracking in there..." -AvE

I have a HILTI DCG125-S corded grinder and it’s a freaking beast! It starts off slow like that but also has a feature they call “smart power” where the grinder automatically increases power if it starts bogging down.

I'll gladly put it though its Paces. I Use grinders daily pretty hard in an industrial weld-fab shop.

"Hilti seems like a wierd recluse cult". Read on random comment field. Can't really disagree. But at the same time; I have seen ALOT of contractors using it, so there probably is a reason for it. But will it outlast 2 M18 Fuels, or 6 Ryobi brushless? Cause that is the pricepoint where I live.

“They’re surmounted in ammulite” But is it cromulated ammulite?

I swear that's the most inforaten vido i ever seen.

“Chungus”. Thank you for using the correct term, as opposed to “Big Bugs Bunny”.

Hilti has always provided a top notch tool ,,, especially their ramset guns, unbeatable,,,,,

She’s timed all right but there should be some kind of indication of the timing. She is a beauty that would take place of honor in my “shop”, but with my health someone else will have to put her through her paces.

Why cant i shake the feeling that hilti, like the others, is cheapening the hell out. Turn the clock back even 5 years (even better your rotary hammer vid from 2015) and the tool looks much more stout inside. And thats after its served its time in the trenches!

Hay Ave. I could put that tool though he'll and back for you. I work in heavy industry at a maching shop thats over 110 + years old that does all the repairs for all of the coal mines in the northern part of the States. We even do repair field jobs for over 6 large coal mines in Canada. We got guys that weld the heavy chain links that connects the big coal buckets on the dragline. Repairing where they wear. We go throw grinders like there is no tomorrow. We now are testing some of the newer brushless 110ac drills that are out there. I've seen guys push grinders so hard that there is more smoke coming out of the grinder than the smoke that comes off from stick welding. We got big welders pushing 1300 Amps burning 1/8wire putting on 1000's of pounds of steel on sheaves for the dragline. Its pretty impressive. Be glad to put some work that there tool of yours.

Long time fan man, thanks for all the content. I've got an old Hilti TE-72 where the bit seized in the chuck and so we grinded the chuck to free it, but other than that it's intact. Would you be interested in doing a tear down of her? She's had many hot suppers over the years and she's just collecting dust in the shop now that we have the new ones.

The timing will be fine, to reverse a 3-phase motor, you must swap any two wires, when you do a 120 or 240 degree rotation you are effectively doing 2 or 4 swaps, which will cancel out, and result in the motor going the same direction anyway (any even number of swaps will cancel out). Thanks for the video, now i just need an excuse to buy this tool.

My boss bought a cryobi for the plunge drill set up. I get 10 holes and have to change the battery and after 100 holes, the grip fell apart and gave my weathered woodworking hands a blister. For the first time in 15 years.

“I’ll just squint” 😂 I’m the heavy equipment and fleet mechanic for a concrete block company and I’ve been looking to get a new Makita grinder for work. Unless the yellow default I got is supposed to sound like a car crash while hitting the kachunk kachunck

I work for a rental store, we have a pile of hilti demo saws. All gaulded. We run sthil and Makita

"11 herbs and spices" 😂😂😂

That silvery extruded heat sink aint copper, but aluminiumumum

Take a swig every time AvE says lube, shaft or loose.

Excellent. Hilti tools are now in my sights as something to consider. Thanks for all the information and the humor, AvE. You rock, as always.

Standard unit of measure for time in the empire of dirt: beers

I'll give it a hot supper. I do stone masonry work, benchtops & stone wall cladding in big blocks usually. If anyone's gonna kill that thing, it's a stonemason. Probably not cost-effective to send it Down Under though.

@ 9:38 The words you are loocking for is "The Swedish Nutlathe"

Wirk in a welding shop in Sweetwater tax would love to see if we can’t put it to the test