Will this Hilti drill be banned?
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Outlander
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I wonder if the get away car will be similarly affected? 
Little different story on article shown. News that I saw last night on BBC news showed a giant concrete cutting saw that cut right through the vault door. I thought the specialty drill was just used for safety deposit box locks.
It's routine practice for locksmiths to drill out SD boxes when keys get lost.
That must have been hell of a racket with all that sawing/drilling that any potential security system failed to detect. Also, the perps got down to the vault in ductwork for heating/cooling system - - - - now THAT was convenient !!
Crappy "security system" should be banned !!
It's routine practice for locksmiths to drill out SD boxes when keys get lost.
That must have been hell of a racket with all that sawing/drilling that any potential security system failed to detect. Also, the perps got down to the vault in ductwork for heating/cooling system - - - - now THAT was convenient !!
Crappy "security system" should be banned !!
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Patrick Boyle
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That's a pretty sweet drill:
I'm surprised they left their tools behind... Though it was obviously well-planned (straight out of a movie script, really), I'd imagine Scotland Yard is running the numbers and records for every power tool left there, and going over them with a huge magnifying glass looking for finger prints in non-obvious places, like where the tools were put together to make run in tests, etc.
If it were me, and I spent all that time on the break-in, I'd have spent another 20 minutes hauling it all out, and then dumping it in the Thames.
-Brad
If it were me, and I spent all that time on the break-in, I'd have spent another 20 minutes hauling it all out, and then dumping it in the Thames.
-Brad
Murphy4570
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Holy ****, that's a serious power tool.
I wonder what the drill bits cost. $500 each?
Industrial tooling is a whole 'nother world, brother. You should see some of the tooling a local bolting company I occasionally work with uses to torque critical fasteners of ANY size on flanges of heat exchangers, piping, valves, pressure vessels, etc. Crazy expensive pneumatic-over-hydraulic tooling.
I wonder what the drill bits cost. $500 each?
Industrial tooling is a whole 'nother world, brother. You should see some of the tooling a local bolting company I occasionally work with uses to torque critical fasteners of ANY size on flanges of heat exchangers, piping, valves, pressure vessels, etc. Crazy expensive pneumatic-over-hydraulic tooling.
woodstockva
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293 million....in one vault......and somehow no one heard heavy duty construction equipment.....riiiight.
I was just at the world of concrete & still have a headache 2 months later!
At a minimum they should have had motion/vibration/noise detectors with a dedicated battery backup system to run them. Sounds like the bank is making a poor excuse for their lax security.
I was just at the world of concrete & still have a headache 2 months later!
At a minimum they should have had motion/vibration/noise detectors with a dedicated battery backup system to run them. Sounds like the bank is making a poor excuse for their lax security.
oldldh
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Me thinks---
I smell---
AN INSIDE JOB!!!!
I smell---
AN INSIDE JOB!!!!
txvwnut
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Talk about a return on investment.
neophyte
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On the US Hilti website the DD350 drill is listed at $8,669.00, or $6,359.00 without the stand. I presume you'd want the stand. There's also a "fleet management" price were you rent the tools by the month, that is just under $250.
Hilti DD350 specs:
10 speed gear box.
15Amps at 240v.
270-670 RPM no load speed.
Weight 72 lbs. with stand.
20" drilling depth without extension.
maximum 20" core drill.
There's a special mode on the drill for drilling thru rebar.
There's also a special mode to reduce excessive vibration when starting the drill.
Hilti also makes a separate water collection system.
The drill can also be used for "dry drilling"
Haven't robberies like this happened before in the UK over long holiday weekends? Haven't they also happened the same way in the US?
Hilti DD350 specs:
10 speed gear box.
15Amps at 240v.
270-670 RPM no load speed.
Weight 72 lbs. with stand.
20" drilling depth without extension.
maximum 20" core drill.
There's a special mode on the drill for drilling thru rebar.
There's also a special mode to reduce excessive vibration when starting the drill.
Hilti also makes a separate water collection system.
The drill can also be used for "dry drilling"
Haven't robberies like this happened before in the UK over long holiday weekends? Haven't they also happened the same way in the US?
This sounds like the specs for the world's most insane adult toy/marital aid. LOL
minimowog
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the alarm did go off, and was passed to the scotland yard control room, and it was the police who decided not to attend due to the underground fire setting off lots of false alarms in the nearby area, just because you have an intruder alarm that's montiored, it doesn't guarantee a police response, well not in the UK it doesn't
i'd like to know the keyholders response to being notified though, but i'm just nosy i suppose
i'd like to know the keyholders response to being notified though, but i'm just nosy i suppose
bobbycos
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If you are going to steal, steal big, no penny ante ****
hachi-roku_fan
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the alarm did go off, and was passed to the scotland yard control room, and it was the police who decided not to attend due to the underground fire setting off lots of false alarms in the nearby area, just because you have an intruder alarm that's montiored, it doesn't guarantee a police response, well not in the UK it doesn't
i'd like to know the keyholders response to being notified though, but i'm just nosy i suppose
Basically, the alarm went off, on site security looked in from the outside and didn't see anything suspicious and turned the alarm off. Biiig heist, but where do you unload that much stuff?
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the alarm did go off, and was passed to the scotland yard control room, and it was the police who decided not to attend due to the underground fire setting off lots of false alarms in the nearby area, just because you have an intruder alarm that's montiored, it doesn't guarantee a police response, well not in the UK it doesn't
i'd like to know the keyholders response to being notified though, but i'm just nosy i suppose
This was seriously in a movie.
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knobby
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Screw hilti if you want to steal you need a stihl
http://www.stihlusa.com/products/concrete-cutters/professional-concrete-cutters/gs461/
http://www.stihlusa.com/products/concrete-cutters/professional-concrete-cutters/gs461/
bob15
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Actually I think that Eastwood, Kennedy, Bridges and Geoffrey Lewis had a better tool than Stihl and Hilti for doing the job......an Oerlikon 20mm Cannon:
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Hmmm.... Just discovered that there is a word for this type of mistake: eggcorn
http://grammarist.com/mondegreens/
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G_P
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There is a black market out there for everything. They probably already had buyers lined up for most of it.
Message sent. I'll post up her response! Thanks.
PugetDude
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"...the right of the people to keep and bear drills, shall not be infringed."
.... but they may institute a 5-day waiting period to buy one.
.... but they may institute a 5-day waiting period to buy one.
In the next day or two, they will probably find that somebody ordered themselves a new Hilti drill, core bit and had it sent to their home, paying with their own credit card.
Dave455
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That was also an essentially true story - albeit with a fair degee of 'artistic licence', and albeit from 40 years ago!
There's an interesting website - www.safeman.org.uk if my memory is correct, which tells the story of the battle between the safe designer and the safe cracker over the last 100 years or so! Worth a read if anyone's interested!
Hilti make some really great tools, but many are obviously such specialist items that not even the power tool enthusiasts on this site knew they existed before this! Perhaps a new thread is needed...!
I keep my £400 Festool under lock and key. Don't know where I'd store a £5k Hilti? In a safe deposit box I suppose...!
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minimowog
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i wonder if the drill will turn up at a police auction in a few months time
nickjj
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"The same type of specialist drill used in the Hatton Garden heist was stolen in a burglary just a few a minutes walk away.
The kit was taken four months ago from a building which was being demolished on Fetter Lane in London’s diamond district where the gem raid took place."
"Burglars broke into a property which was being demolished over a weekend and took two £4,500 Hilti DD350 drills along with kit worth another £63,000."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hatton-garden-heist-cctv-raiders-5496682
nickjj
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The Millennium Dome robbers used a Hilti Gun to try to steal a giant diamond
http://www.scotsman.com/news/this-was-to-be-the-heist-of-the-millennium-1-604574
http://www.scotsman.com/news/this-was-to-be-the-heist-of-the-millennium-1-604574
dave89iroc
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around that, depending on size, 6" DIA X 17" DEEP is around $450, 8"x17" around 500, and a 12"x17" is around 700, this is for diamond toothed core bits, we have a DD250 here, same bits, the DD350 is a 220v machine, ours is a 110 unit
