Customer Reviews for Milwaukee 1-3/8 in. Carbide Grit Hole Saw with Pilot Bit

Purchased hole saw to cut a piece of porcelain tile in a shower I was tiling. Pilot drill wouldn't drill into tile, after drilling for a good 3-4 minutes I was into the tile roughly 1/8". I then tipped the drill to the side to engage the hole saw (which worked just fine) and scored a circle in the tile.

I had to drill through my brick siding to run some conduit and I was pretty impressed with this hole saw. Running it at a lower speed and water cooling it helped.

Tried to use this to drill a hole through the brick wall of my house. First I used it dry and it burned up almost instantly, so then I used another one while spraying water while drilling. It did better, but only went about three fourths of an inch deep and burned up. I finally just chiseled the hole the rest of the way. It would probably work great if it were diamond.

just what I needed to run conduit through the stucco wall. nice clean hole.

Its a great bit and a good price but I would just like to say the center taping bit is not carbide dipped and thats frustrating for me personally. My job went well with the product I would reccommend it to others. COOL with water while cutting!

7/8" carbide hole saw cut through my stucco wall with exact size for 3/4" diameter pipe and looks like professional work. Used lite streem of water to cool when cutting to extend bitt life. Just don't understand why this item isn't stocked in my local Home Depot stores. Seems most common sizes would be 5/8" 7/8" and 1 1/4".

I've used other masonary hole bits that did not do nearly as well, this one is built with good, thick steel and heavy carbide on the cutting edges. Goes through concrete well, some of the rocks not so good :-) .

This was used to "drill" a hole in 1 1/2" thick hard stucco, backed by heavy wire mesh. It left a nice clean hole and cut much better than I had anticipated.

I picked up this $10 hole saw to install a removable pool fence in my travertine pavered patio. I drilled 10 1" pavers with this hole saw, and it did them all without any trouble. It finally gave up and lost its carbide tips when I drilled the last paver which was on concrete. The stones in the concrete were probably too dense. But It did 10" of travertine, so I can't complain. I checked out the $40 ridgid hole saw, but went with the Milwaukee just to try, and glad I did. I did have to buy a $14 arbor. Then I figured that I could not go deeper than the length of the hole saw, because that arbor's diameter was wider than the hole, so I picked up another arbor for $10 more, which came with another standard hole saw. Also picked up a $10 extension. Everything works well together, and looks like it's made to last. Except don't expect to go through too much solid concrete. It seems to work very well on travertine and probably ceramics too. I used a heavy duty drill and kept pouring water into the hole as I drilled, so I never let it get too hot. Definitely will buy from the same line of Milwaukee again if I need to drill into stone.

Only penetrated about 1/2" into lightweight brick facing before it just sat there spinning, getting hotter and hotter. Waste of time and money.

USED TO CUT A 2 1/2" HOLE IN BRICK, USING WATER FROM A PLASTIC BOTTLE W/ A PIN HOLE IN CAP TO LUB THE CUTTING EDGE. NICE CLEAN CUT.