BOSCH GDE18V-12 SDS Plus Hammer Drill Instruction Manual

BOSCH GDE18V-12 SDS Plus Hammer Drill

Product Information

Product Name: GDE18V-12 Dust Extraction Attachment
Manufacturer: Bosch
Contact: 1-877-BOSCH99 (1-877-267-2499)
Website: www.boschtools.com

The GDE18V-12 Dust Extraction Attachment is designed to collect drilling dust during drilling in concrete, brick, stone, ceramic, and tiles. It is compatible only with the Bosch GBH18V-22 rotary hammer.

Product Usage Instructions

1. Before using the dust extraction attachment, read and understand the general safety rules as well as the specific safety rules for the attachment. Wear eye and dust protection while using the attachment.
2. Disconnect the battery pack of the rotary hammer before assembling or disassembling the dust extraction attachment, accessory, or making adjustments.
3. The dust extraction attachment must not be used when drilling in wood, metal, or plastic. It is specifically designed for use in concrete, brick, stone, ceramic, and tiles.
4. Ensure that devices for dust collection and extraction are connected and used according to the tool instructions.
5. Empty the dust box before starting work, during work (frequently), after completing work, and before storing the tool.
6. Exercise caution when disposing of dust, as materials in fine particle form may be explosive. Do not throw dust on an open fire.
7. Avoid using the dust extraction attachment for operations where dust may include burning, smoking, or smoldering items such as hot ashes or sparks.
8. Fire inside the dust box may occur, as dust may smolder and set the device on fire even after work is completed.
9. Do not use the dust extraction attachment with explosive dusts, varnish, polyurethane coatings, cleaners, or oil-based paints, as electric motors create sparks that may ignite the dust or fumes.
10. Avoid using the dust extraction attachment when working on metal, as hot metal chips can self-ignite or ignite parts of the system. Do not drill into metal with the dust extraction system mounted.
11. Do not drill into wood with the dust extraction system mounted, as wood chips are typically too large and will clog the dust channel.

Safety Symbols

• The definitions below describe the level of severity for each signal word. Please read the manual and pay attention to these symbols. This is the safety alert symbol. It is used to alert you to potential personal injury hazards. Obey all
• safety messages that follow this symbol to avoid possible injury or death.
• DANGER indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death or serious injury.
• WARNING indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious injury.
• CAUTION indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in minor or moderate injury.

General Safety Rules

Read these instructions and your tool’s Operating/Safety instructions be-fore using the dust extraction attachment.

SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS

When using devices for dust collection and extraction, be sure these are connected and used according to tool instructions. Proper use of dust collection can reduce dust related hazards.
Empty the dust box before beginning work, frequently during work, after completion of work, and before storing the tool. Be ex-tremely careful of dust disposal, materials in fine particles form may be explosive.

• Do not throw dust on an open fire. Com-bustion from mixture of varnishes, lacquers, polyurethane, oil or water with dust particles can occur if there is a static discharge, electric spark, or excessive heat.
• Do not use dust extraction for operations where dust may include burning, smoking or smoldering items like hot ashes or sparks. Fire inside the dust box may occur. Dust may smolder and set the device on fire long after work is completed.
• Do not use dust extraction with explosive dusts, varnish, polyurethane coatings, clean-ers, or oil-based paints. Electric motors create sparks, which may ignite the dust or fumes.
• Do not use dust extraction when working on metal. Swarf from drilling metal may be hot and may spark which may melt plastic adap-tors, vacuum hoses and may cause a fire inside the vacuum tank or bag.
• Do not drill into metal with the dust ex-traction system mounted. Hot metal chips can self-ignite or ignite parts of the dust ex-traction system.

Specific Safety Rules for Attachment

Do not drill into wood with dust extraction system mounted. Wood chips are typically too large and will clog the dust channel. Do not use to clean asbestos. To prevent damage to the HEPA filter, do not use this dust extraction attachment when drilling with liquids or into wet ma- terials. Replace the HEPA filter when col-lected dust particles may not be removed from the filter material. Damaged filter may create a risk of exposure to crystalline silica dust.
Note: Do not use the dust extraction system when chiseling, driving screws or cutting threads.

Additional Safety Warnings

Some dust created by pow-er sanding, sawing grind-ing, drilling, and other construction activities contains chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Some examples of these are

• Lead from lead-based paints.
•  Crystalline silica from bricks and cement and other masonry products, and
• Arsenic and chromium from chemically treat-ed lumber. Your risk from these exposures varies; depend-ing on how often you do this type of work. To reduce your exposure to these chemicals: work in a well ventilated area, and work with ap-proved safety equipment, such as those dust masks that are specially designed to filter out microscopic particles.

Specifications

Drilling Capacity: Drilling diameter Maximum drill bit length Maximum drilling depth| ****

5/32” – 1/2” (4 – 12mm)

6.5” (165 mm)

3.9” (100 mm)

Intended Use

The dust extraction attachment is intended for collecting drilling dust during drilling in con-crete, brick, stone, ceramic and tiles. The dust extraction attachment must not be used when drilling in wood, metal or plastic.The dust extraction attachment may be used only with the following rotary hammers: – GBH 18V-22

Bosch GDE18V-12 Dust Extraction Attachment

1. Button for drilling depth adjustment
2. 2 Guide with depth stop scale
3. Button for drill bit length adjustment
4. Release buttons for dust box
5. Release buttons for dust extraction attachment
6. Viewing window
7. Dust cap for SDS plus fixed chuck
8. Housing guide (dust extraction attach- ment)
9. Contacts
10. LED
11. Locking Button

Assembly

To reduce the risk of injury user must read instruction manual for the use of the power tool with this attachment.

SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS

Disconnect the battery pack before making any as- sembly, adjustments or changing accessories. Such preventive safety measures reduce the risk of starting the tool accidentally. When using the GBH18V-22 rotary hammer with the GDE18V-12 on-tool dust extraction at-tachment, use only Bosch Core 4.0 Ah battery (or higher) for proper operation. Use of Bosch batteries with lower Ah rating may result in tool operating with reduced per-formance, indicated by flashing light and lower RPM. (Fig. 2) Align the guide groove 10 on both sides of the rotary hammer with the housing guide 8 on both sides of the dust extraction attachment. Slide the dust extraction attachment onto the rotary hammer. The dust extraction attachment must audibly engage.(Fig. 2). To disconnect the attachment, press and hold the unlocking buttons 5, and pull the dust ex-traction attachment off the rotary hammer (Fig. 2).

Operating instructions

Never use the dust ex- traction attachment with- out a filter. If the dust extraction attachment is used without a filter, larger particles of drilling dust can be flung towards the user and the power tool can be damaged. Only use an undamaged filter (no cracks, small holes, etc.). Replace a damaged filter immedi-ately. Never carry the power tool by the dust ex-traction attachment. Note: The guide 2 is spring-loaded. The guide can spring forward when the button 3 for drill bit length adjustment is pressed (Fig. 3).

1.  Press and hold the button 3 and pull the guide 2 all the way outward.
2. Release the button 3.
3. Slide the tip of the drill bit through the dust cap 7 from behind (A) and then fit the bit into the chuck according to the instructions

Operating instructions

of your power tool (B). Before removing the drill bit, press the button 3 again and pull the guide 2 all the way outward.Before removing the drill bit, press the button 3 again and pull the guide 2 all the way out-ward.

Adjusting the Guide Length

(Fig. 4, 5) To ensure that dust is extracted cleanly and the depth stop is set correctly, the guide 2 must be adjusted so that the tip of the drill bit is flush at the front with the dust cap 1 (Fig. 5).

1. Press and hold (A) the button 3 and move (B) the guide 2 until the tip of the drill bit is flush with the “crosshair” of the dust cap 7 (Fig. 4).
2. Release the button 3.

Note: To store the dust extraction attachment, press the button 3 and pull the guide 2 all the way outward. This relieves strain on the guide’s spring, which increases the lifetime of the spring.

Adjusting the Drilling Depth

(Fig. 6) The button 1 for depth stop adjustment can be used to set the required drilling depth X. Press and hold the button 1 and slide it along the guide 2 so that the distance X shown in the illustration matches your required drilling depth.\ When the desired distance X is reached, re-lease the button

Operating instructions

Changing the Dust Cap

(Fig. 7) You may need to change the dust cap if the wall contact surface shows clear signs of wear which is causing dust to escape through the extraction brush during extraction.
Removing old dust cap 7:

• Press (A) the locking button 11 and pull (B) the dust cap 7 upwards out of the holder.

Mounting new dust cap 7a:

• Insert (C) the new dust cap 7 into the holder until the locking button 11 clicks in place.

Emptying the Dust Box

tion, protective eyewear, gloves and dust protective clothing. Dust box may contain crystalline silica dust.
(Fig. 8, 9, 10) Please inspect the filter 13 regularly for dam-age and/or excessive dust accumulation. Empty the dust box 12 after completing your work or as needed. The viewing windows 6 on both sides of the dust extraction attachment enable you to check how full the dust box is (Fig. 1). Empty the dust box when the window level is no more than half covered. If the dust box is filled beyond this point, the HEPA filter system will not be working properly during use. REMOVING the dust box from the dust ex-traction attachment:

1.  Hold the power tool with the dust ex-traction attachment horizontal and switch on the power tool for a few seconds. This will cause residual dust to be cleared out of the extraction channel into the dust box 12.
   Use caution removing dust box from the attachment to avoid release of crystalline silica dust.

2. Simultaneously press the tabs 4, located onboth sides of the dust box 12, to unlock the dust box from the dust extraction attach-ment (Fig. 8).

3. With the dust box 12 unlocked, slowly pullthe dust box downward from the dust ex-traction attachment (Fig. 8). NOTE: Keep the tool in a horizontal drilling position to avoid spilling any of the contents while pull-ing the dust box out of the dust extraction attachment.

Operating instructions

DISPOSING of the contents of the dust box:
Do not create air-borne dust during the disposing process, and always dispose dust box con-tents in a closed plastic bag. Improper dis-posal of silica dust may cause a health haz-ard.
After removing the dust box from the dust extraction attachment, follow these steps for proper disposal:

• While holding the dust box 12 in a hori-zontal positon, remove the HEPA filter and place it on a table or location where the filter cannot be damaged.
• Take the dust box 12 and put it inside a plastic bag. Turn the dust box over to emp-ty out the contents. It is important that the dust box is completely covered inside the plastic bag to keep any possible air-borne dust inside. Lightly tap the dust box to as-sure all contents have been removed. This light tapping will also remove any large dust particles that accumulated on the sur-face of HEPA filter 13 (Fig. 9).
• Remove dust box from the plastic bag and examine to ensure the box is empty.
• Take the HEPA filter and place it in the same plastic bag and repeat step B. Ensure that the filter is completely covered by the plastic bag to keep any possible air-borne dust inside the bag.
• Remove the filter from the bag and examine to assure the it has been cleared of accumu-lated dust particles.HEPA filter, do not use this dust extraction attachment when drilling with liquids or into wet materials. Replace the HEPA filter when collected dust particles may not be removed from the filter material. Damaged filter may create a risk of exposure to crystalline silica dust.
• If upon further inspection, or at the end of

1.  Use vacuum cleaner equipped with HEPA filter, to remove accumulated dust from the HEPA filter being cleaned (Fig. 10). Using a vacuum cleaner regularly to clean the HEPA filter will extend filter life.
2. If vacuuming the HEPA filter 13 does not remove the accumulated dust, replace the HEPA filter as this indicates the life of the HEPA filter has expired. Do not clean the HEPA fil- ter with liquids and do not use compressed air to blow it clean. There is a risk of damage to the filter.

REPLACING the HEPA filter:

1. Place the new or cleaned HEPA filter 13 back in the dust box 12. Press the filter until it is fully seated on the dust box 12.(Fig. 9)
2. Slide the dust box 12 into the dust ex-traction attachment. The dust box is se-cured when the locking tabs 5 snap into the locking position (Fig. 8).

NOTE: You may have to apply extra force on the bottom of the dust box for proper seating into the dust extraction attachment. To confirm proper placement, pull on the black tabs, with-out pressing, to confirm that the dust box is locked in place.

Maintenance

To avoid accidents, always disconnect the battery pack from tool before ser- vicing or cleaning.

Service

Preventive maintenance performed by unau – thorized personnel may result in misplacing of internal wires and components which could cause serious hazard. We recom mend that all tool service be performed by a Bosch Factory Service Center or Authorized Bosch Service Station.

Cleaning

Certain cleaning agents and solvents damage plastic parts. Some of these are: gasoline, carbon tet-rachloride, chlorinated cleaning solvents, am-monia and household detergents that contain ammonia. Ventilation openings and switch levers must be kept clean and free of foreign matter. Do not attempt to clean by inserting pointed objects through opening.

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References

• Bosch Power Tools | Boschtools
• Product Warranty | Boschtools

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