Re: Your Favorite Install Tool?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"-)

I had to leave a Hole Hawg up in the rafters of a church...drilling through
a glue lam beam and it wedged itself in real good..couldn't even open the
chuck...had to leave the drill up there...that was a grand slam...no fires
though. But, that old Milwaukee is still up there I bet!


"ranger" <hd_ranger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Or how about drilling thru the ceiling in a boiler room, next to the wall,
| for some surface-ran wiring, and hitting a 120V wire ran thru the ceiling
| nailer. (Knew right away cause the lights went out.)   The fire in the
attic
| was small, though, and put itself out.  And this was the first of 21
| pre-wires....
|
| Rick C.
|
| "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:lhM7f.13$z15.2321@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Welp yah know...you NEVER know where some dumb electrician has run a
wire!
| I
| > found that out years ago...I was drilling UP above a door header to
| replace
| > a door switch on a  house. Top of the door was less than a foot below
the
| > ceiling (old house). ZAP. Of course no one told me the door had actually
| > been a window at one time so I guess the 110 vac had been re-routed from
| > under the window to OVER the door.
| >
| >
| >
| > "Matt Ion" <soundy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:I7E7f.309405$tl2.37199@xxxxxxxxxxx
| > | JoeRaisin wrote:
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
| > | >
| > | >> Crash Gordon wrote:
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >>> Basement is almost the same process...easier if your basement
| doesn't
| > | >>> have a finished ceiling.
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >> The old, very damaged, suspended ceiling was removed the week I
| bought
| > | >> the house.  It's remaining with no ceiling until I finish several
| > | >> rewiring projects, which I admit will be a few years at least.
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >>> Except you wont have the problem of drilling out the roof...only
| > | >>> smashing into the basement stem wall with your drill bit...and of
| > | >>> course water pipes.
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >> Oh yes, of course ... water pipes.  Thanks!
| > | >>
| > | >
| > | > And 110 wiring... Don't forget 110 wiring.
| > |
| > | A friend was having a cable outlet installed in his apartment for a
| > | cable-internet hookup.  The cable installer was drilling down through
| > | the floor and hit a 110 wire, and shorted it to something else metal,
| > | and started a fire.
| > |
| > | Fortunately, his apartment was right across the street from the fire
| > | hall.. :)
| > |
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