Re: Your Favorite Install Tool?

[Sylvain Robitaille <syl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Crash Gordon wrote:

> You use the tubes because of the insulation.
> You drill the 3/8" holes with a long 6 foot flexible drill bit.

Ok, it's starting to make sense, though I'll keep an eye for additional
followups.  Thanks for that.

> You keep from killing yourself by electrocution and drill holes
> through your roof by experience.

Oh, well no problem then ... make a note, that if I kill myself by
electrocution, the next hole will need to go in a different spot ... :-)

keep lots of silicone adhesive on hand in case I drill through the roof
(which of course will happen right after I electrocute myself!) ...  :-)

Do you guys really learn not to do _that_ by experience???  As in "by
the time you drill through your third roof, you're never going to drill
through another one" kind of experience?

> Not using the zip it rod, using the glow rods which are thinner and
> more flexible.

Ok, I'm imagining that this (or the fiberglass fishtape; protection from
electrocution?) is what's getting around the insulation in the wall,
then, but ...

> ...once you've worked your way above the ceiling batting you're
> home-free...sorta...usually.

Tricks for finding the hole I just drilled?  Would it work to leave the
drill bit in place, and run the conduit up around the drill bit until I
see it come out above the roof?  (Ooops!  I mean until it gets into the
attic, of course!)

> Kinda works like the new IV needles which have a plastic sleeve that
> remains in your vein after metal needle is removed.

It's a traumatizing analogy, but I think I'm understanding.  :-)
thanks.

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Sylvain Robitaille                              syl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Systems and Network analyst                       Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology        Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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