Re: Your Favorite Install Tool?

["Doug L" <vssdoug@xxxxxxx>]

You drill glue lams ?

Doug L

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"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "-)
>
> 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
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> | > 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
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> | > | 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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