Re: 5 ft. long drill bits at Home Depot!

["joe" <nospam@xxxxxx>]

found a cable caster by Greenlee there yesterday while getting parts for a
job.  A dart gun with a fishing reel on it to cast wires into hard to reach
areas.  looks like a cool toy.  should pay for itself if I use it once. now
just have to find a place to use it. :)

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Yah they hide them in a piece of pvc pipe at the end of the electrical
> isle.
>
> The only problem with them is the flutes get clogged because of the way
> the
> drill is welded to the rod, make sure you "unload" the hole of saw dust
> frequently. Another tip....use a regular drill bit to get you started,
> then
> use the D'versibit. That way you'll have a nice straight guide hole AND
> save
> some life of the Dversibit. Oh, yeah...don't keep the drill running when
> you're moving through an insulated wall or you could wrap the fiberglass
> insulation around the drill.
>
>
>
> "Bill" <bill190nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> |I found those 5 ft. long drill bits at Home Depot. They were in the
> | electrical department, not in the tools section. And the bit has a hole
> | drilled in it so you can use it to fish wires after drilling a hole.
> They
> | are called D'versibit. Others with holes in the bits (for fishing wires)
> in
> | the tool section are called "installer bits".
> | Exactly what I was looking for - Thanks!
> |
> | I don't know how many times I have been in the electrical department of
> Home
> | Depot and yet never noticed these. They look like long rods (They are
> | actually a long rod with a drill bit on the end), so I probably thought
> that
> | was what they were.
> |
> |
>
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