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Stuart Noble
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Cable clips on stone wall
On 15/09/2010 17:00,
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On Sep 15, 10:59 am, "Dave Plowman
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On Sep 14, 11:47 pm, "Dave Plowman
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You just wouldn't believe it! I don't keep the recently discussed
pin plugs in the van, but have decided to do so, despite thinking
that they will only get used once a blue moon. Then today, in a
place 80 miles from home that takes an hour to get into and an hour
to get out of, I found that I had to clip a cable 50ft along a
concrete internal wall. There was no chance of clips going in -- the
wall was so hard it was actually slow to drill. Push in cable tie
holders and ties would have looked dreadful. In the end I cut the
heads of some push-ins and used the stems as pin plugs. It worked
fine.
Sounds like a job for SDS man.
Bosch 24VRE, new SDS bit, new battery. Operative a bit worn out
though.
You need a decent mains SDS for hard materials. Battery ones ain't got the
oomph. But I do realise the problems there in your job.
I don't have problems drilling any material, within reason. I would
use a 110V SDS drill for repeated work using large diameter SDS bits
or for a masonry-cutting core drill, but for anything upto 18mm
diameter the 24V DC drill is fine. When I said drilling the holes in
concrete was 'slow' I didn't mean it took ages, just that it was a bit
slower than drilling brick, perhaps 8 to 12 secs for an 8mm x 30mm
hole. I drilled 50 of the ******* things anyway!
Modern battery SDS drills are very good.
Bill
So I guess you're allowed to clamber about on roofs without the need for
scaffolding? I know roofers and chimney sweeps do it all the time, but
is there some kind of cut off point beyond which HSE requires scaffolding?
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