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Martin Eastburn Martin Eastburn is offline
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Oh poor boy -

I have Greenlee chassis punches from (real sizes)(not tubing/pipe)...

from 1.2 to 1 1/4" and a 1/2" and 1" square.
Some are near 100 years old - in paper cans - metal top and bottoms
that screw on. The 'new' ones are in oil soaked boxes.

Just have to be careful on thick stuff. Use hole or fly cutter for
meter cuts.

Martin

On 11/5/2011 1:28 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:36:39 -0700, "Bruce L. Bergman (munged human
wrote:

On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:54:39 -0700, Gunner
wrote:

On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:41:39 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:21:52 -0500, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

I like hole punches. Knockout punches. 5.5 sounds like a standard.

Check out Conduit hole punches at Home Depot or your electrical supply.

Greenlee seems to go up to 4-1/2".
Irwin, DeWalt, and Morse have bimetal 5.5" hole saws, though.

I have Greenlee up to 5"

Gunner


And I'll Gaa-Ron-DAMN-tee you didn't buy that 5" new for any job of
less than 100 holes, or you got someone else to buy it. ;-)

Them puppies (742BB) List at $700... Ouch. That's well past 'arts
and crafts and hobbies' status.

-- Bruce--


Nope.

I got the pump and 19 die sets from 1/2" conduit upwards with many
spares. For $50

Think I did ok?

But to be fair..I did have to put oil in the pump, and buy a tool box to
hold the common stuff we all normally use. And a second box to hold the
spares. So I might have $65 in the works.

VBG

Gunner

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