Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Stephen wrote:

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Grave robbing.

--
Adrian C

On 1 Sep, 13:53, Stephen wrote:

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Last time I used one it was to reach _past_ a 12" steel H girder.
Otherwise there wouldn't have been clearance for the body of the drill
alongside it.

In article ,
Stephen wrote:
Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Thick walls with render and dry lining spaced off it?

--
*Strip mining prevents forest fires.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article , Stephen
writes
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Old stone buildings commonly have walls over 600mm, last time I used a
1m bit, it was about 50mm too short for the job ;-).

CPC frequently have sets of 3 SDS bit in 600mm or 1m lengths on special
at under a fiver and they've worked fine for my needs.
--
fred
BBC3, ITV2/3/4, channels going to the DOGs

"Stephen" wrote in message
...
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Dynamiting rockfaces.

In article ,
Stephen writes:
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

I have a set of 3 from CPC a few years ago, about £7 IIRC.
First job was to drill a hole in the corner of the ceiling
diagnonally through the wall into an upstairs room which
was not above the room I started from. I could do it easily
standing on the floor without any steps;-)

Also used to drill at a shallow angle through thick walls,
so entry/exit holes are well separated on either side, on a
few occasions when that's been required.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

"Stephen" wrote in message
...
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

I used one of those aldi bits to drill some slabs and underlying wall
foundations so I could drop some metal gate posts in.

Thanks,
Stephen.

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:53:55 +0100, Stephen wrote:
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Sorry, not long enough!
We've got an old house which has walls 5 - 6 feet thick.
What are the chances of drilling through from both sidea and meeting
in the middle?

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from Stephen contains these words:

Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Drilling through a 3' thick stone wall. I do it frequently.

On 1 Sep, 15:21, pete wrote:
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:53:55 +0100, Stephen wrote:
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Sorry, not long enough!
We've got an old house which has walls 5 - 6 feet thick.
What are the chances of drilling through from both sidea and meeting
in the middle?


That's how they did the Channel Tunnel!

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:21:32 +0000, pete wrote:
We've got an old house which has walls 5 - 6 feet thick.
What are the chances of drilling through from both sidea and meeting
in the middle?

It depends on the size of the hole you want to create, I suppose.

I drilled from both sides through our basement wall last year - with some
careful measuring (and drilling) the initial 1/2" pilot holes from both
sides were about 1/8" off in the middle.

Of course if a longer bit were available I would have used it, but
that sort of error seems acceptable for most things that get run through
solid walls (I was ultimately making a 6" diameter hole for some
heating duct, so that error was no issue at all)

cheers

Jules

In message , Stephen
writes
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?


Ground source heat pumps


--
geoff

"Stephen" wrote in message
...
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Drilling through thick walls. Many old buildings have walls with a rubble
infill. You have to drill through with a long drill bit (or an extending
set) and then attach a thin wire to the business end of the bit and pull the
wire back. Otherwise the rubble just moves and blocks the hole. The walls
tend to be thicker midway between apertures, incidentally.

In shop fitting the units often have voids between them so you have to drill
right through two panels and a 600mm void, otherwise you are fishing across
600mm of fresh air.

Bill

On 2 Sep, 00:38, "Bill Wright" wrote:

You have to drill through with a long drill bit (or an extending
set) and then attach a thin wire to the business end of the bit and pull the
wire back. Otherwise the rubble just moves and blocks the hole.

I solved a similar problem by locking the rubble fill with "fill-foam".

"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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In article ,
Stephen writes:
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

I have a set of 3 from CPC a few years ago, about £7 IIRC.
First job was to drill a hole in the corner of the ceiling
diagnonally through the wall into an upstairs room which
was not above the room I started from. I could do it easily
standing on the floor without any steps;-)

Also used to drill at a shallow angle through thick walls,
so entry/exit holes are well separated on either side, on a
few occasions when that's been required.

--
Andrew Gabriel

I have a similar set.

Last used for bringing an armoured cable in to a house and keeping it well
below ground level on the outside.

Adam

Vortex4 wrote:

"Stephen" wrote in message
.. .
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Dynamiting rockfaces.

Drilling pilot holes into rocky ground for earth spikes. Then drive the
spike in with hammer-only and a suitable adapter (SDS to 0.5in square,
with an appropriate socket to fit over the top of the spike).


--
Ian White

Limey Lurker wrote:
On 1 Sep, 15:21, pete wrote:
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:53:55 +0100, Stephen wrote:
Hello,
Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?
If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?
Thanks,
Stephen.
Sorry, not long enough!
We've got an old house which has walls 5 - 6 feet thick.
What are the chances of drilling through from both sidea and meeting
in the middle?


That's how they did the Channel Tunnel!

But not using an aldi sds drill

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:21:16 +0100, Peter smith wrote:

Limey Lurker wrote:
On 1 Sep, 15:21, pete wrote:
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:53:55 +0100, Stephen wrote:
Hello,
Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?
If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?
Thanks,
Stephen.
Sorry, not long enough!
We've got an old house which has walls 5 - 6 feet thick.
What are the chances of drilling through from both sidea and meeting
in the middle?

That's how they did the Channel Tunnel!

But not using an aldi sds drill

Could have been - lubricated with WD40.
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

PeterC wrote:
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:21:16 +0100, Peter smith wrote:

Limey Lurker wrote:
On 1 Sep, 15:21, pete wrote:
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:53:55 +0100, Stephen wrote:
Hello,
Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds
drill bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for
someone?
If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre
drill bits for?
Thanks,
Stephen.
Sorry, not long enough!
We've got an old house which has walls 5 - 6 feet thick.
What are the chances of drilling through from both sidea and
meeting in the middle?

That's how they did the Channel Tunnel!

But not using an aldi sds drill

Could have been - lubricated with WD40.

Good man, good man.


--
Dave - WD40 Liberation Front.

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:46:16 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

Drilling down behind skirtings, where the flexibility of the long drill
allows you to get the cutting end almost vertical in a chase even though
the drill body can't be:

The bits I saw included 16mm, they may have gone wider I can't
remember. Are the bits flexible even at these diameters?

On 1 Sep, 13:53, Stephen wrote:
Hello,

Whilst shopping in Aldi I saw some 1 metre and some 600mm sds drill
bits at Aldi. I don't know if that might be useful for someone?

If so, please could you tell me what on earth you use 1 metre drill
bits for?

Thanks,
Stephen.

The walls of my house are about a metre thick. I also have internal
walls that thick, which require cable and pipes running through.

I had to core drill over 1.5m to get some ventilation into my cellar.
I used 1m drill bits to make the pilot holes!

T

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:04:33 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

16mm is yup - remember the core size of the drill is smaller than the
flute diameter.

I never realised that. They look so rigid. This may explain why I
completely bodged up drilling through a concrete wall the other day.
I've started a new thread "drilling through concrete walls". I hope
you and Recylist can help me there. Thanks again.