DIY cock up for the day
 

I had to drill a 24mm hole though 400mm of rendered brick wall today.
Access was extremely tight and in a very awkward place. With a SDS on
hammer I started off with a short drill which went in fairly easily.
Changed to the longer drill and continued - this time the drill wasn't
moving through the wall - I thought it's hit something hard and exerted
a bit more force but the drill was still having problems.

Around a minute later it dawned on me that I'd accidentally switched the
drill to reverse. It's Dewalt and the forward/reverse is an easily
moveable tab incorporated into the trigger.

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On 24/11/2017 23:21, alan_m wrote:

I had to drill a 24mm hole though 400mm of rendered brick wall today.
Access was extremely tight and in a very awkward place. With a SDS on
hammer I started off with a short drill which went in fairly easily.
Changed to the longer drill and continued - this time the drill wasn't
moving through the wall - I thought it's hit something hard and exerted
a bit more force but the drill was still having problems.

Around a minute later it dawned on me that I'd accidentally switched the
drill to reverse. It's Dewalt and the forward/reverse is an easily
moveable tab incorporated into the trigger.

I've found though that for smaller holes you can put the drill in
reverse and it makes no difference!

Bill

DIY cock up for the day
 

Undrilling a hole. If you could make that work you would be a very rich man!
Brian

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I had to drill a 24mm hole though 400mm of rendered brick wall today.
Access was extremely tight and in a very awkward place. With a SDS on
hammer I started off with a short drill which went in fairly easily.
Changed to the longer drill and continued - this time the drill wasn't
moving through the wall - I thought it's hit something hard and exerted a
bit more force but the drill was still having problems.

Around a minute later it dawned on me that I'd accidentally switched the
drill to reverse. It's Dewalt and the forward/reverse is an easily
moveable tab incorporated into the trigger.

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On 24/11/2017 23:21, alan_m wrote:

I had to drill a 24mm hole though 400mm of rendered brick wall today.
Access was extremely tight and in a very awkward place. With a SDS on
hammer I started off with a short drill which went in fairly easily.
Changed to the longer drill and continued - this time the drill wasn't
moving through the wall - I thought it's hit something hard and exerted
a bit more force but the drill was still having problems.

Around a minute later it dawned on me that I'd accidentally switched the
drill to reverse. It's Dewalt and the forward/reverse is an easily
moveable tab incorporated into the trigger.


:-)




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On 25/11/2017 15:11, ARW wrote:
On 24/11/2017 23:21, alan_m wrote:

I had to drill a 24mm hole though 400mm of rendered brick wall today.
Access was extremely tight and in a very awkward place. With a SDS on
hammer I started off with a short drill which went in fairly easily.
Changed to the longer drill and continued - this time the drill wasn't
moving through the wall - I thought it's hit something hard and
exerted a bit more force but the drill was still having problems.

Around a minute later it dawned on me that I'd accidentally switched
the drill to reverse. It's Dewalt and the forward/reverse is an easily
moveable tab incorporated into the trigger.


:-)




Call that a cock up? When I were a lad ....

DIY cock up for the day
 

On 25/11/2017 22:26, GB wrote:
On 25/11/2017 15:11, ARW wrote:
On 24/11/2017 23:21, alan_m wrote:

I had to drill a 24mm hole though 400mm of rendered brick wall today.
Access was extremely tight and in a very awkward place. With a SDS on
hammer I started off with a short drill which went in fairly easily.
Changed to the longer drill and continued - this time the drill
wasn't moving through the wall - I thought it's hit something hard
and exerted a bit more force but the drill was still having problems.

Around a minute later it dawned on me that I'd accidentally switched
the drill to reverse. It's Dewalt and the forward/reverse is an
easily moveable tab incorporated into the trigger.


:-)




Call that a cock up? When I were a lad ....

Not another "me too" bandwagon slut!