Some of you may remember I posted a question BC (Before Crash) asking about drilling between the first and second floors in wall from the attic.
Well I went ahead and ordered the bit 72" drill bit with the 36" extension.
First off, the drill bit is awesome. That thing grabs the wood and grabs it good. (Problem number 1 we'll get to later).
Secondy, a word of advice. When you get an extension and it's the wrong diameter, don't just shrug and say, "eh, I'll just tighten the set screws a little more and it'll work." IT WON'T! (Problem number 2 we'll get to later)
So I drilled a 1" hole from the attic down into the top of the wall, attach my drill bit to my extension and lower it down. Jumped down to the bathroom real quick just to make sure I'm where I should be and sure enough, there's the bit peeking through the hole I'd made where the drilling will ensue.
Got my happy butt back up into the attic, which is now well into the 90-100+ degree mark. Just a little warm. And commense drilling. For about 10-15 minutes. I went until the battery died. Now before you say, "wow, this guy is dumb." To my credit it was going slow and I have about a foot of wood to drill through. The dumb part is coming up.
During the 10-15 minutes of drilling there was one point where the drill bit seemed to get hung up so I popped the drill in reverse backed the bit out (or so I thought) and went again. No more trouble.
Back to the end of the drilling. I thought it'd be a good idea to hop down and check out my progress while grabbing the other battery for the drill. I backed the bit out of the wood, and lifted what I thought was both the drill bit and extension up out of the hole.
To my shock and horror the extension slipped out of my drill and proceeded right down the hole in the attic and into the wall. All I could think was, "what the hell just happened?" I went down stairs to my guide hole look through and there's my drill bit still buried to the hilt in wood and there's my extension sitting right next to it.
After I grabbed the end of the extension and nearly burned my hand on it I realized what happened. When the bit got hung up and I thought I had back it out I had actually broken whatever was keeping hold on the bit. And the entire 10-15 minutes I was sweating up in the attic the extension was spinning around the bit and the bit wasn't doing a damn thing.
So now I've got to figure out how to fish a 36" dowl of metal out of a 1" diameter hole that's 8' below. Not to mention get the bit out of the wood and then fished out as well.
Moral of the story, if you buy tools and one doesn't seem to fit just right, "good enough" may not and you might put yourself in a heck of a situation in just a few more minutes.
Well I went ahead and ordered the bit 72" drill bit with the 36" extension.
First off, the drill bit is awesome. That thing grabs the wood and grabs it good. (Problem number 1 we'll get to later).
Secondy, a word of advice. When you get an extension and it's the wrong diameter, don't just shrug and say, "eh, I'll just tighten the set screws a little more and it'll work." IT WON'T! (Problem number 2 we'll get to later)
So I drilled a 1" hole from the attic down into the top of the wall, attach my drill bit to my extension and lower it down. Jumped down to the bathroom real quick just to make sure I'm where I should be and sure enough, there's the bit peeking through the hole I'd made where the drilling will ensue.
Got my happy butt back up into the attic, which is now well into the 90-100+ degree mark. Just a little warm. And commense drilling. For about 10-15 minutes. I went until the battery died. Now before you say, "wow, this guy is dumb." To my credit it was going slow and I have about a foot of wood to drill through. The dumb part is coming up.
During the 10-15 minutes of drilling there was one point where the drill bit seemed to get hung up so I popped the drill in reverse backed the bit out (or so I thought) and went again. No more trouble.
Back to the end of the drilling. I thought it'd be a good idea to hop down and check out my progress while grabbing the other battery for the drill. I backed the bit out of the wood, and lifted what I thought was both the drill bit and extension up out of the hole.
To my shock and horror the extension slipped out of my drill and proceeded right down the hole in the attic and into the wall. All I could think was, "what the hell just happened?" I went down stairs to my guide hole look through and there's my drill bit still buried to the hilt in wood and there's my extension sitting right next to it.
After I grabbed the end of the extension and nearly burned my hand on it I realized what happened. When the bit got hung up and I thought I had back it out I had actually broken whatever was keeping hold on the bit. And the entire 10-15 minutes I was sweating up in the attic the extension was spinning around the bit and the bit wasn't doing a damn thing.
So now I've got to figure out how to fish a 36" dowl of metal out of a 1" diameter hole that's 8' below. Not to mention get the bit out of the wood and then fished out as well.
Moral of the story, if you buy tools and one doesn't seem to fit just right, "good enough" may not and you might put yourself in a heck of a situation in just a few more minutes.
