Strands#265 Did You Hear That?
Quizzes & Puzzles19 mins ago
Does anything exist - a gadget? A special type of screw or plug?
That will insert the rawl plug etc without the need for drilling?
I have a drill but I have carpal tunnel syndrome & the vibrations set it off really bad.
Any ideas?
thanks :)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I remember my father and grandfather using a lump hammer and round chisels to make anchor holes in brick walls. Before the days of hand drills of course. Ancient civilisations used to do the same and the early coal miners tunneled using this method. Hard work and liable to make your condition worse I would think joko.
This sort of thing perhaps
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You can get hardened nails to drive into brick walls,but my experience of them has often been unsatisfactory.
Google it for lots of examples, one shown below. Relatively cheap so you could experiment.
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these were the chisels
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I think what what donny and togo are referring to are what were known as 'star bits'. We used to use them before the days of re-chargeables, and when there was no mains power available.
Laborious job involving a lump hammer (club hammer). One whack then rotate the bit. Repeat ad nauseam. No good for your carpals though.
There are nailguns that fire special nails into convrete etc. Also 'Hilti' guns that fire into concrete or even steel beams (very satisfying.) No rawlplugs needed. Slight overkill though.
The short answer joko.............. is to ask someone to drill it for you 😮
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