Wedg1e
They call me Mr. Bodge-angles
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When pressed - by hand, with an angle grinder
Case in point, we were on a job in Gosport some years back and we'd roped in assorted teenagers to help out with menial tasks like lugging stuff.
Someone gave them the job of drilling holes in a concrete floor to put Rawlbolts in, using big SDS masonry bits and a hefty Bosch hammer-action. Once that was done, it was realised that all the steel fixtures they were to bolt down needed bigger holes in, so a 16mm drill bit was obtained and they set to it. I should point out that I was busy elsewhere for most of the day, and when I got back to the site the lads were all sat round twiddling their thumbs while the so-called 'project manager' grinned like a Cheshire cat and said the job was knackered.
Why? I asked.
Because the 16mm drill lasted seconds before 'going blunt'. So off they'd trooped (all of them!) to the local tool shop where another 16mm drill was obtained.
Same thing happened: drill was blunt in no time. Back to the shop. Repeat until the shop had no more 16mm drills, but the lads had a pile of shagged ones.
I looked at the drills, said all we needed to do was resharpen them.
Project manager gets all shirty, where's our tool grinder, how can we do this on site etc. etc.
I pointed at the 4.5" angle grinder and said "There's always that".
Well now project manager is on the floor: you can't sharpen drill bits with an angle grinder, he chortles to the young lads.
I picked up the grinder and a drill, put some semblance of a shape on it and handed it to one of the teenagers: show me what you were doing, I tell him.
So he fits the drill, pulls the trigger and the big Bosch spins straight up to warp speed as he applies it to the first bit of steel.
I stopped him, turned the speed control right down and told him to try again. Predictably, the drill went straight through.
I reshaped all the other 16mm drills but I don't think they neded to swap more than once for the rest of the job.
The 'project manager', by the way, had some sort of Degree in engineering.
Case in point, we were on a job in Gosport some years back and we'd roped in assorted teenagers to help out with menial tasks like lugging stuff.
Someone gave them the job of drilling holes in a concrete floor to put Rawlbolts in, using big SDS masonry bits and a hefty Bosch hammer-action. Once that was done, it was realised that all the steel fixtures they were to bolt down needed bigger holes in, so a 16mm drill bit was obtained and they set to it. I should point out that I was busy elsewhere for most of the day, and when I got back to the site the lads were all sat round twiddling their thumbs while the so-called 'project manager' grinned like a Cheshire cat and said the job was knackered.
Why? I asked.
Because the 16mm drill lasted seconds before 'going blunt'. So off they'd trooped (all of them!) to the local tool shop where another 16mm drill was obtained.
Same thing happened: drill was blunt in no time. Back to the shop. Repeat until the shop had no more 16mm drills, but the lads had a pile of shagged ones.
I looked at the drills, said all we needed to do was resharpen them.
Project manager gets all shirty, where's our tool grinder, how can we do this on site etc. etc.
I pointed at the 4.5" angle grinder and said "There's always that".
Well now project manager is on the floor: you can't sharpen drill bits with an angle grinder, he chortles to the young lads.
I picked up the grinder and a drill, put some semblance of a shape on it and handed it to one of the teenagers: show me what you were doing, I tell him.
So he fits the drill, pulls the trigger and the big Bosch spins straight up to warp speed as he applies it to the first bit of steel.
I stopped him, turned the speed control right down and told him to try again. Predictably, the drill went straight through.
I reshaped all the other 16mm drills but I don't think they neded to swap more than once for the rest of the job.
The 'project manager', by the way, had some sort of Degree in engineering.