whats this tool

[steveo3002]

got this in a box of random bits n bobs

marked rawplug no 8

end is sort of triangular shape

 

[MCKDAVID]

old way of putting in rawlplugs, hammer it in turning as you go. thankfully supersceded by battery drills and masonary bits....

 

[rtbcomp]

^^ Rawl drill

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Hand held Rawplug Drill.
The old fashioned way to drill a hole for a fiber wall plug.

 

[steveo3002]

why the huge hex end if for drilling ? wouldnt go in a half inch chuck

 

[awemawson]

It doesn't go in a drill, it goes in your hand !

As said, hit it, turn it, rinse and repeat. Excellent at the top of a ladder before battery drills were invented, and even now has it's uses, as you don't have to push hard as with an electric drill, pushing the ladder away from the wall.

I've sunk MANY holes with Rawl Drills !

 

[eSCHEn]

You literally whack it with a hammer and then use a spanner to turn the body and then whack it again. You need the fat hex to get a decent sized spanner on to get enough purchase to turn when deep.

Edit - as per awemawson

 

[steveo3002]

ah i see ...might hang onto it then keep it with the hoards of other tools i never use lol

thanks

 

[Lazurus]

I remember my late Father using these to put up a curtain rail, it was a concrete lintel over the window, the dust swearing blisters and bruises on top of the time it took was entertaining, as stated thankfully technology has moved on.

 

[awemawson]

You shouldn't need a spanner to turn it if you use it correctly. Tap, turn, tapity tap, turn. It works exactly like the old miners drills used for drilling charge holes for the dynamite. The front edge crushes the brick or rock, and turning keeps the crushed material loose.

 

[rtbcomp]

^^ That's correct, you turn & tap simultaneously. Grasp the drill in the fist of one hand and hold the hammer in the other.

 

[brightspark]

try a star drill in to sandstone to fix rawlbolts of a ladder in the middle of winter on farms

 

[Paul.]

Somewhere in the garage I have a full set of those that were my dads, all in a black metal box with a selection of fibre plugs, I've used them too in the past, before cordless drills were invented.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

It doesn't go in a drill, it goes in your hand !

As said, hit it, turn it, rinse and repeat. Excellent at the top of a ladder before battery drills were invented, and even now has it's uses, as you don't have to push hard as with an electric drill, pushing the ladder away from the wall.

I've sunk MANY holes with Rawl Drills !

You literally whack it with a hammer and then use a spanner to turn the body and then whack it again. You need the fat hex to get a decent sized spanner on to get enough purchase to turn when deep.

Edit - as per awemawson

Or take the Bit out of the handle and buy a Raw Plug Hammer drill.

I did.



It does get used as well.
I'm to lazy to hammer sometimes.

This mainly gets used in "Nursing Care Homes" where power tools can disturb the "Service Users"

 

[zx9]

You are too good to them

This mainly gets used in "Nursing Care Homes" where power tools can disturb the "Service Users"

I expect half of them are deaf anyway just go round and pinch their batteries.

 

[brightspark]

You are too good to them

I expect half of them are deaf anyway just go round and pinch their batteries.

your all heart

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

You are too good to them

I expect half of them are deaf anyway just go round and pinch their batteries.

Saddly Not that sort of care Home. The place I use it in 50% of the Nurses double up as "Bouncers" if you get my meaning.

 

[zx9]

your all heart

It should be one of my 'things that bug me' you are booked in to do a days work, turn up spend the first hour moving furniture which should have been moved before you got there, start drilling the slab and some PA comes in to say that they are having a video call in the next room.

 

[Shedendman]

Grind it down to a nice point and have it as a centre punch

 

[500e]

My firs job as a lecy the Co specialised in church wiring bang twist bang twist bang twist for hours, & by Wednesday it was cold enough in them to freeze the soup in your thermos, laying on your back on stone floor fitting tubular heaters under pews always in the winter