pedrobedro
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We used to call them plugging chisels.
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brightspark
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The rawl plug drill was handraulic, but the real fun was opening the pretty orange & blue tin full of blue asbestos, pulling a wad out & either dribbling water on it or spitting on it to mix it into a putty like cement, then ramminng it in the hole with the supplied rammer which had a spike point on one end to make the hole your screw went into. Used to mix the stuff for my dad. Happy days........
Its in any old house.
Its in any old house.
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me dad used to bring it home . a big blue tin full of asbestos with a little guy on the tin called fill plug
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pedrobedro
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Ive got a set of those somewhere, and a matching box spanner to twist them...that is unless I skipped them last clearout (ive a feeling I did). Ive never used them on this house (22 years) but the old house was built using the Blue Engineering bricks and sometimes they were the only way to get a hole. I would drill a small hole and enlarge it with one of these chisels.....sometimes knocking the brick through at the same time.
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We used to run into those bricks on railway buildings (think they were called blue bricks) they were tough b****** even a small hole was a struggle.
Mate watched me trying to drill with a Hitachi hammer drill did not touch them, then mate with the new Bosch SDS says watch this 3\4 hour later we had 2 x 10 mm 50 mm deep
& 3 flat batteries + a group of BR men watching
they said a bumper was the way to go, I think they lied 
Mate watched me trying to drill with a Hitachi hammer drill did not touch them, then mate with the new Bosch SDS says watch this 3\4 hour later we had 2 x 10 mm 50 mm deep
& 3 flat batteries + a group of BR men watching
they said a bumper was the way to go, I think they lied We used to run into those bricks on railway buildings (think they were called blue bricks) they were tough b****** even a small hole was a struggle.
Mate watched me trying to drill with a Hitachi hammer drill did not touch them, then mate with the new Bosch SDS says watch this 3\4 hour later we had 2 x 10 mm 50 mm deep
& 3 flat batteries + a group of BR men watching
My mates Dad was the bricklayer that built it. He said the internal Blue part was cast iron and I suppose it could be a crude iron based on oxide in the clay. The hammer drill could knock the brick through before making a hole, mind you that was probably part due to the very lean mix they used for mortar.
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the old man worked in the brickyard at Crossley's. the hard blue bits in brick were due to being incorrectly fired
500e
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BR had a different standard for bricks, don't think the were a mistake if it was they kept making it for a lot of buildings over the years, the whole darn lot was like armour plate, we put aerials on a fair few stations at the time.
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We used to use a similar tool for installing "spit" anchors in caves
