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Where would I get an M12 expanding bolt?

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    #32
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    So I got an SDS drill for €100 and it came with a few different bits and a and a metal case. It made short work of drilling through the wall, only to discover its a made from cavity blocks:( so I can't use the m12 on it.

    I'm having a rethink as to my options, but I will be going back up to Chadwicks on Monday to get more M12s, and Ill take it from there.
    And Z, once this yoke is secure, you're more than welcome to borrow the drill.


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    #33
    evolving_doors
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    Jeez it's like other folk are having the same drilling problems this weekend too.


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    #34
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Haha, your man needs an sds drill, I feel his pain


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    #35
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Skill Magill wrote: »
    So I got an SDS drill for €100 and it came with a few different bits and a and a metal case. It made short work of drilling through the wall, only to discover its a made from cavity blocks:( so I can't use the m12 on it.

    Even on cavity blocks there are portions of it solid.


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    #36
    dodzy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,920 ✭✭✭dodzy


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Even on cavity blocks there are portions of it solid.
    Unfortunately, you will most likely have the cavity looking like a tea strainer trying to find the vertical centre of the block.


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    #37
    gutteruu
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    dodzy wrote: »
    Unfortunately, you will most likely have the cavity looking like a tea strainer trying to find the vertical centre of the block.

    Or explode the entire block by over-tightening.


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    #38
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Its in, and it aint coming out!!

    My tools :
    1. SDS Drill - McQuillans Caple st €100
    2. 20mm SDS drillbit Chadwicks Thomas Street €10
    3. A fair few ruined m12s
    4. The one that worked was from all metal fastners in Finglas, which had to have the normal bolt swapped out for a allen key head bolt.
    5. 50 cent to superglue over the allen key bolt, cause it came up to high and couldnt smack the provided cap down over it.

    Now I just have to get some crane chain, to keep the bike a bit away from the front wall, stop passers bye havin a nosey.

    It may seem a tad on the expensive side, just to drill a hole, but it was never going to get the better of me :D and now I have some kick ass tools!



    IMrX95Zl.jpg

    Zascar, if you want me to get you the same m12 and lend you the few bits and pieces you're more than welcome


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    #39
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Skill Magill wrote: »
    1. 50 cent to superglue over the allen key bolt, cause it came up to high and couldnt smack the provided cap down over it.

    You could have glued it in the right way up. :pac:


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    #40
    Skill Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    You could have glued it in the right way up. :pac:
    There's always one!


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