Carbide/diamond rotary hammer bits don't really "cut" as much as they turn concrete into to dust a little bit at a time. Interestingly, that dust then help to abrade any steel you might encounter along the way.
You know the difference between drilling and boring? Drilling is when you use a rotating tool to make a hole, boring is sitting around and talking about it.
If you're going to bore into your foundation you need to be prepared to do it right. Now, do you have extruded poly-vinyl foam insulation? Good. Assemble the aluminum J-channel using self-furring screws. After applying brushable coating, use corrosion-resistant metal stucco lathe. If you can't find metal stucco lathe, use carbon fiber stucco lathe! Now barge the lathe.
I worked in a place that was built on a vault. They used it for storage. I wouldn’t go in but they showed me, and told the tale of someone who did indeed get stuck in the vault a few years before.
They installed a phone in there after that happened.
They were VERY shaken up, but okay. They were in there for almost an hour. They were found when someone who was still there (working late) was like “uhhhh has anyone seen Marsha?” and nobody had, so they started searching.
The building is large and there are six floors. The vault was in B1.
I mean no offense but I kinda feel people like you and the box guy should be banned from this sub. You guys just don't get what dull means. I just imagine you guys must be like double agent ninja astronaughts so all this stuff is dull to you.
Yeah i can see that. I guess my thinking is that it's a pretty dull job, just cranking the machine until you're done, not something even interesting enough to post. But the fact that it was a thick vault wall, made it just interesting enough to not just be boring. But the reactions here definitely say otherwise.
I have been doing electrical work on converting two different banks to two different restaurants.
Oh boy, getting a new cable inside the vault, quite a job.
On other there was door drawn in the plans from kitchen to office. The workers started doing carving the wall in nice door shape. After 20cm (8 inches), they took longest drill they had onsite, and tested how far they needed to still go. It didn't come through the other side. After 20 years today, there is door shape 20cm incline in the kitchen.
Is the locking mechanism fully disabled? I also have an old bank vault in my company's basement, but we did some stuff to disable it after someone accidentally locked themselves in there. Can't imagine it'd be nice to be locked in a kitchen, especially if they need to evacuate.
The mechanism doesn't work anymore. I didn't try it, but there was a cardboard box with tge locking mechanism in there, so i highly assume that was the point.
From start to finish it took like 3 hours. But a lot of the time was making sure the water doesn't go everywhere and because there was no close water access, i had to use a manual water pump thingy, which i had to refill again and again. The bits are pretty much all the same, some diamond crown bits. They last quite a long time if you don't overheat them.
No, the drill is hollow and you pump water through. Also helps to flush out the dust. Except when drilling Aerated concrete or something luke that, then you juat get your bit stuck.
Neat... I always assumed they used the same lube as machining... but I guess you are more interested in keeping the bit cool opposed to the material, where machining is sort of the opposite.
Exactly. Ibalso used like 50l of water for this hole. Pumping in lobe would make a huge mess, and you would have to recycle it, but then there's sludge in in and so on.
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Janx@piefed.social · 142 pts · 109d
I'm concerned you don't understand how fantastically non-dull this is.
toynbee@piefed.social · 108 pts · 109d
At this point it seems likely they have at least one dull drill bit.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 109d
A dull, and valid, point. So to say.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 8 pts · 109d
Man, you guys are sharp
socsa@piefed.social · 13 pts · 109d
Carbide/diamond rotary hammer bits don't really "cut" as much as they turn concrete into to dust a little bit at a time. Interestingly, that dust then help to abrade any steel you might encounter along the way.
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 52 pts · 109d
Looks pretty boring to me.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 109d
Bgugi@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 109d
You know the difference between drilling and boring? Drilling is when you use a rotating tool to make a hole, boring is sitting around and talking about it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 108d
If you're going to bore into your foundation you need to be prepared to do it right. Now, do you have extruded poly-vinyl foam insulation? Good. Assemble the aluminum J-channel using self-furring screws. After applying brushable coating, use corrosion-resistant metal stucco lathe. If you can't find metal stucco lathe, use carbon fiber stucco lathe! Now barge the lathe.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 108d
Speaking as someone who's only ever done DIY stuff in another language, that was more confusingly arcane than boring, really 🤷🏻
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 109d
Looks like a hole in the wall to me
FatVegan@leminal.space · 16 pts · 109d
I figured a hole is too dull, but a hole in a vault puts it right into the sweet spot
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 101 pts · 109d
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 109d
Oh come on mate, you can’t just post lower effort comment and get more likes!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 109d
I'm the Confucius of shitposting.
If a meme shits in your post, does it make a sound?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 108d
*plops softly echo*
FatVegan@leminal.space · 71 pts · 109d
Door
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 109d
I worked in a place that was built on a vault. They used it for storage. I wouldn’t go in but they showed me, and told the tale of someone who did indeed get stuck in the vault a few years before.
They installed a phone in there after that happened.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 109d
Was the person OK?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 109d
They were VERY shaken up, but okay. They were in there for almost an hour. They were found when someone who was still there (working late) was like “uhhhh has anyone seen Marsha?” and nobody had, so they started searching.
The building is large and there are six floors. The vault was in B1.
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 109d
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 109d
That's both good and boring.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 109d
Wasn't able to text anyone the entire time they were in there. Hell no they weren't all right.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 109d
Jeez. I’d just take the door off if I was using it for storage in a building that I assume would have other locks
pelya@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 109d
That folding ruler is the only thing preventing the door to shut close and trap you in the vault forever.
I guess you can drill a bigger hole in the wall to escape.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 12 pts · 109d
No, bit there is actually a pice of wood in the door that does that. I wasn't even concerned at all
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 108d
If that door did fall shut, how much sound could really get through that tiny air hole you drilled?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 53 pts · 109d
I mean no offense but I kinda feel people like you and the box guy should be banned from this sub. You guys just don't get what dull means. I just imagine you guys must be like double agent ninja astronaughts so all this stuff is dull to you.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 38 pts · 109d
Yeah i can see that. I guess my thinking is that it's a pretty dull job, just cranking the machine until you're done, not something even interesting enough to post. But the fact that it was a thick vault wall, made it just interesting enough to not just be boring. But the reactions here definitely say otherwise.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 109d
My heart rate increased just reading this. I bet there were diamonds involved also, you monster!
e: oh no, there were! I think I'm having the vapors.
trolololol@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 109d
So much boring makes it mildly interesting to be honest.
Triumph@fedia.io · 4 pts · 109d
Oh it was boring.
Steve@startrek.website · 7 pts · 109d
Whats in the box?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 109d
I don't know I only saw like three episodes!
fireweed@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 109d
Can I take a second to swoon over your instance name?
ripcord@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 109d
I hadn't noticed. You're right, that's just...fantastic.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 29 pts · 109d
OP is planning something big.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 20 pts · 109d
God i wish. Drilling in drom the outaide would've been the ultimate dream.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 12 pts · 109d
Nah, man. You gotta build a false wall in tje vault and then hide in it and drill out in the dead of night.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 12 pts · 109d
Well damn. I thought about drilling in and then let a cat go through. But so far that only results in a trapped cat.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 109d
Cat in the safe eh?? You need to send another cat in to lure this cat out.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 109d
Happens all the time
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 109d
Cat in the wall eh? Now you’re speaking my language!
Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 109d
So far!? What happened to the cat??
FatVegan@leminal.space · 5 pts · 109d
As Schrödinger once said: who knows?
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 109d
It is in a superposition. Well, until you investigate.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 109d
I have been doing electrical work on converting two different banks to two different restaurants.
Oh boy, getting a new cable inside the vault, quite a job.
On other there was door drawn in the plans from kitchen to office. The workers started doing carving the wall in nice door shape. After 20cm (8 inches), they took longest drill they had onsite, and tested how far they needed to still go. It didn't come through the other side. After 20 years today, there is door shape 20cm incline in the kitchen.
darthsundhaft@piefed.social · 20 pts · 109d
Put your...
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 109d
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 108d
Stared at this for too long. Damn that's a really good loop.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 108d
Not mine, but I think it was made as a reverted loop.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 109d
Anyway today, the boys and I at the emergency room had to remove a concrete doughnut around a very twisted...
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 109d
We've seen the hole, we've seen the door, to complete the story can we see the drill?
FatVegan@leminal.space · 21 pts · 109d
Unfortunately i underestimated how interesting it is. So i already went home.
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 109d
You're just keeping the drill for yourself. I understand.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 104d
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
Worth the wait. That's definitely a drill.
Arnl@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 109d
Why?
marighost@piefed.social · 46 pts · 109d
For glory.
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 109d
ripcord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 109d
I love you
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 109d
But seriously that is the best thing I've seen today. And it's been a pretty good day.
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 109d
Glad I could make your good day even better!
Libb@piefed.social · 7 pts · 109d
RIP the little that was already left of my brain, after I figured it out :p
FatVegan@leminal.space · 20 pts · 109d
Hey i'm just a guy with a big drill.
But i think to hook up a vent, because it gets reused as a kitchen.
kungen@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 109d
Is the locking mechanism fully disabled? I also have an old bank vault in my company's basement, but we did some stuff to disable it after someone accidentally locked themselves in there. Can't imagine it'd be nice to be locked in a kitchen, especially if they need to evacuate.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 108d
The mechanism doesn't work anymore. I didn't try it, but there was a cardboard box with tge locking mechanism in there, so i highly assume that was the point.
kuoushi@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 109d
It makes the wall go faster.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 109d
Ah. Speed holes. Mmm hmm. Mmm hmm.
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 13 pts · 109d
Dude.... you've got to give specifics. How long did it take, what type of bit, how many, all the good stuff..
FatVegan@leminal.space · 13 pts · 109d
From start to finish it took like 3 hours. But a lot of the time was making sure the water doesn't go everywhere and because there was no close water access, i had to use a manual water pump thingy, which i had to refill again and again. The bits are pretty much all the same, some diamond crown bits. They last quite a long time if you don't overheat them.
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 5 pts · 109d
You used water for cooling? Not like a machinist cooling oil?
FatVegan@leminal.space · 12 pts · 109d
No, the drill is hollow and you pump water through. Also helps to flush out the dust. Except when drilling Aerated concrete or something luke that, then you juat get your bit stuck.
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 5 pts · 109d
Neat... I always assumed they used the same lube as machining... but I guess you are more interested in keeping the bit cool opposed to the material, where machining is sort of the opposite.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 8 pts · 109d
Exactly. Ibalso used like 50l of water for this hole. Pumping in lobe would make a huge mess, and you would have to recycle it, but then there's sludge in in and so on.
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 109d
Fascinating, learned something new today. Thanks, neighbor.
Sphks@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 108d
This topic is way too perfect for this podcast : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05t3gr2 (BBC - The boring talks)
It's fascinating.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 109d
Need a 18 inch dick for glory there.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 6 pts · 109d
Shit, he breached the outer wall!
toynbee@piefed.social · 6 pts · 109d
Was this some roundabout attempt to initiate the viral success of The Safe?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 108d
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 109d
I never knew I wanted to do that until now! You're my hero.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 12 pts · 109d
These drills run pretty cheap second hand. Juat saying. Don't let your dreams be dreams.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 109d
Tempting...♥️
FatVegan@leminal.space · 21 pts · 109d
The drill bits are actually the expensive part. Because some people use diamonds for jewellery instead of drilling holes, can you believe it?
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 109d
People like that is why we can't have nice things... like glory holes everywhere.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 109d
That's bananas. Why would anyone do that?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 109d
Man we could drill so much stuff with one of those babies
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 109d
Are you a member of Ocean's 14?
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 109d
By this point surely they're up into the 30s
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 109d
Well, now you have a view of a... checks notes ... container ship?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 108d
If there's war, that's probably a good place to go.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 109d
Good thing you missed the Artex