[HN Gopher] Making holes without an electric drill ___________________________________________________________________ Making holes without an electric drill Author : walterbell Score : 19 points Date : 2022-07-17 04:23 UTC (18 hours ago) (HTM) web link (theplywood.com) (TXT) w3m dump (theplywood.com) | Kinnard wrote: | ^^ | formerly_proven wrote: | Article says you can't plunge with a jigsaw, but you can... not | pretty but does work. | falcolas wrote: | It also takes a bit of skill and gumption, but yeah, its | doable. | | You tip the saw forward on its table so the blade is above the | wood, hold down the "Go" button, and slowly lean the jigsaw | back towards flat. It is important that the jigsaw's table is | in solid contact with the wood the, erm, hole time. | jfk13 wrote: | I can vouch for the fact that this works, though I'd consider | it something of a last resort. | Gunax wrote: | I like that it's extensive, but a bit too extensive to answer the | original question: what is the replacement for an electric drill? | | The standard crank drill is clearly the alternative [1]. Most | home users should _not_ purchase an electric drill. They dont | need it. It will likely never drill more than a few dozen holes. | | [1] https://www.amazon.com/Frylr-Speedy-Powerful- | Manual-1-5MM-10... | thehappypm wrote: | That's as expensive as an extremely low end electric drill. | mauvehaus wrote: | As a bonus, it's much slower, which leads to fewer fuckups at | the ends of projects. They are really only good up to about | 1/4" holes though. If you get one with multiple speeds, you | can go to 3/8", but you're really much better off with a | brace and some auger bits at that point. Auger bits are | conveniently sized by the 1/16" down to 1/4" in the US, and | have been for over a century. | | In all seriousness though, an eggbeater drill will last | forever. Mine are probably 70 years old or older. Ditto my | brace. Good luck finding batteries for any electric cordless | drill in 20 years, never mind a cheap one. | avar wrote: | Most home owners with any DIY interest should purchase an | electric drill, because what they'll be purchasing is almost | certainly a cordless model with a torque limiter. | | Those are useful for everything from assembling IKEA furniture | to taking apart a car. The drilling function is secondary or | tertiary. | | But sure, if you mean a giant corded impact drill used to drill | into concrete almost nobody needs that. | Animats wrote: | _" a giant corded impact drill used to drill into concrete, | almost nobody needs that"_ | | I had to rent one once to put a conduit through a concrete | block wall reinforced with concrete fill and rebar. Not fun. | ars wrote: | > giant corded impact drill used to drill into concrete | | Tons of people need that - how else do you hang pictures on | stone walls? And they are not so giant - they are the same | size as regular drills. | avar wrote: | The router instructions make no sense to me. | | Why plunge a router and then switch to a jigsaw to make a large | circular hole in a sheet of plywood? Just move the router around | instead. | | You can use a bit that can follow a template to make this as | accurate as you'd like, but freehand is usually sufficient. | | Also: A notable omission in the "other powertools" section is the | angle grinder. Both to "saw" a hole, and by attaching a drill | chuck to the grinder. At that point it's basically an electric | drill with another form factor. | falcolas wrote: | The router won't cut as quickly, especially with thicker | materials. You absolutely can, though. | EnKopVand wrote: | I don't really like electrical appliances. I use a manual whisk | (Google translate turns hjulpisker into auxiliary whisk) for | everything "whisky" even though we have a vitamix thing that cost | more than my MacBook Air. | | So I'm an idiot like that, and you might expect me to use a | manual drill (I guess it would be auxiliary drill if Google | translate is right), and until I bought a house you would have | been right. Now I own both an electrical drill and a drill | hammer. So while my whipped cream still takes a few minutes more | than an electro mixer you won't ever find me drilling a hole | without a power tool. It's just not worth it. | | Great article though, it's nice to see all the options covered. | Wistar wrote: | And punch/punch press, laser, waterjet, plasma cutter, mill, | projectile and, of course, shaped charge. | nyanpasu64 wrote: | Electrical discharge milling is so cool, but expensive (tens of | thousands of dollars for a machine). It's got to be the most | overkill and surgical way to drill out stripped screws though. | [deleted] | hef19898 wrote: | Plus one for the shaped charge! Waterjets are pretty cool so... | bell-cot wrote: | This being HN, I really expected more _how to_ by Randall | Munroe sorts of answers. | | (BTW, you forgot the railgun, nano-sized black hole, antimatter | beam, and trained termite "drill squad".) | swayvil wrote: | Whatever happened to cutting with a tuned laser? | | I heard about it a decade ago. A laser tuned to the resonant | frequency of skin. The protein or whatever. | | Low power, with no burning, no heat damage. Melted right through, | cleanly. Unravelled those little molecules. A wonderful cutting | device. | | And maybe you could match a laser to any material. Wood? Glass? A | very clean cut. Maybe even safer. | jfim wrote: | As far as I know, most laser cutters available to hobbyists for | cutting wood are either diode or CO2 based, and both have a | risk of setting the wood on fire, as well as generate a fair | amount of smoke and combustion gases. | | For cutting holes into wood as a hobbyist, a CNC machine with | the appropriate tool will give far superior output for the | purpose of making holes in wood. | d4a wrote: | I would have liked some pictures to know what I'm reading about | amelius wrote: | Yes, this would have been more satisfying and faster to consume | as a youtube video. | bussierem wrote: | I recommend the Primitive Technology channel for this! He | uses almost all of these to some extent. | system2 wrote: | He literally uses rocks to bash on anything. | falcolas wrote: | Rocks are fantastic hammers. Sharp rocks can cut lots of | things too. The original multitool. Comes in various | colors and hardnesses too. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-17 23:00 UTC)