Somebody stop me...

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I don't *need* a bench drill, do I? Really?

 

You don't really get the whole 'tool porn' thing, do you.

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Shame on you. It's a tool, ffs. A *power* tool. One that makes noise, &
causes injury, & has the power to destroy metal. How could you *not*
need one?

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A vice and a steady hand?

 

.... is the correct answer.

I'll have to sneak it into the garage. And tidy up the bench, too: I
made a space to fit the bench grinder, but I'd rather put the drill
where that is, and I've still got to find a space for the vice as well.

 

Not for how often I lockwire stuff, it doesn't.

 

A cow-orker has found another good use for a bench drill -- putting
a 6 mm hole straight through surplus hard disk drives to render them
compliant with the Uni's directive on disposal of data carriers.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

The scrutineers mustn't have been looking properly.

 

Of course you do. I bought one of those about 6mon ago and it's been
fine - not the piece of cheap shit I was expecting for that price,
although the vice could be a bit bigger.

You'd be surprised just how much difference a bench drill makes to
accuracy of cut and the sheer ease of handling. It's also highly
entertaining when a piece of metal gets whipped out of your hand and
narrowly misses your ear.

 

I'm willing to risk it.

 

Not as entertaining as when you forget to remove the lathe chuck key
and it whips out on start-up and smacks you in the solar plexus.

DAMHIK,IJK,OK...

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Typo corrected, etc.

 

At least if they didn't let me start it would give you a chance of
beating me.

 

Tch. Uncoordinated accessories.

 

What, like this:

(Music vid, probably safe for work if your work lets you dick about on
youtube, but not if they're uptight)

 

What a waste. And for a Uni too. Not like it's state secrets or
anything.

We used to take a 14lb sledge hammer to our 12" platters at BAe.

I'm sure you could get fairly complete data recovery on a modern drive
with a neat hole through the HDA. One pass only though probably, and a
bit copy only.

Cheers,

Paul.