russianfront wrote:
HOLY COW!
I just got my new drill up and running tonight and went to the basement to try a place a bolt in a small granite rock I took. The drill punched a hole in the granite in literally seconds. I stopped 2x to blow out the dust and debris. Laser-clean hole also.
The only problem is that the bolt didn't want to go all the way in even though I drilled the hole deeper than the bolt by about an inch. It got hard to hammer it in the last bit and I accidentially wacked the side of the bolt a bit and bent the threads so it was totally screwed up.
I need your help here. How hard should it be to bang in the bolt? When I hand-drilled it was easier, maybe because the hole was more sloppy??
Will keep practising on my pet rock collection but need to find cheaper bolts! I just blew $2.7 on a bolt!!
so you are hammering the bolt rather than the nut (hammering the nut can damage the threads too!).
