Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Drilling


Having welded up the side parts of my metal construction project I had to figure out a way to bolt the middle bits on and make it into a whole. I drilled holes from either side of the square pipe to have bolts go right through to nuts welded onto tabs on the ends of the cross pieces. I had a lot of these bolts, so it seemed like a cost effective method. It got dark just as I was ready to shift all the bits up to their home outside the front of the house where the firewood processing happens. I have a couple of those stepped bits that make it pretty easy to drill quite large holes in sheet metal or pipe. As usual, crouching on the floor to do it.