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[–] 101 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh come on mate, you can’t just post lower effort comment and get more likes!

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  • [–] 142 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    I'm concerned you don't understand how fantastically non-dull this is.

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  • [–] 104 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    At this point it seems likely they have at least one dull drill bit.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 68 points 6 months ago* (9 children)
  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    leminal.space

    Can I take a second to swoon over your instance name?

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    OP is planning something big.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    God i wish. Drilling in drom the outaide would've been the ultimate dream.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Nah, man. You gotta build a false wall in tje vault and then hide in it and drill out in the dead of night.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Well damn. I thought about drilling in and then let a cat go through. But so far that only results in a trapped cat.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    We've seen the hole, we've seen the door, to complete the story can we see the drill?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Dude.... you've got to give specifics. How long did it take, what type of bit, how many, all the good stuff..

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    You used water for cooling? Not like a machinist cooling oil?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 53 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Need a 18 inch dick for glory there.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Was this some roundabout attempt to initiate the viral success of The Safe?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I never knew I wanted to do that until now! You're my hero.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    These drills run pretty cheap second hand. Juat saying. Don't let your dreams be dreams.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The drill bits are actually the expensive part. Because some people use diamonds for jewellery instead of drilling holes, can you believe it?

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    Shit, he breached the outer wall!

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Are you a member of Ocean's 14?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    If there's war, that's probably a good place to go.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Well, now you have a view of a... checks notes ... container ship?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Good thing you missed the Artex

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