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One of the recurring challenges of driveway mechanics, like me and maybe like you, is that
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sometimes you have to drill metal in awkward places with a hand drill. And the problem, as I'm
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going to show you here, is that it's really tiring. It's hard to put enough pressure on a drill to get
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it to drill out old bolts and things like that just with your arm because it's not on the drill
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press. So I've got a trick that helps with that. So let's go underneath the echo here and I'll show
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you what I find works really well. So if you look under here you'll see the remnants of two bolts
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They used to hold a log on here and for reasons I don't need to explain, I need to to drill these
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out and to tap them for fresh bolts. So the problem is getting that drilling done properly
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And it's really hard on the arm and progress is slow. So that's where I'm using this this jack
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This is the the actual scissor jack from the car and I like it because it can go down really low
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but it can also extend up pretty high. So I'm using this jack to put pressure on the drill
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and it just makes all the difference in the world. I can go up here squirt on a little cutting wheel
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and now it's kind of like a drill press. I just put some pressure on it. It's actually
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enough to raise the car a bit and then I hold it steady and you can just see how it
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The shavings are just flying off there just as if I was drilling this in a drill press. Much faster
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much better and much easier on the arm. So remember the scissor jack when you got to do
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a dirty drilling job like this. So I've completed my job now and I've done a lot of drilling. As
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you saw it was pretty heavy drilling. I started with the step bit that you saw in the in the first
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part of the video and then I switched over to 5 16th bit which is the size of hole you need to
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tap a 3 8th for a 3 8th bolt. There was two holes like that. There was other drilling involved in
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the job too. So I started with this fresh battery and take a look at this. After all that work
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Can you see the red lights there? It doesn't even show that I've used any. The capacity of
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the top lithium-ion batteries these days is amazing. This is a 9 amp hour unit
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Milwaukee's actually got them in 12 now, 12 amp hour. So I continue to be amazed at the amount of
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power that are in these cordless tool batteries and this is kind of a prime example of that
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