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Sounds interesting, can you elaborate? I.e., was there just a tiny bit of water, so they needed to avoid electric drills? Or if the water was deeper, how did
by CoastalCoder 4y ago
Sounds interesting, can you elaborate?
I.e., was there just a tiny bit of water, so they needed to avoid electric drills?
Or if the water was deeper, how did they supply air to the engine?
- h2odragon 4y agothis was before battery powered drills were a real thing, I should mention. And this was a crew that would spend a day inventing a solution instead of spending $20 to buy one. Big concrete block, in a waist deep puddle. This block is the base of the drain pipe for a pond; the drain is opened all the way so there's a lot of water flow happening in the area, too. They're drilling an anchor hole and had a long enough drill bit to keep the engine out of the water. We had a rope on them to pull them out in case they slipped somehow, too. Probably wasn't a situation where we should've had a human.
- CoastalCoder 4y agoI'm surprised the engine could produce enough torque. Did they just push the drill bit really gently or something? (Also, that's a really long bit!)
- h2odragon 4y agoI want to say it was using most of an air drill as a mechanism? I dont recall details if i ever knew them. These folks were mechanical hackers of the first water; this wasn't the most insane thing i saw there. by far.