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Old May 23, 2006 | 04:17 PM
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Uhmmm...I'm still a good installer, right?

Had some trouble with a broken bolt today





Titanium my a**
Old May 23, 2006 | 04:19 PM
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wtf, 3 bits? did you keep the bit level?
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Of course it was level. I wasn't even pushing. They just snagged up randomly.
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they have a warranty against failures like that you can claim? what bolt were you trying to drill out?
Old May 23, 2006 | 04:29 PM
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But I was able to hollow out the hole...so I went to Home Depot and get a nut/bolt. Can't be driving around without a seat, ya know.

In the meantime, I was driving around in my brothers current car/my old car...the golden chariot

Old May 23, 2006 | 04:30 PM
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Just a day in my life. I'm sure the final product will be great.
Old May 23, 2006 | 04:31 PM
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But I was able to hollow out the hole...so I went to Home Depot and get a nut/bolt. Can't be driving around without a seat, ya know.

In the meantime, I was driving around in my brothers current car/my old car...the golden chariot
old school nissan
Old May 23, 2006 | 04:34 PM
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Notice the po' man's body work...zip ties on the grille. LOVE it.
Old May 23, 2006 | 04:36 PM
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Just a day in my life. I'm sure the final product will be great.
Yea...I got it all together no problem. Then I cleaned the interior so I was happy again. Now I just need my ampsssssss.

BTW today was rewire day...new RCA's, all new speaker wire, I even ran another run of speaker wire from the crossover in the doors to the kicks, for when I upgrade to 3 way passive
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Notice the po' man's body work...zip ties on the grille. LOVE it.
you gotta color the zip ties to match the car
Old May 23, 2006 | 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by djfrestyl
Had some trouble with a broken bolt today





Titanium my a**

I've seen the same thing happen with titanium in people a few times . This usually happens when they do not take it easy.
Old May 23, 2006 | 04:53 PM
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lay off the roids.
Old May 23, 2006 | 04:56 PM
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lay off the roids.
Lol if you ever saw me...you would definitely not be saying that.

5'8" about 140lbs
Old May 23, 2006 | 05:08 PM
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my old roomate was 5'8 140ish and he could bench 225 so ya never know. but I see your point.
Old May 23, 2006 | 05:26 PM
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my old roomate was 5'8 140ish and he could bench 225 so ya never know. but I see your point.
Most I've ever benched was about 175. I miss the gym. Can't wait till all this bureautic crap finishes and I can use the company gym.
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rich needs to ease off on the lifting.
Old May 23, 2006 | 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by djfrestyl
Had some trouble with a broken bolt today





Titanium my a**

I had some bits that looked exactly the same as yours and I was drilling of a screw on my probe and the thing snapped like a pretzal. Bad thing was that I used a half dead cordless drill and I got them from Home Depot just because I never had titanium bits. I'm thinking strong but I'll stick to my regular iron\aluminum bits.
Old May 23, 2006 | 07:16 PM
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Got these from Depot too...but they're Bosch

Craftsman next time....
Old May 23, 2006 | 07:39 PM
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cheap bits FTL.

Old May 24, 2006 | 01:05 AM
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shoulda got craftsman the first time, if you break them, supposedly you can just take them back to (sears) and get them replaced for free.
Old May 24, 2006 | 04:10 AM
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It's only titanium coating, and you really don't need it for what you were doing.
HSS ( high speed steel ) would be fine. That's a fairly long bit, the shorter the better, unless it has to be that long. Another tip, start with a small pilot hole and work up to a bigger size, takes a little longer, but less problems.
Worked 8 years in a machine shop. I've broken more drill bits than I can remember and the boss was never too happy when I had to inform him that the $80 bit we just installed chipped and needed to be replaced.
Old May 24, 2006 | 07:13 AM
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Are those bits made for removing stripped screws/bolts? The ones I used were specific for removing stripped screws/bolts and are used in a reverse direction on the drill. Worked wonderfully. From the pic, it looks like those are "standard" direction drill bits.
Old May 24, 2006 | 07:17 AM
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Yea they're standard. I just wanted to open the hole. And I dont own a tap/die set.
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He can't even use a bit without breaking it, you gonna trust him with your car? haha funny stuff.
Old May 25, 2006 | 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by nismos14
He can't even use a bit without breaking it, you gonna trust him with your car? haha funny stuff.
lol...if he's good enough to be don jr. he's good enough I think =)
He did my whole car stereo wise....everything works and sounds great....so far. J/k nilesh!!! it's almost june...time for the trunk!
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