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For years I have struggled to find a good way to control the depth of a drilled hole using a hand drill. I have tried the painters tape to mark the depth but inevitably the drill bit will grab the wood and slide the tape up. Same with those little sleeves with the allen screw in the middle of it, the first time the bit grabs the wood the sleeve slides up. Yesterday I came up with a method that seems fool proof. If this fool can do it that is proof anyone can do it. Using what Harbor Freight calls Rare Earth magnets I put 3 magnets on the jaws of the drill chuck and used as many hex nuts as need to stop the bit at the desired depth and nuts with a center hole to fit as snug as possible to the size bit being used. Worked like a charm and as long as I make sure none the the nuts slip off the bit it isn't going to drill any deeper that desired.
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Due to a condition in my hands, I am extra clumsy and drop more things than most people. Those things always roll where you can't see or in places unknown. I had a magnet on a pole, but it was limited, wouldn't bend. I got a couple of small bar magnets at HD, a fiberglass pole from a bike flag and made a handle out of ply. As luck would have it, I dropped a very tiny screw, one so small that I'd never find another or even hope to see. The paint wasn't dry on my new pick up, but I used it anyway. NICE...........I found it on the second sweep over a crack in the cement.
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From the album: Fridge Magnets
Left is a magnet made from beech wood and right is spalted maple. the magnets themselves are only 1/4"x1/8" thick but being that they are rare earth magnets, they hold really well.
