All the gear....

[LardAbove]

.... but, frankly, too lazy

I have a mint, B&D drill stand c/w really neat machinist-vice. A swish variable speed drill....
With all that, you might imagine I could easily drill a 2.5MM clear hole for a bike brake cable - straight through a bolt with a 'flatt' filed across the threads ?

No..... TOO DAMN LAZY to get all the gear out, I drilled the hole freehand [bolt held in a small hobby vice, clamped to a table edge] and snapped the drill bit off, when it broke through

IF yerr gunna dooit >> dooit rite

*just had 10pack of 2.5MM HSS drills drop through the letterbox.

LardAbove

 

[Smokin Joe]

Welcome to bodgers corner.

We've all done similar, too idle to take the top tray off the toolbox to get the hammer from the bottom, give whatever it was a whack with the ratchet spanner instead and watch as it disintegrated in my hand.

 

[LardAbove]

tooRite ........

LardAbove

 

[Domus]

My favourite saying to a bodger is, "You're hitting it with the wrong size spanner"

 

[simongt]

Of bodging, many years ago, my now late ex-wife used my prize Zippo lighter to bang some nails into the wall to hang some pictures up because she couldn't remember where the hammer was. To say that I wasn't best pleased would be a serious understatement - !

 

[Punkawallah]

Is it still 'bodged' if it works, I wonder? :-)

 

[Smokin Joe]

Is it still 'bodged' if it works, I wonder? :-)

I'm afraid it is still bodged if the fix works but you can never use the tool again.