Drill a 3/32"hole in the back of the sheath through the webs and into the cavity. The hex key that comes with the rocket has a loop in the end for your key chain but if you dig in the bottom of you tool box chances are you can find a straight handled one to mount in the sheath. Having the hex key right on the tool is always a nice feature. *Be extra careful handling it and store in a safe place.* Great for cabinets and trim when the pin holes get covered but still it's smaller and cleaner than any other probe. Just extend the pin out about an inch and push it into till you hit the stud. Perfect for finding studs behind drywall, it is much quicker and easier than using a finish nail.
Plumb bob tricks how to#
Check out how to use levels and plumb bobs. If you don’t have a plumb bob, you can improvise with a string and a nut. If you’ve got a plumb bob, you can use that to determine if something is level by measuring it in comparison with the 45 degree mark. Drill a 5/64" hole at the nose, feed the string through and tie a knot as in the following photo. The Swanson Speed Square can substitute as a level in a pinch. You don't need to wait for the permanent tie- on model when you can create it yourself.
Plumb bob tricks driver#
This works really well when snapping on tall walls with one man on a fork lift and a driver on the ground.
Another method for higher than 8' is use a 2x4 and bump up under it lightly until it falls back to earth. Getting your Rocket down from the ceiling without a ladder:Įver get tired of dragging your ladder around to go back up and pull a nail or in this case pull out your Rocket? Instead of bringing the ladder back just use the handle end of your hammer to lightly tap on the Rocket to release it from the ceiling. Now with my handy Rocket I just push it in to use as a handle and it doesn't damage the material.Ĩ. It usually made a bigger hole in the material than I cared and I had to go get the screw driver but it worked. Often when nailing off a small piece of say soffit it is difficult to get it up there and pull it into place for air nailing so I use to screw a drywall screw into it as a handle. You can clean out drywall mud and paint from screw heads in order to back them out with a driver and don't have to go to the truck for some special tool because it is right there in your bag. You would be surprised how accurate it is +/- 1/16", but only works if the needle is very sharp sharper than we send them out new. The string allowing it drop and stick in the floor to mark the location. Location below hold the bob 6"- 12" above the floor wait until it quits swinging and let go of When using the plumb bob option and you are on tall ladder and need to mark the Stand away from the wall will be lessened but most chalk boxes will still hang freely withoutīumping the wall or post giving you a plumb line. The slide piece and the cap then tighten the cap down again. Piece you can shortcut by loosening the cap and running the string between the top of The weight, or bob, is then allowed to swing freely when it stops, the point of the bob is precisely below.
Plumb bob tricks manual#
This is not shown in the instruction manual but instead of removing the cap and slide To use the tool, the string is fixed at the point to be plumbed. Stick a nail through at the center to mark the other side and cut it too. With your thumb in one hand and cutting a line in the drywall with your other hand.īy leaning your Rocket Anchor over at an angle you can cut a line in the paper with Just make sure you hit it square so it doesn't get pushed to the side and bend the pin.Īrches and circles can be cut in drywall holding the string at the center of your arc It takes a lot of back and stomach muscle to push it in overhead but not if you hold it in place with the one hand and pop it with the palm of the other. Anchoring overhead with no leverage to push: The bowler was Michael Carson, a legspinner.2.
And I see that the keeper who started the slide in this Twenty20 match by stumping Dan Kearns, and then his two colleagues, was the American-born Ananya Sen. For the benefit of those unfamiliar with university cricket, I should perhaps point out that the Oxford Authentics and Cambridge Crusaders are effectively the second XIs of the two Varsity sides.
Although the hat-trick did end Somerset's second innings, it didn't end the match - Gloucestershire were left 302 to win and, despite the presence of WG Grace and his brother EM, were bowled out for 174 to lose comfortably. There has only been one recorded hat-trick of stumpings in first-class cricket, by Gloucestershire's Welsh-born keeper William Brain against Somerset in Cheltenham in 1893: his three victims all came off the bowling of the future England legspinner Charles Townsend. Has any Test or first-class game ever been won with a hat-trick of stumpings? asked Dan Kearns from Oxford
I was playing for Oxford University Authentics against Cambridge University Crusaders in the summer, and was the first wicket to fall in a hat-trick of stumpings, with the third one also being the final wicket of the game.
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