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• Posted in thread: Steel rebar/sleepers behind concrete wall? on 01-06-2011 at 11:53 PM
  Well, all knowledge is good! I hadn't checked back the last couple of posts, but let me say
  that I had read some other credible (or so they seemed to me) forums re: HF hammer drills, and
  there were ma...

• Posted in thread: Steel rebar/sleepers behind concrete wall? on 12-16-2010 at 08:21 PM
  Thanks; I'll try it on some wood. That's odd that the guy at HD was wrong? :)

• Posted in thread: Steel rebar/sleepers behind concrete wall? on 12-15-2010 at 06:48 PM
  Thanks for all the feedback guys. I bought a cheap HF 1/4" hammer drill, as this was the
  heaviest work I'd be doing, and it's only for a few holes. But the instructions and the picture
  on the side of ...

• Posted in thread: Steel rebar/sleepers behind concrete wall? on 11-21-2010 at 08:21 AM
  Thanks for the detailed explanation! How wide/big of a diameter would this steel wire be? I
  should be able to simply go up/down 2-3" and be fine, right?Although I am still a bit puzzled,
  as you say th...

• Posted in thread: Steel rebar/sleepers behind concrete wall? on 11-20-2010 at 01:17 PM
  The blocks are 15.5" across by 8" high, and my first hole was 5.5" in from the left and 3"
  down, so it doesn't seem like I would have it any, except possibly the horizontal one if it's
  through the cor...

• Posted in thread: Steel rebar/sleepers behind concrete wall? on 11-19-2010 at 04:34 PM
  No, I'm not at all sure that it is/isn't wood. To clarify, I'm drilling from the inside, and
  it's about 1/4" in that I hit some type of metal. That's the extent that I KNOW. What I've
  read/heard is th...

• Posted in thread: Steel rebar/sleepers behind concrete wall? on 11-19-2010 at 04:45 AM
  I'm "simply" (or so I thought) trying to drill holes in my garage wall to put up v-hangers and
  shelving, but there's some type of metal behind it. Where I first drilled turned out to be just
  about 1/4...