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Drill a pilot hole in plaster using the appropriate size masonry drill bit and tap in the anchor with the heel of a screwdriver or a hammer.
To drill counter-mounted faucet holes, use an electric drill and an appropriately sized hole saw or spade bit.
To drill the latch hole on the edge of the door, use the spade bit specified by the manufacturer.
To avoid this, use a cordless drill to drill a pilot hole, one slightly smaller than the shank of the nail and then drive the nail into this.
Tapes of military marches, a drill sergeant's orders and nostalgic 1950s songs add to the atmosphere.
Some 649 inmates are held at the category C prison in accommodation which is built around the former drill square.
Usually the section drilled by the second drill rod below the first occurrence of fine, vugular porosity yields oil.
Once you have mastered this routine, work on repeating the drill but volley each ball.
The surgeon makes a 6-cm incision and uses a 5.0 mm round cutting burr to drill the burr hole.
It is for this reason that we spot-face our cranks at the same time we drill the hole for the pedal spindle and bottom bracket axis.
This requires using a brad-point bit with a smaller bit to drill a pilot hole.
No names, no pack drill, but if you know the area, it's probably obvious where I'm referring to.
If necessary, fill the old holes with wood filler and drill new pilot holes in the doors and cabinet frames.
If needed, drill a pilot hole before nailing to prevent the wood from splitting.
Where it's appropriate, I'll suggest a favorite drill to ingrain a move or feeling.
The public are seeing some very skilful engineering to directly drill under the beck and feed the cables through.
In the first practice of their off-week, the Lions ran a spirited one-on-one passing drill with the cornerbacks getting physical at the line.
To get the explosive material out of the reservoir, use a diamond-tipped drill bit to get through the filler cap.
Only two days on the job, but 18-year-old Talia already knows the drill as her green mountain bike skirrs over potholes in turbid laneways.
The morning drill took place before a red flag pitched on a slender tree trunk in the middle of a clearing.
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I followed a regiment of the chasseurs of Vincennes to their field of drill.
Nothing more, sir, than that he had once or twice rebuked Vreeland and Danes for carelessness in squad drill.
But over here, with coal and wood even scarcer, we drill on washday, whether or no.
Tom Olson had told Hal something about the technique of an organiser, who wished to drill these ignorant hordes.
Thus, the lower one, which was trying to push the drill off the rock, was outmatched.
The other day I saw a yellow-bellied woodpecker alight upon a decaying beech and proceed to drill for a grub.
Even in the enlargement and training of her army she is patterning after Japan and employing Japanese drill masters.
Sergeants drill the men of their peloton, and are responsible to their Lieutenant for the horses of their peloton.
As far as possible let the words for phonic drill be those that will occur in the new reading lessons.
At this time, as we learned before, he was running a power drill in the Bullion.
A broken file in a breast brace will do good work if a power drill is not obtainable.
A power drill press, or a portable electric drill will save time and labor in drilling off the terminals and connectors.
Forest Service workers posing as pedestrians push a stroller and walk in front of a fire engine during a training drill.
Archibald, mark you, whose golf was a kind of blend of hockey, Swedish drill, and buck-and-wing dancing.
If you keep doing it every day as regularly as soldiers go through drill we shall see what will happen and find out if the experiment succeeds.
The drill is then used as before to release the grip of the washer.
The movie was condemned by the US Defence Department, which claimed that drill sergeants weren't permitted to swear at recruits.
We had to radically change the way drill sergeants teach to do this as well.
Games and sport alternated with drill and policing of the camp.
I must relearn a soldier's drill in the manual and in everything.
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