66wv — Hypothetic’ly, say you could only find a 7/8-inch drill. {Milwaukee used to advertise hole saws that were claimed good for ceramic tile.}
OK, this is an utterly insane suggestion—but there used to be a perennially cigar-chewing pump/dairy-barn/plumbing/veterinary/sort-of-electrical/daycare shop owner that was so cheap he would require his helper to run brittle schedule-40&80 PVC waterpipe through an electric threader, saving the $1.80 for an [up to 2½-inch] cement-on threaded adapter. {I never found out what his payscale was.}
Way off topic—but even weirder—he would buy many reels of 4/0 Cu THW, and never bat an eyelash putting in 300-foot UG runs to settling-pond manure pumps. "But it's 480 you idiot! It dun't matter!" was his explanation of never adding that extry "useless" ground warr with his fat-copper, plastic-water-pipe circuits. [He was also good for putting in 2-pole along side single-pole jab-in circuit breakers in 240V∆ panelboards for 3ø motors, sans so much as a tiebar nail.]
[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 08-31-2002).]
