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dinoaids t1_itqmdfl wrote

Good luck. I made a rock climbing wall in my basement years ago and my elbows and wrists still hurt from drilling the holes for the t nuts. Make sure you use at least 2 screws to pin the t nuts to the plywood. They will back out and fall out if you don't secure it.

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ace625 t1_itr37rr wrote

I think you need some new drill bits if your joints hurt from drilling holes.

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dinoaids t1_itr6hag wrote

Don't matter how sharp my bit is, drilling literally 1000's of holes and hammering in 1000's of T-nuts, and shooting 1000's of screws will hurt.

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Seven_Dx7 t1_itsgtjl wrote

You may not have been using proper whisky. I found that having a good quality whiskey helps with repetitive tasks like this. Also, I did all of my drilling and hammering with the plywood up on a workbench so my back wasn't toast

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RAM3-Night t1_itrr4km wrote

Yup! Thought I was just about done once we got to the drilling and t-nut phase. Wasn’t prepared for the exhaustion of drilling thousands of holes and sinking thousands of t-nuts. We went with ones you had to sink manually too. After setting with holds and backing out took too long, resorted to hammering hundreds in. Exhausting work.

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and-hereitcomes t1_itsy0lb wrote

I remember that pain, but I bought some 16 inch drill bits and stacked and clamped my plywood together and drilled through 5 or 6 sheets at a time.

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