"Pre-Drill"?

[Gomez]

\"Pre-Drill\"?

Something to think about on a Friday/w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif.


Watch any home improvement show and sooner or later you will hear the term "pre-drill". Ever since I've heard this term, it made me wonder, how do you "pre-drill" a hole? What the user of this term usually means is to drill a pilot hole to allow for some fastener to be inserted. If you "pre-flight" an aircraft, you are giving it the once over before actually flying. Does that mean "pre-drill" means measuring, marking, center punching before the hole gets drilled?

 

[jwstewar]

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Pre-Drill means to drill a hole with a drill bit rather than try to punch through the wood with a nail or try to force a screw to make its own path. Helps keep the wood from splitting also allow you to countersink the head of the screw if you so desire. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[PitbullMidwest]

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"Pre-Drill" is certainly an oxymoron. It's like a "near miss", if you nearly missed something doesn't that mean you hit it? Or how about a "hot water heater", if the water is already hot, why do you nead to heat it?

I'm sure others will think of many more.

 

[Worksmart]

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Have you ever seen an envelope address and stamp itself??? I haven't. I always have to pre-address and stamp my envelopes/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. C

 

[MikePA]

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Vacillate back and forth.
Close proximity.

 

[Knight9]

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One of my favorites that people use...."unthaw"....I believe that would mean you are going to freeze it!!!


Kevin

 

[Gomez]

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I'm constantly correcting my wife about that one.

 

[Inspector507]

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I hear the term "pre-existing" a lot. What was it before it was existing?

 

[CGranat]

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The 'pre-drill' and 'pre-existing' terms have been a pet peeve of mine. Also 'pre-planned' and 'pre-board' (as in airplane boarding).

 

[wasabi]

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Following this logic, would an apple, in its natural state, just off the tree, before being skinned, sliced and put into a pie, be "prepared"?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif